The Wrangell sentinel., 1951-10-12
THROUGH THE SENTINEL PERISCOPE
Bartlett Wants to Spend More

Bartlett Wants to Spend More
 To get away from the personal for a while, this column notes WILD 2 good deal of interest in Delegate Bartlett's Washington News Letter that Bob has introduced a bill III congress to guarantee completion of the Territorial office building m Juneau" The letter goes on te say that $25O,0OO is still needed 10 finish the five-story buildinEr n addition to the $G6O,000 voted by the 1949 Legislature and a like amount to be advanced by the AL aska Public Works agency, the la, ter which the Alaska taxpayers will have to pay back when the Terri tory takes possession of te build ing.
 Actually, the Territory will only set an advance of $600,000 from public works on a 5O-50 basis be- cause the Board of Administration already has spent $60,000 of the Territorial money in acquiring a site, namely the old City Hall pro- perty in Juneau. But even twice 96OO,0O0 or $1,200,O00 isn't enough To get the tiYe-story bCructure finished it will take an- other quarter of a million, says the Delegate, so he proposes in his bill 10 waive the Organic Act and per- init the Territory to issue revenue bonds for the $250,000. The bonds would be redeemed, under the Bartlett proposal by renting one floor of the building to the En- ployment Security Commission which gets it's money for such things from the U. s. Bureau of Employment Security.
 We trust the Congress in its wisdom doesn't allow the Territory to issue bonds, of any kind, man. per or description, or, in addition to paying the highest taxes under the American flag, we'll be sad uIed with bond issues to redeem TOT generations to come. Once the Dond barrier is down, the sky may become Lne limit. But it's quite a pIay on Bobs part to try and cap Iure a few Junead votes when he comes up for reelection next year.
 It iC revealing to learn, how ever, that the Delegate has know ledge of something going on in Alaska, even though it is an idea to bond the Territory.
 He apparently has little or no information on the appointment of U. s. Marshal in the First DiVt- sion, pending now for months, and for which two commentators have gone in from the Democratic Divisional Committee, one previ ously turned down. He pleads they haven't gotten around to 1t" when the matter of delayed con- firmation of District Judge George w. Folta is brought up. On the Lew Williams firing, in the works for eight months, he declared com plete ignorance.
 In a nutshell it's something like this: Quote we can't afford to break with the Governor un- quote.
 The Neil Moore Affair
 With the death of Frank A. Boyle, for many years the Auditor of Alaska, a short time before the converting of the 1851 Legislature, it became the duty of this Ferris coper, as the then Acting Govern or. along with Attorney General J. Gerald Williams and Treasurer Henry Roden, the appointive board, to name a successor. Under the act creating the office of Aud itor, the Legislature fills the va cancy when it gets into session. In the interim it is up to the ap- pointive board.
 The Governor was gone on one of his many trips thither and yon and at that time happened to be in Washington so we got him on the phone, along with Delegate Bartlett, and offered the informa- t1on that the board was consider ing the appointment of Neil F. Moore, who had been Boyle's as- Glstant for Il years, and asked his reaction. Ernest agreed it was the thing to do in view of the early meeting of the Legislature when the matter would doubtless come up. Bartlett acquiesced.
 We'd hardly got home that ey- ening when the phone rang. It was Herb Brown, the Postmaster Tn Anchorage, somewhat agitated.
 That job Is supposed to be mine If anything should happen
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