The Cordova daily times., 1919-01-29

other question or establishing prece- dent of the most vital importance to this republic. AS said a minute ago. I do not believe that this house is going to override the well-established law in regard to directory and manda- tory provisions of election statutes and establish the unfortunate prece- dent of permitting technical informali- ties to disfranchise whole precincts of voters Neither do I believe that this house is going to establish q prece- dent by which soldiers of the Ameri- can army can be voted by an admin istration of any party in any part of the United States. regardless of their former domiciles. The law upon this question today is absolutely cer- tain, and there can be no real con troversy in regard to it. The law is that soldier of the United States can not gain legal voting residence in any state of the Union during the time that he is in the military serv ice; that when he enlists he has a certain domicile, and thI { Aomicile | continues as long as he is al the mili tary service of the United States gov ernment. If any of these soldiers now in Alaska, after their discharge from the army, wish to settle in that territory and live there the year re quired by law. then they ntN become citizens of Alaska, and m titled to vote But until they do they can not vote Just stop and think a minute what the establishment of any other precedent would mean. with the large standing army that we are liable to have in the future, or with the i'm mense army that we have at the pres ent wOmcnt. It would be possible, ent moment. It would be possible, istration at Washington to send Northern troops coming from Repub lican localities to different camps and cantonments in the Southern states and absolutely dominate the politics of those States not only in national but in state and local elections And, vice versa, it would be possible for a Democratic administration at Wash ington to send troops from the South, Democratic in their utilization. into the close states and congressional dis tricts of the North and determine the elections there. l believe that the law as it is now is sound, wise and vitally necessary for the protection of free institutions. and trust that this establish any such dangerous prece- dent"
 Charles A. Sulzer, the defeated con testee. discussed the Australian ballot and the Indian vote as follows
 Now, MT Speaker and gentlemen of the house, one of the principal issues involved in this case is the sanctity of the AustraliaR- ballot, the secrecy Of the ballot, ,~&AAsud, in order 10 aTrive at the pafticniaf yeDha.tions in Alaska, in order to arrive at proper conclusion as to how this Aus l tralian ballot law of ours should be interpreted, 1 wish to call attention to another very important part of this record, in my judgment possibly the most important part of it. part 1 that the committee have quite ig- nored, and that is the question of In dian voting in the territory. The com mittee say that the record is indeti- mite, confusing and unsatisfactory in regard to the Indian vote, and there fore they take no cognizance of it. or practically none. and make no de l cision in regard to it. Now. what is | the result of that opinion? The re, suit is simply this, that in the terri. tory of Alaska today we have a popu. lation of 2S,0O0 Indians, according to the bureau o: education. We have
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