The Sentinel=record., 1911-07-15
INVESTIGATE
WICKERSHAM
ALLEGED He A6ETTED ALASKA
SYNDICATE IN DEFRAUDlNG
COVE RNMENT OF $4,000.
Delegate Wickersham, of Alaska, Fur.
nishes Data on Which Probe viii
Be Made by judiciary
Committee.

Washington, d. c.. July IA. After
secret consideration of charges made
by Delegate Wickersham of Alaska,
that Attorney General Wickersham
deliberately permitted the statute OF
IlimitaSons to run against agents OF
the Alaskan syndicate, who defraud-
ed the government through perjury
to TIE extent CT $4,000, the house
committee on judiciary has determin-
ed 10 report favorably a resolution
OF inquiry offered by Delegate Wick
ersham.
The attorney general. when seen
tonight, defined to discuss the ac-
ton of the committee. His friends
lintimated that the charges were old
and that certain phase of them
was still under investigation They
declined to indicate just what this
phase was.
The resolution would call upon the
attorney genera. to furnish the house
with all documents. affidavits and tes-
ltimony in his possession relating to
AN affidavit submitted to him more
than a year ago and sworn to in 1908
| by H. ]. Douglas, former auditor of
the Alaska syndicate.
Delegate Wickersham startled the
committee when he produced copy
of an affidavit relating to an alleged
criminal act committed by Captain d..
Fl. Jarvis of the Alaskan syndicate,
who committed suicide in Seattle on
June % the. day following the intro.
duction OF the Wickersham resolu-
tion calling for the production of the
papers in the case and by John H.
Bullock, of the John J. Sesner Coal
Com pany Of Nome. Through conni-
vance of these men, it was charged,
the government was defrauded oh
coal contracts and evidence to taat
effect was permitted to remain un-
acted on in the attorney generals Of
flee for more than a year until the
statute of limitations expired last
May. Delegate Wickersham furnish
ed the committee with telegraphic
lcopies of letter of an attorney for
1.-THE Alaskan syndicate to j. II. Jar
Ivis, admitting the expenditure ol
money to control oo~o-r,-n ent witness
ses in the Hazy murder trial in 1908
wherein an agent OF the Alaskan syn
ldicate was accused OF numbering lab
lorers employed by rival interests dur
ling the construction of a railroad il
Alaska. A photograph of an ex-
lpense account of $1,133.50 of M. r.
Morrissey employed by the syndicate
lit Is claimed, to entertain government
witnesses and jurymen in that con-
lnection also was submitted to the
icommittee. This evidence Delegate
lWickersham declared also is in the
possession of the attorney general.
delegate Wickersham urged on the
Judiciary committee the Douglas at
lfidavit involving the representatives
Iof the Northwestern Commercial Goa
lCompany, one of the Alaska syndicate
lconcerns and the Sesner Coal Com
lpany.
"On May "a, 1910.v he said, =
lsent to Attorney General Wickershan
la copy of the affidavit, calling his
attention to the fact that the govern
lment had ben defrauded OF $50,00t
lby perjury and combination or thess
1.-TWO corporations in the sale of Goa
Ito the government for military posts
lin Alaska. | asked him to make al
investigation and prosecute those peo'
lple for the crime committed in tha
transaction. | received letter o
acknowledgment May 81. 1910, an9
we had considerable further CORE
Ispondence and on June 13, 1911, more
THAN a year later. | received a let
tier from the attorney general stat
ling that the statute of limitations
lhad expired.
The correspondence, including tn'
final letter of the attorney general
was read into the record.
81 read the last letter." continues
] delegate Wickersham. TO show tha
: 1.-THE attorney general now says tha
THE statute of limitations has rs'
against the prosecution OF these men
They submitted false affidavits Il
1.-THE government and committed frau
lin April and May. 1908 and the stat
lutte of limitations did not expire un
Itn May. 1911. | sent all the evidenc