Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-06-16
FROM WASHINGTON.
Some COnsuls-General Ap-
pointed Yesterday.
HYPPOLITE's SUCCESS HUMBUG.
Ensign George Ormsby. q "Sea.
Lawyer" With no Stomach for
Service, Sent Adrift.

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD
WASHINGTON, June 15.-The President
made the following appointments OF Con-
suls General today: Wakefield G. Frye
OF Maine, at Halifax Joseph A, Leonard,
Minnesota, at Shanghai; Zachary L.
Sweeny, Indiana, at Constantinople;
Oliver II. Dockery, North Carolina, at
Rio de Janeiro; Oliver H. Samson, Col
orado, at st. Petersburg; George w.
Roosevelt, Pennsylvania, at Brussels;
Levi W. Brown, Ohio, at Glasgow.
NO OUTBREAK FEARED.
At the War Department, it is said,
there is no fear of general outbreak OF
Chippewa Indians in Minnesota, as the
present difficulty appears to be of per-
sonal nature.
THE PRESIDENTS "sUNDAY OUT"
The President and Secretaries Blaine
and Window went down the Potomac
this morning in Postmaster General Wan
amak er's yacht, and will lie at anchor at
the mouth OF the river tomorrow and re-
turn today.
SEATTLE BANKS ALL RIoHT.
The Comptroller OF the Treasury has
received telegram from the cashier Of
the Puget Sound National Bank, Seattle,
w. T., saying: ''The loss to the banks
by fire is nominal. All vaults stood the
test we'll. The banks are now doing bus
mess in temporary quarters"
HYpPoLITE's SUCCESS CANARD.
The Hay tian legation here today re-
ceived the following telegram from the
Secretary of War at Port Au Prince ::
Situation good. Reports of Nordis
Hyppolite's success false. Perfect tran
guilty reigns in the west and south. ALI
our lines are efficiently guarded"
| DISMISSED IN DIsGRACE.
The case of Ensign Geo. F. Ormsby,
which was finally disposed of today by
his dismissal from the Nav,l Service, is
the first occurring in number OF years
which has had that result. Ormsby WAS
regarded in the service as "sea lawyer"
and bad greatly vexed the department
by his lawless and erratic conduct. The
formal charges upon which he WAS tried
by court-martial were disobedienCe of
orders and disrespect towards the Secre-
tary and Acting. Secretary of the Navy.
1t appears from the record that, when he
was ordered from Rich6eld Springs, and
later from Cincinnati, to join the Mo-
nongahela, then under orders to
proceed to Samoa, he pleaded illness,
q I'd when the department refused to ac-
cept this excuse he disregarded his ord
ers and proceeded south, and asked to
have his resignation accepted. In some
of his letters, addressed to the Secretary
of the Navy, he complains that he was
being humiiiated, contrary to the Re-
vised Statutes, and requests the Secre-
tary either to leave the decision of his
case to the civil courts, where he had
begun an action looking to the revocation
of his orders, or to a courtmartial. Sub.
sequently he was found at Los Angeles,
CAL, placed under arrest, and conveyed
to Mare Island, where he wss tried by
courtEmartial. In one of his letters
Ormsby says that Commodore Harmony
Acting Secretary, has made untrue
and scandalous statements about his
case, which were coDtrived to serve as
false evidence before the Medical Board.
This failing of it's purpose, the Ensign
next attacked Secretary Whitney,
directly charging him with neglect or
omission to carry out the laws and regu.
lations, and of stopping him from prose.
cutting his law suit to its just conclusion
by ordering him away from the country.
Of all Of the charges and Specifications
the court-marial found him guilty, and,
upon the Secretary's approval of the
sentence, the Pre- sident to-day formally
dismissed Ensign Ormsby from the
Naval Service.