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NOME. ALASKA, SEPT. 8. 1916.
After nearly two years of vicissi
tudes, during which a tremendous
commercial advantage has been for
ever lost to the country because of the
absence of shipping facilities with
which to take advantage of the sud
denly accessible trade market < epened
by the failure of the European export
trade after the declaration of war, the
much discussed shipping bill has finul
ly passed the last provision of legisla
tive rulings and is now a law.
With one or two exceptions, no
measure that has come before the na
tional law making body in recent years
lias encountered such bitter hostility,
such determined opposition from both
party and private interests, as the
shipping bill despite the obvious fact
that, time and conditions considered,
it was one of the most essentially de
sirable provisions that could possibly
he enacted for the benefit of the na
tion and the expansion of national
trade.
As Secretary of the Treasury Mc
Adoo has succicntly characterized the
measure; "It is one of the most im
portant pieces of constructive legis
lation for the commerce and prosper
ity of the nation that could possibly
be enacted."
The bill as passed provides for the
appropriation of fifty million dollars,
to be raised by Panama bonds, for the
purchase, charter, or lease of ships by
the government to be employed in fa
cilitating the nation's overseas com
mercial traffic.
The vessels so acquired will not be
held by the government, as provided
under the original measure, which was
unfortunately filibustered to death in
the closing days of the sixty-third
congress through the influence of the
hlg shipping interests, hacked by the
almost united efforts of the republi
cans, but will be sold or leased to
private capitul as rapidly as possible.
As will easily be discerned, the meas
ure is not intended to provide a gov
ernment merchant marine to he oper
ated by the government but to provide
ships to handle the national commerce,
the government to operate them if it
is found necessary to do so.
Although it is the intention to lease
or sell the ships to private capital, If
possible, the government reserves to
itself the right to call them hack into
the government service as naval auxil
iaries whenever it shall be deemed
necessary. The law also provides
hat the operation of such vessels as
the government Is not able to dispose
of by sale or lease shall not extend
beyond a period of five years after
the close of the European war.
While the sum of fifty millions is
ppropriated, this does not mean that
the government is going to purchase
at once fifty million dollars worth of
ships. No such expenditure will be
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made unless it is found that private
capital is unwilling or unable to sup
ly the demands for foreign carriage
nd there will be no government op
•ration at all if individuals and cor
porations can be enlisted lo handle the
lional commerce.
By these terms the objection to pub
lic trading, which was primarily re
sponsible for the defeat of the orig
inal measure, seems to have been ful
ly met. The law' not only meets a
ital issue but also contains another
excellent provision in that it creates
a shipping board of five members em
powered to investigate and report upon
the navigation laws and commerce
carriage conditions of all countries
and is also granted authority to fix
reasonable shipping rates and prac
tices and to prosecute discriminations
and illegal combinations by carriers of
ocean commerce. This feature Is in
itself of inestimable value in prevent
ing extortionate shipping rates.
While the limit of five years placed
upon the operation of vessels by the
fovernment •»•»», -
ory as the unlimited proposal of the
first measure, there can be but little
valid objection thereto. The ability of
i the government to operate a steamship
transportation system in a satisfactory
manner is a much debated question
with not a few indications pointing to
nonfeasibility, so the limiting provis
ion is not without advantages in that
the government is given ample time
to thoroughly demonstrate the prac
•icabllitv and advantages of govern
ment operation and if the results are
found unsatisfactory, the time limit
will allow the government to drop out
with grace.
What the results of the law will be
are yet to be demonstrated but to all
appearance the measure will be of in
estimable benefit and also an immense
step forward in the direction of com
plete government control of the ocean
shipping industry.
ALASKA
NOTES
(Tram our Kxchangaa.)
The Valdez-Fair'hanks mail stage1
recently went through from Valdez to
Fairbanks in two days, seven hours,
and the drivers claim that they will
easily make it in less than two after
the roads dry out a bit.
Reports from the Tolstoi strike state
that no new finds have been reported
for the past two months and that
many of the stampeders are becoming
discouraged. Prices in the new camp
are very high.
John Martinell, a newcomer in the
country, died recently at Tanana of
uremic poisoning. He was on his way
down the river when attacked and was
helped to Tanana where he died short
ly after arrival.
The Ruby Chamber of Commerce
has sent a protest to Washington
against the removal of (he military
post from Fort Gibbon to Fairbanks,
for which a petition has recently been
circulated in Fairbanks.
The Pioneer Packing Company, which
started the erection of a clam cannery
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abandoned the proposed site and will
construct the plant near the steam
ship dock at Cordova.
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nois' veteran representative in con
gross, recently made a miu-sumnn i
excursio 1 t*ip to Alaska, but becom- i
mg freightened or seasick, left the
boat a: ju-uau on er up trip
I- 1‘. Bryne, who attempted to go
from Anchorage to Portage bay in
the launch Sea Gull, had a rather i\
citing voyage, being marooned for two
days and nights on account of rough
weather in Turnagain arm.
Huth Marie Winsted, the little
daughter of a Seward resident nar
rowly escaped death as the result of
eating green currants. Gladys Green.'!
a young companion was also seriously"!
ill from the same cause.
Cyrus Hobinson, a teamster em
ployed by H. T. Fowler, of Anchorage
recently fell from a loaded wagon,
the wheels of which passed over his!
body, fracturing the femur bone of'
his right leg and badly bruising his
chest.
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RUNABOUT PRICE IS NOW.345^
TOURING PRICE IS NOW. 36000
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