QUESTIONS SUBMITTED BY MR. RICH TO BE ANSWERED FOR THE RECORD BY COLONEL OHLSON

Mr. RICH. I note Senator Schwellenbach has just introduced a bill, S. 1981, providing among other things authority to appropriate one million dollars for "reconstruction, rehabilitation and equipment" of this railroad. Is this sum net?

Colonel OHLSON. I understand the language of the bill provides that any appropriations or allocations made under the stipulations of the bill shall be in addition to the annual appropriations made by Congress for the operation of the railroad.

Mr. RICH. I am informed that the cost to date of the Alaska Railroad is approximately 72 million dollars. How much should be added to this amount for interest on capital figures at 3 percent on the Government investment since the start of its ownership or control of this railroad?

Colonel OHLSON. At the rate of 3 percent per annum, the interest on the Federal appropriations invested in the Alaska Railroad amounting to $72,035,273.07, calculated from the dates upon which the appropriation acts were passed, to June 30, 1936, would amount to approximately $33,288,000. The first appropriation of $1,000,000 was passed in 1914.

Mr. RICH. What is the total amount of receipts from the railroad and its subsidiaries which have been spent on upkeep, maintenance, salaries, etc., for the railroad since Government control or ownership?

Colonel OHLSON. The total amount of $16,493,842 received from the rail line and the Yukon River line of the Alaska Railroad has been appropriated and expended for operation including upkeep, maintenance, salaries, etc., for the railroad from the fiscal year 1924 to the end of the fiscal year 1936.

Mr. RICH. How many trains are operated per day?

Colonel OHLSON. Passenger service between Seward and Fairbanks from June to September was run on a schedule of two round trips per week; during the winter season, September to June, one trip per week; between Fairbanks and McKinley Park, service was rendered one round trip per week; Nanana to Fairbanks, every 2 weeks; Anchorage to Palmer, 6 days a week. In addition, 31 special trains were operated. During the summer freight service between Seward and Anchorage was maintained on a twice-a-week schedule; between Anchorage and Healy once a week; between Healy and Fairbanks-twice a week. During winter, trains were operated once a week between Seward and Fairbanks and additional trains as required.

Mixed trains were operated on the Anchorage-Moose Creek Branch and Jonesville Branch once each week, with additional trips when desired.

On the Yukon River, boats were operated between Nanana and Marshall, July 1 to October 4, making a round trip every 2 weeks. Mr. RICH. What was the total tonnage hauled?

Colonel OHLSON. The total tonnage hauled by the railroad during the fiscal year 1936 amounted to 155,058 tons of which 151,010 tons were hauled by rail and 4,048 tons by the river line.

Mr. RICH. Total number of fare-paying passengers?

Colonel OHLSON. The total number of fare-paying passengers on the rail line during the fiscal year 1936 was 43,081 and on the river line 344, or a total of 43,425.

Mr. RICH. What were the total receipts from passengers?

Colonel OHLSON. Revenue received from passenger service for the same period amounted to $241,028.21.

Mr. RICH. How many operating divisions are there on the railroad? Colonel OHLSON. The railroad is operated as one division with four operating districts.

Mr. RICH. Do Government officials and members of the legislature deadhead on this road?

Colonel OHLSON. The law governing the issuance of passes for use on the Alaska Railroad is contained in 44 Statute at Large, 239, “An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to authorize the President of the United States to locate, construct, and operate railroads in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes' approved March 12, 1914" (38 Stat. 305), approved April 10, 1926, as follows:

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Alaska Railroad Act approved March 12, 1914, is hereby amended so as to permit the issuance of passes to ministers of religion, traveling secretaries of Railroad Young Men's Christian Associations, and persons exclusively engaged in charitable and eleemosynary work when engaged in their work in Alaska; to indigent, destitute, and homeless persons, inmates of hospitals and charitable and eleemosynary institutions, and to such persons when transported by charitable societies or hospitals, and the necessary agents employed in such transportation; to newsboys on trains, persons injured in wrecks and physicians and nurses attending such persons; the interchange of passes for the officers, agents, and employees of common carriers, and their families; and the carrying of passengers free with the object of providing relief in cases of general epidemic, pestilence, or other calamitous visitation.

Mr. RICH. Who has control of the issuance of passes and what regulations are in existence concerning the issuance of passes?

Colonel OHLSON. The general manager of the Alaska Railroad has control of the issuance of passes in accordance with the act approved April 10, 1926, as quoted above. However, any change in the existing practice relating to free or reduced-rate services, issuance or exchange of passes and transactions with other branches of the Government service are first subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior. Mr. RICH. Do you have a copy of the form used in issuing passes? Colonel OHLSON. A copy of the passes issued is not available here. Mr. RICH. How many engines are in operation on this road? Give a description of these engines; indicate type, and use, including number of switch, freight, and passenger engines.

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Colonel OHLSON. The Alaska Railroad has 23 standard-gage locomotives, 1 Davenport locomotive, and 3 narrow-gage locomotives. fuller description of these locomotives will be mailed you as soon as it can be received from Anchorage.

Mr. RICH. What are the working hours of the employees in offices and operating branches?

Colonel OHLSON. Generally speaking, the regular working hours of the operating personnel is 8 hours per day. In case of overtime, reimbursement is made on the basis of the number of miles run or actual overtime, whichever is greater. Minimum rates of pay are based on 8-hour day and 100-mile run. Crews are not expected to work more than 26 days per month.

Office personnel performs services on the regular Federal schedule

of work.

Mr. RICH. In the Budget there is an item "Transportation of things (service)" amounting to $568,000. Please give a break-down of this item of expenditure.

Colonel OHLSON. This item represents expenditures which under the I. C. C. accounts appear as 371 to 420 and 431 to 433. The items with actual expenditures in the fiscal year 1936 follow. You will note these total $554,922.50 for the fiscal year 1936. Increases in 1938 are largely because of the application of the annual-leave laws to employees of the railroad.

MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1937.

TERRITORY OF HAWAII

STATEMENTS OF E. K. BURLEW, ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT AND BUDGET OFFICER, AND RAYMOND A. KLEINDIENST, ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER

SALARIES OF GOVERNOR AND SECRETARY

Mr. SCRUGHAM. The next item covers the salaries of the Governor and of the Secretary, $15,800.

Mr. KLEINDIENST. The justification in support of this item is as follows:

The salaries of the Governor and the secretary of the Territory of Hawaii were fixed by the act of July 9, 1921 (42 Stat., p. 120 at $10,000 and $5,400 per annum. The salary of the Secretary of the Territory was increased $400 per annum under the act of May 28, 1928, known as the Brookhart Act, amending the Classification Act 1923, making the annual compensation $5,800. The sum of $15,800 requested for the fiscal year 1938 is therefore the minimum amount required for payment of these salaries.

Mr. SCRUGHAM. Is there anything that you want to say on this item, Mr. Kleindienst?

Mr. KLEINDIENST. Not other than that the appropriation requested for the Territory of Hawaii is a comparatively simple one. It includes a total of $19,650 for the salaries of the Governor, of the secretary of the Terrtiory, of the private secretary to the Governor, and the chief clerk in the Governor's office.

It also includes a contingent item amounting to $2,000 per annum in all, $21,650.

Mr. SCRUGHAM. Mr. Kleindienst, why is there an increase proposed in the item of temporary clerk hire from $500 for last year to $750 for this year?

Mr. KLEINDIENST. That is reflected in the position of chief clerk in the Governor's office. Last year that salary was shown as $500, whereas it is proposed for the fiscal year beginning July 1, to grant this particular employee an increase of $250 per annum, which is reflected in the amount of work that he does for the Federal Government. He also recieves a salary from the Territory of Hawaii.

Mr. JOHNSON. How much is the combined salary?

Mr. KLEINDIENST. I really do not know.

Mr. JOHNSON. If you do not know, how can this committee tell whether or not he is entitled to the increase?

Mr. KLEINDIENST. The only thing that interests the Department, the Bureau of the Budget, and this committee, is the amount of work which this man performs for the Federal Government, and it is estimated by the Governor, who is his immediate supervisor, and the Secretary of the Territory as well, that $750 is much less in the way of remuneration than he actually earns. What the Territory of Hawaii pays him I suppose you might say is the Territory's business. Mr. RICH. We only have in the budget these two salaries? Mr. KLEINDIENST. There are four salaries, one for the Governor and one for the Secretary of the Territory, and those are fixed by acts of Congress; the other two salaries shown here, are private secretary