The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-01

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 On the present occasion, the first re- quest made by Lord DunraVen for an external marking was contained in note dated September 6, 1S95 the very day upon which the boats were to be measured, addressed to MT. Canheld, the secretary of the cup committee. That committee without delay conVen- ed q meeting and acted favorably upon the request, provided MT. Iselin con- sented; his consent being necessary to any modification of the terms of the agreement. He at once assented, and within few hours after the receipt of Lord Dunraven's request the commit tee had sent a subcommittee to the Erie Basin, where the boats were to be measured, to see that they were mark ed externally as requested by Log Dun- raven,
 But the Valkyrie had already been measured, and had left the Basin, and could not return on account of the tide It was therefore arranged that the marking should take place on the Sth of September, the day following the first race. And the measurer was ordered to preserve the batten used in the first measurement, and to take steps to make sure that the yachts should be at the same point of immersion.
 It is apparent, therefore, that the req son why the external marking was not made until after the first race had been sailed, was because Lord Dunraven was so late in his request for a method of marking not customary and not provided for in the agreement for the race, that it was impossible that it should be had any sooner.
 Lord DunraVen must be in error in his recollection that in his conversation with MT. Fish, he demanded, and as a result, secured, the external marking of the boats. And the suggestion that Lord Dunraven had repeatedly asked to have the vessels marked externally before the first race is not sustained by any evidence.
 It is very much to be regretted that, if Lord Dunraven's suspicious were not dispelled at the time of the remeasure- ment of the Defender on the Sth of September, he did not say so then in- sstead oe accepting in silence the re- suit which verified the previous meas urement. The remeasurement was the committees response to the communi- cation which they had received through MT. Fish. In connection with their knowledge of the circumstances which made it impossible that the im- puted fraud could have been perpetrat- ed withou MT. Iselin's concurrence, and their knowledge of MT Iselin, it satis- fled them; and as we have seen, it just ly justified them.
 To all appearance it satisfied Lord Dunraven. He was present at the re- measurement, and met there the mem- bers of the committee and MT. Iselin. He made no request for further action. He made no objection to proceeding without further action. He made no in- quiry as to how or how fully his oral message through MT Fish had been de- livered, and no suggestion that any re- quest which he supposed to have been contained in that message had not been compiled with.
 He sailed the next race in the series that had been agreed on without pro- test or objection on account of the change which he had told MT Fish he believed to have been made in the load water line of the Defender before the first race. And he testified that his belief that such change had occurred did not influence inn in his final with drawal from the match at the third race. The cup committee seems to have been warranted in supposing that Lord Dunraven's suspicious were allayed, and that no further steps were neces- sary to settle any question of fact or to vindicate any one's reputation.
 Upon a careful consideration of the whole case the committee are unani- mously of the opinion that the charge made by Lord Dunraven, and which has been the subject of this investiga- tion, had it's origin in mistake; that it is not only not sustained by evidence, but is completely disproved; and that all the circumstances indicated by him as giving rise to his suspicion are en- tirely and satisfactorily explained. They | deem it, therefore, but just to MT. Ise- | lin and the gentlemen concerned with 1 him, as well as the officers and crew l of the Defender, that the committee should express emphatically their con- | viction, that nothing whatever occurred in connection with the race in ques- tion that casts the least suspicion upon the integrity or propriety of their con- duc.
 l And the committee are not willing to doubt that if Lord Dunraven had re- mained present throughout the investi- gation, so as to have heard all the evi- dence that was introduced, he would of his own motion have withdrawn a charge that was so plainly founded up- on mistake, and that has been so un- fortunate in the publicity it has at tained, and the feeling to which 1t has given rise.
 The committee append a full steno- graphic report, revised by the counsel on both sides, of all the evidence laid before them, and of all the proceedings on the hearing, and likewise copies of all the documents and papers introduc- ed on either side, as considered by the committee.
 And they ask to be discharged from further consideration of the subject re- ferred to them
 The committee cannot take leave of the case without expressing their re- gret that a part of the evidence now annexed should have been surrepti- tiously obtained by New York news paper owned by one of the oldest mem- bers of the club, and published with comments very adverse to one of the