The daily progressive-miner., 1916-09-08

the meeIlnES Oi tut NolHlliltGS Ulle gone to his home state to make Q campaign for reelection Theie has been no meeting og this committee for more than month and will not be another one at this session of Con gress It will be impossible to secure any action on this bill until Decem- Der. In the meantime I am coming to JuneauMand will sec you and talk the matter over with you fully
 When I was in Juneau last I went up and looked at your school and know what the situation is exactly Of course, there has been vast amount of objection to this bill sent to me in the form of letters and peti- tions, and but one or two letters like yours are in favor of it. judged the people were very largely in opposition from the mass of peti- tions which came to me, and for that reason gave it very little attention. It seemed that if there was any pub lie demand for it somebody would make it known. However, I will talk the whole matter over with you when I come to Juneau this fall.
 Very truly yours,
 JAMES WICKERSHAM,
 Delegate from Alaska.
 But King Gets The Bill. In spite of this correspondence, Mayor Stewart and the Juneau City Council weE not convinced that action could not be secured. Councilman James H. King was sent to Washing ton. He arrived there about two weeks after the Delegate had written the last letter, saying that it would be impossible to secure action on the bill at this session of Congress, that there had been no meeting of the com mittee on Territories and that there would be none.
 Mir. King remained in Washington three days. Before he left, the bill had been introduced in and passed by the Senate. there had been two meetings of the committee on Ter ritories, and the bill had been favor ably reported by that committee to | the House. The day that Mr King arrived in Juneau, Delegate Wicker sham then being at Seattle for the purpose of repairing Alaskan political offenses. the bill was passed by the House of Representatives
 Managers of The Bill.
 The bill was managed in the Sen ate for Mr King by Senator Key Pitt man, of Nevada, with the assistance of Senator Knute Nelson, of Minneso- ta. and in the House by Representa- i tive John F. Watkins, or Louisiana
 Failure of The Committee.
 Referring to the statements of Dele gate Wickersham that there would be no meeting of the committee on Ter ritories and that he had been unable | to get a favorable report on the bill, people have recalled the circumstance when he made a similar statement at the outset of a meeting of that com mittee once, and he was stopped in | the statement by Chairman w. C.. | Houston who informed him that the committee on Territories had never failed to hold a meeting whenever the Delegate to Alaska had asked for one and that there had never been a re- port requested from the committee on ! the matter under discussion.
 King Got Meetings.
 At any rate, Councilman King was able oget a meeting of the com mittee and favorable report from it.. and the committee secured the ia vorable action of the House of Rep resentatives. In the meantime he had got the bill introduced in and passed by the Senate
 Congress Ready to Help Alaska.
 The whole history tells the story of a Congress that is able and willing to aid Alaskans whenever sked to do so, and the story of a representative of the people of Alaska who introduces bills, but does nothing more,-except to use his bills and an occasional let ter for political purposes.
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