The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1911-07-21
ATToRNEY-eENERAL SAID TO
HAVE NEGLECTED TO PROSE-
CUTE ALLEGED CRIMINALS.
ALASKAN SPRINGS A mine
startles House Committee Into Urging
Probe.-Ssys Nations Defrsuders
on Coal Contracts Were
Shielded.


eral Wickersham will be called upon
TO furnish the house with all docu-
ments. afiidaVits and testimony in his
possession relating to an affidavit sub
mitted 10 him more than a year ago
and sworn TO by II. J. Douglas, for
mcr auditor Of the Alaska syndicate.
.A 1905, according TO a decision reach
ciary. which determined to report IA
vorably a resolution OF inquir- of.
fered by Delegate Wickersham OF
Alaska.
The decision followed secret consid-
Grafton of charges made by the dele
gate that the attorney-general DELHI
erately permitted the statute of limi-
tations 10 run against agents of the
Alaska syndicate who defrauded the
government through perjury to the ex-
tent of $4,000.
Delegate Wickersham startled the
committee when in executive session
he produced a copy OF an AFFIDAVIT re-
lating TO an alleged criminal act com.
mitted by Captain ID. n. Jarvis of the
Alaska syndicate and formerly promi-
nent in the government revenue cutter
service, who committed suicide In
Seattle on June %, the day following
the introduction of the wickersham
resolution calling for production of the
papers In the case. and by John II.
Bullock of the John =. Sesnor Coal
Company of Nome.
Fraud on Nation Charged.
Through connivance of these men IL
was charged that the government was
defTauded on coal contracts and tina,
evidence to that effect was permitted
to remain Enacted upon in the attor,
ney generals Office for more than a
year until the statute of limitations
expired last May.
Delegate Wickersham furnished the
committee with Photographic copies ot
a letter Of an attorney for the Alaska
syndicate to ID. II. Jarvis admitting
the expenditure Of money to contro
government witnesses in the Haze,
murder trial in 1908, wherein an agent
of the Alaska syndicate was accused
of numbering laborers employed by
rival interests during the construction
OF a railroad in Alaska.
A photograph of an expense account
for $l.133.4O of NJ. b. Morrissey. EN-
| ployed by the syndicate to entertain
| government witnesses and jurymen il
that connection, also was submitted Il
| the committee. This evidence Dele
/ gate Wickersham declared also Is II
/ the possession of the attorney gen
eral. The delegate urged on the judi
ciary committee the Douglas affidavit
I involving the representatives OF tn,
/ Northwestern Commercial Company
one Of the Alaska syndicate concerns
and the Sesnor Coal Company.
The Douglas affidavit charges thai
when the war department advertised
for bids for coal to supply the Alaska
| military posts. Mr.. Jarvis. treasurer Of
the Northwestern Company. and John
| II. Bullock of the Sesnor Coal Com
pany a rival Of the syndicate. agreed
/ TO submit bids which would insure the
/ award OF the contract to one compan,
/ or the other. there being no other com
petitor. agreed TO certain lighterag,
charges and fixed upon a division OF
the profits.
The Sensor Company got the con
tract to furnish 1000 tons of coal al
SIS a ton. price which Douglas claim
ed was nearly twice too high and the
profits We're divided, Douglas himseli
entering $500 from the Sesnor Com
pany on the books OF the Northwest
ern Company as the later's share OF
the profits.
Both Bullock and Jarvis made false
afiidavits to the government that nc
one but the company which each rep
resented had any interest In the con
tract. The evidence submitted indi
eating an attempt to control govern
ment witnesses is a fac-simile cop,
of letter written by John A. Carson
counsel, for the Alaska syndicate. tC
Captain Jarvis. under Seattle date