The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-08-22
THROUGH THE SENTINEL PERISCOPE

The annual migration of Con- Eressmen to Alaska is underway. Ii will reach it's peak next week when two committees arrive in Ketchikan and one in Whittier. One. the House Interstate and For eign Committee, has come and gone, visiting only the Interior. The other three will make the cir cult. They are, as previously IT. ported the subcommittee on Ter ritories of the House Public Lands committee, headed by Chairman Fred Crawford of Michigan, schpd- uled to arrive in Whittier via Army transport August 29; the Senate Small Business committee, Homer Capehart of Indiana, Char man, due in Ketchikan August 27, tnd the Senate Public Lands con- mittee with Hugh Butler of Neb- raska as Chairman, scheduled in Ketchikan August 20 The Craw- ford group will swing through the Interior and Arctic, arriving in Juneau to spend two days in tFe Southeast. Only calls in Southeast are expected to be Juneau and Ket- chikan where hearings on state hood will be held
 The Capehart committee will spend two days in the Ketchikan vicinity looking over pulp areas and then will continue on to Wran9ell via Coast Guard vessel, probably arriving in Wrangell the afternoon or evening of August 50 staying over until the next morning before proceeding to Pet ersburg where the 31st will be spent, thence on to Juneau.
 The Butler committee will leave Ketchikan the evening of August 29 and will visit Metlakatla, -Wran- gell and Petersburg en route to| Juneau The group will be aboard the U. S. Fish and Wildlife vessel Brant and should also be in Wran- gell on the 3Oth. Gov. Ernest Gruening will be with the Butler committee and Secretary of Alaska Lew Williams with the Capehart group.
 
 To give you an idea of what a dollar in the Terrftory's general fund means these days, the Boa~d of Administration and the Veter- ans Board have decided to go to court about it. Some time ago the Board of Administration, straining to meet the Territorial payroll, coIlod +bo DooYd pay to the Territory $35O,000 ad Vanced it to set up housekeeplns when it was created in 1946. The Vets Board, which had collected some million and a half from the gross revenue tax. said it still had a pile of bonuses which hadn't been paid and requests for loans which hadn't been proeessed anG therefore it couldn't see it's way clear to pay at this time. The law says, ''as soon as revenues derived from the tax will permit, but not later than four years after effec- tive date of the act" The Board or Administration, pinched for the well known dollar, decided to ask the court whether it could legally enforce its demand for the $350,- 0O0 Mandamus action has been filed m the District Court Mean while, the dear old general furI had about $90, against this the Territorial Treasurer was hofa ing $75,000 to meet August pay rolls, leaving a balance of $15,00e, and aside from the payroll holdour there was a little item of ab lut $75,000 in other vouchers which were stacking up in the Treasur CTS office for other Territorial eX- renses. Thanks to the last Legl5 lature passing appropriations to- taling more than ten million d gainst revenues of around six mil lion the old cry of where's the money coming from?" began tt have more meaning than when Senator Joe Graen of the Senate Finance committee tossed it off with "oh, there'll be plenty ol money" Report is that the Boaro of Administration would like to have Joe drop in with few poKes of gold as a donation to the Ter ritory He's out building a trail to n,ina