The San Francisco call., 1895-11-03
Misconduct of the Veteran Is
Alleged on Various
Occasions.
SECRETARY CARLISLE NOTIFIED.
Again the Cutter Commander Is Called
Upon to Answer for His
Brusque Style.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. 2.-Serious
charges have been preferred against Cap
tain Healy of the revenue cutter Bear.
Twenty-Five officers of revenue-cutter
service now on duty on the Pacific Coast
have signed paper addressed to Secretary
Carlisle, in which the conduct of Captain
Healy during the last cruise OF the Bear
is severely reflected upon and a request is
preferred for an investigation. Among
the signers Of this paper are Chief En-
gineer E. L. Swartze, First Lieutenant
George E. Mcconnell, First Lieutenant
Worth E. Ross, Chief Engineer George r.
Daily and others equally well known in
the service.
One copy of the charges was furnished
Captain Hooper, in command of the
Berlng Sea fleet at UnaIaska, upon the re-
cent arrival of the feet at that port, and
another copy was given to Captain Healy,
who was left with the Bear at Unalaska to
convey officers of the Government from
the seal islands to San Francisco.
1t is expected that Captain Healy will
formulate reply of some kind on his
voyage to San Francisco and forward it to
the Treasury Department. In case he
shall fail to take any notice of the matter
there is no doubt that the department will
direct his attention to the charges and ask
for his reply.
While the charges against Captain Healy
contained in the communication to Secre-
tary Carlisle are general rather than spe-
cific, it is an open secret in the revenue
cutter circles that there is deep-seated op-
position to the captain among those who
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walls that the officers who have signed the
paper will willingly give particulars con-
cerning Captain Healy's alleged mis-
conduct.
There are eight counts in the complaint.
An outset statement is made in a round
about way, peculiar to communications
which precede official investigation, that
Captain Healy conducted himself on the
last cruise of the Bear in manner calcu-
lated to bring discredit to the service and
disgrace manhood. He is said to have
placed one of his subordinates under arrest
and then ordered that no record of the
action be made in the official logbook
There is world of suggestion in the ad-
ditional charges that it became necessary
for other officers of the Bear to relieve him
temporarily from the command of the
vessel because of his behavior while on the
cruise. The logbook of the Bear, it is said,
contains no allusion to this interesting
proceeding. Another charge is in effect
that in violation of regulations of the SER
vice Captain Healy relieved the navigat-
ing officer of the Bear and placed another
officer in that position. The substitute
must have given offense to the captain, for
he too was relieved before the cruise ended
and still another officer was ordered to
navigate the Bear.
The language and manner of Captain
Healy in his intercourse with his officers is
the basis of another count in the general
indictment. He is said to have indulged
in much profanity and preiudiced dis
cipline of the ship by making an unseemly
spectacle of himself in the presence of the
crew and several civilians who were passen-
gers on the Bear at the time. Several OF
these passengers, it is charged, were i'll
treated by the captain. What officers who
have signed the paper evidently regard as
one Of the most serious offenses charged
against the captain is that on the quarter
deck OF the cutter Grant he told another
officer that he did not consider second
assistant engineer as fit person to intro
duce that officer to him (Healy). Captain