Seward daily gateway., 1932-03-10
ALASKA ITEMS IF INTEREST AT TIE
 NATIONS CAPITOL
(ByW.A.S.)

who sailed rom the NOrtn Decem- Der 29, came from the Pacific to the Atlantic cost via the Panama Canal and after spending few days in New York, came to Wash ington for a few days visit.
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 Nearly every mail brings from one to four requests that the Con- gressional Record be mailed Alas kans for the present session. The small quota allowed the Delegate was disposed of in early December, when the mailing list was com piled, .end not all could then be ac- con1modated.
 One of the visitors to Washing ton on February Is was Col. James G. Steese, whose headquarters are now in New York City, from whence he travels to different parts of the globe, in the interest of 8 large oil company. He has just returned from Europe, coming via Australia and the, Panama Canal, consum- ing 40 days in travel. It will be remembered that Colonel Steese was president of the Alaska Road Commission from 1920 to 1927, with headquarters at Juneau. He was in Washington recently and when shown a copy of the Seward Daily Gateway containing the article by Mayor Don Carlos Brownel on the possible invasion of Alaska by the Jap4. ese, the Colonel indicated that he might again be recalled to aetiv4 duty in the Territory to help repegE an invading force.
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 It looks now as though Delegate bill to provide salar- ies in stead of fees, to be paid U. s. in Alaska, will mot pass at this session of Congress because of the general determina- ton of both political parties to keep down appropriations. The House Committee on Judiciary re- ferred the bill to the Department of Justice and received the follow ing expression from Attorney Cen eral William D. Mitchell:
 The Department has for some time been considering legislation to put Commissioners in Alaska on 3 salary basis and is inclined, as general proposition, to look upon the plan with approval However, It would require new appropria- ton to cover the salaries and ex- penses of Commissioners in an amount estimate q at $175,000. Against this there would be offset approximately $37,0O0 per annum (fees now received by Commission CTS from sources other than the United States), an aggregate of s46, 900, leaving a net additional cost to the government of $129,0O0. Tn view of the increased cost to i he government which this measure would involve, and because I do lot regard its enactment now as absolutely essential and in view of | he present financial situation, I recommend against it's enactment | tt this time"
 Wm H. Sturtevant, who has been resident of Nome and the far country since the early lays of gold discovery, is spending few days in Washington and call- ng attention to some irregularities ,f administration that he thinks mould be righted in the Second Division. MT. Sturtevant came out l. ast November and has been spend !, ng the time in Seattle and Cali ornia, expecting now to visit rela- ives in the New England States nd to retur ntO Nome in the spring, | likely going in by airplane from fairbanks.
 Delegate Wickersham's bill to ex- end the boundaries of the Mount National Park has been pproved by the Secretary of the interior. The Delegate added an mendment to protect locations all eady made within the added area nd after a few corrections in de- the bill was approved by he Committee on Public Lands. yrIar %r,a 1>;1l %t,o oa ct c;,lo o.>&os. |