New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-07-14
THE NAVY DEPARTMENT FRAUDS
MR. CHANDLER REPLIEs TO HENDRICKS.

M STATES PLAIN FACTS. WHICH coNTRoVfRr
HFNpRICEs ANu ADMINISTERS a Just REnvKE
WA-mNGrov. July 3-Sccrctary Chandler to-
day wrote the following letter TO Thomas A. Hem
drickS with regard to the frauds in the Navy Do
partmeut referred to bv th, lattor n Ina speech at
indianapolis ON saturday night,
candidate for Vice President should speak with 10
cent f4ucss m your speech at tudsuapon' loat s'i-
ura, night You mado statements from which you meant
tInuny dst the maud, In the uurcau of Medicine and
surgery 81 tua Department amounted during lho paN
year 600 hAt wus informed u some of these out
RACES YER ago. tb ator wa Informed of thu frtnda
ldancue,cd thcm, nrcauHc scnth"rs of Congress htd
recommended thr continuance ~ tho ChIct of the Hu.
trtu. and mat took nu adequate action Cun,rinlng
thrm, Nhstrupnn vou demanded tho election NJ aftra
ldcnt who would appoint q thlot OF the hurrnn Who
would uvesus,tc he condition ~ the books aud nrins
all The guilty parties Go trial
10 the contrary of ell tuIs, testified that The snHpecie
vouchers commenced ~ fir back aa juno II, l77o Al
though sna vouchcr wss paid ~ late 80 january -,
1854 that While an anonymous ietlrt n Ineul war
ago charged drunkenness upon the chrt clerk pahIoI
lafrinn which the chirf or the Bureau, pt thup >
Wales reported to me was NOT ruei hdd 10 information
leading 10 the frauds until December or january
last that determined simutaneousy with oe-lnnlus
uv"susauon 10 have ne" chlef oi lhe bi i5du III pace
Of Dr. Wales whose term was 10 expire on January 20
aud also new chief clerk that great opposition to the
change was made hy members Of congress Dut per
sisted and Dr Wales went out on that date tarrgan
pat February l. and the investigation OF frauds
and the arrest OF guilty parties have since proceeded WITH
due diligence. II is true that | stated that the
found IN office when veni ~ ApH I; l1S- we're OF
such character fully to Justify me in believing that
the affairs OF his bureau had been well administered
Senator Mcpherson wrote the following letter:
UNITED STATES SENATE,
WAsHNGrOS, ID. c., Dec. Is, 1883
To the President
sIR: As the term of Office OF Surgeon General Wales
the Navy Department 10 expire. and consider
ing u not political Office presume, "a am perIeo.
prDdga with the article o. advice, 70 ask for the good pt
everybody and everything relating % that service tha
yO appoint nm. DO this because hc i An e1eeleh
officer having ability and energy, qualities not genera Ia
the nava service and vhIch. think, should be nour-
shed when discovered feel sure II any oncer mas 4e-
served such recognition from the appointing power oy
reason Of faithful and efficient service IN the past that
officer Is Surgeon Gsl " Waes. am yours with great
respect j. H. MCtHEksON
To the Hon. C A. ARTHUR, President
petition for reappointment, written bv Carrgan. was
the President headed by j. O. Carlisle, fouowed
by Philip 3. Thompson. r., Leopold Morse, X H. VI
wise John c. Nichols, p. A. COuius, H. B. Lowering,
Robert B. Vance D. W Connolly Charles B. Lore George
A. Poet, Albert T. Willis, Car et0n Hunt, o. " hewIt
lillian II. Fielder and other IN congress
saying OF Dr. Waes " He has administered the anars
that bureau during the last four years with signal db-
~ and success" United states Senator'S McPherson'
Butler. Brown COlqultt. Beck, Williams, {. " Jones,
Ransom, and thirtytwO other senators aso using O&rr
gan a. their writer petloned for DR. Wses resppoin
stating that his administrative capacity nas Oeen
fully demonstrated by the successful msnagemens or the
bureau OF which he now has charge"
Senator Mcpherson and speaker Carlisle ana Ohers OF
the most prominent o. gentlemen, who demanded
Dr Waless reappOiH tment were with you IN the con-
yenon Chicago and could have informed you that ne
had borne good reputation that the law required that
Chief Of Bureau should be naval surgeon, ana
placed the medical expenditures in MS hands, that bis
a political Office, but that II ne ndd
politics he Democrats and that any attempt 10
political capital out Of frauds Tor Whlcn THIS nava
surgeon who their Intimate friend Is solely respon.-
bic would he disingeuuOIs and unfair IhSt they dd
succeed keeping Dr. Wales anu ais CHIEF cerA Car
rgan, ia Office Is very fortunate.