The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-28

ocratic ticket for the Territorial Leg islature. Senator Sutherland said that he merely objected to his mak- ing campaign trip and charging his expenses to the Territory
 Branching from the discussion of the bill in question, Senator Suth- erland attacked the qualification of he machine in the mis-spending by the Governor of Territorial money from the emergency fund. He said the fund was spent by the Governor without regard to preserving the if nances of the Territory, He said the Governor has spent probably s1,5O0 from the Emergency Fund without authority of law, or moral authority, He read several vouch- CTS, one for the cost of the installa ton of a sewer from the Governors office to the street, another for a teaming bill for carrying sod to the Executive Mansion, another for cut ting the sod, one for the purchase of office furniture from the Food Ad | IUlUlSlTdIlOU, anu SO Ol
 Senator Sutherland continued say ing that he found a number of politi- cal and personal telegrams charged to the Emergency Fund
 Senator Price, chairman of the Committee of the Whole, said that lnless Senator Sutherland got back to the subject of the Publicity Blu reau and S. B. 2, which was under consideration, he would rule him out of order.
 Senator Sutherland answered that it all was concerned with the Pub 'icity Bureau, and that he was mere ly showing the connection of the machine, not with the Bureau, but with the Territorial funds.
 Senator Sutherland read a tele- gram sent to Washington by Gov, Riggs, urging the immediate appoint ment of John w. Troy to the posi- ton of Collector of Customs, saying that the failure to have Collector might cause delay in canvassing the election returns.
 The chairman again said that if Senator Sutherland did not return to the subject under discussion, he would rule him out of order. Senator Hess said that he agreed with the Chair, that Seantor Suther- land was out of order, but 1t was all very interesting, and he moved that Senator Sutherland be allowed to con tinue. The motion carried.
 Senator Sutherland then read other telegrams sent by the Governor The Governor, he constantly repeated, had not done these things of his own volition, but at the urging of the machine Saying that he had known Gov. Riggs for long time, Senator Sutherland said that he was the most unsophisticated man in politics he had ever know.
 He cited another telegram to Sen ator Chamberlain, which Gov Riggs had sent from Nome, and in which he said that he was thoroughly in sympathy with the course taken by Judge Holzheimer.
 Finally getting back to the Pub licity Bureau, Seantor Sutherland said,, that advertising was merely incident to the real work of the Blu reau, and that the institution was of no benefit to the Territory.
 MT. White explained that his trip 70 Anchorage and to the Interior was for the purpose of posting himself regarding Alaska. Replying to Sena- tor Sutherland's insinuations that he had been campaigning in Ketchi- kan, MT. White said that he went there with the purpose of aiding Matanuska farmers to get market for Alaska grown potatoes.
 In Wrangell. MT. White said that he did appear in public as candi date for election on the Democratic ticket to the House of Representa- ives, but that he did NOT charge he expenses of his trip to Wrangell .c the Bureau of Publicity.
 Senator Hess agreed that the dis ,ussion of the Emergency Fund was out of order, but that every item Senator Sutherland cited should not have been taken from the Fund. He said Senator Sutherland had not sub stantiated his charge that the Pub licity Bureau had been a machine Headquarters.
 Senator Roman said that he had always opposed the Bureau and that he would vote to abolish it or refuse the appropriation, but he thought they owed it to MT White to take I stand on the charges made against him He said he had sufficient con f.dence in MT. White to know that he would not run the Bureau in connection with any machine. He said Mir White did not lose his citizenship when he took the office of Chief of the Bureau of Publicity, and that it was his duty and right as citizen to have views on sub iects which pertained so to his citi- zenship and it was his privilege as citizen to express those views.
 MT. White, speaking again, said he had been criticised for taking an