Morning journal and courier., 1890-01-24
THE FIRST REGIMENT CASE.

Discipline Muss be Rnferced-Gover.
 nor BuikslsY on she Subjecs-The
 Reported Attempt at a Compromise
 "A Possible Law on she Subject of
 Armory Rentals.
 Governor Bulkeley thinks the general orr der which discharges the officers gives suf- Aoisnt explanation of the causes for his ae- ton. When asked by Courant reporter If there was any doubt as to his power to sum- marily dismiss an officer from tho service without court-martisl, he replied:
 "If there had been wouldn't have done it." He referred to the general statutes to support his position. Chapter OXC., seo- ton 8,159, provides that:
 may remove thelr assIstants. The commandant or each regiment and battery may reduce to ths ranks ms.ler in-chiof may give aG honorable or dishon- cian private or member of . band in the service.
 Section 3,161 says;
 necticut National Guard by organizing new compa- nies, plateons of artillery and bands, and dsband pSSSns of Tas% aSd dient.
 The Governor further said that he did not think . court of inquiry in the case would have been any fairer way of proceeding, as a court of inquiry could not have given him any new light on the subject. The matter in hand was purely military matter. Ger tain officers had been guilty of insubordina- tion and setting bad example. What he had done was simply in the line of military discipline. The Governor said he had but little to say on the subject, as the newspapers had pretty we'll aired the matter. As to whether any attempt at compromise had been made in the case the Governor could not say from personal knowledge what had taken place between ex-Adjutant General Barbour and Adjutant General Embler on the one hand and the officers of
 the regiment on the other. The Governor
 leave the matter in abeyance for the legisla, ture to decide upon at its next session by tho | passage of . law on the subject. If the ar | mory should be rented ct all next season Il would be with the understanding that the lease should be subject to any laws the lsgis
 lature might pass. This, he said, would practically prevent the leasing of 1t, for thu Amusement company would be unwilling tt rent the armory with astrong chance of being
 turned out of doors at any time. The Hartford papers publish the letters O resignation of Colonel Gene and others of thu discharged officers of the First, in which those officers give as their reasons for resign
 ing the alleged difficulty or impossibility O giving the men proper military instruction while the armory is used in part for oths
 than military purposes. Colonel Cone in hi letter said:
 Each season. I have been obliged to postpone O abandon my plans for the welfare of my regimen | on account of tho rental of the armory for pur poses oursids of military.
 Again tho present season my plans were complet
 cd for that thorough instruction in these branche | which thoir importance seems to demand. Again on account of iheufficient armCry accommodations l owing to tho rental of the armory. have beel compslled to abandon my cherished plans for thu ! improvement of my regiment.
 | Lieutenant Colonel Thompson said in hi | letter:
 Now, after seventeen ysars' service, find mysel
 out of sympathy with, and my power to do the bes | service hampered by, recent order by which tn
 military service of the state is in it's own armorie | rslegated to a subordinate position, crippled il | drill acconmo tations. and rendered powerless t
 arrange drill schedules until outside interests hay | first been provided for.