The daily progressive-miner., 1919-04-10
|VVICKERSHAMLETTER. TO SECRETARY LANE
Continued from yesterday)


 letters as Secretary of the Interior and ] Administrator of Government Own i ership and Operations in Alaska pub
 lished and spread broadcast among the ! employees of the Government Rail road flor political purposes" in 1916 and 1918. but ir the latter campaign Commissioner Edes and Supt. Browne both l. at.y from the Southern Pa cific, sent similar ie..eTs s4pporting and supplementing your efforts in aid of the partisan Democratic local ticket in Alaska Their letters may be seen on the editorial page of the Juneau Daily Empire for October 31st, last. And Governor Riggs, so recently a member of the Confusion at Nenana, and Governor by your grace toured the Territory last fall at the expense of the Government, making partisan political campaign speeches and giving out parti- san interviews to newspapers flor political purposes" He visited Nenana and other main points on the Govern ment Railroad exhorting officials and men to support my opponent, enter tained everywhere by the agents of the White Pass Company. the Northern Commercial Company and the Alaska Syndicate officials. Is that what +he people of this country must expect from high officials under Government Ownership and Operation of Railroads! :! Corruption At the Polls By the Alaska
 Engineering Commission
 Your partisan influence as Secretary of the Interior and as Administrator of Government Ownership and Opera tion of the Government Railroad in Alaska, was so persuasive in partisan politics on the Government Railroad that it was directly responsible for many criminal violations of the Con- gressional Election Laws there. One bright and shining example will be men, toned, for it connects one of the Com missioners Of the Alaska Engineering Commission, and your special repre- sentative thereon, and also the Disburs ing Officer at Nenana, in the criminal offense Of voting his own wife in viola ton of the election laws at the cleo ton held there on November :, 1916.
 The Act of Congress providing for the election of a Delegate to Congress from Alaska fixes the qualifications of electors at all such elections. and par ticularly provides that no person shall be allowed to cast a ballot at such election except actual and bona fide residents of Alaska, and who have been such residents continually during the entire year immediately preceding the election etc,
 Act of Congress, May I, 1906. 34 Stat. L. Sec 3, p. 169.
 The Legislature of Alaska at it's first session granted the elective franchise 10 women, by permission of Congress, and provided that "the elective fran 'hise is hereby extended to such wo. men as have the qualifications of citi- ,enship required Of male electors"
 Session Laws. Alaska, 1913, Chap. l, }. 1.
 On February 19, 1916, your Disburs- ng Officer at Nenana, G. F. Cramer. vas married here in Washington, D. C.. he record of that marriage will be ound in the proper records of mar 'iages in this District; the bride was a Washington City lady and had never before resided in Alaska. In May, 1916 Thomas Riggs, and his Wife, and Disbursing Officer c. P 1ramer. and his bride, left Washing. on enroute [ Alaska, and arrived at Nenana some time in June, 1916. and | heir wives Were not, therefore, on No. 'ember 7, 1916, the date of the Con- sressional election, actual and bona lde residents of Alaska, and had been been such residents continuously dur. ng the entire year immediately preced. ng the election"
 Both Mrs. Cramer and Mrs. Riggs I We're specially barred from voting at hat election by the Territorial Act .sess. Laws, 1913. Chap. l, D. ID which provides that "The elective { franchise is hereby extended to such { women as have the qualifications of { citizenship required of male electors. { o-wit: Those who are actual and 'ona fide residents of Alaska, and who /; lave been such residents continuously } turing the entire year immediately pre- : eding the election" 34 Stat. L. Sec. 8 . 169. 4 duly certified copy of the record : f the Nenana election returns at the I November :, 1916. election was filed a 'ith the Senate Committee on Terri 4 ories. at the time or the confirmation a / Riggs as Governor. and the original U 5 now on file with the House of Re. I resentatiyes with Election Committee