The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-10-29

Congress. He headed the list with the Organic Act of 1912, which, he pointed out, made Juneau Alaska < capital by law instead of by exc cutive order.
 He claimed credit for writing and obtaining passage of the Alaska Railroad Act, asserting Senator Chamberlain, author of the bill ir the Senate, had obtained a copy from him to introduce. He said he obtained the first appropriation for capitol building in Juneau out Of which came the funds tc purchase the site of the present structure.
 Doubts College Act
 He is the author of the act cre- ating the Alaska Agricultural Col lege and School of Mines, giving it extensive land grants. He said he had been criticised for that by some people, and admitted that sometimes think I made a mis- take" He added he had stood by it and assisted it in every way possible since it was created. He claimed credit for passing the bill making possible the public school system and giving it sections 16 and 38 in every surveyed township.
 He said he was author of the measure establishing the Mckinley National Park. He claimed to have located and extended the original site on which the fine Federal building in Fairbanks is being constructed at this time. He was also author of the Alaska Bone Dry Law He declared there were many other important measures sponsored by him, many of which became laws.
 Tolls Arc Trivial
 During his present term, he said there has been an insufficient time to do any extended service for the Territory. He answered criticisms on the creation of a toll road sys- tenn in the Territory by labelling it a 'ftriviap' matter. He said in one speech he had failed to men tion this phase of the transfer of the Alaska Road Commission, but didn't see that his failure was anything to cause comment. T cbpected to it but it did no good" he said.
 He added that Cit didn't matter as it is unimportant. It is the silliest little thing which will never be put into affect" adding he wanted the critics to shut up about it."
 Reported Was Inaccurate
 Citing what he termed a "delib- crate" misquotation of the record from Senator Dimond's speech here early this week, he strongly inti- mated that the reporter for The Empire acted unfairly and tried to twist the account to the Dele gates discredit. The Welsh bill on floating canneries was referred to as a bill introduced by him
 One of the witnesses for the measure was a Pete Olsen, whose name was mistakenly given in The Empire as Andrew Olsen. In the hearings quoted, the Delegate char acterized Olsen as a "racketeer," then asked by a member of the Committee who would control the Legislature if it were given au- thority to control the Fisheries of Alaska, the Delegate replied: Who controls Congress? Pete Olsen, I suppose" This testimony, said was deliberately twist ed to his disadvantage.
 Wrong Approach Used
 Wickersham's predecessor, Dan Sutherland, used entirely the wrong approach in undertaking to get something done about the fisher les, the Delegate said, in his state ment on fish traps. Traps, he declared, are mechanisms that compete with human beings. If it resolves itself into a question of traps or human employment for taking fish, then, he said, he is ln favor of humans, and against the traps.
 The House Committee on Merch- ant Marine and Fisheries is largely concerned with ships and shipping, with things mechanical. Anything that threatens shipping is taboo with it. For that reason anytime 1 introduced a bill on fish that smacked of antagonism to the mechanical end of the in- dustry. it got set on by the Com mittee.
 Goes To Indian Committee
 When Delegate Wickersham req lized what was wrong, he said he decided to approach it from anoth- pr angle, and picked out the Com mittee on Indian Affairs as the most likely to succeed. He in- duced that body to appoint sub- committee of six to study the Gov ernment's treatment of the Alaska