The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-07-20
Washington
CABINET MEMBER TO
FACE FRAUD CHARGE
Attorney General Wickersham
Is Accused Of Grossly Abus-
ing His Trust.

H rs EBtshEa N NfrTEtL1- aef
Washington. July 17.-After secret
consideration of charges made by Dele
gate Wickersham, of Alaska, that At
|:orney Generay Wickersham deliberate
" permitted the statute of limitations
10 run against agents of the Alaska
syndicate who defrauded the govern
ment through perjury to the exent of
$780, 600, the House mmitt on judic-
airy has determined to report favorably
2 resolution of inquiry offered by Dele
gate WicRerSham.
The resolution will call on the attor-
1ey general to furnish the House with
al documents, affidavits and testimony
n his possession relating to an affida-
rit submitted to him more than a year
ago and sworn to by II. j. Douglas,
former auditor of the Alaska syndicate,
in 1908.
Affidavit a Sumner.
Delegate Wickersham startled the
committee, when, in executive session,
le produced a cop of an AFFIDAVIT re-
!atiag to an alleged criminal act COM
1itted by Capt. d. H. Jarvis, of the
Alaskan syndicate and formerly prom
Inent in the government revenue cut
ter service. who committed suicide in
Seattle on tune %, the day following
The introduction of the Wickersham
resolution calling for production Of the
papers in the case. and by John H.
Bullock, of the John j. Sesnor Coal
company, of Nome.
Through connivance of these men, It
vas charged that the government was
1efrauded on coal contracts and that
evidence to that effect was permitted
to remain Enacted upon in the attor-
ley generals office for more tina a
year until the statute of limitation ex-
pired last May.
DplGpata WirkerStan Furnished fna
committee with Photographic copies Of
a letter Of an attorney for the Alaska.
syndicate to d. H. Jarvis, admitting
he expenditure of money to control
government witnesses in the Hazey
murder trial in 1905, wherein an agent
Of the Alaska syndicate was accused
Of numbering laborers employed by ri
val interests during the construction of
a railroad in Alaska.
Wickersham in Reply.
Attorney General Wickersham today
made an informal reply to the charge
IF Delegate James Wickersham, of
Alaska, that he had allowed the statute
,f limitation to expire in certain Alaska
criminal cases without taking action.
4 have not given a definite opinion
hat the statute of limitations has ex-
Dired in all of these cases. It is not
improbable that criminal action may
be taken. TIE matter is still under in
| NSSllSiLioli liioolil " do l. ISidlGS ~
he alleged combination Of bidders in
the coal proposition. The Hazey case,
however, / think is barred by the
statute. L will continue my investiga-
ion of the others. 1t has been under
way for some time and has never been
discontinued"
Dickinson Had Facts.
Delegate Wickershan1, of Alaska, to-
lay declared that former Secretary of
War Dickinson had been furnished
with the same evidence concerning
Alaskan frauds as was furnished At
;orney General Wickersham in May,
1910, and that he never acknowledged
receipt of the documents. He had this
statement placed in the records OF the
hearings of the judiciary committee.
Coupled with it was the further
statement that Delegate Wickersham
submitted to the attorney general more
han a year ago evidence OF an alleged
bribing of a United States district at
tQrney by the Katalla company, one OF
The organizations in the Alaskan syn
sicate.
Il have evidence" declared Delegate
Wickersham. that $4,000 vas used TO
tribe a deputy district attorney. That
S the kin of matter I have been vain
Y trying to get this government to
investigate and prosecute"
SUGAR CANE MEN
IN TRUSTS GRlF
Washington. July 17.-John Dy1nond
! zane planter OF New Orleans, today
toi% the House sugar investigating com
tlttee that the cane of Louisi-
ana were absolutely at the mercy OF