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Show Iy Gin call CL AT THE WHITE HOUSE Financiers Anxious to Know I vis What May Be Expected Re-!r' Re-!r' J garding Alaska. TAFT UNABLE TO TELL Recommendations Made to , Congress Early in Session Produce No Results. WASHINGTON. April 5. President Tnt gave a hearing lute today on Alaska and the pronpocts for itB development to Senator Guggenheim of Colorado, his c.li brother Daniel Guggenheim, and several fcel experts of the Guggenheim company. . th Secretary Flnhcr was present, and hi Vice Pre.Idcnt Sherman, at the Invita- of Hon of the president, was a listener. H J The Guggtinhelms wern anxious to know, it wais Raid, what inlglit be cxpect- 1 i . ed In the way of legislation that would f allow the development of Alaska's nat- ' f; ural resources and In particular the coal. .jj They control the Copppr River railroad Hj, i planned to tap the Bering coal fields. For this road there Is now practically no h traffic, and the opening of the coal lands would ensure a big tonnage. They were reported interested also in Secretary Fisher's plan to build a government rall- r road in Alaska. This road, if built. would not compete with the Copper Rlv- l cr road. H Neither the president nor Secretary BR i Fisher would predict action hy congress Bj! on pending measures that would ensure Bft the- opening of the coal fields, although B9' j the president has made many addresses BM' I and frequently has suggested to con- BS j gress the necessity of providing a leu-s- Bn. ? lng plan that will allow the fields to bo Bn j opened. BS I Falcon .Toslyn of Fairbanks, Alaska, BB ! representing the Alaskan affairs commlt-B; commlt-B; i tee of the American Mining congress ho-BM; ho-BM; J foro the houso territories committee tolls to-lls day, advocated a hill io authorize the Bflh f president to hulld a 1000-mile railroad in HBf Alaska over any routo that would best BJ i develop the resources of that territory. BH The same committee also has a bill BM providing for a commission to investigate H a project for a railroad from Resurrection BB'i bay to the Yukon valley and another in-BM' in-BM' dorsed by Secretary Fisher to clothe the BB; president with discretion to build such a Bj, railroad with the equipment and supplies WlPi of the Panama canal work. M) The bill advocated by the mining oon-Kgftf oon-Kgftf press calls for a commission headed by Vfll I an army englnoor and would authorize ilfl 1 an ,8SUf! o 3 ncr cenL 1)011(1 8 |