The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-04-12
D|M0ND ] MAKES HOUR ADDRESS. 5.
 BEFORE: RE: HOUSE
Delegate l,0-Minute Talk
 to Lower House Makes Fine Impression

E WASHINGTON. April, 3,--tSpec- ial Correspondence Stewards Day, March 30th,-was another Alaska Day at the Capital. In comemora- tion of the 66th anniversary of the purchase of Alaska, the Delegate from Alaska asked, leave of the House of Representatives to address lit for 10 minutes. which was grant, ed, The scheduled ten-minute talk, at the request of different members, stretched out into nearly an hour and developed into a discussion of the economic problems confront ling Alaska. MT, Dimord was ire |quently interrupted by members who wanted information on the territory. At one point of the ad- ldress the Delegate was asked, point blank, by Congressman Rankin, of Mississippi, if he were satisfied with the administration of. MT. O,Malley, and his prompt response was. NO. II am not"
 Numerous inquiries, both from members of Congress and others. in the audience, for information re- garding the territory have been coming into the Delegates office |since the speech was made.
 In the afternoon on Stewards Day the Senate confirmed the nomination of John w. Troy as Governor of Alaska. A flood of tele- grams from Alaska and many points in the States poured into the Delegates office for MT Troy congratulating him on his ap- pointment. In the evening of March 30th, MT. DiInond was interviewed by: Lowell Thomas over the, National Broadcasting Company's chain. The interview was brief, but many letters have already reached the Delegates office asking for inforr
 nation about the territory A number of friends of the Delegate, located at different points in the States, who heard him on the Thomas hour. have also written, Governor Troy and the Delegate were received by the President on March 28 The President is much interested in the territory. and it's problems, and invited the Delegate to call again for. a further dis cussion of Alaska's needs.
 Governor Troy has been busy calling on cabinet officers who Ihave charge of Alaskan matters.
 The last few days he has been getting acquainted. with bureau and department heads and, is now getting ready to leave, for the
 North.
 The Delegate introduced several
 bills during the past two weeks
 and is now working on others.
 Among the bills already introduc- ed is one repeating the Alaska
 Bone Dry Law. This bill not only
 repeals the Dry Law, but seeks
 Co amend the Organic Act to, per init the Alaska Legislature to re-
 gulate the sale and manufacture
 of intoxicating liquors in the event of the repeal of the Eighteenth
 Amendment. In the interim the bill
 confers jurisdiction upon United States Commissioners in Alaska to try cases. under the, National Pro
 hibition Act. s.ss.
 Another bill introduced prevents the seizure of boats and fishing
 gear until and unless the owner
 or operator is convicted of a vio-
 lation of fisheries laws. Still an
 other repeals the Act of Congress approved August 1, 1912, referring
 to placer mining claims in Alaska,
 and declares that the general
 mining laws of the United States
 insofar as they apply to placer
 mining claims are extended to and
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