Valdez Daily Prospector
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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 28, 1912.
A NEW REVENUE CUTTER FOR
ALASKA.
Tin* Unalga, Alaska's new rev
enue rul(or, which was launch
••(1 in February and which prob
ably will slart from; the Atlantic
about September I, will be a wel
come adilion to the licet in north
ern waters.
Considering tbe work that they
do every year, the Alaska revenue
culler fleet probably is the least
known portion of Uncle Sam's
floating property.
Ancient, battered veterans of
many a hard combat of wind and
weather, these vessels have per
formed a wonderful task in a sec
lion where they are compelled to
depend almost entirely upon their
own resources'.
This paper previously had oc
••asioii to.remark that the revenue
eutler service, particularly on the
I'aeilir, suffers from lack of spec
tacular advert ising.
A vast amount of imporlanl
work performed by the vessels
• •very year, the crews ot the craft
dare death i ; a mailer of com
monplace necessity, and not in
I'retpienlly they participate in res
cues of imperiled ships or ma
rooned crews where the clcm'cnl
<»f personal danger is seldom ab
sent.
However, il is considered so
much a pari of the day's duly that
only those whose work brings j
(belli in touch with these servants i
of Uncle Sam realize ]iow much
they are, handicapped and how
surprisingly they overcome such
handicaps when necessity for ac
tion arrives.
It is sincerely in he hoped that j
the Unalga will not |>e the last I
new vessel for the Alaska ser
vice in the near fill lire. No other
portion of the United States needs '
more and better vessels.
II will he some years yet lie-!
fore the dangerous water lanes of
lhe north are so accurately chart-j
ed and so thoroughly lighted llial :
the ever present danger to uavi-!
nation will lie reduced lo a mini-]
mum.--Srat I le Times.
NATIONAL CAPITOL
NEWSY LETTER
J. J. Underwood Sees Little
Chance for Alaskan Leg
islation
Washington, Feb. I {.--Pledged
to retrenchment, ami with a view
Jo making a good showing in thai 1
line when they go before the'
country for re-election next fall,
the Democrats in control of the
house of representatives holdout
little hope that any large appro
priations will be made for Alas
ka at the present session of con
gress. Delegations from every
chamber of commerce on the Pa
cific coast, headed by John L.
Wilson, of the new Seattle cham
ber, are here for the purpose of
pushing Alaskan legislation, and
they already have secured favor
able results in a small appropri
ation for the extension of the
surveys in Alaska, but with a
Democratic wutchdog sitliiiK on
the money vaults in the treasury
building, the possibility for get
ling a large appropriation for
the construction of an Alaska
trunk line railroad is not rich in
promise.
This much already is certain:
Four hundred thousand acres of
agricultural land in the region of
the Alaskan peninsula will he sur
veyed next summer, and there is
good reason to expect that a small
appropriation will he made for the
installation of much needed aids
to navigation along I he coast. It.
is reasonably certain also that
the house will pass a hill grant
ing territorial government, to
Alaska at this session, hut. wheth
er this will get by the senate is
a n'Mslion. It is planned to put
the hill through the house, and
if the Republican senate turns it
down to use the fact as a cam
paign document against the pres
ent administration.
It also is probable (hat there
will be an increased appropria
tion for the consrtuction of roads
and trails in Alaska. So far no
appropriation for this purpose
bos been submitted in the esti
mate of the War.department, but
if a special bill fails, it is likely
I hat a supplementary estimate
\\i!i be filed. Col. W. P. Richard
son. head of the Alaska road
commission, although suffering
from a broken ankle, sustained
by slipping on the ice, is able lo
attend to the clerical work nec
essary to the department and lo
take care of the reports upon
which the road appropriation will
be asked. It's rather an unusual
occurrence for an Alaskan, by the
way, to break an ankle by slip
ping on the ice in a big city—
something like getting run over
by an automobile in Alaska.
' Just now the dove of peace is
hanging over everything ron
jnecled willi Alaska. At a meet
ing held a few nights ago a large
number of representative Alas
kans were present together with
the Pacific coast delegation, and
il was agreed (hat the practice'
of hriek-heuviug before Ihe com
mit lees should cease, ami an ef
fort made to secure some con
st ruelive legislation. Delegate
Wirkersham lias settled his lit
tle difference with those who op
posed him, and whom he opposed,
and something constructive,
rather than destructive, is Iik
ly to be the result, .lust how long
the pact will last it is impossible
to say ;ii |his I ime.
Congressman Sul/er, Alfred .1.
Italy. national committeeman
from Alaska, Speaker Clark and
Congressman I'nderwood, boss of
the ways and means commit tee,
and the man who has the most to
say about what money shall he
appropriate, had a meeting the
other day. and it was practically
agre d that territorial government
will be enacted into a law, under
a new bill, modeled after the one
written by Sul/.er in 1905-0(1, and
reported as a committee bill. Oth
er Alaskan measures will be re
port e as a eomm,iltec bill. Oilier
Alaskan measures will be report
ed directly from the committee.
Sulzer's railroad bill will find
considerable support, lint if is
not likey thai il will pass unless |
I lie appropriation feature is elim
inated. The democrats are
against letting any money lose
this year, ami that's all there is
lo il. II is probable I hat the bill
will result in the appointment of
a commission of engineers and
railroad operators to invest igate
the various projected railroad
routes from the coast tu the in
ferior of Alaska, and it may he
Dial they will guaanlee the inter
est on the construction bonds.
Since Secretary Fisher. who
speaks for the adminisfratiou, is
frankly in favor of the const rue
lion of roads and trails and the
improvement of the lighting sys
tem on the Alaskan coast, and be
cause the Democrats are anxious
to do something for Alaska, it is
Quito likely that these bills will
go through before the session
closes.
There will hi; no appropriation
made for an exhibit from Alaska
to the Panama exposition (his
year. This will he deferred (ill
the next long session in 1913.
Appropriations, unless absolute
ly necessary, are nix. Lights and
roads in Alaska are deemed nec
essary.
A light will he made lo secure
a reduction of the cable and tele
graph lolls in Alaska, hut as this
is a departmental, rather than a
legislative matter, the chances of
success are not glittering with
hope. However, Senator Wilson
and other members of the delega
tion are hopeful of success along
these lines, as they expect to make
a showing of profits made by the
government fmm which there will
he no n.scfipo or explanation. Al
so certain Democrats are threat
en'ng to use the tolls charged on
the Alaska cable and telegraph
system as an argument that will
put a kink in Postmaster (General
Hitchcock's suggestion that the
government purchase and oper
ate the telegraph lines.
Speolal Meeting.
Special meeting at Engln tin.11
tonight n! K o'clock. By ordor of
I he president.
MR. EMIL DAVIS
ENTERTAINS HIS FRIENDS
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lo Home of hi* friends last night
and nil enjoyed n good time.
Messrs. Kasorosky, Henry, Gillis
and Wagner, entertained with
songs. Mr. Pinkos accompanied
on the piano.
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