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Show FORALASKA People to Have Legislature Legisla-ture After Years of Agitation Washington, July 25. After struggling strug-gling for years to obtain legislation creating a legialatlvo assembly that would be eleotod by the people and not appointed by the president, the people of Alaska today saw their hopes reallzod. The senate passed the house bill with a number of amendments, but leaving tho legislature legisla-ture to be chosen by the people themselves, them-selves, which was the essential thing for which they have fought. The capital of the territory will bo Juneau, and the next legislature is to be chosen In November at the time of the elections In the statea. The senate eliminated the proposed senate, consisting con-sisting of two members each from the four judicial districts, but permitted per-mitted the house provision for the lower body, consisting of sixteen members, to stand. This one body is to be known as the legislature. It can remain in session not more than sixty days in any two years and the salary of the mombers Is fixed at $15 a day and mileage. The veto power of the governor of the territory is greater In some re spects than that of the president. Tho governor is given authority to veto any specific item in any bill appropriating ap-propriating money for specific purposes, pur-poses, but on all other matters he must veto, If at all, only as a whole. An officer of tho "army engineer corps, a geologist In charge of Alaska survey, an officer in the engineer corps of the navy and a civil engineer engin-eer who has had practical experience In railroad construction, but who has not been connected with any enterprise enter-prise In Alaska, are authorized to be appointed as a commission to examine exam-ine into the transportation question, to examine routes from tho seaboard to the coal fields and to the interior and navigable waters, to estimate cost of construction, to make surveys and submit such other Information as may be proper to congress by December Decem-ber I next, recommending the best routes for railroads to .develop tho country. |