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Show A BONA FIDE OFFEB. Tbe Territorial Dtlctn or Alatka Offers if 14,000,000 for That Territory. THC NCWS BOYS OF NEW VOFIK HAVCA DINNER PARTY. X. Teu I'er Cent Redaction of Wages From the First of tlio Xeir Trnf. Cf Tiltstarh totte Mm.1 ALASK I. Captain Jauaea CorroII MaUes a lfaud..me Prooaltlou. Wasiiinotos, Dec 23. Captain James Carroll of Hitka. who was chon by tbe Alaska convention to bo Tertltorlal Uelrgntu it Congrtts should give Abska representation, la In tbo city. Talking to a reporter for the iW, ho said If rxprvsenta-tlon rxprvsenta-tlon ia dcukil, Congress should at least grant other reasonable) requests of the people of Ala'kn. lie also spoke of another projection he was Willius; to mako on the part of the solid citizens of the country. If Congress did not think Alaska of enough importance to givo it a system sys-tem of Jurisprudence and all the facilities and rlithts it had granted every ether outlying settlement of the government, ho was empowered to oiler the sum of SH.OOJ.OOO for the Territory, and wculd jay it over in $3) gold pieces on tbo shortest short-est tort of notice. This was$7,5oO,-000 was$7,5oO,-000 more than Itocst, not to sjieak of tbe bin yearly profit the go eminent em-inent had taken for sealit-g privileges. privi-leges. The offer, lie said, was bona fide, and he uas sare that if those malting tlieofflr had complete ownership, own-ership, whatcer flaR was raised they could ttcure to the peoplo the bletslng of jopuLir government, Unhampered by the annoying defects de-fects ot tho present system, which worked useless hardships and clogged devdopn.cuti. |