The Alaska citizen., 1913-05-26

sg J4s5n C. WelIiver.

q Ja3ssn C. Welljver
 WASHINGTON. April Wood TON Wilson. President of the Cnfci ss4 aa ez aa b1 sdar. general mana .r and operator al 5bo N ds.A raa.5s.- n N4sAa.'
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 #f#.a feg dazs Franklin K. faHe. secretary os lha interior. is ex
 =e =a.sa.r.e hs refoff OF ete-t fataf44l construction bill ia t.s'. confidently ez- aae#aj t. &fIl aH5rota the Heasare. 4E#r5a zaaa- NiH tIfaa be taken up by he s.aasa committee ea tarrito, rla# Ehoae members are favorable
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 ahiz l.. .slatioa &iIl represent ? lgv departure for the federal gov y3amsat. IHmeans government con sfrustioa oHnersh D and operation of | aroat railway sy5. em for Alas .a,=ua!er H5a=n3me of the Alaska NH.i9Hal Railways
 straas H.1e beeen gty ns indication ,f tlie ui#ds direction lately. Sec retafy Lane has had long conference es Hijh h's immediate predecessor, walter L. Fisher at which it is un- derstood he government railway project for Alaafa vas discussed. Mr. Fisher strongly recommended thaa the government build and ope- rate these roads. It was indeed a gayorite pfoicel with him,
 CONFERS WITH LANE.
 Following this. formeer Secretary James E. Garfield came to town, and spent good deal of time with Sec reetars Lane. Mr. Garfield is also in favor of government railroads for Alaska. Mr Lane has bee anxious 10 know just as much as possible about Jhe de ailed, practical facts surrounding Alaskan development. That he has zone to these sources for advice is taken 10 ind cate that he will press the government pro ject jus as vigorously 3. Secretary Fisher would have done, had he re mained in power.
 The leg station looking to iniation 5T ,his plaa was drafted ny Delegate James Wickersham, Of Alaska. Ir Wiekersham is al last come into his own. Under lhe Taft regi- me he was in bad odor with the executive authorities. Secretary Bal finger and the Alaska delegate fore closed their relations early in the formers regime; and about that same time the White House doors were barred against Mir. Wicker sham. who didn't go near the place for the last two or three years that Taft was president.
 Aayth ng that Wickersham wanted was certain 10 be classed with ana thema by the White House Wick crsham fought against Guggenheim .coarol uncasmely. and dspite the thandicaps of the administration friendship for the Guggenheims, he gained 2 strong hold in the conf i dence CT congress. With the chang iof admins ration. [Wickersham finds i himself sought hy the people who will be charged with the administra ton of Alaska, nd his legislation k being taken up hy the authorities and pushed.
 The Wfckersham bill has beer introduced in the senate by Mir Chamberlain of Oregon. If it passes il will. in brief:
 THE TERMS.
 Open to settlement about 60,000, 0GQ acres of agricultural and grazins iand.
 Make room ill Alaska, and make settlement possible by all the emi grants this country is now losing annually to Canada last year abou