Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-07-15
Case of WickerSham involving
Alaskan Coal Deal and Al
Ieged Fraud Promises Plenty
of Sensation,
LEGATE FROM ALASKA
STARTLES COMMITTEE
Declares His Cabinet Name
sake Deliberately Allowed
Statute of Limitations to Run
In Favor of Men Guilty of
Perjury,

Especial Dispatch to the Morning Journal !
Washington, July 14.-After secret
consideration Of charges made by
Delegate Wickersham of Alaska, that
4 Attorney General Wickersham delib-
/ erately permitted the statute of limit
atoms to run against agents of the
| Alaska syndicate who defrauded the
government through perjury to the
extent of $4,000, the house commit
tee on judiciary has determined to
report iavorably a resolution of in
Qury offered by Delegate Wicker
sham.
The resolution would call upon the
attorney general TO furnish the house
with al documents, affidavits and
testimony in his possession relating tc
an affidavit submitted to him more
than a year ago and sworn to by II.
j. Douglas, former auditor of the
Alaska syndicate in 1908.
The attorney general when seen to-
night, declined to discuss the action
Of the committee. His friends inti-
mated that the charges were old and
that certain phase of them still WAS
uader investigation. They declined to
Indicate lust what this phase was.
Delegate Wickersham startled the
committed when in executive session
he produced a copy of an affidavit re-
lating to an alleged criminal act, COM
mitted by Captain ID. II. Jarvis, of the
Alaskan syndicate and formerly prom
inent in the government revenue cut
ter service, who committed suicide in
Seattle on June ., the day following
the Introduction of Wickersham' res
olution calling for production of the
papers in the case, and by John II.
Bullock of the John j. Seanor Coal
company Of Nome,
Through connivance of these men,
it was charged that the government
was defrauded on coal contracts and
that evidence to that effect was per-
mittcd to remain unacted upon by the
attorney generals office for more
than year until the time for action
under the statute of limitations ex-
plred last May.
Delegate Wickersnam furnished
the committee With Photographic cop
les ot letters from an attorney FOR
the Alaska syndicate to ID. 4. Jarvis,
admitting the expenditure of money
to control government witnesses in
the Hay murder trial in 1908, where
In 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 yl153.40 OF NJ. b. Morrisey, em-
ployed by the syndicate, it is claimed,
to entertain government witnesses
ana Jurymen in that connection also
was submitted to the committee. This
evidence Delegate Wickersham de-
elared also is in the possession of the
attorney general Delegate Wicker
sham urged on the judiciary commit
Tee the Douglas affidavit involving the
representatives. of the Northwestern
commercial company, one of the
Alaska syndicate concerns and the
Seanor Coal company.
on May "a, 1910" he said, Il
sent TO Attorney General Wickersham
copy of the affidavit, calling his at
uhuon TO the fact that the govern
iheht had been deirauded Of $4,000
ny perjury and of a combination of
ulese two corporations in the sale of
coal TO the government for military
posts in Alaska.
asked him to make an investi
sauon and prosecute those persons
Ior the crime committed in that
transaction. | received letter of
acknowledgement May 81, 1910, and
We mad considerable further CORES
pohdtnce on June 13, 1871, more
tlidh year later, | received a letter
IL ON The attorney general stating that
ng IN
pred
=, ne CORE spOndence, including the
iH'al letter of the attorney general
was read into the record.
read the last letter." continued
ne" gate Wickersham, ito show that
the attorney general now says that
ue statute Of limitations has run
osalhst the prosecution of these men
m"o committed perjury and defrauded
cne @ government. They submitted
''lse alidayits to the government
%nu committed fraud in April and
N'y laOS, and the statute of limita-
,Iohs did not expire until May 1911.
sent all the evidence to the attor-
~ general a year before and he fail
eo ana refused to prosecute these
r'"ple lot robbing the treasury and he
~ "lltleu tne statute of limitations to
run IN their favor.
want the committee to have all
''' lacls so that it may know wheth-
ef 'h' attorney general has deliberat-
e| shielded these people from prose-
A,g'luh for crime or not. II is fair to |
has soy '''''' Nv
INA YOU send the attorney general |
N!uehee enough and indicate where !
illnesses could be found to warrant |
u ~, lndletment?" asked Representative |
"ebb OF North Carolina.
Undoubtedly" replied the terri
,"l delegate, and | furnished him |
az eVioenee or other crimes. The |
a..kh ,,alskh syndicate Is an organized |
crime"
"nal do YOU mean by the Alaska