The Alaska citizen., 1910-07-23

power to show by the record if any one opposed the bill.
 The Republicans favored lien bill that will give protection for wages, and prevent lessor or owner from defeating it. Wickersham had an op- portunity of getting that, but did not do so.
 Here the speaker quoted several extracts from the debate on the bill when it was in committee, and stated that the bill was eventually carried in it's limited sense.
 He understood that there would be no difficulty in mining here with out dumps, and the probabilities are that there will be no dumps Wick ersham said that the lien attached whether there was a dump or not, but there was no lawyer in the terri tory who agreed with him on that point. Mir. Shackleford then read a letter from the attorney-general sug- gesting such a bill and said that if there was any credit attaching to the bill it was due to the attorney. general and Marshal Love. He thought the people should be glad to have a man such as Marshal Love to take an interest in their welfare
 A Wickersham Speech.
 The speaker then referred to an extract from the Congressional Record, purporting to be a speech delivered in the house by Delegate Wickersham. The speech was inter- larded with cheers applause" etc. Turning to the delegate MT Shackleford asked him if the speech. had been actually delivered, and re ceived a reply stating that portions had been delivered and the whole printed in the Record with permis- sion" Mir Shackleford then stated that the interjections had their ori gin on the typewriter of Barney Goss.
 The Courthouse Appropriation.
 Regarding the appropriation for the court house at Juneau, he said that Wickersham was taking credit for the same. What measures had he taken?
 Wickersham-I introduced the bill (Cheers.)
 Continuing MT. Shackleford said that Wickersham was unwilling to give anybody else credit for doing any thing in the matter.
 Wickersham-They didn't deserve any. (Cheers).
 Turning to the mine inspection bill, MT Shackleford asked the dele gate if he had introduced that meas ure, to which Wickersham replied that he had. MT. Shackleford then stated that the appropriation Was made on the motion of Congressman Tawney, on the advice of Governo~ Hoggatt. He further stated that Gov ernor Clark had written recommend ing the passing of such a bill, and suggesting that members of the geo. logical survey be appointed as in spectors under the act.
 Here there was slight demon stration, and MT. Shackleford lost his temper He stated that the peo- pie might not like Hoggatt, but his reputation had been blackened, as had the reputation of everyone else who opposed Wickersham. As a mat ter of fact, Wickersham had only done one thing, he had had passed the dump lien bill, with the aid of Love and Taft, and that was no more than a saw-dust pudding.
 The White House Telegram. Referring to the telegram which had been sent out stating that Vic kersham was on good terms with the president, MT. Shackleford asked the delegate II he was aware that the telegram had been sent. To this question Wickersham replied that he saw the telegram for the first time | in a Fairbanks paper. MT. Wicker sham also stated in reply to a query that he had assisted in the appointment of Chauncey Boyer to the position of postmaster at Fair banks.
 MT. Shackleford charged the dele gate with doing all in his power to disrupt the Republican party in Alas ka, claiming that Wickersham did it for spleen against Hoggatt. (Cries of Good" and cheers.)
 But, he said, politics and spleen will have to end some day in Alas ka. Wickersham had said that any