The Wrangell sentinel., 1918-03-28

| favor personally.
 On September 2S the Shipping blll admitting foreign shipping to coastNise trdde came up Tor pas sage. it had been before the com mlttee tot hearing September b, H., t2. IS and I9. This was purely a w44 measure. The bill gives the 1 United States ShIpping Board power to suspend our navigation laws relating to the coastwiSe trade during the present war with Ger many and tor a period of I2o days thereafter, except the cOastwlSe trade with Alaska. At the heal lugs on the oll Mr. ]. II. Bunch, genera! passenger and trelgHt agent tor the Alaska Steamship I Company. appeared and asked thal Alaska be excepted, when was done.
 There is not a word in the Con. Gres,.onal Record indicating boy Mr. Snlzer stooi upon this ulIi, or, indeed, showing hat ne knew that 50 lnpottant q matter tor Alaska Was even pending. Ills poslLlon, however, Nas fully stated and clear up to NoVembtl $, t9I1, N len be fast addressed the people of Iureaa. On that occasion he was introduced hy Mir. Ioun A. Hellenthai, the well known cofpois ation attorney ot Juneau. In course of hlS introductory remarks i Mir. HeileEthal said: Mir. Suiler has been criticised for agreeing to permit an exception to appeal Tn the hill passed by the recent Con gross perml,tlng foreign ships to engage in coastwise trade. W hen this matter was up before the com 1lttee il was suggested that an tx q i, 'au should De introduced d in the | blil providing that .oreign snlps could not ply between American ] ports ii Alaska. Mr. SuiZ,. agree to it before he left Was hing ton and the bill passed exactly as agreed. There was no'hlns mora i to do.
 ! Mir. ". C. Houston of Tenncsee. who h., aiNa,, hc'n q true an,t | tried llIend ol Aiashd, made |, d strong protest against the eXcep- ton oi Alaska, out without avail.
 MT. Alexander. at that time, stated that nobody appeared'.be- 1 tore the committee representing, :, Ala'kan interests insisting that Alaska snooll be excluded from the provisions Of the biil, Fh" Dele,~te from .Ai.iska and the cOnteets,ft lot hls seat, Judge Wlckersham, aIr hoth in Wash ington. and l assume that II tnert' was al,> ,tsnt uA ,i.at this le2isIa. ton should exr"nd to Alaska, one ot s..tn pi ,ncec ntlemen would . ,,.s,. appeared befcr~ Ihe commit tee e,..i made some statement to that effect. MT. Miller of Wash- Ihetou stated that Air. oulIer was absent on 'he Pacific Coast, where upon Mr. Alexander stated that ht had seen hlm recently and thoughi that he was still in the city.
 During all of the first Congress al winch he attended. me b5th, MT. Sulzer introduced two hills, one for putic building at Far banks, aud the Game Law Bill, which has aroused the anger oi
 Theodore Roosevelt and Dr. Horn aday.
 On Mr. Sulzer's s return to Con- gress last December. he took with him, or was followed shortly alter ward. by Mir John Troy 10 helr frame things for the teritory. 4 little later George B. GrigshY. At- tutrey General. also went to Wash ingion TT en We heard of the Troy Sulzer Full Territ0rIa! Form oi Government Bill, which contained q clause in the l2th section oi the Act giving the errItutIal leassla. ture power To reopen the prohlbl, tion question, which l thought was alrea dy settled. And any attempt to reopen it is only bid Tor cam paign funds from the liquor inter estS.
 Then on January P, 1918, MT. Sulzer introduced a Bill for the regulation and protection of the fisheries of Alaska (H. R. 9092l winch is even more vicious than the Alexander bill over which so many protests were sent to Washington. For Section estates that the Commissioner of Fisher. ies for Alaska is authorized and directed to lease fish traps or pound nets locations to citizens of the United States upon the tidelands and in the sea waters of Alaska (except those surround ing the Priboloff lsiandsl for