Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-06-19


Iowa (HepbCEnl With an epportu'
nifty 20 Gahf over again the Is
anss Of 1861. Heuished b remark % III
Renalnuan fram Iowa, whe bad sonphi
many occasions to make q ding af ihI
south, thaa brave mea and henorahil
never struck q pr1stKa1e foe. BE did
rot know What part the RenaiemaR tool
IN the Unioa army, sxeept as be found
Il given II ths Congressional diFeetoTy
bat one thinR waa oerlain-lhat the sen
tleman bore On bis body no proof thai
be bad eveE led 4 Desperate charge. and
be did not think from the eenileman'a
oondncl hsss that it vas likely be essl
would.
Hsndsrson, Of Iswa-My uollsagus
may bear no scars. o1t no soldier who
wens from Iowa wAs more 81 the froni
than be.
Wias-Itook his history a. written By
himaslf. and esrtainls his biography
waa partial.
Wiss then prosssdsd 20 speak On ths
bill and earnestly impress upon the ma
ioEity the propEiafy and necessity foI
tho rehabilitation % the navy.
Gof. of West Virginia. attributed The
presanb deplerabie oonditioB Of ths navy
10 the idiotio appropriations By Con.
gEsss. and deniad that il yes the result
Of exiravaRant expenditures hy formsI
Secretaries Of the Navy. He then wenl
on to eFitieiss the action 0f Secretary
whitney IN oonnection with the Dol
phin and bitterly assaiied the auxiliary
board app5inted hy ths Secretary with
cut authority Of Law 60 report on the
vessel, TIE board consisted cf Captain
BeIknap. Commander Evans and Mr..
been an applicant for pFomotion and
for DESIGNATION % the Naval ObaeEya-
tory. he knew that the report vas in
fended 10 be made IN one way, and IN
less Il vas 90 made, be would Rea neither
promotion nor his designation 70 the
observatory. Commander Evans had
"a undying grudge and hatred for
Secretary Chandler, having been re-
moved b3 thst oficer.
MR. Winter YES Supexiniendont Of the
Metropolitan Steamship Oompany, IN
which he vas deeply interested, and 10
which John Roach Was q rival. ag be
buiIt lhe ships % the Mallory Lima. he
vas interested IN patents which Mr..
Roach had Eapadiated, and this was the
third man on this impartial board.
These were the men wha struck down
and ruined the gFandeat artisan Of the
day, and be was convicted on such tea-
timony IS this. He (Goffl believed that
this board could not be duplicated any-
where. The Dolphin vas aa grand q
ship as had ever danced on the ocean
caves, Il the testimony ef experts ooald
be relied up0n. tt had been condemned
On the ground that Il had not obtained
4 apead az fifteen knots an hour. That
was not true. ft had attained and ex-
ceeded that speed. The Advisory Board
lad aAid that it made over fifteen knots
under the most disadvantaReous CIR
After the appointment Of
Lieutenant KNAPP on the board, u went
down 20 New York. Tue vessel made .
trial trip, and the board reported 70
the Secretary Of the Navy that the
Dolphin made o7er fifteen knots. A
dispatch from Mr.. Bslknap reporting
that the vessel had made fifteen and a
half knots had slumbeEed Ia the De.
partment until last week. Il had sinm-
bered aud il would be far better for the
reputation of living men II it still
slnmbeFod. ID had slumbaFed from
NAY, 1885, down TO the time that Sena-
tor Hale called for information relative
q tie matter. Secretary Whitney had
drawn Il from q pigeon
noIe and given if 10 the light Of day.
la being kept 8 secret was especially
IS Secretary Whitaey, after
~ receipt, had written 20 she Attorney
General asking him Tor bis opinion on
the subject, and stating it as fact that
the Dolphin had not ma fifteen knots
per hour. On the strength Of this state
ment the Attorney General had decided,
and this dispatch, written In 1885, had
while the Attorney General
wea making his decision and while the
wreck Of the RFandest establishment
which had h0nored the land had been
Qeine on 70 the shame and degradation
81 the Government. On the 4th Of
Juna. 1885. another trial trip bad been
made 20 test the structural strength Of
the vessel and net its speed. Captain
Belknap had sent dispatch % the See
Fetary reporting the result 81 tnc trip
aud making no complaint Of the YES
sci or unfav0rable eommsns thereon.
The f0lloWtnQ day The Secretary teie-
graphed, and this telegram bad also
sIambered until called for b. Senator
Hale, shat she test was valusleas. and
clcssd with these significant sentences
8 Yesterdays trial aided yO1 IN
this matter. II not, require
such testa 10 Be made next week az yoa
think necessary. Do this unless you
prefer to make your report based upon
pFeasnt information" They did not
make q report on their present informa-
,ion without sleaming up again On
tha strength Of these instructions from
the Secretary they made their Fepsrt
oondexnning she Dolphin. They said
he vas stFuciuFAlly weak, fact which
thay had not intimAted IN their dia.
patches. They said the engines Vibrat-
"a as the vsa8al plunged through the
rouah seas, while experts maintained tt
was q siQn Of strength f0f the monsters
of the deco 20 vtbxate. Each and eTeEy
act Of Secretary whitney from the
tins this unoalled for warfare had been
on John Roach down 20
The renditi0n Of the Attorney Generals
oulnion, had bcen with1ut authority Of
law or fast and every aet ainos THAI
time had been without authority Of Law.
n the opinion Of tha Attorney General
Was law &c A4lAt WNat4 ANA-aNA atf1lA4
Al eternity Wfth John Roach under tbs
amid tie wreck of life
time and the destruction Of fortune,
than an hour with the yoang FsfoFmex
IN bis giided palnes ~ tie ether end Of
the avenue. lApplanss 60 the kepub-
lioan side.
Neil, a Missoari, made an argument
ievortng liberal appropriations for asa-
ooess defense and ahe toEpsdo service.
SayeEs, Of Texas, defended the action
Of sha Secretary Of ths Navy 10 con-
nsction With the Dolphin and criticised
the reports sf the Advisory Board, TIE
membara o9 Wnieh. be said, Il rightly
dealt with, w0nld Be lab0Fing under an
indictmont FOG an atlsmp3 70 co1nlva
at q frsad upoa TIE GovaFnment When
Secretary Whitney had coma into Once
Be foand thai Hoasst old John ko4ehs "
With sha conssnt Of the elegant AdEia-
orr Board and ste former Seeret4ry of
the NAVY. had ahsaRAosed from the Gov
efumant 10 violation Of the tsTms and
spiFtt az his oonfraoa TIE neal little
san of $4,000. esssetafy Whltney
had entered into an investigation and
his asiion and he aciion of the board
BE- appointed we're Fiehk, cecrstAfF
Chanaler, Iohn Reach and the kep1h-
iiasn party 10 the oontrary notwitA-
Gtandi1R.
HsrbsFa Of AIabAmA. offered an
ansndmens % The elauss relative - tas
nav az the navy, tgansfeErinG e576 80
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