The Cordova daily times., 1921-08-29
SENATOR NEWS NEW ALASKA BILL

United States Senator Harry New of Indi- ana has introduced a bill in the senate which, if passed, will consolidate all Alaskan affairs and place them under the department of the interior. News bill supplants the Cummings bill which took place of the Curry bill which superseded other bills and so on all down along the line and finally bringing up in the house that Jack built.
 From the press extracts given of Senator News bill we believe its passage would go far toward rescung Alaska from the skunk cab hagefringed slough of despair in which she is struggling while her strength is gradually oozing out every pore in her skin being cogged by leech labeled Bureau"
 But there are many who have lost conf dcnce in bills purporting to be for the benefit of Alaska and which bud for a season but contract San Jose scale or some other deadly aiIment before they bring forth, and are laid away, adding one more grave for the congress sonal mocling bird to warble sweet requiem OCT.
 The Curry bill was for putting all Alaska eggs in one basket to be guarded by an inter department board, which board was tenta lively named by former President Wilson. Or, rather, the board was named and a bill was to
  still born-or was stlIcd very young-and another station was added to the itinerary of the mocRing bird.
 Then the Cummings bill was introduced, providing for turning everything on land and sea in Alaska over to the president to have and to hold until death of a change of adminis tration did them part-and that was satis- factory But, perhaps it was too satisfactory. ,hn ing with new bill under his arm Which pro vides for turning Alaska, her appurtcnances and hercdtaments, over to the department of the nterior-distnct but scarcely different from the Cummings bill and the, latter was, like its predecessor, turned over to the mock ing bird-Overworked as it already was.
 But will the New bill get anywhere! Thir weight different Alaska bureaus have been nursed, cuddled and fonded at Washington so long and there is such an everlasting throng of god-fathe there that opposition deepset and tenacious, will be encountered when an attempt is made to remove thcm-tear them loose from the parent stems that have nurtured them long and zealousy and until they have come to look upon them as household gods whose dethronement they will resist until Old Faithful freezes over
 AlaSkanS are the most optimistic people on earth. Otherwise they would not be here. But it is safe bet that not one in every doz en delieves in his, or her heart, that Senator News bill will were be passed on to President Harding in its present form for his signature It may be passed in some form but not in such as will consolidate Alaskan matters to the extent provided for as it now stands. It would jeopardize too many flowery beds of ease.
 Self-government of Alaska and all within her broad domain is the only satisfactory so- lution of the problem. Administrations may come and go and they will come and go and they will continue to leave poor, bureau cursed Alaska in worse condition than they found her. This has been the case during all the per iod which has elapsed since she was taken young and trusting from the growing Russian