the Lomen Transportation Company
for the year 1925 and 1920 were
greatly padded. Lomen refused to
submit vouchers. There was no
way to force him to submit them.
The governor felt that this was poor
business, and while vouchers might
have supported the account submit
ted, still it didn’t look good for the
Lomen interests to take many
thousands of dollars of the people’s
money without submitting expense
vouchers. In spite of what Tom
Gaffney says, there was no other
opposition to the bill.)
Regarding the telephone subsidy,
what opposition developed was on
the ground that the Territory should
not subsidize private business. If
it is right to give a private com
pany of Nome the people’s money
for a telephone line, it is right to
give money to every other company.
Ben Grier showed that the company
which was asking for the subsidy
had assets of over $90,000. The
principle of the subsidy is wrong
and should be opposed.
“Gaffney’s Aviation Bill is ex
pected to pass the Senate tomor
row.”
(The Gaffney bill was KILLED in
committee and another substitut
ed. It is bills of this character that
make it necessary to increase tax
ation. It will be noted that the so
called Radicals of the First Divi
sion uniformly opposed appropria
tions of this kind. By this bill, the
Territory of Alaska pays a private
airplane $2,510 for making one
round trip to Nome, a city of about
400 people in the spring when the
trip is required to be made. Is
there any business reason why the
tax-payers of Alaska should pay
$2,500 to enable the 400 citizens
of Nome to send out mail in April?
Any of these important orders could
be sent by wireless. Subsidies are
bad business and unsound from any
viewpoint. They are also forbid
den by the Organic Act).
“The Gaffney Bill asking that
twenty per cent may, if necessary,
be appropriated from the road
funds to comply with the Congres
sional Act for the extension of the
Seward Peninsula Tram Road was
defeated by the Sundquist-Paul com
bination, by a vote of nine to seven.
The Legislators favoring the meas
ure said that Sundquist’s action in
the matter was unprecedented in
this, or any other Legislature.
Gaffney, with his usual vigor, made
a strong argument for the bill,
backed by Loman and Rydeen, in
lengthy pithy remarks. General
Steese strongly favored the bill.”
(There are several misstatements
or lies in this report by Tom Gaff
ney. In the first place, there was
no ‘‘Congressional Act” referring to
any road whatever in the Second
Division. This statement is made,
we think, to make the people of the
Second Division think that Sundquist
was plum crazy. In the second
place, there was no limitation of
‘‘twenty per cent.” Under the pro
visions of the bill, the entire road
and trail appropriation of the Se
cond Division could be, and was in
tended to be, spent on the Shelton
Keewalik Tram. The reference to
twenty per cent in the Federal Pro
posed Act is quite different. Un
der this bill which failed in the last
Congress, Alaska was to assume 20
per cent of the expense of the Tram,
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and under Gaffney’s bill, ALL of the
road money of the Second Division
would have been spent on the tram
way. The third misstatement is
this, Rydeen made no speech what
ever for the bill. Sundquist tried
to save the bill, but the “three
musketeers” of Nome “bulled” it
in the House, and so the bill failed
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