The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-14

NEW YORK, March ia Wash
ington special gives the following in
teresting interviewIwith a naval officer:
MY information isl says the .officer,
''that the last official dispatches left
Samoa about the last of January and
reached San Francisco about Feb
ruary 18th or 18th. These dispatches
were never transmitted to the senate
which was looking for so much light on
the veXed question only two weeks be-
fore. Other dispatches had been be-
fore promptly sent TO the senate and
the query is natural why were not
these last as promptly transmitted?"
"Why were they not so transmitted,
do you think, - asked the reporter?
Well, think that the milk lies in the
fact that Bayard maintained that the
whole problem could be solved in a
peaceful way. Germany had made
OVertures to this government to have a
convention in Berlin where the wreck
ed convention of Washington could be
healed. Bayard thought that by &C
cepting Germany's proposition he had
been successful as diplomat, but at
the same tine he dismissed Consul Gen.
eral Sewall for swearing to the truthful
condition of affairs in Samoa, and
don't you see it would not appear very
we'll for him to lay before the senate
particularly as those certain
dispatches had not been call
ed for) matters which would
show still further aggression on the
part of the Germans. These matters,
or rather serious wrongs, he continued,
have been permitted to drag along,
month after month and the depart
ments seem to be satisfied that the
American officials protested. Again,
they knew that we had only one
ancient vessel, while the Germans
equipped modern vessels and
yet Mullen in his single ship was in his
glory, though not monarch of all he
surveyed. The Germans came in for
that, nay more. While all these out
RACES were being perpetrated none
of our vessels could be spared from
their snug berths in the cosy harbors,
either on the Atlantic or Pacific till
Mullen sent special messenger hun
order to request, yea, demand
presence of other vessels and it
was not till this action on his part
that the department seemed to wake
up to learn that all was not quiet in the
South Pacific"
But" said the reporter, admiral
Kimberly has been ordered there and
when he arrives some positive action
may be expected"
admiral Kimberly, - was the reply,
will simply do what Captain Mullen
has been doing for months, protest and
use his good offices. These are his
orders and he has received no others,
and am of the opinion that he has
been to long in the ruts of discipline and
naval regulations to do an act without
orders and show himself another In
| graham of Kosta fame"
Suppose that these reports as to the
Nipsic should prove to have some
| foundation?"
"If the Germans have fired on un-
protected men and children and de-
| stroyed or injured American life OF
property. then l believe Dennis w
Mullan has opened his battery on the
| German ship and determined to lei
| the consequences be what they may.
know the man. My own idea Is, (fol
l was stationed in the Pacific for many
years. that there has been very seriou:
trouble of some kind. all of which we
NAV learn in ten days. If anything ha'
fbefallen the Nipsec there is no possible
Way for our people to communicate
only by a small boat which might b.
chartered to go from Apia to Tuteila
seventy miles away, a stopping plac'
for the California steamers, all othel
modes of conveyance are il
the hands of the Germans
1t would not surprise me if we shoulC
have no news for at least ten days ant
perhaps longer, yet the steamer mex
due in San Francisco, say on Saturda
next, may bear some intelligence. If
however, the German iron clads nov
on their way to Samoa reach there safe
" then they will bid defiance to on
whole feeble, disjointed and scattere
navy. While our people sleep on sof
cushions the Germans are buffettin
the waves to our newly found EldoradC