The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-25
SAYING ALL SORTS
OF MEAN THINGS
Senate Sub Committee Listens
to Tales of the Contend
ing Factions.
IN BIG FIGHT
cUGGENHEIMS FIGURE LARGE
LY IN THE TESTIMONY.

washington, May 24.-An investi-
CATION which is. expected to disclose
to a greater extent than ever before
the bitter fractional feeling in the Re
publican party in Alaska, was begun
today before a subcommittee Of the
Senate committee on judiciary. 1t is
being held in connection with protests
made against the confirmation Of
John RustgaTd and Herbert L. Faux
ner, appointed by President Taft as
United. States attorney and United
States marshal, respectively, to sue
coed John J. BOyce and Daniel A.
Sutherland, who were removed at the
request, it is understood, Of Governor
Walter Z. Clark.
Senator Nelson IS chairman Of the
subcommittee, and associated with
him are Senators Borah and Over
man.
The proceedings today were highly
sensational Representatives of the
opposing factions were present and
listened to the charges each side
made against the other. The princi-
pal speaker today was Delegate James
Wickersham, who made charges
against Governor Clark, Ex-Governor
HOggatt and Louis Shackleford, the
member OF the Republican national
committee from Alaska. The Alaskan
delegates sought to connect these men
with the Guggenheim interests.
Witnesses Cautioned.
As TO the exact testimony given to-
day little could be learned. Senator
Nelson, after an adjournment had
been ordered until Thursday. eau
toned the witnesses against revealing
the executive proceedings.
l. Z I,
ators Borah and Overman will recon-
mend open hearings.
The controversy is said TO be chiefly
between the faction opposing the ac-
uvities of the Guggenheims in Alaska
and that which favOrs the rapid de-
VelOpment Of the territory, the men
who were removed from Office charg-
ing that Governor Clark had become
affiliated with the Guggenheim fac
ton and that he joined with National
Committeeman ShaclllefOrd in recon-
mending the appointment of Rust
gard and Faulkner.
Alleged Cause of Trouble.
Boyce and Sutherland are not seek
ing to be restored to Office. They say
they desire nothing more than to
place before the Senate the facts as
they see them, connected with their
removal According to their story,
they incurred the enmity Of the Gug-
genheims because Of their prosecution
and conviction of Ed Hazey on the
charge OF having shot and killed two
men IN Keystone canyon in October,
1907 Hazey Was employed by the
Guggenheims, and II was charged that
he shot the two men while trying TO
guard Keystone pass against the in
VaSiOn Of the representatives of a
rival concern which was seeking en-
trance to the pass as a route for a
railroad line. Hazey was convicted
and sentenced to serve eighteen
months in a federal penitentiary.
BOyce and Sutherland claim they
discovered that 'men higher up" in
the Guggenheim service We're respon-
sible for the affair at Keystone pass.
The two federal officers say they were
removed from Office on the eve Of the
bringing Of proceedings against others
beheVed by them to have been i'm
pdcated in the Keystone affair.
Just before the committee adj
JOurned today, a young man named
Douglass, who has been an auditor in
the employ Of the Guggenheims. was
called to the stand. He testified that
$4,000 had been expended prior to
and during the Hazey trial. and he
charged that the expenditures had
been made for the entertainment of
the jurors and otherwise as a eorrup-
ton fund to defeat the prosecution
by federal officers.