The Alaska daily empire., 1920-09-27

Wickersham, Svengal to the twin TrIlbys' Suth- erand and Rustgard, has been making poosylool campaign from office to office, house to house ana street corner to street in which he has Whis nared- charges against Delegate Grigsby and Gov Riggs and the Territorial Shipping Board on account of the Jones bill In q recent article of which Wick ersham said to be the silent author the substance of these whisperings is set forth as follows:
 MT Rusteard has insisted that the expen-
 diture of some if not a of more than
 SPA 900 by the Territorial Shipping Board in
 maintaining among others things lopby Tn
 Washington which has apparently endeavored
 to drive the Canadian boats out of compe-
 titcn with the Seattle lines on the Alaska
 coast was illegal, and has suggested that IL
 miaht be recovered by the Territory II
 proper eedings were taken The law
 cstaihe Ae Territorial Shipping Board
 ctary provides that the money can be used
 only for the purpose of establishing and
 maintaining competing steamship llne It
 was used for the opposite purpose. MT
 Rustgarh holds that the Alaska cause' in <
 the .Jones shipping bill is unconstitutional,
 and recommended that the new at
 torney general be instructed to take the
 necessary legal steps to have the enforcement
 Of that clause cnjoined.
 Not only did the Territorial Shipping Board nc maintain a lobby anywhere to endeayor to drive tn Canadian steamship lines out of Alaska, but the Ter rtoral Government through Delegate Grissby an Riggs tried to thwart the efforts of those Whe were in favor of prohibiting Canadian ships from carryinepgoods American origin from Canadian rail way Terminals on the Pacific to Alaska. Both Gov Riggs and Delegate Grigsby are on record as mos enphatically in favor permitting the Canadian line 10 operate in the waters of Alaska in the future as they have operated in the past When Req resenative Albert Johnson, who has heretofore inte' ferred Alaska politics in the inteerst of Juds Wickersham. offered an amendment to the Esch-Cua mins Bill, which would prevent Canadian lines 'o charge less for carrying freight from an Americah port through Canadian Territory thence to Alaska 1T Canadian bottoms than is charged by American line Delegate Grigsby made the principal speech in the House of Representatives against the amendment an brought about it's defeat.
 However it net easy to defeat the Jon bill or secure it's amendment. The Johnson proposi- ton was offered from the floor amendment t bill it had come from the committed The Jore bill came from the committee with the objectionable provision was committee bill Delegate Grigsby and Gov. Riggs requested that Alaska be eliminated from this provision the Jones Bill, and filed brie in support of their request. Delegate Grl6spy Wa able get the committee to make exceptions to the provision of the bill it might apply to th@ Yukon River. He also able to get the committed to change a provision the Jones Bill which wouG permit the United States Government tc establis steamship lines only to such Alaska ports may have railway. terminals the Government may now estab fish lines to any or all Alaska ports if it shoula determine that be wise But he able tc get the committee to eliminate Alaska pro vision which designed to construe the transpor tation Of American goods coming through Canada by rail thence by water to an American port, a. ecastwise trade
 II might be mentioned in passing that this Jones Bill was fathered by Senator Jones of Washington whe las been friend of Judge Wickersham and is Re publican He recently renomiuated by Washing ton Republicans. IL might also be well to say that the Jones Bill strongly supported by the Seattle Post-Intelgenccr, which printed Wickershams scan daIous attacks against Alaska Railroad and which is supporting Sutherland in the present campaign in Alaska
 Judge Wickersham says the money spent by the Territorial Shipping Board in Investigating remedies for the water transportation situation in Alaska wl illegally expended and that the money appropriate can only be lawfully used in establishing and main taning a "competng steamship line Not only does the bill say nothing about competing steamship line but it authorizes the Territory 10 establish as many lines as it might find to be needed But it dos not stop there. The law creating the Territorial Ship hing Bo5ra a 70 contains the following:
 ps.siaed, the authority in this Act
 granted .o said Shipping Beard is not to be
 construed as mandatory, but said Board, II
 in it's judgment the relief sought for by his
 Act can be secured by proper action before
 inc Courts the Interstate Comerce Commis-
 son the United States Shipping Board, or
 through any other proper means Is hereby
 authorized and empowered to take such reme-
 dial action as may be deemed necessary