Every newspaper in the District of Alaska, except the Juneau Record, every mayor in every town, and Delegate Wickersham signed a cablegram to President Taft while he was in Seattle. The September 30th, 1909 cablegram contained a request to President Taft to urge Congress to pass a bill establishing a territorial legislature for Alaska. President […]
The territory of Alaska’s taxation laws were passed by the US Senate following passage in the US House on August 21st, 1914. The bill submitted by Delegate Wickersham validated the right of the territory to tax the railways in Alaska. Wickersham delivered the bill to WashingtonDC after Alaska’s first Territorial Legislature enacted the laws. After […]
