The daily Alaskan., 1908-07-30
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SIMPLE AND INEXPENSIVE GOVERN,
 MENT" FOR YUKON

Speaking of "slmple and inexpens- i've" form Of lOcalselt-government for Al,ska the following explanation Of the workings oI the new government provided for Yukon by Canada makes interesting reading, It is by the Montreal Herald, which says:
 The minister Of the interiors recent amendment to tue Yukon act estab- fishes novel form Of representative government, iu which, as far as can be seen at present, there will be little place for barty divisions. It will be a snug, round timetable affair, and while satisfying local aspirations for self government, should relieve the Dominion government, and the department of the interior in par tIcular, of responsibilities which it has been difficult to exercise efficiently at such distance. It will, moreover be inexpensive.
 The administration is at present in the hands Of a commissioner and a half elective aud half appointige council Of ten, clothed with executive powers Of legislation. The new euactmenS makes the whole of the council cleo tive, takes from the commissioner all Legislative authority, ves;ing 1t in the council alone; but reserves to the commissioner full executive functions. The commissioner is a cabinet iu one person. Re will suggest to the coun- cil what appropriations are necessary and advise as to how the revenue should be raised. and the council win pass upon his estimates, accepting or rejecting as 10 sees it. Thecouncil will also initiate legislation, within the limitation of the act governing I:s con stitution. The members will be paid for their services and there will be consolidated revenue fund, subject to audit by the auditor-genera Of the Dominion. In case of difference be- tween the commissioner and his coun- cil, the commissioner will be able to dissolve the council and appeal to the people. II the people elect a council more favorable to the commissioner he will have been sustained in bis actions or views; but, if he council is sustain ed iu it's opposition to the commission CT, there will, Of course, be nothing for the commissioner to do but 10 resign or bow to the win Of the people on the point over which he and his council were at variance.
 The appointed members of the cOuu- cil have been the higher government officials residing in the Yukon; and they have sat on the council to repre- sent. not the views of the Dominion government, but of the people Of the Yukon. As they were more permanent than the general run of people there, they were thought to be good asset iu the councils of the administration; aId up to the present, their preserce in the council has not been disadvantage. But whatever they did or said has heen attributed, by politicians outside of the Yukon, 10 the Dominion govern ment;uud the Dominion government has been held responsible for things entirely tside it's knowledge or it's legitimate scope of responsibility. Now the Yukon council will be responsible fer its own legislation, and the com missioner Of the federal govern ment will be responsible for the ad- mjuistration, subjec: to the control Of the council in the voting ot the sup plies.
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