The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-07-14
CHANDELIERS CHALLENGES,
The Secretary Gets Up On His EaI
and HOWls.
He FAIRLY BOlLS OVER.
Charges Ex-Gov. Hendricks with Unfair
ness-The Great indianapolis Speech
of saturday Night Assailed-
He Writes u Letter.

WASHINGTON, July l9.-Secretary
Chandler has written the following let
ter to Thomas A. Hendricks with regard
to frauds in the Navy department, re-
fered to by the latter in his speech at
indianapolis Saturday night:
Washington, ID. c., July l3-To Hon.
Thomas A. Hendricks, indianapolis, Ind:
SIR;-A candidate for Nice-Pres-
ident should speak with decent
ilrmness. In your speech at Indianap-
Oils last saturday night, you made a
statement from which you meant that
the public should believe that it APP
peared by my testimony that frauds in
| the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery of
| this department amounted, during the
| past year, To S6S,OO0; that | was informed
of some of these outrages year ago;
| that after ! was informed of the frauds /
disbclieved them because a member of
Congress had recommended continuance
of the Chief of the Burean and that |
took no adequate action concerning
them. Whereupon you demanded the
election OF President who will appoint
a Chief of Bureau who would inves-
| tigate the condition of books and bring all
! guilty parties to trial. To the contrary
of all this, | testified that suspected
vouchers commenced as far back as
June q, 1850, although small voucher
was paid MS late rs January y, 1851; that
while an anonymous letter of about a
wear ago charged drunkenness upon
Chief Clerk Daniel Carrigan, which the
| Chief of Bureau, Dr. Phillip S. Wales,
reported to me, was not true. | had no
information leading to frauds
until December or January
last; that ! determined simultaneously
l.tHat Ia NINal
TO have new Chief of Bureau in the
place of DR.. Wales whose term was to
expire January 18th, and also new
CT f clerk; that great opposition {
unange was made by members of Con.
greSs, but ] persisted and DR.. Wales
went out ON that date and Carrigan was
to he put out February 4th, and that in
veStigatiOn of fraud and arrest of guilty
! parties have since proceeded with dut
diligence. 1t is true that stated tina
recommendation for the rcappOintmen
Of DR.. Wales, whom | found in Ollie,
I when went in April Eth, lSs2, were o
such character as to fully Justify me il
believing that affairs in his Bureau ha(
been well administered. Secre
] tary Chandler here gives tn
| names of II large number of Senators ant
\ Representatives who recommended tn
. reappontment of Wales. Sen
$ ator Mcpherson and Speaker Car
Isle and others of the most prominen
of these gentlemen who demanded Dl
Wales reappointment, were with you i
the convention at Chicago and coul
- have informed you that he had borne
good reputation; that the law requirin
the Chief of the Bureau should be
= Naval surgeon and placed medics
g expenditures in his hands; ;thathis was i
q no sense political Office, but that il
o had any politics he was a Democrat, an
n that any attempt to make political cap
y tai ont OF frauds for which this Nav;
. surgeon, who is their intimate friend,
n soioly responsible would bedisingeneou
- and unfair; that they did not succeed
- keeping DIR. Wales and his Chief Cler
" Corrigan in office is very fortunat
A. Very respectfully,
= fSigned "W. Il. CHANDLER"