The daily progressive-miner., 1918-09-05
DELEGATE SULZER REEUTES
 ALL WICKERSHAM'S CHARGES
Declares Wckersham Has Been Hamperinq Him In
 Work for Past Eighteen Months

House Of Representatives 13,000 Bills
 were introduced, 20 of which were in- trcducad by myself Of these 13,O00
 50 were passed and enacted and made laws, all but IA of whicn wc-e war measures. Of the IA not strictly war
 measures, two were passed by the
 House for Alaska after a struggle of
 months and months on my part" MT. Sulzer said
 One of these two measures was for
 the free survey of Homesteads in
 Alaska, which relieves homesteaders Of Q great expense and the other was the Seward Bonding Bill, which enab- led the town of Seward to provide for municipal improvements" he added. Besides this, Delegate Sulzer secured a very favorable report on the bill to abolish the S0-rod strip amnedment for the benefit of homesteaders of the territory. Three bills were intro- duced to get this abolished and on the last one introduced, the Secre- taries of Agriculture and the Interior both set their approval, and Delegate Sulzer has been assured that this will be enacted and passed just as soon as it comes up in its turn on the calendar. "Wickersham made no effort to abolish this law" declared MT. SulZer, altho it had been in effect during the eight years he was repre- senting the people in Congress. On the other hand, altho he has been shouting against the Guggenheims controlling Alaska, and owning all the railroads in the territory he introduc. ed bill to repeal the bill enforcing taxes on the railroads"
 Another misrepresentation MT. has been making to the people throughout the territory is on the contest" Mr. Sulzer continued. Placards have been posted, it is re- ported up and down the Yukon, and the Panama river declaring that Sul- ger has been unseated by the House and Wickersham had replaced him. To disprove this, MT. Sulzer read let ter received by him just before leav- ing Washington for Alaska this fall, from Senator Albert E. Polk. of Iowa, dated August "A, 1918, in which Sen ator Polk expressed the hope that altho he was member of the Com mittee deciding the contest, and could not state one way or another as to how the contest would be de- cided, MT. Sulzer would be successful in the coming election, obviating the necessity of deciding the contest at all. Senator Polk stated further thai he had been impressed by the courte- ous and gentlemanly demeanor of the Delegate and was convinced that he had the interest of his people at heart and hoped to see him back.
 Even if the contest had been de- cided in Mr. Wickersham's favor by the committed MT. auizer said. This would not complete the matter, for he House must vote on the report be- lore any decision can be reached.'
 For the past eighteen months, MT. Wickersham has been working in Washington with the sole purpose of me with the officials and putting a spoke in the wheel of every hing I have been trying to do for the people of Alaska. I have been living n regular hell, trying to do my work md contradicting the lies he has been cling" said the Delegate.
 Last year both contestants were giv- ,n 40 days to collect testimony. Vic Iersham came immediately to Craig, liter which SulZer went to Nushagak md places to the westward where his most valuable testimony was to come rom. Ten days was then allowed to collect rebuttal testi- nony, to refute any testimony taken y Sulzer. This he spent in Washing on by introducing into the Congress ional Record all manner of malicious ies, which he knew Sulzer would have 10 opportunity of denying. He de- Jared the press of Alaska had been corrupted by Sulzer's supporters, that, 'ulZer was an agent for the liquor in- erests, that he was representing the and such like, trying in ther words to play "picayune pol1- ics," as MT. Sulzer expressed it.
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