Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-02-07
E0Rj IRBATY0 CBSSlON
Favorable Report Ordered on DANISH
West Indies Agreement
MOVES MACKENZIE AFFAIR
Senator McCamber Addresses
Senate In support OF AAs"A"
Judge and Receiver say'@s
Charges Were UnfOunded.

Washington, FeD, D. LUG
committee on foreign relations mas or
dered a favorable report on the treaty
IN acquire the Danish West lndles'
No amendment was made to the treaty
in committee.
At the conclusion of rJstine business
in the senate consideration was re-
sumed of the urgent deficiency appfo-
priatiOn bill. Mr. Hale. In chargs Oh
the measure, made an appeal TO tue
senate to permit the bill to- come 10
vote. He hoped the scandal in Alas
ka'' would not be permitted to lhtee-
fere with the progress of the measure
He said it had 10 relevancy TO an ap"
preparation bill. and. while ne WAS
powerlessl to prevent the discussion. he
hoped it would not be prolonged
Mr.. McCumber IN. d. said he had no
desire to prDIong the discussion. Dat
most villainous charges had BEER MADE
against men-clmrges which he per-
sOnally knew to be unfOunded ana aD-
solutely false. He declared that GER
tain mining syndicates had desired 10
obtain control Of the whole Nome
(Alaska) country. He believed that
would be premature for the senate to
render a verdict for or against Judge
Arthur H.. Noyes and Alexander Me
KenZie before the courts had had 0D-
portunity to pass upon the merits sf
the case.
The senator declared that no person
could put finger upon single in
stance where Alexander Mckenzie or
Judge Noyes eyer had wronged any
man of Il dollar. He paid Il high tribute
to both Mr. Mckenzie and Judge NoyeS
and. in answer to inquiry. asserted
that rot one scinril.a of evidence Is
contained in the entire record of the
ease that will support the charge of
conspiracy against Alexander Mcken-
zie."
The Case AsSznst Nick enxie.
Mr.. McCumber then entered upon an
extended statement OF the case against
Mckenzie, going into minute details.
He maintained that the order of the
circuit court Of appeals Of San Francis
90 went outside Of the statements of
fact made to it in ordering Mckenzie
to turn over property Of which he was
the receiver. He asserted that Mcken-
zie's lawyer advised him that the order
of the court was void Mckenzie there
fore did not comply with the writ. in
asnuch as if he did lie would be in
contempt of an order of Judge Noyes
He therefore was between two fires.
In such conditions it was held by able
lawyers that Mckenzie ought not to be
adjudged guilty Of any offense
Referring to the opinion of the circuit
court of appeals. Mfr. MeCumber assert
ed that four-fiftts of it was devoted
to the discussionof an alleged attempt
ed conspiracy between Judge Noyes
and Mckenzie, the greater portion of
the information concerning which came
from San Francisco newspapers He
insisted that no~man could conceive of
more heinous Judgment than this.
The parties were not convicted of con-
slirdey. but of contempt, and in his
opinion ought not to have been punish
ed to such an extent as were Mckenzie.
Noyes and Dubose.
Conviction without a Hearing,
Tue members of the court of appeals
for the ninth circuit. he said, might be
honorable men. but Ike was Obliged to
judge them by theif. acts. That court
had convicted Judge Noyes while he
was 1000 miles away and had arraign-
ed him in most remarkable language
without an opportunity of hearing.
Rewriting to the situation as Judge,
Noyes found it in Alaska, Mr. McCum-
Der declared that the mining syndi
Gates had made every effort to bride.
him, $4,000 being offered to him in one.
sum. Finding it impossible to bribe.
him, the syndicate, Mr.. McCumber as
serted, hired a man to make perjured
affidavit that Judge Noyes had accent
ed IL bride.
These facts he said, had been re-
parted to the attorney general of the
United StatAs. and for reporting these
matters TO the department of Justice
Mr.. Feist. he said, had been sentenced
to prison for one year because his work
had come in conflict with the circuit
court OF appeals. That, he said, was
the real reason for Frist's conviction
He simply would not be a creature of
the syndicate.