The Alaska prospector., 1903-03-26

house of representative of tn, United States, to serve lwing cacl congress, and who shall be elected hy the voters in the territory, ant the person having the greatest number of votes shall be declared by the governor duly elected and q certificate shall be given accord ingly.
 Every sueh delegate shall hay, a seat in the house of representa-. tives, with the right of debating but not of voting. This has been the law of congress since March B 1877.
 "Alaska is one of the territories of the United States and has aL ways been SO rcgarded.o. The quotations are the words of the supreme court of the United States. found on pages 346-353, volume lS, U. $. supreme court report This decision sets at rest the aues- -tion of Alaska being one of the organized trritories of the United States.
 The decision is ,set dietum, be- cause the question came ap on the question as whether Alaska was one of the organized territories of the United States. It is true we have no territorial legislature. That is not Il prerequisite to the forming and the organizing of q ter ritory of the United States into political and civil divisions as in Arizona and New Mexico. The supreme court of the United States recognizes the territory of Alaska as one of the political territories of the United States, when by its order, promulgated May II, 1891, it assigned Alaska, along with Arizona territory, to the Ninth circuit. With this fact the gov ernor of Alaska should immedi- ately proceed to call an election as is provided by the Cushman
 
 delegate bill, which passed the house of representatives, without even a division of the house, last January.
 Many members of the house, and particularly members of the com mittees on territories, judiciary and public lands, and each and every one of them-especially. those who were lawyers-maintain that the house could or would have no alternative than to admit whoever presented q certificate of election signed by the governor of Alaska, showing that the holder had, at a general election, received the great est number of votes The house of representatives would unanimously vote to seat such delegate. The senate would have nothing to do with the qualifications of such member, as each branch of the legislature has the exclusive right to judge of the qualifications of its own members.
 The governor would have the hearty support of the president if he should call such an election. There Is nothing to prevent the governor from so proceeding. The legislative, executive and judicial departments of our government have all decided upon the right of Alaska as one of the organized territories of the United States to have a delegate upon the Hoor of the house of representatives. Look at Porto Rico, she has a repre- sentative in congress and can't talk our language. Alaska is taxed by the most iniquitious of all forms of taxation: the license-tax on busi- ness; besides the incorporated towns re-tax them on their possess ory rights and stocks of mer- chandise, and still congress. gives us no representation Why? Is il because we are sleeping on ouI rights? The laws of congress are plain and easy of understanding They say we are entitled to dele gate. The supreme court of the c&.x.. l... .l,>o:ln1