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Bartlett Letter Clarifies New
Statehood Bill Before Congress
Delegate Bartlett sent the fol
lowing letter to the legislature to
explain the new statehood bill.
February 19, 1955
Hon. James Nolan,
President of the Senate
Territorial Legislature
Juneau, Alaska
Dear President Nolan:
This is written in a belief that
it is my duty to inform the Senate
concerning recent statehood de
velopments which in the minds of
many, including me, were first
linked with the partition proposal
made last year.
As you are aware, the so-called
Bartlett amendment was adopted
by the House Committee on In
terior and Insular Affairs shortly
before the committee approved
the statehood bill. That was on
February 16.
The previous day another
amendment relating generally to
the same subject had been reject
ed by the committee. '
My amendment projects a line
along the Yukon River from the
point where the river enters Alas
ka from Canada, to a point about
four miles northeast of Nulato;
from there the line goes due north
to the parallel of latitude 65 de
grees north, or a distance of some
thing on the order of 15 miles;
from there it continues due west
across Seward Peninsula being
north of Nome something like 35
miles.
It is provided that the President
may establish national defense
withdrawals anywhere north of
that line provided that he shall
not include in such withdrawals
more than 40 percent of the total
land area.
The amendment previously re
jected included within the region
where such withdrawal might be
made a much larger area of Alas
ka and placed no percentage limi
tation on the President’s author
ity.
I can well imagine that the
members of the legislature, es
pecially those from the Second
Division, are apprehensive that
this may be a renewal of the par
tition proposal of 1954.
It is not.
All of the area we now know
as Alaska would be included in
the State of Alaska under the pro
visions of the accepted amend
ment.
Indeed that was the case also
with reference to the amendment
which was voted down. It includ
ed, as noted above, a much larger
area and no percentage limitation
for defense withdrawals but ac
I tually my conclusion is after care
ful study that it was not particu
i larly offensive. I opposed it at the
time it was offered because it had
not been earlier discussed; there
1 was no opportunity to analyze the
fairly complicated language, and
! the map which was displayed in
] the committee room was decor
i ated by a red ribbon which
! seemed to me from the hasty ex
i amination which had to be made
, to be strikingly similar to another
map produced when partition was
proposed. Therefore my opposi
tion was based to a very consider
able extent on a fear that this
might be a new partition effort.
It was not.
However, all things considered,
it is perhaps just as well that the
later and more limiting amend
ment was adopted.
Actually, the residents of cer
tain parts of the Second and
Fourth Divisions are not being set
apart from their fellow Alaskans.
They will be residents of the
new state.
i The amendment does not give
the President power to do any
thing which he cannot now do.
i If he so desired he could with
draw all the public domain of
Alaska before the sun goes down
today for military reasons or for
other use by the federal govern
ment.
It was explained to the commit
tee by the two members princi
Legislature . . .
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chorage), who introduced it for
the Fish and Wildlife Service,
said it was endorsed by the Al
aska Sportsmen’s Assn.
Speaking in its support, Kay
said it might be described as a
“left-handed relief handout” and
that wolverines are not numerous
and would be killed anyhow for
their furs.
Rep. Robert McNealy <D-Fair
bankst replied that maybe there
were not many of them around
Anchorage law offices, but there
were “enough” of them in the far
north to be worth a bounty.
Prostitution
The House also got into the
fields of highway advertising and
prostitution during the afternoon.
The latter came up in the form
of a bill to outlaw the vice. The
discussion brought some rough
hewn use of the king’s English on
the House floor before the bill
was held over until today.
A highway advertising bill
would empower the Territorial
Police superintendent to order
persons responsible for illegal
highway advertising signs to have
them taken down. It carries some
sharp teeth for any sign owners
who fail to comply. The House
the bill 17 to 2.
Juvenile Delinquency
A juvenile delinquency bill for
parents also was approved in the
1 Senate unanimously. Possibly r
should be called a delinquent par
ents bill.
It would add a parent and
guardian to the list of offenders
who could be held responsible for
delinquency of a minor—either
for any acts which contributed di
i rectly to delinquency or for their
failures to take action to avoid it.
The bill was introduced by Sen
Charles Jones <R- Nome).
Russia Will Pay Iran 11
Tons of Gold In Settling
Old Frontier Differences
TEHRAN, Iran, The Majlis
• pariament) Thursday approved
88-4 an agreement with Russia
giving Iran 11 tons of gold and
eight million dollars in settlement
of Iranian war claims and settl
ing old frontier differences.
pally urging the first amendment
that language of this kind was ab
solutely essential .if the President
were to approve an Alaska state
hood bill.
For my part, after carefully
considering and studying the mat
ter, I saw no objection to inser
tion of a section which in essence
says the President may do that
which he may do anyway. This
seems to be more of an exercise
in semantics than anything else.
To sum up:
1. The amendment does not
partition Alaska.
2. It provides that all citizens
of the Territory of Alaska will be
citizens of the State of Alaska.
3. It provides that the President
may establish national defense
withdrawal areas north of a given
line but not in excess of 40 per
cent of the land area there.
4. If all of this seems frivolous
in view of the fact that existing
law makes it possible for the
President to withdraw close to
100 percent of the land a#ea be
cause so much is in public domain
and so little in private ownership,
then I must agree; but if language
which will not be hurtful is held
to be necessary for approval of an
Alaska statehood bill I know of
no sound reason for offering ob
jection.
I join with you in a desire to
explain to the people of Alaska
what this is all about, although as
you already probably have noted
it is a bit difficult to explain
clearly why the statehood bill
should confer upon the Chief Ex
ecutive the authority which he
already possesses!
Sincerely yours,
(Signed) E. L. Bartlett
Russians To Return Port
Arthur To The Chinese
TOKYO, (A)—Peiping radio to
day quoted a Red Chinese official
at Port Arthur as saying the Rus
sians “have begun to evacuate”
that Manchurian naval base.
The official was Madame Sun
Yat-Sen, now a vice chairman of
the Red regime. She went over to
the Communists after they seized
control of the Republic which
her husband founded.
Madame Sun, a sister of Mad
ame Chiang Kai-shek, was a
member of a Red Chinese delega
tion which yesterday visited the
Manchurian naval base. Peiping
says Port Arthur is to be turned
over to the Chinese by May 31.
Seward Votes $3,200,000
Bond Issue To Finance
New Hydroelectric Plant
SEWARD, (Ah—Seward voted
480-25 yesterday in favor of a
$3,200,000 bond issue to finance a
new hydroelectric installation to
serve the port city and possibly
its outlying areas.
Voters approved installing a
S3,500-kilowatt generator, which
could be expanded to produce
10,000 kilowatts. The referendum
also carried a provision to serve
the rural Kcnai Peninsula area.
Nine Airmen Perish In
Fiery Crash KC-97 Tanker
WINDSOR, Mo., (iW—Nine Air
Force men perished Wednesday
night in the fiery crash of a gaso
line-loaded refueling plane about
miles northwest of this cen
tral Missouri town.
Two crewmen parachuted to
safety from about 250 feet as the
flaming craft neared the ground
Both.were unhurt.
The KC-97 tanker, which re-,
fuels other craft while in the air,
crashed just two minutes after it
left the Sedalia Air Force Base
on a routine training flight.
Persons living near the scene
said they first saw the plane glid
ing toward the earth in flames. A
tremendous explosion followed.
The survivors said they first
noticed sparks from the No. 2
engine of the plane, and the plane
soon caught fire.
“Once the fuel caught it was a
matter of seconds, one related.
“We knew it was going to explode
but we couldn’t make it back.”
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