Seward daily gateway., 1932-02-13
ALASKA ITEMS IF INTEREST AT THE
 NATIONS CAPITOL
(ByW.A.s.)

By W.ASD
 Senator Dill, of Washington, and Representative Connery, of MaSsa- ehusetts, have introduced an iden- teal bill in Congress making an ap- propriation of $1O,0O0,OOO to aid the States of the Union to pay old age pensions, at the ratio of two-thirds by the State and one third by the government. The bill does not in clude the Territories and when Delegate Wickersham called this fact to the attention of the men who introduced the bill they both agreed that Alaska should be in cluded and consented to see that when the bill was considered in committees tn at the necessary change is made.
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 The favorable report of the Dis trict Engineer at Juneau on the harbor improvement at Petersburg was reported favorably by the di- vision engineer at San Francisco and now the Delegate has been in formed that the report was fur ther approved by the Board of En- gineers in Washington. When it is approved by the Chief of Engineers it will be sent to the Secretary of War. who will transmit it to Con- greSS, when it will be referred to the Committee on Rivers and liar bOrS and be reported for the Rivers and Harbors bill. To be included in the appropriation bill will be the next step.
 A letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a favorable re- port, dated January 13, 1882, from { ohe Chief of Engineers of the U. S. Army, on survey of Salmon River, at Hyder went to the House Com mittee on Foreign Commerce and ordered to be printed, with illus tration.
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 Delegate Wickersham was very much gratified recently to receive a wire from the secretary of the Kodiak Republican Club, stating that he was directed to advise that in it's platform adopted January 1, lthe club declared that !" We ap- prove and stand for those prin- ciples and Territorial policies as promulgated and advocated by our Delegate to Congress, James Wick ersham, and we stand for his con- tinuance in office"
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 Capt and Mrs Wallace Langley are spending a couple of weeks in Washington while on an extended Eastern trip. They now make their home in Seattle although the cap-- tain has spent many summers in Alaska, having vessels that ply to the Westward and others that run on the KuSkokWim River.
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 On January 18 the Senate Spe- cial Committee on Wild Life Re sources, of which Senator Wolcott is chairman, held a protracted meeting Appearing before the com mittee was John M HolzWorth, chairman of the committee of the American Society of Mammalolo- gists for protection of the Alaska brown and grizzly bears. He sought to interest the committee in the effort to have Admiralty Island and possibly Chichag0f Island estab- liShed as permanent Sanctuaries or ! preserves for the bears, and argued that there are at least 5000 brown and grizzly bears on Admiralty Is land, or probably well over half the grizzly and brown bear popu- lation in Alaska" Both these is lands are in Southeastern Alaska, off from Juneau, rich in timber and mineral resources, with many settlements, and for that reason 1 Delegate Wickersham spoke in op- position to the proposed reserVa-
 tions. which the committee is not expected to recommend.
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