The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-15
HOUSE COMMITTEE
 REPORTS FAVORABLY ], ON INQUIRY MOTION
lAttorney General Permitted Statute of Limitations to Run in Favor of Defrauders of Govern merit, Is Specific
 Allegation

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 FS atute of limitations to run s of the Alaska syndicate Sed the government through ,eg y to the extent of s5o.ooo. the House committee on Judiciary has determined to .eport fayorably a resolution of inquiry offered by Delegate Wickersham.
 The resolution would call upon the At orney General to furnish the House with III documents, affidavits and testimony n his possession relating to an affidavit submitted to him more than a year ago md sworn to by H. J. Douglas, former Luditor of the Alaska syndicate. in 1908. Delegate Wickersham startled the com nittee when he produced copy of an affidavit relating to an alleged criminal let committed by Capt. D. H. Jarvis of he Alaska syndicate, and formerly prom bent in the government revenue cutter Arvice, who committed suicide in Seattle ! June 22, the day following the intro-
 ttion of the Wickersham resolution
 ding for production of the papers in
 tlcase, and by John H. Bullock of the
 Jh J. Sesner Coal company of New
 Yt. Through connivance of these men,
 1t as charged, the government was de-
 fraed on coal contracts and evidence
 to at effect was permitted to remain
 unsed upon In the Attorney Generals
 offifor more than a year until the stat
 ute Limitations expired last May. Dele
 gatevickersham furnished the commit
 tee Nh photographic copies of letter
 of aAttorney for the Alaska syndicate
 to DA. Jarvis, admitting the expendi-
 ture dnoney to control government wit
 nessesn the Hazy murder trial in 1908,
 wherean agent of the Alaska syndicate
 loN am
 ployeds rival interests during the con structidof railroad in Alaska. i, Entertainment" Expenses
 A pl14graph of an expenGe account for S13Sa of M. B. Morrissey, employed
 by the indicate, 1t is claimed, 10 en- certain vernment witnesses and jury men in nat connection, also was sub mitted 1.-the committee. This evidence DelegateNickersham declared, also is in the posss.on of the Attorney General. Delegatekickersham urged on the judi ciary colhittee the Douglas affidavit in- voiving |, representatives of the North western ,mmercial company, one of the Alaska siolicate concerns, and the Sesner Coal conany.
 On Ni5 24, 19l0,'' he said, 'I sent to Attorry General Wickersham copy Of the afIavit, calling his attention to tbe fact hat the government had been tcfrauded of $50,000 by perjury and combnath of these two corporations in the se of coal to the government for milit;y posts in Alaska. l asked him to nlxe an investigation and prose- cute tho, people for the crime com ln;tted inthat transaction. l received a letter of Acknowledgment May 31, 1910, and we lad considerable further cor respondete and on June 3o 1911, more than a bar later, l received letter from the.Attorney General stating that the statle of limitations had expired.
 The correspondence, including the final letter of he Attorney General, was read into the record.
 "jefused to Prosecute"
 'I readthe last letter., continued Del egate Wckersham, ito show that the Attornel General now says that the statute If limitations has run against the proscution of these men,. They sub rlitted fhse affdavits to the government and committed fraud in April and May, 1878, anl the statute of limitations did not exrire until May, 1911. I sent all the evidence to the Attorney General a , ear bfore and he failed and refused to proecute these people for robbng tle trelsury and he permitted the stat Ute of limitations to run in their fla vor
 q .wtnt the committee to have all he facts so that 1t may know whether. he Attorney General has deliberately shielded these. people from prosecution or crime or not It is fair to him and air to me. say that he has,
 Did you send the Attorney General enough and indicate where wit ,esses could be found to warrant an in- lictment?" asked Representative Webb # North Carolina. E..
 'T5ndoubtedly.' replied the territorial delegate, "apd I furnished him with evil exec of other cri-.ss. The Alaska syn licate is an organized crime
 Morgan, Guggenheim, Et Al
 "What do you mean by the Alaska ''I refer to the Alaska syndicate con -osed of J. Pierpont Morgan, the Gug- brothers. Kuhn, Loeb Co, Iscob H. Schiff and Graves"
 ''Who do you mean by the Guggenhe'm asked Represents tive Norris f Nebraska. ,....I...
 Senator simon Guggenhein and his six 'rothers." ,..-4
 "Who is Graves2'. asked Representative sraham of Illinois.
 He represents Close Bros, the English yndicate and other English capitaiis+5 Captain Jarvis added the delegate was the confidential agent of Morgan In harge of the syndicate interests in Sea. le. He committed suicide immediately this resolution you are now onsidering He knew that this reso.,l ion would bring out the taots.'
 What Douglas Charges
 The Douglas affidavit charges thai 1hen the war department advertised for ids for coal to supply the Alaska mi, ary posts, Jarvis, treasurer of the North iestern company, and John II. Bullock of he Sesnor Coal company, d rival of the agreed to submit bids which 'ould insure the award of the contract 3 one company or the otheR, there being o other competition. agreed to certain ghterage charges and fixed upon a dl- ision of the profits. The Sesnor company ot the contract to furnish 4C00 tons of pal at BPS a ton, price which Douglas aiined was nearly twice tco high, l'id 1e profits were divided, f'ouglas himself ntering $6700 from the Sssror company n the books of the Northwestern corn any. as the lattef's share of the profits. oth Bullock and Jarvis Douglas swears
 
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