The daily Alaskan., 1914-06-29

portion for the support Of Alaskan government
 g. To create the commission .J-n Of control in the administration or national affairs. in Alaska, so that our roads, games, Indians and educo7 tional, charitable and penal iusti- tutloDs may be managed in Alaska by a single commission headed by Alaskans.
 10. To procure the reservation of sections 16 and 36, in each town ship of public lands surveyed, for the support of common schools in the territory; for a law granting a second homestead to those who have none in Alaska; for the establish ment of an agricultural college in the Panama valley; for the survey of. all homesteads on unsurveyed lands in Alaska at the expense of the United States.
 II. To otherwise aid iu the gen eraI progressive policy of the de- Yelopment of Alaska along lines approved by her citizens and Presi- dent Wilson.
 Iu again announcing my candid acy permit me to call your atten- ton to the changed conditions which. now surround Alaska problems in congress. For the last four years every effort made by your delegate to secure sympathetic support for progressive laws ill aid of the de- velopment of Alaska was denied. Alaskans will long remember the attempt to pass the infamous Bev- eridge bill for the creation of an appointiye carpet-bag legislature for Alaska, under war department control, and the impudent refusal of George W. Perkins to permit the construction of a competing line of railroad into the Matanuska coal fields and the Panama valley. How our ports were closed in restraint of trade by this same transportation trust is told fn the recent pleas of guilty in the United States court at Juneau. They are as powerful in Washington as in Alaska, and in both places really had a free hand in Alaskan matters"
 But a change camc when Wood- row Wilson became president. A western man with Western ideas and courage to carry them into cy- ecution was made Secretary of the Interior, and given a free hand in Alaskan matters" The door to mon opoly was closed; that to conserya- ton with use by the people without monopoly was thrown wide open, and the rusty wheels Of progress were put in motion.
 It was not necessary for tle det- egate. from Alaska to change his position, his principles or his line Of effort to secure sympathy and support. The administration chang ed-not the delegate from Alaska. With that change in administration your delegate found himself in com pany with those who sought pro gressive Alaskan legislation. The delegate introduced the Alaskan railroad bill in congress on April r 1913, the first day of the special session; on December 9, 1913, Pres ident Wilson in his first message to the regular session approved it., and thereafter with his active sup rort 1t became a law. His admin l istration procured other progress sive bills to be introduced in aid of the development of Alaska, and those offered by your delegate have met with friendly support and ap- provaI Today the enactment of truly progressive laws for the develop ment of Alaska, free from monopoly is being personally urged by Presi- dent Wilson, and occupies first place in his administrative program.
 Alaska and the Pacific coast
 ought to give him and his Alas ] kan policy unstinted support. rARIEs NICkERSMAM.