The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-18
Attorney General Wektrsham, Against
Whom There Are Charges.
WILL Be LOOKED into
Delegate Wickcsham, Of Alaska
Charges That Department Of JUS
tice Delayed Prosecutions in AL
legged Criminal Gases Until Statute
of Limitations Expired.
of Limitations Expired.

Official circles sin Washington has
another serious charge against a 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 Syndi-
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,
ges. His friends intimated that the
charges were old.
The resolution would call upc-. the
Attorney-General to furnish the
House with all documents, affidaVits
and testimony in his possession, re-
lating to an affidavit submitted to
him more than year ago and sworn
to by H. ]. 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. D. II. Jarvis,
of the Alaska Syndicate, as the one
formerly sent to the' Government SER
vice June 23, the day following the
introduction of the Wickersham res
olution.
Through connivance of these men,
it was charged that the Government
was defrauded Of coal lands and
that evidence to that effect was per-
mitted to remain unacted upon In
the Attorney-Generars Office for more
than year, unyil the Statute Of Lim--
ltations expired last May:
Delegate Wickersham furnished
the committee with copies Of 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.
A photograph Of an expense ac-
count for $1,33.40, of M. B. Norris
sey, employed by the syndicate, 1t is
claimed to entertain Government wit
nesses and jurymen in that connec-
ton, also was submitted to the COM
mittee. This evidence, Delegate
Wickersham declared, also is in the
possession of the Attorney General
Delegate Wickersham urged on
the judiciary committee the Douglas
affidavit, involving the representa-
tiyes of the Northwestern CONNER
cial company, one CT the Alaska SYM
dicate concerns, and the Sesnon Coal
Company.
"On May "a, 1910," said he II
sent to Attorney General Wickersham
copy of the affidavit, calling his as
tention to the fact that the Govern
ment had been defrauded Of $50, 600
by perjury and a combination thsee
two concerns"
What do you mean by the Alas
ka Syndicate" Chairman Clayton in
quired.
Il refer to the Alaska syndicate,
composed of J. P. Morgan, the Gug-
enheim brothers, Kuhnt Loeb and
Co., Jacob II. Schiff and Graves"
"What do you mean by the Gug-
genheim brothers?" asked Mr.. Norris
o. Nebraska.
Senator Guggenheim and his six
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."
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