The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-03

ALASKA DAILY EN-
 
 thot Col Rieharieon urged approprIa- liona of Sl50o00 Q year for Aassa roads. and thot it was Delegate Wick. eraham who made false charges end that Col Richardson had told thc truth
 The correspondence taken from Che Ali-Aiaska Review follows. beginning with Che letter ol Delegate Wicker sham Go Che Fairbanks Commercial Club which contains statements siml- iar to those thol wore in the letter to ihe Juneau Commercial Club:
 House Of Representatives
 Washington
 December 2l. lsli. Wallace Calhcara
 Secretary Fairbanks Commercial club
 Fairbanks. Alaska.
 My Dear Mr. Cathcart
 have your letter Of November 10th inclosing copy of letter sont Go the Secretary of War in which you take up the matter Of Q bridge across Cinema Slough at Falrhonks.
 notice that you say in your let. ter to the Secretary of War that Che Alaska Road Commission has never been able Co secure the appropriation asked for hence the inability of Che Commission Go build Inc bridge at Fairbanks or Go do its general road work we'll You will remember that ! left with you the copy of the Re- port Of the Alaska Road Commission ,or 1913. showing that the Commis- sion had S35S,000 for the fiscal year or nearly S1.OO00o Q day Of course, it only had Sl25.00000 appropriation from the government but Che report shows that Che remainder was that portion of the Alaska fund paid in by the people Of Alaska for licenses outside Incorporated towns The point ! tried Go make when ! talked to the members of tho Fairbanks commer- ciai Club was that the Alaska Board of Road Commissioners were getting all the appropriation it asked for
 ' send you this day g copy of House Document No. 1894 being "Letter from the Secretary Of the Treasury transmitting estimates of approprla- tions required for the service Of the fiscal year ending June 8O l916" Your attention is called especially to Che letter of the Secretary at the front Of Che book and you attention is then called to the index where un- der the head Alaska" you win find reference to an appropriations asked for ir supper, of various Alaskan acc tivilies by the Departments Your attention Is called to page 331 of this document where you will find that the War Department asks flor the repair and maintenance or military and post roads. bridges and trails Territory of Alaska, S125.000.00" You will notice that Che letter of the Sec retary of the Treasury on the first page is dated December 2. 1914, and that it is based upon the estimates made by the other departments and presented to Congress through his let. ter in accordance with the law in short. the War Department prior to December 2. 1914. asked for only S125- 000.0O for the fiscal year ending June 30. 1916. for the repair and mainten- ance Of military and post roads in Alaska. and no more Instead of ask ing for S75O.OO000 as Richardson has always talked to you about he has only asked for S125.00o and then he comes out to Alaska and lies to you people by saying that he cannot get the appropriation he asks for
 The truth is that he makes no ef- fort to secure any appropriation ox- cept merely to keep the work going from year Co year and to keep up his commission He does not want to build the bridge across the slough att Fairbanks and never will build it un- tl the Northern Commercial Co. tells him to. You know and J know and everybody else knows that Richard son and his Road Commission is uu- der the control of the Northern Com mercial Company who want the bridge left where it now is at Turner Street and prefer to have cheap bridge there than to have 9 first class bridge at Cushman Street have introduced @ bill. as told you would for the building of bridge at Cushman street and J send you herewith @ copy of it. Fl R. 20.105. in- troduced by be on December 17, 1914 ten days after the Secretary of the Treasury put in the general estimate Of the War Department asking for S125.000O0 for road work in Alaska. You will notice that in my bin have asked for $75O.OOOOO ard have requir- ed the expenditure of $25,000OO in the building of a bridge at Fairbanks. ] am going to present this bill to the Secretary of War and ask him to either approve or disapprove it and he will then present it to Richardson who is here In Washington now and we will see whether they will ap- prove it or not IT Richardson re- fuses to approve larger appropria- tions or if he refuses to do anything about it it win be sufficient proof that he is playing double faced with Che people of Fairbanks. shall call your attention to the matter as soon as set some final action from the War Department and Richardson up- on tue bili
 However the Book Of Estimates shows that the War Department has only asked for $125,OOO0O. the same