Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-05
HOE woRns FoR HAzEN.
The Management of the Signal Service
Declared p Disgrace to the Army.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.-Gen. Hazen.
Chief of the Signal Service, has q genius
Tor being involved in official quarrels and
wrangles. He has brought down perfect
storm upon his head by his sustaining Of
Lieut. Greene in the use Of vile and pro-
fame language to the privates under him,
who We're court-martialled for respectfully
protesting. The Offense of these privates
is purely technical. They had q right to
protest separately, but not TO unite In a
petition. The brutal manner in which
counsel have been treated for seeking to
project these privates in their legal rights
will certainly lead to a Congressional in
yestigation. Mr.. Butterworth, one of the
/ insulted counsel, is a member of the next
House, and proposes to show by an official
Investigation the condition of the Weather
Bureau. There is no reason for it's being
under military direction. The character
Of the officials at the station here may be
judged by the following expression of
opinion from an ex-member OF the Signal
| Service:
"The administration Of Justice in the
| signal corps is travestied from the chief
signal Office TO the post management Of
Fort Myer From what | know of the
way affairs are run a. present the man
6gemeut of the post is IS disgrace 10 the
American army. The food is so badly
cooked that each member of the class is
obliged to spend every cent of his scanty
pay for the necessaries OF life. The
officers bully and abuse the members OF
the class until the latter feel that they
would prefer to be in State prison rather
than in the signal service. The signal
service is no place for man who ever
knew the refinement of civilized life, or
who possesses an education that would
fit him to do even clerical duties. The
present administration Of the signal office
teaches degradation instead ofdiscipline."
A communication to the capital to-day
contains the following alleged incident in
the history of the officer now in charge at
Fort Whipple. A veteran says:
according to Gen. Hazen's notions
the members of this class, having been
regularly enlisted, have no rights which
Mr.. Greene is compelled to respect and
in his opinion IL is doubtless perfectly
proper to starve and insult them. The
writer Of this article has learned some
thing Of the conduct and antecedents Of
Lieut.. Greene not at all creditable 10 the
service he has clearly disgraced
''In the class which entered Fort Myer
in February, 1889. was q fragile youth
from Charlestown, 5. c., named Keenan,.
He was an orphan, and was induced to
enter Gen. Hazen's CORPS by the brilliant
prospects held out to college graduates
and others who enter that service. After
a few weeks residence in Fort Myer
keenan, contracted pneumonia. Instead
Of sending him to a hospital, the unfOrtu-
nate youth was kept in quarters on the
/ cOarsest OF food and under questionable
medical treatment until few days before
he died, when he was taken to the am
bulance occupied by Lieut.. Greene, who
/ who treated him in the most inhuman
manner. He ordered the men who as
sisted keenan, from his quarters to let
him 90, and naturally he sank to the
ground. He then dragged the poor fellow
into the ambulance, using at the same
/ time the most unseemly language. Should
not some steps be taken to bring this man
j TO lusticeY