The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-07-14
SECRETARY CHANDLER
TAkss GOV. AaNoRlcKs TO TASK
For Vllllfy'ss Ills Chayaeisf In Als Epe,ea !.
lsdIsnsPolis Saturday SIkh,-rhs Feeling
Of tic Labor El,msu, AsAln,I tho .l
National Democratic Nominss.

WARRINGTON, D. O., July l3-secretar
Chandler he's written tho following lette
to Thomas A. Hendricks with regard 4
f'auda in Tho Navy Department referred t,
by the latter in his speech at Indian. poll
Saturday night: -
WASHINGTON, D. O., July Is, 1884.
Hon. 7homas a. Hendricks, Indianapoli,
Ind:l b8.G 5!p,99fd S.T' y.
Srs:-A candidate for vice.presiden,
should speak with decent fairness In youl
speech at indianapolis last Saturday nigh
you made the statement from which YOU
meant that the public should be.
lieve, that 1t appeared by my testi
mony that the frauds in the Bureau
Of medicine aud surgery in this depart.
ment amounted during the past year to
SC3. 600; that l was informed Of some ol
these outrsges year sgc; that after was
informed ot The frauds l. disbelieyed them
bscause members oil Congress had recon.
meuded a continuance OF the Chief Of the
Bureau, and that l took no adequate sction
concerning them. Whereupon you de.
manded the election OF a President who
would appoint Chief OF ihs Bureau who
would investigate the condition OF the
books and bring all guilty parties to trial.
So contrnry'to all this teetifisd that the
suspected vouchers commenced as far back
az June 81, 1850, although email voucher
was paid ps late as January rs, 1854 That
while an anonymous letter Of about year
ago charged drunkenness upon Chief Clerk
Daniel Carrigan, which Chief Of the bureau.
Dr.. Phillip s. Wales, reported to mt, was
not trne. ! bad no Information leading 10
frauds till December or January last; that
l determined simultaneously with begin.
ming the Investigation 10 have q new chief
Of bureau In place OF Dr.. Wales, whose
term was to- expire January &c, and
also new chief clerk; that great
opposition to the change was mads by
mumbers Of Congress, but I persisted aud
DR.. Wales went out on that date and Carri.
gan was put out on February 1 b; that the
investigation Of frauds and arresis Of guilty
parties have proceeded with due diligence,
II IL true that ! stated that recommends.
tions for the disappointment Of Dr.. Walee,
whom I found in Office when I went in, in
April, II, 1882, were OF such character as
to fully justify me in believing that the al.
fairs OF his bureau had been we'll
administered. Secretary Ohsndler here
gives the names Of largelnumber o.! SEN
ators and Representatives who recon.
mended the reappointment Of Wales, and
continues: "senator McPheraon and
Speaker Carlisle and others of the most
prominent Of these gentlemen, who de.
manded Dr. Walts' reappointment, were
with you in convention at Chicago, and
could have informed you that hs had
borne good reputation; that the lava re-
quired that the Chief OF Bureau should be
Il naval surgeon and medical expenditures
placed in his handi; that his was
in no sense political Office, but
that il be bad any politics he was Demo
crat and that any attempt 10 make poiiti.
cal capital out Of the frauds for which this
naval surgeon, who ia their intimate
friend, is solely responsible, would be dis.
ingenious and untaiz. That they did not
succeed in keeping Dr.. Wales ana his
chief clerk Carrigan in Office is very fortu-
nate. ~
Very respectfully, 5
(Signed.) ,Ff-ma w. E. CHANDLER.
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