Bisbee daily review., 1903-04-02
THE ALASKA JUNKET.

The New York Tribune makes some sarcastic comments upon Senator Bev- eridge's scheme to investigate Alaska this summeT-all same his investiga- ton of affairs in Arizona last year.
 Tho older members of the senate are commenting with eradication, not unmixed with anxiety, on resolution which passed the upper chamber in the closing hours of the session. and which. owing no doubt to the press of legislation, did not then receive :he at tention it deserved, says the Tribune.
 This resolution authorizes the com mittee on territories, of whica Senator Beverage is chairman, by suh-com- mittee or otherwise,' to sit in the re- cess at such times and places as it may see it, and to consider proposed bills. or bills to be proposed relative 10 the district of Alaska.
 Being translated from the custom aIy parliamentary form, this resolu- ton authorizes a subcommittee of the committee on territories to go to Alas ka at the expense of the government and take such testimony and make such observations as it may see it, and, according to present plans, the subcommittee will consist of Senators Beveridge, Nelson and Patterson.
 Prominent senators, including some of the better thought members. are not Uamindful of the fact that Senator Beveridge, al a period when affairs ID the Philippines were in somewhat chaotic condition. yaliantly iourneyed 10 those distant islands. and that on every occasion when information has been needed in regard to Philippine a:- fairs he has cheerfuIly enlightened the senate on the subject, frequently em- beuishing his comprehensive descrip- tiops with interesting details of per sOnal experiences. Senators also re call the facc that when MT. Quay crast:ly committed the senate 10 the consideration of the omnibus state hood bill in the closing hours of the first session Of the Fifty-seventh con gress, Mr. Beveridge secured .he pas sage Of Q resolution similar 10 .Ga one above quoted, and, in the torrid heat of the last sumner, heroically traversed the deserts Cf Arizona, the mountain fasJaessess Of New Mexico mi tha Indian trails of Oklahoma in Pull man car, and saved the senate from the error Of granting sta.eh1 ,c to the aspiring territories by tEe abundance and depth of the informatial which he generously impaired 70 his colleagues a. all hours and on all occasions.
 The statehood bill has been de feated, but there now looms on the morrison the Opportunities of Alas kans, bent on securing revised laws and greater opportunities. Again the junior senator from Indiana comes cheerfully to the rescue, and promises 10 brave the perils Of Alaskan travels and the heats Of an ATtic summer in order that the senate may not be in exterior darkness when the subject of Alaskan legislation comes before it.
 "Almost no measure Of Alaskan leg islation is likely to be referred 10 the committee on territories. To such senate com mittees as those on mines and mining, public lands, commerce. judiciary. foreign affairs, protection of game, education and labor and several others most of the bills which concern the district of Alaska will be referred, and that makes all the more unselfsh the vicarious sacrifice to which the junior senator from Indiana is submit ting imself-a work of purest philsn- thropy, rot So say of supererogation. There is also some anxiety lest the subcommittee may find 1t a herculean undertaking to consider bills to be proposed No facts have been i'm parted to the press with regard to this difficult feature of the undertaking and curiosity Is rampant as to whether cIairvoyant or palmist is to be em ! ployed for the purpose of reducing tc 1 concrete form for the consideration of 1 the committee or subcommittee those measures still unborn in the brai-;s oi l present and future senators. but tc thC ! consideration of which the members ! Of the committees on territories stand ' committed"
 t seems that the Hon. Pa- Garrett