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(From 1 eiigressfona.1 Record.)
Mr. VViUis. i isk unanimous con
sent tor. the in (-sen. consideration of
the bill t>. S'-"8)' authorizing the
de*ignatiou at i -*x otficto eommis
hiuu-r for vUska .'.or..each ol the ex
ecutive departments of the United
SUites, md for other .purposes
Mr. * urns uet tne odl Oe read.
M vVri is. Mr. President, if I msj
Jo#so. t thiijs i can save a tittle time
>\\ stir iny tile abject of the bill. This
is a hill .vhicii is desired by three de
panme.ns—thDepnrtnrent ot Agri
culture, ti i Department of Com
mere, and tin D- pkrtment of the In
terior. Tne purpose of the bill is the
simplification ot the adniinistration of
the laws in Alaska. The present diffi
cutty is that tin several departments
ire without correlation or coordina
tion. The Secietaries of these- de
partments recommend the passage oi
the bill, vhi vjlT provide, if it shaLl
become a law, that the head of each
if.-th three <1> pavements shall have
t^ie light to lesignsttft some officer in
Alaska H'.‘ '.eras Sint his department, so
that the governmental iQtivities may
oeJcoordinatyo Th*- committee con
sidered trie hill Very carefully, and, as
I have .vnii. rtirt-e drprirtimctrts are
anxious ru ha,ve it enacted into law.
I call it up now because 1 fear that
unless ive shall pass it at this time,
is we are approaching the end of the
session, we ma*. sot be able to have
it beco mea law at this session. I do
do.not know of tbit slightest objection
to the bill.
The Vice President. Is there objec
tion to the present consideration of
the bill ?
There being no objection, the Sen
ate. as in committee of the whole,
proceeded to consider the bill, which
was read as follows:
Be it enacted, etc., That the Secre
taries of the- Departments of the In
terior, Agriculture, ana ommerce be,
and th eyarehere oy, authorized and
empowered aeti fo lu.-,-.oa« depart
ment, to designate an employe there
ofpwho shall be. style-.' -officio <lom
missioner for Alaska tor the depart
ment from which he j.s selected *pjl
who, from the d .t* of nia designa
tion, shall . e-itie, ana naiojain,. an
office in theiicagital of Alaska.
Sec. T.’ . •'hat each of said Secre
taries shall delegate and assign to the
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commissioner representing his depart- |
ment general charge of any or ail
matters in Alaska under the jurisdic- '
tion of'such department, or of any
bureau or agency thereof, to the ex
tent, in the manner, and subject to. I
such supervision and control as. the
Secretary may deem pvoper and ex- i
pedient.
Sec. 3. That, to the extent the re
spective Secretaries may determine,
! employes of the department affected
by this act who are stationed in •
\ Alaska shall he placed under the di
rect supervision and control of the ex
| officio commissioner for his depart
ment, herein provided for. together .
with any additional force which may
be detailed hy the Secretary of the In
terior, Agriculture, or Commerce,
from the personnel of his depart
ment, should necessity therefor arise:
hut nothing herein contained shall he i
’construed to authorize the employ
1 ment of any additional. personnel or
! to warrant the transfer of any clerk
i or other employee from one depart
I ment to another, except in the manner
I provided by law.
I Sec. 4. That the Secretaries named j
I in Section 1 hereof may transfer to I
the officer designated hereund as his!
j representative the records or trail j
! scripts • of records, property (includ-i
Trig office and field equipment), and
! unexpended balances of appropria
j tions which they may -deep* necessary
I or proper to transfer to Alaska in
| order to carry into effect the provi
1 sions of this act.
Sec. r>. That the President of the
United States may, hy order in writ- j
ing, should he deem it conducive to,
1 economical and effective administra- j
tion, and with the concurrence of the |
Secretaries of the respective depart- \
ment.s involved, place und-r the super-I
vision and direction of one of 'he j
three ex-officio commissioners provid- ]
ed for in Section 1 hereof, and subject
to the provisions of Section 2 of this
act, any governmental activity relat
ing to Alaska provided for, hy lajy,
and to transfer to the officer -p .se
lected, the necessary, personnel, rec
ords, or transcripts of records, prop
erty (including office and field equip
ment), and unexpended balances of
appropriations.
Sec. G. That the Secretary of the
Interior be, and hie is hereby, directed ;
to make hi' examination as to the
feasibility and propriety of consoli
dating into a single force the police
and law enforcement agencies of the
Federal Government in Alaska, and i
to report to the next session of oCn
gress his conclusions with reference j
thereto and the facts upon which they ,
are based, together with a statement
of the cost of such consolidation as!
compared with pesent expenditures
for law enforcement in that Terri
tory.
Mr. Warren. Mr. President, may I
ask the Senator irom Ohio does the
hill provide that tie officer designated
shall be a bonded officer ?
Mr. Willis. I will say to the Sen
ator from Wyoming that l do apt re
call any prevision about ->uph officer
being bonded.
Mr. Warren. Titer, may be. in
stances where, he wuuld have tc per
form a quartermaster 'luti.es
Mr. Willie. Trie oil! nleiely author
izes the Secretary of the Interior, for
example, to designate an officer who
is in Alaska to represent particularly
the Secretary of the Interior, and all
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of the various functions of the In
terior Department shall be carried on
under him; likewise as to the Agricul
tural Department, and likewise as to
the Department of Commerce.
Mr. Warren. I assume that tbe.se
officers will bp under bond?
Mr. Willis. Undoubtedly so. I re
pet, L do not know of the slightest
objection to the bill from any quarter.
Mr. King. I should like to ask the
Senator from Ohio whether the com
missioners created by the bill are to
be maintained in Alaska; and if so,
whether that will involve additional
Mr. Willis. There is to be no addi
tional expense, the idea being that
some officer no win Alaska in already
being paid shall be designated for this
purpose. That is the sole object of
the bill.
Mr. King. Would it not be a good
idea—I have just this moment seen
the bill—on page 1, line 6, after the
words “to designate an employee
thereof,” to add “employed in and re
siding in Alaska”?
Mr. Willis 1 should be glad to ac
cept such an amendment.
Mr. King. That will insure that no
additional employees will be created.
Mr. Willis. That is the purpose of
the bill. I am glad to accept the
amendment suggested by the Senator
from Utah.
Mr. King. I move that, amend
ment.
The Vice President. Without objec
tion, th earnendmeut is agreed to.
The hill was reported to the Senate
as amended and the amendment was
concurred in.
The bill was ordered .to be en-j
grossed for a third reading, read the !
third time, and passed.
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ALASK VS PRIM AK\ LAW
(Valdez Miner.)
At every succeeding primary elec
tion it becomes more and more appar
ent that whatever benefits may be de
rived from the present primary law ;
of the Territory are more than offset j
by its multitude of evils. I nder its 1
provisions any man may call himself
a Republican or a Democrat anti file j
for office without being a member of j
the party di signaled and for no other
purpose than to deceive the voters and
unfairly affect the choice of candi
dates.
In the present primary election we j
have the filing of one Gilbert A.:
Adams, of Nome, for the office of j
Delegate to Congress from Alaska, as i
a Democrat.
We do not know Mr. Adams, and
we presums many of the voters of the.
Territory are in the same fix. We do
not know his political belief, but we \
question his being a Democrat, for
upon inquiry we find he was appoint
ed chief deputy at Nome by a Repub
lican marshal. As near as we can
learn they take their party politics
rather serioulsy in the Second divi
sion; henie it is strange that Mr.
Adams should have been chosen when,
so far as we can learn, he was not an
experienced man in that office, and
there are no doubt a number of Re
publicans just as competent as Mr. ,
Adams.
As before stated, we do not know
what Mr. Adams’ political beliefs are, '
but our belief is that he is no a Dem
ocrat What do you think?
Nor is this the only instance, for
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there nre men who have filed for Ter
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ticket who are no more Republicans
than Mr. Adams is a Decocrat, and
we are conscious they have no hope of
election. What, then was their object
in filing ?
Granted »h.n.t the Id convention
system had its evdla.s framed rhat
the voters have the 'fight *u«;it is
their duty to select the candidates for
office, the present primary law per
mits of greater evils than did the con
vention system and goes no further
than the convention system did in giv
ing the voters their choice of candi
dates. The voter has a choice only
between those who file for a partic
ular office, and most of these are un
known generally, except to a very j
small percentage of the voters; their
party allegiance rests solely upon
their own assertion, and we have had j
it demonstrated more than once that i
these assertions are not trustworthy.!
It appears to us that a far better j
plan of selecting candidates for the ‘
primary elections is that followed in
several of the States, of having party
conventions select its candidates for
the primary ticket, with the further
provision that any person or persons
dissatisfied with the selection of the
conventions may tile as- independent
Republicans or Democrats.
By this system it is certain that at'
least one set of Candidates on each1
ticket will.be bona tide members of
the partiea they are supposed to rep
resent.
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