The Seward gateway., 1922-04-11
sirab1e alien, in which case 1t would

tdhe ull oVer TOT oepOrtat1on, ana, 1n either case, would inquire touching the payment of his head tax, with the col lection of which it is exclusively charg- ed. But assuming the Treasury De- partment had really not been too busi- ly engaged in the supervision and con struction of public buildings, or the life saving service along the coast, to prop erly perform it's pathological functions, and had duly turned the gentleman over to the Department of the Inte- rior as being specifically charged with his custody, 1t would now become the duty of the latter to retransfer him to the Department of Justice for transfer back to the Department of the Interior at its Alaska sanitarium located in the State of Oregon, Had the gentleman's mental disturbance occurred at Ram part, Fairbanks, Iditarod, or other in terior point, such official or even pri- yate telegraphic communication as was necessary would have been handled exclusively by the War Department ove: its inland wire until its delivery to the coastal lines, when the Navy Department would have assumed en- tire charge of the message until 1t was handed back to the exclusive authority of the War Department for transmits sion over its ocean cable. On his out ward. journey the roads he would have traVersed are unde" the sole jurisdic- t1on of the War Department having been built and maintained by 1t for its own use with funds appropriated di- rectly by Congress: or, had he found it more convenient to followt rails. these are equally under the control of the War Department, but constructed with funds derived from license receipts. If short cut had been attempted by stepping off these military highways into one of the immense timbered sec tions of the public domain he would at once and automatically have come within the jurisdiction of the General Land Office; unless, of course. it should have chanced to be at some point in a national forest reserve con
 s1sting possibly of an immense treeless plain, in which latter case the Depart ment of Agriculture would have be- come his. jurisdictional over-lord and taken the first of many recurring hands in his case. The ocean dock from which he would have taken passage is under the exclusive control of the Department of the Inte- rior, but the revenue cutter assigned to transport him takes orders from no source but the Treasury Department; although its officers derive from the Steamboat Inspection Service their authority to sail the ocean lanes chart ed by the Coast and Geodetic Survey past buoys and signals under the con- trol of the Bureau of Lighthouses, but subject to rules made and enforced by the Navigation Bureau of the Depart ment of Commerce.
 Now you may think that is bit complicated, bit complex and discon- certing. Tn point of fact that is merely Kindergarten stuff, the simplest thing one can find in Bureaucratic proce- dure Should begin to unravel some really complicated bureaucratic dope, something like land claims and the like, some of those ladies over there would scream and some of those la dies husbands would likely do some thing more than scream, and as I see little better than an owl and am not good at lodging, shall pass up any further consideration of bureaucratic administration with this statement of fact: It was not designed, it was all an accidental development Whenever political heeler of sufficient influence needed a job for some hireling, and the Washington authorities had not the face to appoint him to job where he would come in contact with culti-. vated people, they bundled him of to Alaska. And, to create pretext and excuse for his job he would start some activity of an administrative charac- ter. Having no connection with, and no relation to, an y other administra- tive activities, the whole thing finally eliminated in the senseless tumble we see and suffer from today. |aa
 Now, there are some folks who might take exception to the descrip- tion of the carpetbagge=s who havej been forced upon us by the Washing ton government. It is matter of in- difference to myself as to which gang! take up for consideration, but as