ARTHUR FRAME
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Early in the session, Senator
Frame gave strong evidence
that he was to be one of the in
visibles. When he refused the
blandishments, cajolery, and of
fers of political preferment, so
freely extended by pseudo-Re
publicans and Democrats, if he
would only consent to join with
the Governor and keep the lat
ter’s messenger boy at the head
of the Territorial Schools, it
was demonstrated that he was a
free agent prepared to serve his
Territory. Thruout the session
he favored and labored for pro
gressive measures. He was par
ticularly active ih helping to se
cure elective offices and sought
to wrest from the Governor the
personal power and influence
that this office wields because
of the repeated action of the
Territorial Legislature in impos
ing new duties on the Govern
or that was not contemplated in
the Organic Act. Where these
issues were not involved Senator
Frame exercised an independ
ence of thought and action upon
measures generally, and labored
hard, as chairman of the Judi
ciary Committee, to whip meas
ures in line and make them pre
sentable for serious considera
tion. He was never disconcerted
by the wiles and political har
rangues of Senators Dimond and
Dunn. He was ever ready to ex
pose their plays to the gallery
and the press of the Territory.
At times he rose to flights of el
oquence in justification of his
standard of fairness and justice
The Third Division has reason
to feel grateful for the efficient
and valuable service rendered by
their Senator Frame.
ANTHONY J. DIMOND
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The one Senator, who, thruout
the session had an eye always to
the political effect of his actions.
Gracious and suave, he was will
ing to vote for any measure that
would help along a colleague,
providing it had no bearing on
politics and didn’t conflict with
the wishes of the Governor or of
the President of the Agricultural
College. Altho Tony is a Demo
crat and the legal representative
of Big Interests. ke^t.
facts largely in the background,
and by his good nature got the
Republicans to pass a number
of i 1 is measures, home oi Uiem
were meritorious while others
had a few jokers that had to be
deftly extracted before passage
One in particular was a codiliea
tion of the school laws that
sought to give the Governor the
right to appoint six members of
the Territorial Board of Educa
tion, with power to discharge the
Commissioner of Education at
will. This was characterized by
Editor Pegues as a '‘non-politic
al, non-partisan” gesture. The
present Board of the Governor
and four senior Senators sud
denly became partisan when ic
refused to continue in office the
notoriously political C o m m i s
sioner who had held the place
for twelve years past. So Tony
and the Editor conceived a new
idea for restoring the shorn
power of the defunct Commis
sioner. Another gesture, for
which he was lauded by the
press of the Territory, was his
motions coward the end of the
session demanding that bills be
ing considered by committees be
immediately reported. Of come
he didn’t expect that this would
be done and they were all
brought out in good time, but it
gave the Editor an opportune7
to extol the earnestness
great value of Tony. Then again
Tony was strong on denuncia
tory speeches wlrn the ques
tionable actions of the Govern
or were at issue or when unsav
ory politics of the Third Division
were exposed. But this can
easily be understood when it
may be the intention of the
Democratic Party to nominate
Senator Dimond as their candi
date for Delegate to Congress
next April. But Tony is not on
ly affable and likeable but lie is
also shrewd and likeable, so he
may finally decide that Repre
sentative Ziegler is about the
right size to take the mauling
that Dan Sutherland usually ad
ministers to his adversary.
J. II. ANDERSON
Possibly one of the greatsl
surprises in the Legislature was
Senator Anderson. Without pre
vious experience, it was presum
ed by the Democratic combina
tion that he would easily fall in
to the folds of the element that
sought to control for personal
gain. His 111 .st real test was when
lilt* -vo election oL School Com
missioner Henderson was an is
sue. Tiie social and fraternal
batteries oi Juneau were specif -
icaily directed toward captur
ing and subduing his first ex
pressed mdep ldent thot. They
believed he would easily fall un
der their blandishments and
succumb to the desires of the
organization t h a t considered
the Governor’s choice for all of
fices . .vaild be properly respect
ed. But Senator Anderson care
fully weighed all considerations
and concluded that the Commis
sionership should be eliminated
Bom pon ies, and thenceforth
he stood like the Rock of Gib
e importunities
i impik ms of the cornbin
t sou .lit to en
downfail. Thruout
n, S( nator Anderson
stood solidly with the Progress
ive Republicans and it was early
d tli t wh( n he gave his
word on any question or meas
ure, that there was nothing
more to be said. He was honest
and reliable and sought to ad
nee tho -e me i >ures that tend
welfare of the Terri -
forv. At the same time he was
evtr alert to see that the Second
Divviion secured what it was
ititled to. Take as a
whole, Senator Anderson proved
one of the most valuable of all
the members of the Legislature.
Y/ith the experience that he has
just had, his constituents will
find when they return him for
another session, that he will
again prove more than worthy
of the confidence that they re
pose in his ability and integrity.
JOHN W. DUNN
In the session of 1925, Senator
Dunn was first with the Demo
Republicans and later with the
Progressive Republicans. The
latter thot that he had seen the
light, so when nominations were
in order in the Spring of 192(3,
it was arranged that the Repub
■ of the Fourth Division
shoi id not nominate a candi
mt that the Sutherland
element should vote for the re
(Motion of Snator Dunn. Of
course he was elected, and came
to the Legislature in 1927 as a
supporter of five Sutherland
measures. But before the ses