Evening times-Republican., 1911-07-15
N|CHERSHAM NOW
ACCUSED Of FRAUD
ALASKAN DELEGATE DECLARES
ATTORNEY GENERAL SHIELDED
MAN WHO pEFRAUpER
JUDICIARY COMMITTEES
WILL REcoMMENp INQUIRY
Approvss Hsarins in Endeavor to Ex.
pose $4,000 Muletine Of Government
Accusation Made by Alaskan Rep.
rsssntative That Attorney General
Neglected Prosecution.


Washington, July 15.-After secret
consideration Of charges made by Dele
gate Wickersham Of Alaska that Attor-
ney General Wickersham deliberately
permitted the statute of limitations to
run against agents of the Alaska SYM
dicate, who defrauded the government
thru perjury to the extent of $4,000,
the house committee on judiciary has
determined to report favorably a reso-
luton Of inquiry offered by Delegate
Wickersham.
The resolution calls upon the attor-
ney general to furnish the house with
all documents. affidavits and testimony
in his possession relating to an affidavit
submitted to him more than a year
ago and sworn to by H. ]. Douglas.
former auditor Of the Alaska syndicate,
in 1908.
The attorney general declined to dis
cuss the action of the committee. His
friends intimated that the charges
were old and that certain phase of
them still was under investigation.
They declined to indicate just what
this phase was.
Delegate Wickersham startled the
committee, when in executive session,
he produced acopy OF an affidavit relat-
ing to an alleged criminal act COM
mitted by Captain D. III. Jarvis of the
Alaska syndicate. and formerly promi
nent in the government revenue cutter
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 J.. Sesnor Coal
Company Of Nome.
Government Lest Thousands.
Thru connivance Of these men, It
was charged that the government was
defrauded on coal contracts and that
evidence to that effect was permitted
to remain unacted 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 of
a letter Of an attorney for the Alaska
syndicate to D. H. Jarvis admitting the
expenditure of money to control gov
cINU1cul WllISsSCS LII VIC 11dEcS HUT
der trial in 1908. wherein an agent OF
numbering laborers employed by rival
interests during the construction Of
railroad IN Alaska.
A photograph OF an expense account
for $1,13340 Of NJ B. Morrisey. en-
ployed by the syndicate, 1t is claimed
to entertain government witnesses and
jurymen In that connection, also was
submitted to the committee. This evil
dence. Delegate Wickersham declared.
also Is in the possession Of the attor-
ney general
Delegate wickersham urged on the
Judiciary committee the Douglas af-
fidavit involving the representatives of
the Northwestern Commercial Com
pany. one OF the Alaska syndicate con-
Germs. and the sesnor Coal Company.
Delegate Furnished Evidence.
ION May. "a, 1870" he said, II sent to
OF the affidavit calling his attention
to the fact that the government ha!
been defrauded Of $4,000 by perjury
and a combination of these two cor
porations in the sale of coal to the gov
eminent for military posts in Alaska. II
asked him to make an investigation
and prosecute those people for the
crime committed in that transaction I
received a letter of acknowledgment
May 81. 1910, and we had considerable
further correspondence, and on June 13,
1911. more than a year later, re.
ceived letter from the attorney gen.
eral stating that the statute of limita- !
tions had expired"
The correspondence. including the
final letter Of the attorney general. was
read into the record.
II read the last letter." continued
Delegate Wickersham, "to show that
the attorney general now says that the
statute of limitations has run against
the prosecution Of these men who COM
eminent. They submitted false affi-
davits to the government and commit
ted fraud in April and May, 1908. and
the statute Of limitations did not expire
until May, 1911. I sent all the evil
S1aee 60 the attorney general year
before. and he failed and refused to
prosecute these people for robbing the
treasury and he permitted the statute
Of limitations to run in their favor.
Says Shielding Was Deliberate.
II want the committee to have all the !
facts so that it may know whether the |
attorney general has deliberately |
shielded these people from prosecution !
for crime or not. It is fair to him and |
fair to me. say that he has"
did you send the attorney general |
evidence enough and indicate where
witnesses could be found to warrant |
an Indictment" asked Representative |
Webb Of North Carolina.
Undoubtedly" replied the territorial
deleSate. "and furnished him with |
evidence Of other crimes. The Alaska |
syndicate IL an organized crime. re-
for to the Alaska syndicate composed !
OF ]. Pierpont Morgan, the Guggen- |
helm brothers. Kuhn, Loeb & Co., ia
cob II. Schi ffand Graves"
who do you mean by the Guggen- !
helm bf0thsrs?" asked Representative