The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-01-26
SEATTLE COMETS
 AN ALASKAN OFFICE Working for the Northern Military Headquarters.
SKAGWAY WILLPR0TEST
Local Chamber of Commerce wIIi Consider the Matter-PresIdent Keller on Political Abuses.

Steps are ''slng taken by both the Seat- tie chamber of commerce and by the friends of Seattle at the national ealital" says the Seattle Times of January 20, "toward having the headquarters of the military department of Alaska located in Seattle. No such department has vet been ere ,ted, but the recent appointment of Col. H. Randall 10 command the military iorees In that territory Is thought to be a step In that direction. The matter came up al the last meeting of the Chamber of commerce or the suggestion of President Graves, and was referred 10 the committee on state and national affairs to draft suit able memorial and resolutl-ns,"
 President Keller of the Skagwav Cham Der of Commerce on hearing of the action of the Seattleites and the Seattle chamber of commerce In regard to Alaska military headquarters sad:
 This matter will be taken up by the Skagwav Chamber of Commerce. Alaska can supply her own headquarters. Seattle and her people have influence that we have not, and there Is nothing for us to do but raise our voices In protest. Even though we be In the right there Is outside pressure to be brought by those that oppose US that we will have to overcome, but we can do our bet and abide by the results. Skag way W ants to pull together. Concerted action of merchants Is needed.
 "lt should be recognized on the outside, and yet lt Is not, that Alaska Is sorelv in need of more recognition, not only in the matter that comes before us in regard to the military headquarters, but on numer- ous scores. Our governor Is a detrlment rather than a benefit to Alaska as a whole. Sheldon Jackson and Superintendent Kelly are no better. They are fosslllzed and un- acquainted with the Alaska of todIY. They hibernate to Sitka and then go to Washington and make recommendation as 10 to ,llhat Is needed h lh. entire territory.
 The governor Is a stranger to Skagwav, and vet Skagwav with its magnificent trade, its travel from the south and the north. It's railroad and its big feet of steamships plying to the Sound is one of the first ports of the coast. Skagway Is Alaska. Yet MT. Brady, dare say, has not spent a week here in all his life. But he spends time east telling what we should have.
 "We have taxation without representa- ton, and so far as see no steps have heen taken by congress looking to the remedy ing of the evil. What does Skngway get from the federal governmentl A puny sr6o a month for schools. The revenues to the federal exchequer from this city from saloons none amounts to s24,oOo a year.
 Nearly all the congressman who visit ed here last year said we ought to have the moner we pay In taxes rcdlslributed in this region. They offered no opposl- ton. Whether we shall get just what we want in this regard cannot be said, but lt Is likely congress will at least moilfv matters. It |. enough to endure the phys ieal tax of building up frontier, let alone paving for the privilege of creating her ltage here for a nation and paying for the ! fun. Look in every direction and see the fields that are being deVel ped in Alaska or the country tributary to this port. There Is Klondlke, holding out magniti- gently. White Horse, with its copper; Atlln, with its placers; Porcupine, which Is to prove a young wonder Rainy Hol- low, with copper; the remarkable quartz fields of Ketehikan; the great Nome fields, and the wonderful mines about Juneau.
 "Juneau's adjacent mines are wonders, but they are only the first, as lt happens, in the course of development that are to form a great galaxy of mineral wealth