SUES ALASKA'S TREASURER
Lawyer Alleges Appropriations Illegal—Asks Injunction.
JUNEAU, Alaska, May 6. (AP)—The power of the territorial legislature to appropriate funds for the offices of the territorial legislature to appropriate funds for the offices of the governor and secretary of Alaska and for certain of its own expenses was called into question in
an injunction suit filed in the United States district, court here today by James Wickersham, Juneau attorney and former delegate to congress.
Suing for himself and all other taxpayers similarly situated, Wickersham asked that Walstein G. Smith, territorial treasurer, be enjoined from paying out of territorial funds $17,690 for maintenance of the governor's office, $21,700 for the territorial secretary's office and certain other sums for printing of the senate and house journals. The amounts were appropriated by the legislature, which adjourned last night. Wickersham's suit is based on the contention that the act of congress which set up the governmental machinery of the territory in 1912 did not give the legislature power to make the appropriations mentioned in the suit.