The Washington herald., 1911-07-15
CORRUPTING WITNESSES
PART OF AGENTS DUTIES
Facts Presented to Attorney General but He Fails to
Take Action in Time to Prosecute.

A flank attack on the administration
has been executed by the House Com
mittee on Judiciary, through a favor
able report on the resolution intro
duced by Delegate Wickersham, OF
Alaska, calling upon Attorney General
Wickersham to furnish the House with
all documents, afidavits, and testimony
in his possession relating to frauds al
legged to have been perpetrated, as the
Delegate says, by the Alaska syndi-
cate. composed of ]. Pierpont Morgan,
the Guggenheims, Kuhn. Loeb & Co,
and. one Graves. the representative of
an English syndicate"
1t was learned yesterday that the Ju--
dietary Committee has been holding Sc
cret meetings on the resolution intro
duced by Delegate Wickersham, and
that during these meetings the Dele
gate has reiterated the charge that the
Attorney General deliberately held up
conclusive evidence of fraud on the
part of the Alaska syndicate until the
statute of limitations had a chance to
operate.
The Judiciary Committee was more
than interested when Delegate Wicker
sham offered copies of an affidavit re-
lating to an alleged criminal act COM
rnitted by G. H. Jarvis, of the Alaska
syndicate, who committed suicide IN
Seattle June % of this year, the day
after Delegate Wickersham introduced
his resolution OF inquiry in the House.
The Delegate says that more than year
ago he presented to the Attorney Gen
eral conclusive evidence of a fraudulent
agreement between Capt. Jarvis, repre-
senting the Alaska syndicate. and John
II. Bullock, of the John j. Sesnor Coal
Company of Nome, by which the gov
ernment was defrauded out OF $4,000 in
coal contract.
Statute of Limitations Expires.
This conclusive evidence. Delegate Wick
ersham declares, was permitted to lie In
the Attorney Generals office without
action for more than a year. but very
soon after the statute of limitations ex-
pired DeleCate Wickersham says he re-
ceived a communication from the At
torney General calling attention To this
fact.
While the resolution upon which the
Judiciary Committee has authorized
favorable report has to do merely with
the alleged fraudulent coal contract, Del
egate Wickersham presented TO the COM
mittee evidence OF other alleged wrong
doing in the Territory. The committee
seemed particularly interested in pho
tographic copies of a letter from John A.
Carson, counsel for the Alaskan syndi-
cate, to Capt. Jarvis, in which the success
Of one of the company's agents in cor
rupting government witnesses in a muir
der trial is discussed with remarkable
frankness.
MY dear captain" says this letter.
''the inclosed account Of Mr.. NJ. B. Nor
risey has been submitted to me by him.
I do not claim to have personal knowl-
edge of all Of the items therein men
toned, but do know that Morrisey was
taking care of several OF the govern
ment's witnesses cease OF United States
vs. Hazey). 1 saw him take them into
restaurants very many times lit was
generally rumored around Juneau that
the majority of the governments wit
nesses were broke), and I have not the
least doubt that Mr.. Morrisey cared for
them in the manner shown in his account.
Controlled the Witnesses.
I'm addition to this, I wish to express
my appreciation of the services rendered
by Mr.. Morrisey. not only in Juneau,
but also at Valdez, during the session
of the grand jury there. 1 found him