The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-29
BRIBERY In THE DRILL.
THE GATE CITY GUARD TRIED
TO BUY TIE PRCGRAMME.

Capt sneed Was q Party 70 the
scheme-A Court-nartial TO Invest
igate the Affair.
ATLANTA. GA, Oct 2s.-Late yesterday
afternoon an order was issued By Lieut..
Col Ca houn suspendIrg four members OF
the Gate City Guards from duty on &C
count Of disgraceful charges preferred
against them by Lieut. Mcdonald. Z. S. A,
one Of the judges in the interstate drill
4. c. Sneed is captain Of the company
which won and has been paid the s., 500
prize money. In the order Of sus-
pension his name heads the list Then come
those Of Junior Second Lieut. Charles Il
Roberts and Privales B. P. Myers and J.
Il. SpellmAn.
BRIBERY THE CHARGE.
These officers and men are charged with
conduct unoecoming an off OF and q gen.
tleman in that they attempted repeatedly,
by bribery, to get possession before the day
OF TIE drill Of the judges programme con
tanning the orders TO be given the competing
companies by their captains. All but Capt
Sneed have confessed their connection with
the ugly work He protests his Innocence.
and declares that he never saw the pro
gramme until it was given him by the
judges on the day Of the drill Tee others
In their statement exonerate him, and say
they acted individually, and not in obedience
10 orders. and signed the captains name 10
kilograms without his knowledge or con-
sent.
CoURT-MARTIAL TO BIZ HELD
Whether or not this is ruse to shield
Capt Sueed will be determined by q court
martial In the next thirty days. In the
meantime the public seems eager to give
the captain the benefit OF the coubt. His
I'D bac Eaon hi oh and ha has
frequently been spoken Of as an applicant
for the adjutant-gene; alship Of the state.
On Oct q the NEWS announced that the
interstate drill had developed q big sensa-
ton. Under tina: date Adjt. Gen.
Kelley sent to Lieut. Col. Calhoun, com
Inanding the Fourth battalion, a copy Of
Lieut. McDonald's communication and
ordered the guardsmen suspended, and
charges and specifications forwarded to his
Office preliminary TO the calling of g court
martial.
THE ENCLOSURE.
The lieutenant's enclosure read:
ATLANTA, Ga, ct. 81, 1890
Gen. j. II Kel, Adjlttdnt General State of
Georgia.
sR-I haze the honor to make the following
facts known TO you: Mr. B. P. Myers came to
the printing ONCE in Auburn, Ala, and found
that the programme for the interstate drill at
the exposition grounds tomorrow was being
published there and sent the following tee-
gram TO Capt Sneed. Gate City Guard, q com
pany of Atlanta and one Of those conteetinR
tomorrow for the prize:
[Copy OF Telegram.l
AUBURN, ALA. Oct IS, 1880.
Located Hard to obtain Proprietor does
work. Shall 1 offer money consideraton'
Answer. b P. MYERS
Copy Of Answer to telegram
ATLANTA. GA, Oct. 10, 1890.
8. p Myers, Auburn, Ala:
Secure 1t at any reasonable cost. Don't fail.
A. G. 5.
Mr.. Myers then offered Mr.. B. ]. Rice, the
proprietor, as much as 500 for the programme
asd being refused, asked il money could get IT,
and was answered no" Mr. Myers then left
Auburn. A short time afterwards Mr.. Roberts
memoer OF the said company, came aud
made the same proposition to Mr.. Rice with
ike results. Capt. Sneed sent the following
telegram to Mr.. Roberts, which he did not get,
having been refused the programme copy:
lCopy Of Telegram.
ATLANTA, GA, Oct. 81, 1890.
c. ". Roberts, Auburn, ALd.:
Have written you full particulars. N. Is at
Then Mr spellman, another member of the
Gate City Guard came to Auburn ostensiby TO
sell printers IN ana made the same proposition
10 Mr.. Rice, and failing to get the programme,
sta d in Auburn till left. and came on to At
lanta on the train with me. The night before
left with the programmes, Mr.. Roberts offered
my servant, Ben Duskey. $50 IL tie would steal
one of the programmes from my desk and give
it to him. Very respectfully y Z Tcnov,,
j. %. MCDONALD,
First Lieutenant Tenth United States Cavalry.
WHY ACTION WAS DELAYED.
Action appears to have been DELAYED after
Col. Calhoun received the adlutant generals
orders on account of the interstate drill
which came of next day. Meantime it was
rumored that the Guard had actually
obtained copy OF the programme, but the
truth was carefully Ike { till yesterday, when
the real details of the affair came to be gen.
orally known with something approaching
accuracy. Col. Calhoun then issued the
give them to the press until to-
day. Messrs Spelman, Roberts and Myers
then made a clean breast of it, ackno wledg-
ing that they exhausted every effort to
secure tue programme. though without sue
cess. 1t is stated, but upon what authority
the MORNING NEWS c. rrespondent is una
bic TO learn, that the judges altered the pro-
gramme before issuing it to the company
commanders in order that every charge Of
unfairness might be guarded against. The
affair has caused sensation here.
SECOND SENSATION.
second sensation threatens to grow out
of the scandal. Representatives OF all the
papers have known more or less about the
facts in the case for several days, but have
been waiting for official action to bring
matters TO head Last night, at the re-
quest OF Ad1G woodward OF Col Cali
houn's staff, there was a general
agreement reached to hold over
for the present The exact terms of
this agreement each paper probably
construed after its own fashion. At. all
events, the Journal printed the matter this
afternoon, and the Constitution will claim
in the morning that it thereby violated its
pledge. Several cards will be printed, some
singing charges of breach of faith pre-
ferred, and the prospect is that good deal
of feeling will grow out of the affair.
1t the Journal, as claimed by
the Constitution, really pledged itself
not to print the sensation this afternoon, it
entered into an agreement very unfair to
itself, as Editor Howell expressly stipulated
that the embargo should apply TO his paper
no longer than last night. Meantime the
first intim alton of trouble was given in the
MORNING NEWS and Macon Telegraph be-
fore either of the local papers knew any