The San Francisco call., 1898-03-30
BRADY ON
 THE NEEDS
 OF ALASKA Governor of the Terri tory Is a Guest of
 Seattle. En Route to Washington to Urge Necessary
 Legislation. Wants the General Land Laws Extended to the North
 ern Country. TITLES HARD TO OBTAIN. Ono Condition Which Militates Against the Progress of
 Alaska.
Wants the General Land Laws Extended to the North
 ern Country.
TITLES HARD TO OBTAIN.
Against the Progress of Alaska.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

SEATTLE, March 29. - Governor Brady of Alaska arrived in Seattle to- day en route for Washington. Just before leaving the north the Governor made a trip over the trails from Dyea and Skaguay. In an interview with The Call correspondent tonight the Governor said:
 T am going to try to effect several things for Alaska while I am in Wash ington. First, I am going to make a strong effort to get the general land laws of the United States extended to Alaska. That will require a simple act, entailing less than a dozen words, but it would be very important one to the people of this district. I con- sider that the impossIDility to secure title to land in Alaska has done more than anything else to hold it's growth back Immediate help in that regard ought to be given. All departments of business and commercial develop ment are paralyzed and the wheels of justice are clogged by the want of land title.
 T shall try, too, while in Washing ton, to expose the many defects of the present bills in Congress relating to Alaska, especially that proposing three
 
 Sitka and one at Circle City. The first named place is a military reservation and the latter is almost deserted now. The measure has too many defects to enumerate.
 Tn my last report I recommended the appointment of a commission, which should sit in Alaska and with the help of the people who are interested ar range a code of laws for our govern ment As an example of the absence of laws which we suffer from there is no way to protect or take care of an in- sane person in Alaska unless he is a criminal. We had an insane man over at Sitka who punched out his own eyes. It zakes a year to communicate with the Government and get an order to have the patient removed to an asylum near Washington, D. C..
 "A fine class of men is coming to Alaska now. I noticed what a stalWart, intelligent, goOd-natured crowd it was on the trail. Probably not one in a hundred of those men intends to make Alaska his home. If we had a good code of laws many of them would stay and we could soon do as California did apply for admission as a State in stead of a territory. That vast country would make a magnificent State"
 Governor Brady was asked what he thought of the project of bringing rein deer into the district. He said that he considered the introduction of them would be a boon to the people.
 Two other matters were to have oc- cupied the Governors attention in Washington. These were visits to the Agricultural and Postal Departments of the Government. The Governor be- lieves that the possibilities of Alaska in an agricultural way are almost illim- itable. The whole mater he has par tially abandoned because of the an- nouncement just made that a special officer with full power to act is now en route to Alaska to make changes in the present very inadequate and unsatis- factory postal arrangements. Governor Brady insisted that the saloons in Alaska will be closed if he Is able to have 1t done. He said: