The Alaska daily empire., 1920-08-18


 amounted to e1,277SSS, ,OOO accord I ing to a White Paper recently published Of this amount G1,046.- | 774.000 is due to the United States 1 including some small amounts Dor rowed from Continental countries which have to be paid back in United States dollars.
 were offered to him for introduction i but advised of the greater favor | they would receive by being intro duced by some member of the party in power, he recommended that both be introduced by Representative Curry, of California. Chairman of the Committee on Territories. The Delegate said he was accorded the privilege of making the principal speech in favor of the Railroad measure which passed without op- position.
 Scores Wickersham. He scored Wickersham for the latters attack on Secretary Lane and the Alaskan Engineering com mission at a time when efforts were being made to get more funds for the project Everything, he said, was at a stanstill at Anchorage, Seward and other railroad towns, and Wickershams attack created an attitude in Congress favoring sus- pension of the work and an inves- tigation that would have tied up progress indefinitely. This was avcrted only by MT. Lanes action, he said, in having the work gone over by experts and their report presented to the Committee proved not only that Wickersham's charges were false but that the road was being built cheaper than any other project had ever been under sim liar conditions.
 Favors Curry Bill. Mir Grigsby declared that he was heartily in favor of the Curry De- velopment Board bill. At his solici- tation as a member of the Demo- cratic Platform Committee at San Francisco, an endorsement of that measure was inserted in the Demo- cratic platform. He assured his audience that he would work his hardest for the measure and be- lieved that it would be taken up and pushed through at the coming session of Congress.
 Discusses Fisheries. Declaring that the administration of Alaskan fisheries had been fail ure and threatened the extinction | of the fishing industry, the Delegate | advocated Territorial control for the | industry. He has introduced a | measure for this purpose and exz poets to secure favorable action on it at the next session.
 Praises Shipping Board, ,a. | The interest being shown in the Territory, the visit of Secretaries | Daniels and Payne to Alaska this summer, he declared, resulted from the work of the Territorial Shipping Board and the data it had gathered on Alaskan transportation and other conditions. The work of this board, he asserted, has been of incalculable value to the people of Alaska.
 Advocates Eagle Bounty.
 Denouncing the efforts of Dr. w. 1 r. Hornaday and other eastern con servationists to protect the Alaskan
 brown bear and the eagle, he de-
 clared that Alaska is today suffer
 ing from misguided conservation
 which has tied up it's resources for decades. Since I have been here,
 he said. 'I have received letter wanting to know if 1 would support
 q measure calling for the repeal of the Alaskan law placing a bounty on eagles. l have answered that
 will not only not support such a
 measure but I will oppose it with all my strength"
 He declared that Dan Sutherland
 is already on record as favoring the
 repeal of the bounty law, and that
 he had been praised by Dr. Horna-
 day, for his stand for protection of
 the eagle "I am against the brown
 bear and eagle" he said, while my
 opponent has lined up with Wicker
 sham's friend Hornaday."
 Will Speak Here Again.
 The Delegate asked his hearers tC
 question his opponents on every
 issue of the campaign. If Suther land denies any of the charges made, he said, "I will have even more to say on my return here" He ex- poets to return to Juneau later il the Fall, after completing g tour O the Interior and Westward districts Forrest Presides. George F. Forrest presided at thu meeting, introducing the Delegat, as man whom it was a pleasur, and an honor to present to an aud fence. Others on the speakers stand were Attorney General J. c : Murphy. candidate for reelection : and w. W. Casey and J. Latime Gray, candidates on the Democratic , ticket for Territorial Representa- tiyes.