The Green Forest tribune., 1910-05-13
ALASKAN N :kSURE
 IS LIKELY ID FAIL Bil Creating a Legislative
 Council Meeting Strong . Opposition.
ECHOES OF SCANDALS HEARD
Promoters of World Peace Expect A Roosevelt to Head Proposed Con-
 M mission-Effect on National at Politics of Hughes Appoint N ment to Supreme Bench.

ashington.-While there are re- newed evidences that at least four of ( President Taft's urgent recommends uons to congress will be given the force of law. there is still grave doubt about the passage of the measure giv- ! Ing statehood to Arizona and New Mexico, and the other measure which Twill change the form of government in Alaska.
 Senator Beveridge, on behalf of the senate committee on territories, has reported favorably a bill ito create a Y legislative council in the district of z Alaska, to confer legislative powers $ thereon and for other purposes" A similar measure is at present under Z discussion in the house committee on ! terrltories, of which Representative < Edward L. Hamilton of Michigan is Chairman The administration wants this measure to become a law, but it y seems likely that unless public opin- ion, which is slow to be aroused in x matters connected with the territories z no matter how vital to the public ser svlce they may be. is brought to bear on behalf of the measure, congress may put 1t into the postponement bag.
 Hand of Suspicion" Alaska has been called the Land of Suspicion" because suspicion has at tached to the motives and methods of men and corporations who have un- dertaken to exploit it's great mineral resources. The feeling that all is, not right with Alaska probably has had something to do with the comparative : ly 3slow progress. of the administra- tion's measure in reaching it's present stage. The bill changes the form of the territory's. government and be- ' cause it does not provide specifically ' for the election by the people of a representative house it has met with much opposition.
 The administration feels and it's feeling seemingly is shared by good many men who know Alaskan condi- tions, that the present bill, which pro- vides for an appointiye council, repre- sents the best form of legislation for the territory under existing conditions. The opposition, however, presents many strong arguments.
 The administration bill provides fer the appointment of a governor an at torney general and commissioner of interior and of mines, who together with eight other persons, to be ap- < pointed also by the president for a ] like term of years, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, shall constitute legislative council, the eight members last above provi- ded for shall be when appointed bona < fide and qualified voters of the terri 5. tory two in each of the four judicial divisions into which the district is now divided" ,;
 For Peace Commission. ::
 American friends of peace among the nations of the earth are more in clined than ever to believe that Theo- dore Roosevelt on his return to this country will interest himself in.Ethe movement to bring about gradual dis armament of the nations The colonel talked peace privately to the emperor of. Austria, and his speech at Christi ania has in it the essence of the Scriptural text about turning the spear into the pruning hook.
 ss A plan is being formulated in. this country by men like Andrew. Carnegie, Joseph H. Ohoate and Representative lBartholdt to have, a peace commission appointed by President Taft with Theodore Roosevelt at its head. MT. Carnegie and Mir Bartholdt, their friends say, believe that the colonel will lend himself readily to the plan, and If congress gives sanction to the reso- lution which is now before 1t and the president approves, it. is said to be ex- tremely likely that before many months have passed powerful peace cOmmission will be in existence with the Rough Rider colonel at it's head. xxx Dr. Bartholdt is representative in congress from St. Louis and he has fntroduced into the house joint reso- { tution "to authorize the appointment ( Of a commission to draft articles of Ndnternational federation and for other purposes.' The St. Louis representa- tive knew the time to strike. :i.
 pr. Bartholdt's Plan. In one of the whereases to the reso- 1ution it is said that the United States ought to give public expression to a form of articles of international fed Eeration which may be recommended F9tp other governments as fitting in- ' strument to ameliorate harsh condi- tiOns now suffered by multitudes and to do away with the ever-present fear X of war Then the resolution asks that Commission of five members be ap- pointed by the president with duties as Follows:
 First.-To urge upon the attention of other governments the fact that re- Lief from the heavy burden of military Expenditures and from the disasters scf war can best be obtained by the ,, establishment of an International fed sexation
 '1| Second.-To report to congress, as A 6oon as practicable, draft of articles el a federation limited to the main