Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-04
ENCLOSURE NUMBER FOUR
CONNECTING STORIES TOLD BY
ALL CONCERNED WITH 1T.

An Untruth Evidently on Somebody
shoulders-The Stories OfNearIy Ever,
Witness a Contradiction of Thos,
of the Others-The Court Listens I,
More Suggestions.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-Another little
element of mystery was added to-day t,
the history of the so-called csupplemen
tary Instructions to Lieut.. Darlington
or Enclosure No. T." Lieut.. Caziarc
when before the Proteus court, testified
that he gave the paper to Capt. Powell
''who was then, in the absence of Gen
Hazen, acting Chief Signal officer, Oh
Monday, June L." Gen. Hazen stated tC
the court to-day that he had
discovered that he was not
absent on June 4, having arrived
back from st. John, and reached his
otnce an hour before the usual time fol
opening the office on the morning of thai
day. The whole history of that DaDer. OF
rather the testimony in respect to ii. as #
appears in the book Of evidence taken by
the Proteus court, is one of the curiosi.
| ties of Arctic literature. Gen. Hazen tes.
tined that its most significant feature,
namely: the establishment of a suppIy
station at LittletOn Island on the north
ward voyage, was the subject of discus.
sion In his office before Lieut.. Garling-
| toms instructions were drafted,
Capt. Clapp testified that the subject
had been brought to Gen. Hazen's atten-
tion by him, but the proposition was re-
! jected.
Lieut.. Caziarc, who got up the paper,
says that he heard nothing OF the matter
! from anyone, but merely embodied his
own views of the proper course to be pur-
sued.
Lieut.. Darlington tells the court that
! he saw rough notes Of the paper in Lieut..
| Cazlarc's office somewhere between the
! 10th and Goth of May.
Lieut.. Caziarc swears that he pre-
pared the very first notes on the matter
on the Sd of June.
Capt. Powell testi6es that he never, to
| his best knowledge and belief, had the
document in his hands.
Lieut.. CaZlarc says that he gave it to
! Capt. Powell on the morning of the 4th of
June, and he was told by that officer that
he had given it to Gen. Hazen.
Gen. Hazen thinks that he never saw
the paper until Lieut.. Darlington brought
1t to him on June 9th, and never saw any
other copy of it.
Lieutenant Caziarc testified that Gen.
Hazen told him that he (Hazen) had
handed PowelPs copy to the Secretary of
the Navy:
Secretary Chandler says that he never
saw the paper or any other memorandum
from the Chief Signal Officer.
Lieutenant Commander McCalla saws
that ne recognizes the paper as one, a
copy Oh which was given him by COmmO-
dore Walker.
commodore Walker swears that he does
not remember ever having seen it, and
should have sworn positively that he never
had seen it had not McCalla been
so positive in his statements that the Of
1ce copy of the paper was marked and
recorded Enclosure No. f." The paper
bearing that mark given to Lieutenant
darlington was copy of the charter par
ty of the PrOteus. The conclusions of the
Pr0teus court respecting the matter are
difficult to anticipate.
Linden Kent, Lieut.. Garlington's coun-
sci, made argument to-day before the Pro-
teus court in defense of his client. He
analyZed the evidence point bV point main
tanning that under his instructions, and
in view of the objects sought to be accom-
pllshed, no other course than that adopt
ed In each case was prudent or possible.
There was no disobedience of orders or
unwlse eXersise of any discretion with
which he was clothed Mr.. Kent
asserted that very great wrong
had been done Lieut.. Darlington by the
authorized publication of the supplement
tary instructions as part of his orders
from the Signal office, and its failure
promptly as an act OF Justice TO him to
correct such error through the public
press, when it was discovered on the 10Th
of September, as appeared in the testi-
mony, that they were not part of
his instructions; that Gen. Hazen
had repudiated them, and they were not
furnished to the Navy Department, to
Lieut.. Darlington or to the public press,
in June, as a part of Lieut.. GarlingtOn's
instructions.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Kent's argu-
ment, Gen. w. B. Hazen, Chief Signal
officer, read long statement in his own
behalf. He said that he had simply been
carrying out project conceived and or
dered by Congress before he became Chief
Signal Officer; that his plan of the last
expedition was drawn in conformity
with Lieut.. Greely's outline sent from
Lady Franklin Bay by Capt. Pike, when
that officer carried him there in 1881;
that all three Of the expeditions which he
had sent to the Arctic regions, and es-
pecially the last one, were elaborated
with very careful and complete study
and preparation. The greatest care was
given to the quality of the food, and the
quantity was ample. The best ships
afioat for the purpose were secured. They
were well Ofhcered and manned, and they
performed their part in all respects, so
far as any ships could do it, in the most
satisfactory manner.
THE SESSION OF THE BOARD.
Capt. Pike was before the Greely Relief
Board to- day, and IN response to inquiries
said that he would advise the sending of
two ships for the relief of Lieut.. Greely
and party. "There is one thing" he said,
You could run more risk than with one
Gh on Al.s
fall back on if there should be
an accident. believe that it was possi-
bic this last year for sleylge to get right
on. believe a sledge and dogs could have
gone to Lady Franklin Bay this year. l
think Smith Sound was closed all the way
up on the channel. / believe that later in
the season a vessel could have went way
up there. We saw ice come down after
we lost our ship.
j. w. NOrmann, mate Of the Proteus on
her voyage with Lieut.. Greely to Lady
Franklin Bay in 1881, and also of the
Neptune when she made the attempt in
1882 to relieve Lieut.. Greedy and his par
ty, was examined by the board. After de-
scribing his Arctic experience he express
ed the opinion that sledging party could
have reached Greedy from the highest po-
sltion reached by the Neptune in 1882, but
that the vessel was unprOVided with
sledges. He said that he had noticed
on the voyage with the Proteus the year
before that there was an ''ice foot"
along the west coast of Kennedy Channel
except where there were land slides. On
the voyage of 1882, the indications were
that the conditions were similar with re-
gard to the ''ice foot" AS on the former
occasion, the sledges should carry light
boats to cross open leads of water. This
he thought to be the most feasible plan,
failing to get through with a ship, as in
1881, to reach the Lady Franklin Bay
party.
Butler Leaves the state a Bible