Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1914 — WILSON SIGNS ALASKAN BILL [ARTICLE]

WILSON SIGNS ALASKAN BILL

Measure Providing $35,000,000 for Railroad in Northern Country Is Now a Law. Washington; March 13. —President Wilson signed the Alaska railroad bill in the presence of Secretary of the Interior Lane, Senators Jones of \\ ashington, Chamberlain of Oregon, Pittman of Nevada, Representative Houston and many others interested in the bill. In signing the bill President Wilson said he was glad that his administration was to be of service to Alaska and that he knew a railroad would be a new bond of friendship between the United States and the great territory In the north.