representative in Congress to carry
on his fight to success. Judge
Wickersham has done more for the
town of Juneau than any other in
dividual in Alaska, and yet there is
no man more thoroughly hated by
the lackey class and loved by the
rank and file of Juneau residents
than the Judge.
This class we will have at any
point where the capital may be lo
cated. If a change were made, the
Juneau class that sits in its lair and
licks its wounds would surely fol
low the appointed powers, and al
though it might be a relief for the
independent residents of Juneau and
Gastineau Channel, why should the
good people of some other Alaskan
locality be inflicted with them?
Nothing can be gained by scattering
this class. The same theory of so
cial economy that they apply to the
vicious classes in Juneau or Ketchi
kan should be applied to them. Keep
them in their restricted district and
watch them.
AN ALASKAN.
Bellingham, Wash.,
May G, 1925.
GOVERNMENT’S COST IN
RUNNING ALASKA
Total of $10,467,064 Was Spent in
Federal Administration of
Territory Last Year
A compilation just completed by
Secretary Work of the Interior De
partment shows that a total of $10,
467,064 was spent in the Federal ad
ministration of the Territory jf
Alaska last year, and that control
of these expenditures was divided
between nine of the ten executive
departments of the Government. Ap
proximately twenty-five different bu
reaus within these departments ex
pended appropriation made by Con
gress for the 125 various government
activities in Alaska.
The figures also indicate that,
based on the white population of
27,500 now residing in the Territory,
the cost of Federal administration is
$380 per white person, while the
amount spent by the Government for
the entire population, including ap
proximately 27,500 Eskimos, Aleuts
and Indians, is $190 per capita. In
this connection Secretary Work stat
ed that 3,000, or more than one-tenth
of Alaska’s white population, is at
present in the Government employ
in some capacity or other.
The largest expenditure of any one
of the executive branches for Fed
eral administration in Alaska was
made by the Department of the In
terior last year, the amount being
$4,134,028. This represented expen
ditures for the Territorial Govern
ment, including the Governor; super
vision of Alaska’s public lands, com
prising the issuing of mining, oil,
coal and other mineral permits and
leases; sale of town and manufac
turing sites; operation of the Gov
ernment railroad; the national parks
and monuments; providing schools
and hospitals for the natives; propa
gation of the reindeer industry; to
pographic, mineral and geographic
surveys; suppression of traffic in in
toxicating liquor, and the protection
of game. These expenditures include
also $50,000 paid to the Agricultural
and Mechanical College at Fairbanks,
Alaska, annually by the Government
and $50,856 for the care of native
Indian pupils at the school at Che
mawa, Salem, Ore.
The second largest expenditure in
Alaska was made by the Department
of War, the amount expended dur
ing the last fiscal year being $2,
076,087. The War Department’s ac
tivities included the operation of the
cable and telegraph lines in the
Territory, the maintenance of army
posts and military reserves, improve
ment of its rivers and harbors and
other navigable streams, and the
construction of trails and roads
through the Alaska Road Commis
sion. Of the total amount expended
only $637,813 was for military ac
tivities, while $1,438,873 was for
non-military purposes.
Third on the list is the Depart
ment of Commerce, its annual ex
penditures amounting to $1,389,307
for Federal administration in Alaska.
The largest part of this sum was
expended for the protection and su
pervision of the fish industry. Other
expenditures under the jurisdiction
of the Commerce Department in
cluded the maintenance of light
houses and other aids to navigation
along the Alaskan coast and enforce
ment of the maritime laws through
the Coast and Geodetic Survey.
The Department of Agriculture ex
pended $879,362 in Alaska, its ac
tivities consisting of the supervision
over the national forests in the Ter
ritory, the fur-bearing animal life,
the weather bureaus located there,
the public roads, migratory birds,
and agricultural development through
the operation of five experimental
stations. The next largest sum
amounted to $624,916 spent by the
Postoffice Department in the opera
tion of mail service, postal router,
and postoffices. Of this amount,
$132,305 was returned to the Govern
ment through postal receipts. The
Treasury Department’s expenditure
in Alaska last year was $486,559 for
the collection of customs, guarding
the coast from smuggling, collection
of Federal taxes, supervision of Na
tional banks, registry of ships, main
tenance of quarantine stations and
hospitals, protection of the public
health, and other activities.
The Department of Justice, through
the maintenance of Federal courts in
four judicial districts in Alaska with
marshals to arrest violators of ths
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