The Nome nugget., 1932-10-22

W a'' gell, and the '. NunL Riv- e.. aggregating sum in excess of S1,O00,000. Tha items are f., ows: Anchorage building, $425,GOO; ketchikan building, $4O0,OOO. Nome harbor, s253,OOO; Dry Pass, s79,- 900; Kodiak harbor, S77,OOO Sit ka harbor, s67,5OO; Wrangell Mar rows s142,00O Wrangell harbor $56,000 Tolovana river $4O,OOO. Projects Lost
 suppose Judge Wickersham thought that Alaskans had no in | terest in these matters and that they didn't care whether the work was done or not, because h.. said in his speech that there was | nothing to come up for Alaska which required his presence in Washington. Of course you may say that he probably wouldn't have done anything anyway if he had been there. The Garner relief bil
 passed the House, but in confer. ence between the two houses mos, of the provisions of the Wagnel
 bill were substituted for the Gar ner bill, but the Wagner bill
 without any help at all from Jud- ge Wickersham, and in his absence from Washington, did contain such provisions that under it, it seems almost certain, the public buildings at ketchikan and Anchorage will be constructed. I confidently anti cipate that before Judge Wicker sham gets through with this cam paign he will claim credit for both of those buildings, and I suppose lot of people will be credulous enough to believe him, but he real ly isn't entitled to a bit of credit | for this construction, and he knows 1t. and any person who makes a thorough examination of the sub ject will soon find it out. For this month when Congress was in ses- sion and Judge Wickersham was absent enjoying the cool breezes on his road from Seattle to Juneau has he become entitled to receive his salary amounting to at least S750.0O? If anybody tells me that he didn't accept his salary for this month when he really render ed no service to Alaska or to the United States, I think I will have d worse shock than I suffered when I was hit by the airplane propeller at Iditarod a few weeks ago. Knowing Judge Wickersham | as I do, I simply know that he drew his salary for this month though he didn't render any ser vice to anybody except himself. So if you want an absentee Dele gate, why just go ahead and vote for Judge Wickersham. but if you want somebody who will attend to the job. vote for me.
 There is still another matter of political and moral principles concerning which I differ from Judge Wickersham, and that is with respect to the allowance that is made for secretary or secre- taries for the Delegate.
 .-.-.-.- ---- ---- Nepotism . -.----.
 The allowance for each year is s5,oOO. Considering the work that a delegate ought to attend to it is not too much, but some Con. gressman and some Delegates have not been able to resist the tenn tation to keep part or all of this money in their own families They are afraid to let anyone el- Sc in their states or territories benefit by it. Judge Wickersham unfortunately, is among this num- Der. for the April payroll of the House of Representatives was or. dered published and, to our aston ishment we find that Judge Wick ersham had been unable to resist the temptation to put his lovely and estimable wife on the pay roll for a part of the salary all lowed to him for secretarial work With all the unemployed in Alas ka, and elsewhere. and with all the young men and women who would be glad of a Job and capable of performing the job as one of the secretaries of Judge Wicker sham, giving the man opportuu- ity to secure an education, it does seem strange that Judge Wicker sham was so grasping for money that he was unable to pass up all these men and women who might have served him efficiently and gouge out of the allowance for secretarial service something additional for his own family. He was drawing a fat salary himself during most of his term $1O,0OO a year, and latterly $9.OOO a year, with a further allowance for mileage of $1,50O a year, and yet he could not be satisfied with this; he had to get some more. If I am elected, I shall be the only Dimond on the payroll and I shall spend that allowance of s5,0OO by paying it to people who do the act