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WICKERSHAJVI RESUMES FIGHT
FOR HIS “BABY,” GOV
ERNMENT ROAD
James Wickersham, chosen at
last year’s election as Delegate to
Congress from Alaska, has re
turned to Washington to resume
a fight he began more than 20
years ago for the government
owned Alaska railroad.
He declares that his “pet” has
not been treated fairly by Con
| gress and by the Interior Depart
1 ment, which is responsible for its
! management, and he is going to
1 see what can be done about it.
I Failing to obtain action from
j department heads, he plans to
carry his case to Congress. For
all his 73 years, the Alaskan Del
egate is a picture of robust health
and seems perfectly capable of
putting up a good show when he
gets into action.
Father of Alaskan Road
Wickersham was a member of
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Congress from 1908 to • 1920 and
more than 20 years ago began
agitating for the construction of
the railroad. He “sold” the idea
to Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of
the Interior in the Wilson admin
istration, and construction of the
road was begun before the war.
Last summer a committee com
posed of Senators Howell of Ne
braska, Kendrick of Wyoming and
Thomas of Idaho made an in
spection of the railroad and
brought back a report that it was
being extravagantly managed and
recommended that its rates be
raised to meet operating deficits.
The Interior Department fol- j
lowed this recommendation by,
raising both passenger and freight j
rates and this stirred up a hornets’ j
nest in Alaska.
Rates Held Prohibitive
Wickersham contends that this :
move is the very worst solution
of the problem. Instead df in
creasing revenues, he says, it will j
reduce them, because cost of
! transportation has been lifted to
| prohibitive levels.
“What Alaska needs is lowed
j and not higher rates,” he declares.
“We are rich in raw materials,
but we cannot market them be
cause of freight rates.
“Congress has set aside $250,000
of the railroad’s million-dollar ap
propriation to develop industries
and the Interior Department makes
rates which prevent those already
in existence from operating. That
does not seem to make good
$ense.” _.
Wickersham insists that the
Morgan-Guggenheim interests are
throttling the government-owned
railroad and are largely respon
sible for its policies.
Morgan-Guggenheim Holdings
This group owns the Copper
River Railroad, running from Cor
dova to Kennecott, and Wicker
sham claims it is really a plant
facility for the great copper mines
along its route. He says* its rates
are purposely kept high to dis
courage copper development by
outside interests, but that they are
now being used as a basis for the
government-owned road’s charges.
The copper interests operate a
steamship line between Seward,
the southern terminus of the gov
ernment line, and the states. That
j is the only way to get in or out
i of Alaska, and the monopoly is
charging all the traffic will bear
—and more.
Uncle Sam could smash this
monopoly over night by putting 3
few government-owned ships into
the Alaskan trade, but the Mor
gan-Guggenheim combine is so
influential in Washington that
nothing has been done.
Until this relief is granted,
Wickersham says, Alaska wall be
at the mercy of the Morgan-Gug
genheim outfit and its development
will be retarded.
Tretaed Like a Stepchild
“Without the Alaska Railroad,”
he adds, “we would be lost. Yet,
until it is frankly operated on the
theory that its main : purpose is
the development of the Territory,
we are not much better off with
it than we would be without it.
“We are asking comparatively
little of the government—nothing
like what was granted to the
Western states when the buildnig
of railroads was Subsidized by land
and money grants.
“We feel that a million dollars
a year spent on the Alaska road
is a small outlay in comparison
with the tremendous wealth that
has flowed into the United States
from a section of the country
which is being treated as a step
child.”—Labor.
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May 15
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