The Ketchikan miner., 1915-05-13
FROM sATuDRAY's DAILY.

pays bounty of fifteen dollars. Owing to the fact hat they had the voting strength we had to accept their amendments, which accounts for the unsatisfactory provisions of the law.
 consider the Workmen s Compen- sation bill as passed to be very good measure, guaranteeing to the workingmen fully twenty-five per cent greater protection in the event of an injury than any of the states.
 The first day that bills could be in troduced i'll the Senate, I took great pleasure in submitting Senate Bill No.1, calling for the appropriation of the Forest Service money then in the Treasury for the construction of the Ketchikan-C Charcoal Point road; the improvement and extension of the Portage road on Prince of Wales Isl and; the Stikine trail at the mouth of the Stikine River; the road from Petersburg to Scow Bay, and the bridge across the Mendenhall river above Juneau $62,00O of the $70000 | in the fund had come from the First Division, Eight thousand from the Third, and not cent from either the Second or Fourth. On this account everybody from this end of the Ter ritory took it for granted that the money was ours, and at first those from the north agreed with us. Then somebody suggested that the school fund of the Territory was in bad way and it would be good idea to appropriate 25 per cent. of the cash in this Forest Service fund for that purpose. We didn't like that very much, but didn't want to appear gready, so agreed, and then came the trickery of the other divisions. They held caucus, figured out that they all, including the Third, would be a. head by robbing us, and came into the legislature with a plan cut and dried to divide the cash on hand equally between the four divisions, and there was nothing We could do to stop the steal being made. We of course made the best fight we could, appealing to their sense of right and the square deal. We showed reason after reason why we should have the money, they showed nothing. They were after the money, had the votes, and got it unless stopped by the courts, and at this time let me say that before coming down we six mem bers of the First division met in caucus and agreed to apply for an order restraining them getting the money. There were three men in the lower house who stood by us: Wm. Burns, the tairest and squarest man from either of the three northern div sions, and whom it is a pleasure to have knoWh; Representative Moran
  resantative Holland from the Thir, ] These mcn were satisfied of the jus tice of our claims anl voted with us III rli, lever Lcusr hut there vas nat single menbtr e: the upper louse outside Of SLrator Tanner and myself whe voiel in favor of the money being appropriated for this division. a
 In lhc asst thHre las been no way for T native to secnrc citizenship, so VIC put measure t'l ough which makes such possible.
 Then we amended the mining law passed by the first legislature espec- tally with it's referance to requiring ten foot shaft or tunnel on a quartz location, so that today I believe the law is fair one. The mining ques- tion furnished another instance of how impossible it is to pass law i that will meet the requirements of l both the Interior and this part of Alaska. There is no relationship be- tween the two regions-nothing in common. We are on a permanent basis, there the population is of roy ing nature. They don't seem to want any laws or taxes, but they do ap- pear to desire to make laws for this region and require us to pay the tax , es. The records show that Division No. l, pays fifty per cent of the tax es and gets nothing in return but the presence of the capital at Juneau, and they even tried to take that a. way.
 The revenue bill is entirely one sided and unsatisfactory, and the same is true of the election law, both were framed to suit the ideas and whims , of the Interior.
 To sum it all up, there can be but one result, and that is, that Southeast ern Alaska must get divirce, we must demand separate political exis-