The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-05-09

tanned, and then Hill asked the same thing
in another way.t
as it not a fact he inquired 'sthat Cen
eral Orders No. 7 was regarded IN your
office and at Division Headquarters as retir-
ing the oiicersI'
II am accustomed to take orders from the
Copmarder-in -C hief, . said Stryker. Il am
not disposed to answer the question. | un-
derstand the duties of staff officers
sDid the Governor, in directing yon to
issue hat order, tell you the number OF com
panies to be Incorporated in the new regi-
ments''
.sHe did not.
aYou did consider the Governors orders
at that time covered everything in relation
to the reorganization
II did,
s~sTncluding retirement27
tDon't know about retirement
Stryker was excused and the Court an
nounced that statement No. 6 had been
stricken out.
scANDALoUs AND EXPERIMENT.
Statement No. z was then taken up, IL
accused General Plume of withholding
designations of two officers of the Second
Regiment from the Commander-ln-Chlef
preventing unfavorable endorsements by
Wanser and Abernethy, and was a parton a
ssdicker.v
Coult moved to strike it out, because 1t
was immaterial, scandalous. impert1nen5,
not the proper charge to make. and, as IL
stands, so indefinite as to make 1t Impossible
for counsel to reply to it,
Hill cobtended that the Court should look
into other matters than the mere Legality OF
the issuing of orders. The smallest charges
against General Plume should be enqulred
into. Colonel Stevens had charged that
Plume was guilty of other acts than the
mere issuing Of orders. He did other things
he would not AVE done had he had the wei
fare of the militia at heart and been a gen
tleman at heart. Stevens wanted justice.
If the charges were true the Commander-in-
Chief should know, so that he could take
action. He hoped Plume would not draw
himself behind a curtain of technlcalties.
THE COURTS DECISION.
The Court here took a recess or ten MIN
utes and retired to consider the question:.
On reassembting the Court announced that
it had decided to hear in the case only those
matters which affected the organization. In
accordance with this decision statements
Nos. Z, 9, II and IA and all of No. II except
subdivisions c and E were stricken out.
STEVENS WITHDRAWs;
On this announcement Colonel Stevens
said he would withdraw. His main obJec-
ton was to the striking out OF statement
No. II. That was in reference to the Hobo
ken regiment. He said he didn't care about
the treatment he received, blu he did make
the fight for his regiment. He being denied
the privilege of bringing that matter for
ward, he could be of no further use. He
said he didn't question the motives which
actuated the members of the board IN their
decision. He had the kindliest feelings for
all the members.
Plume wanted the Court to let the state
ment remain in. He said he knew the Ho-
boken people felt a~ggrieved, and he wanted
TO answer the statement.
The Court would not change its decision.
JACKSoN'S ELECTION as MAJOR.
Lieutenant. John A. Parker was then
called as a witness, and testified as to State
ment No. 8, which contends that orders
issued by Plume in June, 1892, relative to
election of field officers for the regiments OF
the First Brigade, were unlawful.
Parker said that after the election of
Jackson as Major, he parker talked to
Plume over the telephone, and in the course
of the conversation, Plume said he would
never approve of Jackson's election Parker
so told jackson, and limited he ought to re.
fuse the position to save the modification OF
being rejected.
Plume did not tell or order Porter to so
tell jackson. The latter did it merely as a
friendly tip. When he told Plume he was
going to do so, the latter replied, "do as you
chose" Plume told Porter that the reason
he was opposed to Jackson's election was be-
cause jackson had been connected with q
mutinous company that had been d~isbanded.
This ended the testimony for the night.
The next hearing will take place tuesday
evening May Is, in Jersey City. Colonel
Bernard's statement will be heard.