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Show Alaska. "With reference to the government of Alaska, I have nothing to add to the recommendations I made In my last message on the subject. I atu convinced thst the migratory character charac-ter of the population. Its uuequul distribution, dis-tribution, and Ita smallness of number, num-ber, which the new census shows to he about 50.000, In relation lo tho enormous expanse of the territory, make it altogether Impracticable to give to those people who are In Alaska today and may not be there a year hence, the power to elect a legislature leg-islature to govern an Immense territory ter-ritory to which they have relation so little permanent." |