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Show Administration's Alaskan Alas-kan Polic3 Pleases Brandeis. Washington, Nov. 29. On I ho ground that tho administration has substantially changed Its announced Alaskan policy, Altornev Louis D. Brandeis, counsel for the house committee com-mittee on Interior department expenditures, expend-itures, has advised Chairman Graham that no further action by that committee com-mittee In Investigating Controller Bay affairs Is necessary. Chairman Graham said the committee verv materially ma-terially aided In effecting this chauge of policy and added: "The committee may go further than Secretary of the Interior Fisher and recommend retaining to the government gov-ernment all tltie to the mineral, oil and gas lands In Alaska " The committee may meet within a week and decldo whether to wind up its investigation. The committee accomplished Its purpose," said Chairman Graham. "That purpose was to determine whether valuable Interests in Alaska ere being subjected to syndicate exploitation, ex-ploitation, a condition rendered probable prob-able by the revelations in tho Ballln-ger Ballln-ger Investigation. "The committee action riveted public pub-lic attention on Alaskan affairs and undoubtedly was the moving cause of Secretary Fisher's visit there last summer. On his return, in a formal address authorized by the president, he announced views about Alaskan matters which constitute a clear departure de-parture from the administration's former policy and In substantial conformity con-formity with tho committee's view. - nn |