Seward weekly gateway., 1906-03-24

public proclamation of the treaty wa, made on the 2Oth of June. In Augu, commissioners were appointed by Rus sia and the United States, to complete the formal transfer. Although the &7,200OOo had not yet been approprla- ted byC0nerc-s. Russia. ropo,iug entf. confidence in the good faith of n. United State, -iguiHod hom niIIin.. mes, to make ,no delivery witn0 waiting for .un payment Cgw. 'e,rga0uro". O. ,ne Er--..umEy. . Nala-Co.a. Ho-~ow. ol Du. Ar
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 ,oJ. lnu }.-.m governor. mo. r. coumi-,ioann, . ruu 'ag--a" which taa Russian lag was then .o.. ing Behind .a.m woro ranged . Russian aud American troops. T. American na.a. vessels in rho bar0. fired a joint salute a- .ho Hag, wo. exchanged. The -.m- and strip. reached tine top O. ,ho stan 80, tine I.- gun of ta. C,,ipeo rrvorbcrnred H.. tho mountains.
 Give Territory New Name
 Thi, ceremony might br called christening a, well a, a transfer T.. territory had previously been know. a, "RusSian-Amcrica. During tn. progress of the treaty through tr. senate. there were occasional discus sion, at the state department and E.. the cabinet. 80, to the name to be D.- slowed upon it by tnp United Star.,. Several were suggested a~ appropriate. among them 'Sitka. the name O. lr- capital. Yukon" tha, of its chic river "Aliask or Alaska" that O, ifs great peninsula. "OonaIaska" mo "Alcutia. derived from it's chain islands. Seward with whom the fua decision rested. preferred "Alaskg. ,. being brief. euphonious and suitable. The name was generally accepted vii. favor and began To be used before -n. transfer was made.
 Opposition to the purchase was >,iII so strong that it wa, not until nearly year later that the house of repreSeu- tatiyes consented to appropriate in. money. On the 27th of July. the ac making the appropriation to pay io, Alaska was itnallypaSsed and approved. The chairman of the foreign affair. committee in the house. General \. r. Banks. being its effective advocate. On the following day the secretary O. state made his rcQuiSition upon in treasury for S7.200.O00 10 be paid tn Mr. Edward NtoeckcL envoy eNrraord nary and minister plcnipotcntiary (. His Majesty the Emperor of Ru-,i: pursuant Co the convention betweeH the United States and Iii, Majesty. on the 3Oth day or March. 1867. and the act of Congress approved July 27 ls6..
 No Secret Arrangement
 Now. as To the story of 8 secret rangement about Alaska. in conng.- ton with the visit of the Russian 'a. to the United States in 1865. Thai story is wholly imaginative fctio . It probably originated with those vi had already made up their minds lh.r the territory was worthless, and ther- fore that there must have been son occult reason for the purchase. a 1863 we had enough to do in trying hold together such territory aS tn United States already had without a.- tempting to add any more The was no bargain whatever about tr Russian fleet. The Emperor AleXau- der II and his prime minister, Prin, Gortschakoff sent over the fleet a- 50 part of the wise and friendly polir, 1 toward the United States which the. pursued before, during and after the civil war. The diplomatic cores pondence of that period is full ot eyi- dences of their cordial friendSh D toward the Union. If that information al good will has seemed lately to suffer and diminution it is destined to revive hereafter. Russia has already followed our lead in emancipating her Slave,. and in entering upon an era of liberal and constitutional government. SL" co-operated with Us, years ago, in ea- deavoring to establish an internation9l telegraph line by way of Behring stra. and she will be ready, whenever we are, to establish railway connection between Alaska and Siberia.
 F. R. Brown, formerly superintendent of the Apollo copper mine at Unga, ha, organized corporation 10 develop mines on the Alaska peninsula. Prop