The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-07-19
PLANS PROBE
Attorney General Hiektrshsu, Against
Whom There Are Charges.
Will Be LOOKED into
Delegate Wickcshanl, of Alaska
Charges That Department of JUS
tice Delayed Prosecutions in Al
legged Criminal Cases Until Statute
of Limitations Expired.

of Limitations Expired.
Official circles in Washington has
another serious charge against pub
lie official to speculate on until it is
thoroughly investigated and decided
one way or the other.
After secret consideration OF
charges made by Delegate Wicker
sham, of Alaska, that Attorney ..-l-
eral Wickersham deliberately permit
ted the Statute of Limitations to run
against agents Of the Alaska Syndl-
cate, the House of Representatives
judiciary committee has determined
to report favorably a resolution OF
inquiry offered by Delegate Wicker
sham.
The Attorney-General, when seen
Thursday night, denied all the char-
ses. His friends intimated that the
charges were old.
The resolution would call upon the
Acknowledgement to furnish the
House with all documents, afhda7lts
and testimony in his possession re-
| lating to an affidavit submitted to
him more than year ago and sworn
to by H. J. Douglas, former auditor
of the Alaska Syndicate, in 1908.
delegate Wickersham startled the
committee, when, in executive ses-
sion he produced copy Of an am
davit relating to an alleged criminal
act committed by Capt. oh. JARVIS,
of the Alaska Syndicate, as the one
formerly sent to the Government ser
vice June %, the day following the
introductiou of the Wickersham res
olution.
Through connivance of these men,
it was charged that the Government
was defrauded of coal lands ano
that evidence to that effect was per-
mitted to remain unacted upon IN
the Attorney-Generals Office for more
than a wear, until the Statute Of Linz
itations expired last May.
Delegate Wickersham furnlsneo
the committee with copies of a letter
TO D. H. Jarvis, admitting the expen-
diture of money to control Govern
ment witnesses in the Hazel murder
trial in 1908, wherein an agent OF
the Alaska Syndicate was accused OF
numbering laborers employed by rival
interests.
3 photograph Of an expense ac-
count for s1,3a.40, of NJ B. Morris
sew employed by the syndicate, 1t is
claimed to entertain Government VIII
resses and juryDen in that connec'
ton. also was submitted to the com
mittee, This evidence, Delegate
Wickersham declared, also is IN the
nocsession of the Attorney General.
| Delegate Wickersham urged on
1.-The judiciary committee the Douglas
af,dayit. involving the representa-
| tives of the Northwestern CONNER
| cial company, one of the Alaska syn
dicate concerns, and the Sesnon Coal
4 Company. r.,
con May "a, 1910" said he' u
lsent to Attorney General Wickersham
copv of the affidavit, calling his as
tention to the fact that the Govern
ment had. been defrauded OF s50,0oo
by perjury and combination tsSa
two concerns.
"What do you mean by the Alas
Ika Syndicate" Chairman Clayton IN
quired.
s'I refer to the Alaska syndicate
composed of J. P. Morgan, the Gug.
enheim brothers, Kuhn, Loeb and
leo Jacob H. schiff and Graves"
"What do you mean by the Gug-
genheim ;brothers?" asked Mr. Norris
Of Nebraska.
Senator Guggenheim aad his sls
brothers"
"Who is Graves?"
"He represents Close Brothers, the
English Syndicate, and other Eng
lish concerns.
Capt. Jarvis" added the delegate,
"was the confidential agent of Nor
| gan, in charge of the syndicate in Sc
attle.''