Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-07-14
WHEELING W. VA. MONDAY MORNING. JULY IL 1884.
on HIS EAR.

Our Sad Sea Dog, Bully Chandler, Writes a
Card and Says, Figuratiyely, "There.
Now, Eve Settled You, MIR. Hendricksn-
Hendricks stin Alive.
WAsHYGsoN, July l3-Secretary Chand-
Ter has written the following letter to Thos.
A. Hendricks, with regard to the frauds in
the Navy Department referred to by tie
latter i'll his speech at indianapolis, Satur-
day ght:
WASHINGTON, July Is, 1884.
Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks, Indiaaap-
oils, Ind:
SRA candidate for Vice President
should speak with decent fairness In your
speech at Indianapolis last Saturday night,
you made the statement from which you
meant that the public should believe that it
appeared by my testimony that the frauds
in the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, this
department, amounted during the past
year to $4,000; that | was inform
ed Of some of these outrages a
year ago; that after | was informed
the. frauds, ] disbelieved them, because
members of Congress had recommended the
continuance of the Chief of the Bureau,
and that took no adequate action con-
cerning them. Whereupon you demanded
the election of President who would ap-
point Chief Of the Bureau who would in
vestigate the condition OF the books and
bring all guilty parties to trial. To the
contrary OF ali this testified that suspected
vouchers commenced as far back as June
old
paid as late as January 25,
1884. That while an anonymous
letter of about year ago charged drunk
eness upon Chief Clerk Daniel Carrigan,
which the Chief of the Bureau, DR. Phillips
S. Wales, reported to me was not true, |
had no information leading TO the frauds
till December or January last. That l de-
termined simultaneously with beginning the
investigation to have new Chief of Bureau
in the place of DR.. Wales whose term was
to expire January 26, and, also, new
Chief Clerk; that great opposition to the
change was made by members
of Congress- but persisted and DR.. Wales
went out on that date and Carrigen was put
out February /. That investigation of
the frauds and arrests of the guilty parties
have since proceeded with due diligence.
1t is true that | stated that rccommenda-
tions for the reappointment of DR.. Wales,
whom found in Office when ! went in,
April H. 1892, were of such character as
to fully Justify me in believing that the af
fairs Of his bureau had been we'll admins
tered" Secretary Chandler here gives
the names at large of a num-
Der of senators and representatives
who recommended the reappointment
of Wales and continues; Senator Mcpher-
son. Speaker Carlisle and others" Many
of the most prominent of these gentlemen
who demanded DR.. Wales reappointment
we're with you at the convention at Chicago
and could have informed you that he had
borne good reputation; that the laws re-
quired that the chief Of the bureau should
be a naval surgeon and have placed the
medical expenditures in his hands; that
his was in no sense a political Office. but
that if he had any politics he was Demo
crat, and that any attempt to make political
capital out of these frauds for which. the
Naval Surgeon, who iItheir intimate friend,
is solely responsible, would be disingenous
and unfair. That they did not succeed in
keeping DR.. Wales and his chief clerk,
Carrigan, in office is very fortunate.
(Signed) ". Is. CHANDLER.