The Alaska daily empire., 1916-03-17

Colorado; 3Ir Mannins director of tho U s. Bureau Of Mines John D. Rakor. of California. N J. sinnot, Of Oregon. Prank w. Mondell, of Wyom ing. c. c. Drill. of Washington and Joseph Howell Of Oiah-all members of Congress; James D. Callbreath secretary of tho American Mining Congress. and Mcssrs. Ingalls,, Chan ming and Finlay Of tho Mining and Metallurgicai Society of America. And against the bn appeared Hon. James Wickosham delegate from Alaska In the House or Representatives and him. sclf @ member or the Mines and Mln- Ing Committee.
 Mcssrs lngalis. Charming and Fin lay appeared before this committee as officers of professional society, elected by the votes of their fellow. members They appeared as mat ter of duty and as friendly advisors Of Che committee. They had tho ex- perience Of having curses flung at them by Hon. James Wickersham, who waited. however. until there was no danger of his being answered, and who alao obiurgated everyone acting in behalf of revision of the mining law whose names he could think of, including Mr. Sharpless Mir, Winchell . Mir. coodale, Mr. ReQua, Mr. Mudd IMr. Hammond, Mr. Sidney Jennings. MT. W. l.. Saunders. etc. The burden or his talk was that tho only people who wanted to have the mining law revised were the representatives of the Guggenheims, the Rockefellers and what Mr. Wickersham was pleas ed to call the Broadway interests" ] Here are some of the samples of his remarks:
 Now. M l.. ReQua Is another good man. Mr ReQua developed the Neva- dn Consolidated Copper Co.,. and he built tho Nevada Northern Ky. in Ne vada and represented that part of the Guggenheim Copper Trust.
 J. Parke Charming, who appeared here. has his office at 42 Broadway Fortytwo Broadway -that is the Amalgamated Copper Co.'S number Here it is in 'Poor's Manual Of In iusuials 1915'-yes New York office f2 Broadway In other words Inc is 8 copper man and has his office at the same number on Broadway wlth the Amalgamated and being in the copper business and at the same humber he ought not to be on this commission. and this committee ought not to fool away very much time iis- tening Go him.
 The first man on the list Of speak CTS is John Hays Hammond. He has for many years been the Guggenheim agent in the examination of their great copper properties, and he is part md parcel or the American Smelling md Refining Go. now. just as much 1s Daniel of the House of Guggenheim 's. and everybody knows it
 Next is Horace " Winchell, whom YOU know as the speciai representative 1f the Amalgameted.
 Then W. L. Saunders appears He s the president of the American In- rdtuto of Mining Engineers and one of the sneakers. He is also a director 'n the International Harvester Co.,; ace "Poor's Manual Of Industrlals I19l5" page 9SS Now. why a man whc ls director in the International liar vostor Trust should be taking such
 deep interest In the revision of the . United States mineral land laws in The West you can guess as we'll as l can The fiscal agent of that com 1any is J. p. Morgan & Co.,. one of the partners In the Alaska Syndicate and the Guggenheim Copper Trust.
 Now these are the gentlemen who have appeared before this committee 'n person or by record and who are 1t the bottom of the whole proposi- ion of getting this commission ap- pointed They an represent in some oir degree either the Amalgamated lr the American Smelling and Refln- ing Co. They are SO close to that in- eregl that if they do not represent anything in the way of mining re- vision. they represent tho Copper Trust and little else, and ] do not want them on a commission to revise tho United States Mining Land Laws Tor Alaska. and do not want their 1dvice on any subject relating there to.
 With such remarks and others Of similar character to the extent of many pages, Mir. Wickershan insult ed, through its representative. the entire mining-engineering profession With this kind of bunk" which is imply humorous to those who know how he was saying things that ,ain't so." Mr. Wickersham fed this com mittee of mining men" from Ohio. Indiana, Florida, etc.
 Then to play up to his constituents In Alaska. Mr. Wickersham digressed into the crimes of the American Smelling and Refining Co.,, the Alas 'ga Syndicate. and what not He want cd to show how faithfully he stood on guard in the interest of the people, how whenever a Guggenbeim put up his heae. he was ready to hit it If t were not really a Guggenheim, ney- ar mind-call it one.
 This has been a fayorite play Of Mr. Wickersham in the halls of Con- gross. But that he once had a differ ant idea is exhibited In the following letter addressed to stephen Birch, lhead of tho Curronheim interests in