Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-10-29
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I'm the recent arrival in San Francisco
OF tie I. b man-of-war Wachusetts.
rearson commander, from Alaska. an
E1HmsiseT reporter went aboard TO in
quire into tie charges against Vim. (3ou-
verneur Morris, Collector of Cuytoms AT
SIska, preferred by Lieutenant BENSON.
OF the ship, and obtained the following
statement:
:" In the first place" said the lieuten-
ant, Il was placed in command of the
Sifka garrison, and represented the &C.
NOR officer of the Wachusetts in his alb
senee, during the months of May, June,
July, August and September of the pres
ent year. knowing of the reputation
borne in the community by Mr.. Morris,
Commander Pearson left me positive or
ders to endeayor to get along peacefully
with him. used all means in nv
power to do this, but from his conduct
found it impossible. soon discovered
by observation that he was a BLACKBOARD
and sounded, a most unfit person to
occupy the responsible position be holds,
and resolved that he should not serve
me as be had all the others who have
come in contact with him. After watch
ing him closely, as 1 have said, in Sep.
tember l came to the conclusion that
the rights of the people of Alaska and
the citizens of the United States were
being most basely trampisd upon, and l
made mp my mind that the Treasury
Department should at least know of 1t.
l filed report with the Secretary of the
Navy, asking that it be forwarded to
the Secretary Of the Treasury, under
whom Morris holds his place.
among other things charged Mr..
Morris with smuggling liquor into the
Territory. For many months the whites
have been bothered by intoxicated ma
tives, and on several occasions incipient
riots have been caused by the drunken
braves of these ignorant people. am
satisfied that Morris is at the bottom of
it. Upon the arrival of every steamer
he gets cases of brandy, which he dis
poses of at his favorite saloon. Liquor
dealing is prohibited by law, yet GIN
mills are allowed 70 be conducted under
his very nose. On the last steamer he
received several boxes OF brandy, which
he claimed had been sent by order of
President Arthur, to be used as medi-
cine IN preventing an epidemic of the
measles. Private persons sent for
liquors for the same purpose, but they
we're stopped at Port Townsend. Nor
ris's liquors he offered for sale at e. per
bottle, and they were used to muddle
the brains of himself and deputies in
stead of being applied where they might
have done some good. The employees of
his Office are negligent of their duties,
and, along with the principal, are in
drunken stupor nearly all the time. In
my complaint / also charged Morris
with gambling. have seen him contin-
ual.y, when he should have been en-
ployed in attending to the wants of the
people, which, God knows, are many and
varied enough, sitting at gaming table
with half dozen others of his stripe,
gambling for money in large and small
amounts. In this way he neglects his
duties and is continually absent from
his post. l charged him also with inter-
meddling in private affairs which con-
cerned HIM no more than they do you.
He made a great fuss simply because
Signal Service Attache Mclean desired
to arrange crOquet ground upon Gov
eminent land, where, instead of devot-
ing his time to whisky drinking and
gambling, he proposed to take little
innocent recreation. Having been
granted permission, Lieutenant Mclean
arranged the ground, whereupon Mr..
Morris made great hue and cry at
Washington. The outcome has been
that Mr.. Mclean has been detached and
ordered home; and certainly the United
States never had more faithful man in
its employ than he. When l remOn-
strated with Mr.. Morris against such
conduct, he simply replied: Pm ag-
gressive and disagreeable, and, by G.,
if the people don't like it, thsy can lump
it, and if can't have my way here, no.
body else shall have their way. My
hackers are Senator Miller, by G., SEN
atOr Jones. by G., and Governor Per
kins, Bye! And I'll stay here till hell
freezes over.
charged him als1 with ruthlessly
shooting the Indian dogs. Now to un-
derstand the grievance of this You must
know that the dog is the Indians OK,
his horse-One of the few means by
which he can obtain his livelihood. l
have seen him take his Winchester rifle
and fire indiscriminately about the
streets, killing these animals for his own
pleasure. Upon several occasions he
narrowly missed inhicting mortal in
jury upon white persons. Continued
complaints were made to me regarding
this singular freak, and it was only
by the rigid exercise Of my authority
that was able to suppress it, and the
natives arose in open rebellion.
He was threatened with his life and
an attack was made upon his house,
large rocks being thrown through the
windows and other damage being done.
/ was compelled to guard his house two
months with fifteen minute patrol in
order TO keep the people from entirely
demOlishing it. I made many other
charges against Mr.. Morris, of which l
desire to say nothing. 1t is sufficient
that the public know that he IL a base,
degraded man, who carries with him all
that is low and obscene. He has not
the first requisites which should belong
to person looking out for the inter
ests of Alaska, and If he Is not early re-
placed by a more gentlemanly, con-
scientious, honest and capable man it
will take more than one war. vessel to
repair the damage that will be done by
his disgraoeful conduct"
Lieut.. Benson referred to misrepre-
sanitation made regarding the Wachu-
sett, calling the attention OF the report
er to an article written by Mr.. Morris in
the OFSyOHsda Oh b I0C0uL ISSUE ~ wan
stated by the newspaper that the steam
er had found Alaska troubled by
measle epidemic, and after ascertaining
that it was proving fatal to large num-
bers steamed away and refused TO leave
any medical assistance behind. This
statement was emphatically denied by
Commander Pearson, Lieut.. Benson,
Surgeon Jones and Assistant Surgeon
DuBO Use. and was characterized as
base SANDER upon all the officers. The
commander claims that his medicines,
of which he took Q large supply, was
we'll nigh exhausted by constantly civ.
ing them ont wherever it was necessary;
that every possible thing was done to
relieve persons who suffered from
measles, and that when the Wachusett
left the north the disease had entirely
disappeared.
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