Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-09
CHARGES MADE IN CONNECTION
WITH ALASKAN AFFAIRS IN
vEsrIGATIoN SENSATIONAL.
SWEEPING INQUIRY TO BE
URGED in CONGRESS
Oustins Of Marshal Sutherland and
District Attorney Boyce Only Starter
In Official Probs-SIow Progress Ex-
pected As Fog of Doubt Hovers Over
Government Of Territory.
Especial Correspondence

Washington, June "a sweeping in
vestigation of Alaskan affairs will be
strongly urged in congress before the
session ends. The movement for it
will come from the senate, from the
sub which is engaged in in
Vestigating the charges which have
been made IN connection with the GUST
ing of Daniel "A. Sutherland as mar
shalof the Juneau district and John j.
Borce as district attorney for the same
district and the appointment to their
places of Herbert L. Faulkner as mar
shall and John Rustgard as district at
torney.
The charges made in connection with
the investigation whether Rustgard
and Faulkner should be confirmed
constitute such an attack on the adj
ministration of Alaskan affairs as to
be astonishing. They have impressed
the subcommittee to the extent that
it is now looked on as quite certain
that its members or some of them will
insist that the administration of the
territory ought to be probed into. III
the question is forced into the senate.
it will not be easy for the leaders to
aNold ordering the inquiry.
Quite apart from the specific uestion
whether Messrs. Faulkner and Rust
gard are fitted for the offices to which
they have been appointed. enough
charges as to maladministration in
Alaska have been set before the sub
committee to cause a stir in that body
To Aim at Morgan, ct al.
If there is an investigation, Mt will be
i. n
whether the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS in
terests and other great corporate in
terests are in pealty trying to gobble
up Alaska and. not content with grab
bling up its great mineral resources. are
trying to control the government by
getting their creatures named to the
federal offices. so much has been said
on his subject that many senators
have come. to the conclusion the facts
ought to be sifted impartially in order
that the truth may be known one way
or another. Things have arrived at
such a pass that a man who accepts
an appointment to federal job in
Alaska can hardly escape being
charged with the doing of things Of
corrupt character or Of the display of
leanings in favor Of this or that in
terest.
One senator recently said that the
only situation that compared with the
Alaska situation in modern times that
he knew anything of was the situation
in india under the famous East India
Company. as brought out in that fam
Gus story of Warren Hastings, as told
by Macauley While it seems incredible
that there should exist in an Ameri-
cnph regime of
ploitation, this remark illustrates the
fact that there is strong feeling on the
Alaskan subject in congress. Should
an investigation be ordered. there is
not much question men would be put
on it who would insist on a careful and
judicial inquiry and who would not be
swayed one way or another by any sort
OF pressure.
Congress Must Act Slowly.
| Until congress has pretty well salts
fed as to what is actually going on in
Alaska, it is not probable that any
change in the government can be Sc
cured that is any essential change in
the form of government. President
Taft insisted at the outset Of the ses-
! sion strongly on a complete change in
| the form of government. That is, he
wanted a legislative council and gov
ernor all of them appontive, to adj
minister the country. This body was
to be given large authority in the mat
ter of concessions and the like. From
the outset. it was impossible to get
thorough consideration Of this propo-
sition for the simple reason that about
the senate and the house there was rife
an atmosphere of suspicion that, with
out discredit to the president, big in
terests were hoping they could get
their friends named on the council.
This illustrates the fact that it is diff
fcult to move in Alaskan matters in
any direction without encountering the
fog Of doubt that llovers over nearly
Everything relating to the government
of the territory.