The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-04-28
WICK FIGHT ON GOVT RAILWAY
 BEGAN IN FEB.

head of this project, was old when 1t was given Its first general publicl- ty thru the Seattle Post.Intelligencer. This paper has been reliably inform. ed that all the charges made by Wickersham in the Seattle paper were published in the Congressional Record in full last February at the time the appropriation for the road was in the hands of the house com mittee.
 At this time the people of the in. terior asked Wickersham to do all he could to help the appropriation along. Just how he did this. and the real attitude he assumed toward the Is shown by the follow. Ing appearing in . coast newspaper of a recent date:
 Wick Did Not Help Get Ap-
 PsVHs s0SsOUs
 "On February 2S. when the appro. priation bill which carried an item of s4,000,0O0 for the Alaska road. was up for consideration. former Dele. gate Wickersham contended that much of the s30.000,000 or 80 that mad been expended had been wasted. and he launched a rather severe at. tack on the railroad management Swagar Shirley, chair man of the appropriations committee, asked him if he opposed the $4,000.. poo appropriation. He said he did not. Shirley then intimated that 1t seemed strange that the delegate should contend in one breath that the money was being wasted and in the next breath urge that $4.0O0.0O0 more be appropriated only to be wasted.
 Repudiates Former Work.
 Representative Madden of Chicago, called attention to the glowing statements that Wickersham lad made concerning the possibili. ties of the Alaska railroad when the bill was pending making an appro. priation for 1t.
 "Wickersham responded:
 T made great many of the referred to as glow. Ing''"I felt in glowing mood when this matter was before con. sress at that time. do not have such healthy glow as had then.
 "All of which makes clear that Alaska got her railroad appropria. tion thru congress without the aid of Wickershar.
 Shooting at Railroad
 "Wickersham took two shots at the before this speech was made. One of them was bill and the other ] joint resolution. Both were exactly he same. Notwithstanding that he it would cost from $8,000.. poo to $10,000.O00 more than the ori. ginally provided $35.0Oo.0oo to com. plete the railroad, both the bill and he resolution provided that the road should not cost to exceed the sum specified and that the President should not undertake the contract to expend any more. In other words, the effect of his bill and resolution would be to permit the expenditure of s4 100000 more and then quit work with the railroad unfinished. It meant that or it meant nothing.
 Terms Of Wiekersham's Biii.
 "The terms of the Wickersham bill and resolution which are identical, 
 "'Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the Unit ed States ofsAmerica in congress as. sembled. That section two of the Act of congress entitled An act to au. the President of the United States to locate. construct and ope- rate railroads in the territory of Alasqa, and for other purposes ap. proved March twelfth, nineteen hund. red and fourteen. be. and the same Is hereby. amended 80 as to read as follows:
 Section 2. That the cost of the work authorized by this Act shall not exceed the sum appropriated by congress for that use; and. in exe- cutting the authority granted by this Act the President shall not expend nor obligate the United States to ex. pend more than the said sum-" kTAIIV AUIkTnDC