Douglas Island news., 1920-09-03

beneficial InHIHINtIOu Tor NIN.hNi ana chat war plank endorsing Che Luno-
 Curry Development Board BnL
 which was introduced at tho request
 of Senator Lane some years ago. and lost spring was again introduced by Mr. Curry Che Chairman of Che
 Territories Committee, and that is tho bU which transfers tho admin
 ia,rauon Of Federal activities In AIaska from Che various departments
 down n Washington. which now administer them through tho forty
 or dfty bureaus they have trans
 fou that control into one Board.
 under one department which must bc composed of mon who must 1.-Two Iu Alaska Che ground, whero
 you con got at them where you can get action, whenever you have any enterprise Chat involves any dealing with tho Federal Govern mont That has been one of Che greatest drawbacks in the develop mcHt of th.s country is this long distance utcrlock.ng bureaucratic control Now. tho Democratic party .put in @ plank. which J wrote my- solG so chat there cannot bo any question about it and pledged it-. solf to promote the passage of Che. Lone-Curry bll and we mention it| as Che Lane-Curry bill Now we have got Che Democratic party n support of G.
 Development Board Bill
 Mr. Curry the chairman of Che. Republican Committee on Terr.- tories. and one Of Che most powerful men In Congress. introduced Che biIl
 J was offered tho privilege Of .u-. uoducIus chat bin also hut for Che. same reasons that ] waived Che priy- uoee of introducing Che railroad ap- pronorIauou bIi. ] asked Mr. Curry to introduce thc Development Board |Bm and pledged myself to support |lt Before Congress adjourned he. . had called upon every department and every bureau having anything . to do with Federal activities in Alas .ka. to make ull report of every thing they had done. and thc hear mra win start ou chat bin early in Che session. next December and be- fore tho 4th of March chat bi.l win become a law. and you win have am administrative board here on thc. ground with whom you con ho m
 touch and present your difficulties . to. and who win get familiar with what we need and win become educ catod up Co what is Che trouble witch . Alaska. which we an know, and which ia expressed in tho one word "cousoryauou."
 Is Anu.Conservatonist
 Now. ] am not going to bore you . but few minutes more, ladies and gentlemen. but , want to say @ word about uat conservation proposition U am am mu-couaoryationlst Cone scryaum Is what has held this Ter ritory back for Che past fourteen or. ducou ycars In l9O6 the coal lands
 were tied uD because somebody back East got afraid somebody else was going t0 make some money; i'm 1910.
 thc ou lands were locked mp. and Che forests have been locked up au
 Che time. and everything has been
 reserved in Alaska. Thro are 357
 reservations of one kind and an- other today m Alaska. and nothing
 has been done since James Wicker sham went Co Congress Go abolish a single one of them. There are boar reserves and bird reserves. and ish rucrvos. and Indian reserves. and almost every kind of reserves you can imagine Now J am am anti couserwuouIst-I do not believe in reservations Of Chat kind. and ] Chairman Curry oi tho Territories Committee of Che House. declared Co me chat if he had his way be would . abolish every reservation In Alaska. Including Che forest reserves Most Of Ono Western senators feel that
 wav and congressman; but Che iol-
 low back East who lives ln % state he has exhausted Of lts forests. who
 got rich mining out its coal and who was afforded tho opportunity Of developing h.a own country and acquiring a competence on Of it he
 says "Wc own Alaska Alaska Is just am asset of Che United States and you people up there who live . there haven't got anything to do with IL We want to keep it for @ hunting ground They have got so- c.euos bock there for Che protection Of wild lifo. brown bear and eagles.
 Dan Sutherland. Bears and Eagles
 ] have letter here at Juneau
 from Che Wild Life Society asking me. next term. Co support @ bil that .is Co be introduced In Congress. if .it has not already been introduced. . to repeal Che law passed by thc Alas . .ka legislature. nXlng a bounty on eagles. of nfty cents ah eagle be- .ucye it is. which was passed four years ago. on account Of Che woll- known fact that Che eagle is bird of prey and very destructive Of salmon That is Che reason that bli