Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-07-25 | Page 4 | Alaska People to Have Legislature

ALASKA PEOPLE TO mmm Measure (rf Home Rule Is Granted by Congress After Years of gitation. By International News Bervlo. WASHINGTON. .Tnlv 24 - After struc: rllng for years to obtain legislation creating cre-ating a legislative assembly that WOltld lie elected by the people nnd not appointed ap-pointed bv the president, ihe people of Alaska today saw their hopes renllzed. The senHte parsed the house hill with a number of amendments, but leaving the legislature to be chosen by the people peo-ple themselves, which v:is lbs essential thing fop which they bare fought. The capital Of the territory Will he Juneau, and the nei legislature Is 10 be chosen In November at the time .( the elections ln the st;ites The asnatM eliminated the proposed senate, consisting consist-ing of two members seat) frm 1he four Judicial dlStrlcta, but permitted Ihe house provision for lh lower body, consisting con-sisting of sixteen nu-mbers. to stand. This one body Is lo he known as the legislature. It can remain In session not more than sixty days In any two years, and the salary "of the members Is fixed at $1'. a day and mileage. The veto power of the governor of the territory is gre.it er in some respects than that of the president. The governor la given authority to veto any ipeelflO Item In any bill appropriating money for specific purposes, but on all other matters he must veto. If at all. onlv as a whols, An officer of the army engineer OOrpg, a geologist In charge of Alnska survey, an officer In the engineer corps of the navy and a civil engineer who has id practical experience in railroad OOnatTUC tlon. but who has not been GOIUMCted with any enterprise in Alaska, are. authorized au-thorized to be appointed as a commission to examine into the transportation uue-,-tlon. to examine routes fr..m the seaboard sea-board to the coal fields and lo the Interior In-terior ami navigable waters, to estimate cost of construction, to make surrey and submit such other Information us ninv he proper to .a ress t-v .) i her 1 next, recommending the best routes for railroads lo develop the country