WASHINGTON NEWS-LETTER
BY J. J. ECKLES
Secretary to the Delegate
August 7
In a conference -with tie Fresi
d-rrf today. Senator SchweDenback
Dr. Gruer.ing. Director of the Divi
si:-n of Territories and Island Pos
sessions, and Delegate Dimond. fur
ther outlined the basis for a careful
ly considered plan of developmen
for Alaska along- the lines taken u]
at a meeting several necks ago.
The pressing need for additions
and better airfields and f: r an ex ten
sion of the road system in the Ter
rittry -were shown as two factor
that would most assist in its devel
opment at the present time. The es
tabkshment of an international pari
in the vicinity of Skagway. and ex
tending some distance n rth of Skag
way. on territory to be contribute*
by both the United States and tb
Canadian governments, was also dis
cussed.
It is understood that Dr. Gruenim
and the Delegate are going tf worl
out plans and recommendations fo
additional roads and airfields in A1
aska, as a result of today's confer
enc-e. which they expect to be in har
irony with, and hope to have incor
porated in. the national program o:
the President.
The bill introduced by Delegate
Dimond to protect oyster culture ii
Alaska was enacted into law when i'
was signed by the President Angus'
2.
Under the provisions of this Act
tho-«- ir Alaska who wish do engag<
ir - '.anting and cultivation o:
opt.! f for commercial purposes
may now obtain .cases to the bot
toms on which their seed >vsters art
r-’ .ntr • and bus have legal right tc
r ntain their ownership of the oys
ter crop from seeding to maturity
and the market.
An amendment to the omnibus riv
er an harbor bill to include the pro
posed small boat harbor at Sitka
among the approved projects con
talaed in the bill was ; greed tc- it
the Senate August 5 shortly befort
tie bill was passed by that body.
A survey was made of the Sitki
project .act summer by the Distant
Engineer but the report was not ap
proved by the Chief of Engineers an
presented to the House in time t
have the project included in the bil
before it was passed there. At th
instance of the Delegate the projec
was inserted in the bill when it wa
before the Senate Committee o
Commerce.
A companion bill to that intro
duced in the House by Delegate Di
n: nd last week, to authorize the Cit;
of Ketchikan to undertake certai:
public works 2nd to incur bonded in
debtedness therefore, was introduce*
in the Senate August 5 by Senato:
Schwelknback of Washington.
Allotment of S13.SG2 35 to Alasb
for administration of the unerr.ploy
ment laws in the Territory was an
nonneed by the Social Security Boars
on July 31. This amount is for tb
period July 1 to September 30. am
wes allotted earlier in the month b;
the Board for the same period fo:
relief of the needy aged in Alaska.
A number of bills outlining pro
posed legislation for Alaska passe:
the Senate on August 6. One o:
these laws the bill introduced by Del
egate Dimond to authorize and pro
vide for a referendum in Alaska a
the next general election to alltv
the voters an opportunity to exnres!
their approval or disapproval of tb
proposal i.. fksimf the present two
house legislature to a unicameral o)
ore-house legislature. This bill pas
sed the House on July 39. so wil
now go to the White House.
The bill to authorize a modificatioi
. of the existing project at S: Tar:
for the control of floods it Lowel
! Creek ■was approved in the Senate
r. . Ml 8. In this the Sena: act
. ed on the measure introduced b;.
. Senator Schwellenbach as its com
t panion bill, sponsored in the Hcusi
, by Delegate Diroond. had not ye'
been passed.
I In view of the financial conditiot
of the country, it is rent-rally under
. stood that the President opposes ad
; additional flood control authoriza
. tions and upon this Baderstandinj
. the House Committee on Flood Con
• trol has heretofore declined to tak<
‘ action on the Lowell Creek bill
However, in the conference with tfc<
i President earlier in the week, th<
i Delegate, _ Senator Schwellenbach
' and Dr. G running. explained cond>
t ons with respect to Lowell Creel
, to the President, who indicated tha'
1 tinier the circumstances he favor:
1 rassage of the bOL Enactment oi
the bill was strongly recomm endec
by the Secretary of the Interior an:
was also favored by the Secretary
. of ITar.
The Delegate expects his bill to lx
taken up by the House Committee or
Flood Control next week, and he will
. then ask that the Schwellenbach bill
, which has passed the Sen: te be sub
‘ stiruted ana thus speed enactment oi
the measure.
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The hill to limit Ashing with stake
nets in Bristol Bay and its tributary
waters to residents f Alaska whe
have lived within a radius of 3C
miles of the stake net locations. was
passed by the Senate August 6. Tfci*
bill passed the House on June 2:
and new will be sent to the Presi
1 dent
Tite Delegate introduced and pres
sed the passage of this legis'ation t:
aid the native and white residents oi
the Bristol Buy region, who art
. physically unable to undertake off
'bore fishing, to make a Irveliho -'
: through the use of stake nets whiel
i they are incapable of handling.
[ Lecn Urbach, well-known mer
' chant of Seward, stepped over it
j Washington August 6 and made i
? flying trip thr ugh the points :f in
1 terest that could be seen in the shor
1 time he could spare. Probably tb
; high-light in all the calls that b
1 made ;n the Capitol City was in th
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Favorable action was taken in the
Senate today. August 7, on two of
the Delegate’s bills. One of these
was the measure to transfer a small
t. ... t of land t:> the Sitka Cold Stor
Ece Company. This is a tract of
lard less than half an acre in area
which the company has occupied for
many y«; rs. enJ which was inadver
tently transferred to the Territory
recently.
The other bill passed was one to
reimburse Sam Romack of Seward,
.in th; amount of $125 for the loss of
his gasbat which was accidentally
- rk by :he Coast Guard Patrol
Morris while the Morris was man
es' rt: rear the Seward Dock dur
ir-r a term in 1935. Both of these
b:..s have passed the House and now
re- :: oniv the approval of the Pres
ident Ao become a law.
V.'hile it is always hazardous to
attempt, to forecast action to be ta
ken by Congress with respect to
matters of legislation, it now seems
...most certain that before the close
f the session of Congress will pass
a bill—probably a deficiency appro
p: ition bill—carrying an appropri
at n f approximately 70 million
dollar; for public buildings outside
the D.strict of Columbia, under a
construction program to be spread
ter the next three years. Such an
appropriation will permit the con
stroction of a Federal building u
each Congressional district, or th<
equivalent thereof. In some cases
several districts are considered as i
unit and one building will serve al
of them. This is particularly true ol
large cities. If such an appropria
tion is made, the construction of th<
proposed Federal building at Anch
orage to embrace post office quar
ters. court house, The Alaska Rail
road offices, may be looked forwart
to with confidence, since the Anch
orage Federal building has been 01
the eligible list for a number oi
years past and would have been pul
into construction before except foi
i the disastrous fire a Nome, and the
■ fire which destroyed the Federal
, building at Sitka. The prese i: t-s
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