The Cordova daily times., 1921-02-02


 they will do with this money, after they get it, will be to buy the rail- road from these criminals that they are talking about. And that is what they did
 ] understand they bought the rail road at a reasonable price; that the Guggenheims were glad to get rid of 1t. They did not have any use for it. There were several other railroads being built up there, and some of those were taken over, aifd now we are on the edge of a situation that calls for more money to continue the construction of a railroad in the clouds. We have no freight to carry there. Nobody has seen a pound of the coal that we were going to bring down in large quantities to Seattle. Half the American navy is in the Pacific ocean. The ships are burning oil or buying coal from England, but they are not getting any of it from Alaska, and yet this expense is going on.
 MT. Miller-I can see no objection to the amendment proposed by the gentleman from Illinois (McKinley). sincerely regret that the genertlman from Illinois (Madden) is scandalized by the railroad. He probably arrived at the conclusion because of his ab- solute ignorance of the situation. Oaughter). I do not know that the gentleman has ever been to Alaska or seen the railroad or he would know that not a dollar of appropriation made so far has been spent toward getting coal for the navy.
 But congress did make an appropri- ation and facilities are under way by which the railrad which is laid to the coal mines will deliver coal to tide water, and the coal can be thus made available for the United States navy
 MT. Madden-That is what I have been dreaming of.
 MT. Miller-Dream a while longer but do explode. Oaughter). Mr Chairman, it is a wild country through which the railroad is being construct ed. It is country, if the people of the United States knew more about, they would stand aghast at the terrible ex- penditure, like the gentleman from H. linois, MT. Madden. There are other places outside the great state of H. linois.
 MT. Madden-Not many Naughter)
 MT. Miller-I am afraid that Is a correct survey of the mental horizon of the gentleman from Illinois. Oaugh- ter).
 MT. Garner, of Texas-There are none outside the area east of the Mis- sissippi and north of Ohio.
 MT. Madden-That territory does pay 84 per cent of the taxes. MT Miller-Some people, from ig- nOrance, are easily scandalized MT. Chairman, I know something about this railroad, I only wish that mem | bers of the house could see it and see the cuntry through which 1t goes. 1 Alaska is the greatest. asset held by any nation in the world. There is not mineral known to minerology but what is produced in Alaska It contains the greatest gold mine on earth, through which this railroad runs, and coal and copper and when these minerals are produced in fab. ulous quantities which are useful in peace and useful in war, it will not scandalize the gentleman from H. linois.
 I am content with the amendment offered by the gentleman from Illinois (McKinley) to fix the salary at s10,- 900 or not to exceed that sum. But I do want to SC that road completed, my colleagues. It means a great thing for the American people, and at no dis tant day you will see the great Pacific fleet using some of the finest coal produced in the world right from the district tapped by this railroad which Is now condemned by the gentleman from Illinois (Madden).