The Nenana daily news., 1920-10-21
GAUSTAD ASSERTS
 SUTHERLAND SAFE


 and Brooks, is in town for few days, shaking hands with old friends and incidentally boosting for the Republican ticket. Mir. Gaustad keeps in close touch with the po- litical situation throughout the Ter ritory and Is confident of sweep ing victory for Dan Sutherland as well as the entire Republican ticket.
 In commenting on campaign mat ters in general, MT. Gaustad says: II am very much pleased at the outlook for the election of my friend Dan Sutherland in particular and the whole Republican bunch in general. It does not seem to me that any votes were changed in Grigsby's favor by his recent visit here. I am not in the least sur prised at this, however. as the in sincerity of his pledges and the un- truthfulness of his statements were too apparent to fool an electorate possessing the high degree of intelli- gence manifested oy our people in their choice of public servants.
 'Grigsby's claims in both Nenana and Fairbanks. that he was not aware of the low standard of wages paid by the Alaskan Engineering commission, are too manifestly un- true to need any comment, as he has been repeatedly apprised of the wage conditions existing here, by individuals as we'll as organizations Being the representative of the Ter ritory at Washington. it is his busi- ness to be informed on all matters pertaining to public works, especial iy when it entails the expenditure of millions of dollars, and it is just as criminal not to know as it is to ignore the information concerning the conditions, and not seek to tighten the burden caused by them.
 Another glaring falsehood is Grigsby's claim set forth in his lit erature that he collected several hundred thousand dollars in back taxes from the fish corporations while he was attorney-general. l was member of the territorial sen- ate in 1915 and 1917. and served during the latter term as chairman of the finance committee, having special jurisdiction over financial legislation, and have frst-hand knowledge of the actual facts con- cerning the collection of these back taxes, which are as follows: The fishing and mining corporations re- fused to pay the territorial taxes levied by the legislature of 1913. Pursuant to an opinion rendered to the legislature of 1915 by J. s. Jury, of the University of Wash ington, obtained through the efforts of Senator Willard, the legislature of 1915 authorized the governor to employ legal counsel for the en- forcement of the payment of all de- linquent taxes. Governor Strong appointed for such position John Cobb, who started suits and got Judgments in the circuit court of California in the summer of 1916, and the taxes, amounting to some S300,000, were paid into the terri torial treasury in accordance with the findings of said court, which settled for all time the right of the Territory to levy taxes. George Grigsby did not take his oath of office until in January, 1917, and performed no legal work for the Territory, except giving advice to the officials and rendering special opinions to the canvassing board that counted Wickersham out of the 1916 election.
 During his first year as attorney general, Grigsby directed his efforts principally toward feathering his own nest. One of the first bills in- troduced in the house in 1917 was