Seward daily gateway., 1925-10-17
SUTHERLAND HAS BIG AUDIENCE AT
 LIBERTY SPEECH
ACTION BY LAST CONGRESS RE- VIEWED BY DELEGATE TO
 SEWARD CITIZENS.
PROHIBITION A FIXURE
Sutherland's Discussion of Present Crime Wave In United States
 Interests Citizens Immensely.

At the Liberty Theater last night, Delegate Dan A. Sutherland, dele gate in Congress, addressed one of the largest audiences that has been seen in Seward for many a day The work of the last Congress was review ed and the measures passed for AL aska explained in detail
 The appropriations for roads and trails have been increased about four fold, during MT. Sutherland's time of service in Congress. The extension of the Forest Highway Act to Alas. ka in 1921 whereby approximately a half million dollars year is expend ed in the forest sections of the Al aska coast permitted the release of the Alaska Road Commission fund from coastal projects. The fund of the Commission has been increased from S350,000 in 1920 to $900,00 for the present year, and as conse- quence of increased appropriations, the activity in road building in the interior has. greatly aided the gener- al stimulation of business in the Iu- terior. MT. Sutherland did not claim all the credit for these congression- al increases of road funds but paid tribute to the energy and ability of Colonel James G. Steese of the apad commission and to the splendid in. terest taken by former Governor Sulzer of New York.
 The Alaska Railroad situation was discussed at length. Although there is some opposition shown by few members of Congress to this prof ect of government ownership, he be- lieves that there is no cause for alarm over the threat of a distinguish ed tourist from California to tear up the rails and make highway of it. He pointed out that the rail roads of California were subsidized with land granta and guarantee Of bonds by the Federal government while in the case of the Alaska road the lands adjacent to the right of way were reserved to the people and the cost of construction financed by the people themselves instead of by private interests. Mr. Sutherland read telegram from Secretary of the Interior Work expressing his in terest in the railroad. The Secretary said that he knew of no one who desired to have the Alaska Railroad abandoned.
 Sutherland is always at his best in discussion of the Alaska fishery ques tion and no one has as yet come for ward to dispute his knowledge of the subject. Last night he clearly and lucidly explained just. what involv- ed in his controversy with Secretary Hoover. His fight in Washington was to write into the statutes the common law of fishery and the report of the Fisheries Committee of Congress in dicate that this had been done by reason of his insistence.
 He held that the Indian question is closely allied with the fishery ques- ton and that the Indians of the AL aska coast are the most exploited people in the wide world. Their an cestral rights of fishery have been taken from them, their hunting and trapping grounds over-run by the whites. The present fishing regula- tions discriminate against the Indian and independent white fishermen and the entire burden of conservation placed upon these classes. The ef- fort on the part of the Department of Commerce to reduce the efficiency