Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-01
DUNRAVEN'S CHARGES.
They Were All Disproved and the Defenders Crew and Managers Are Exonerated
 by the Committed

New York, Jan. 31.-A special general meeting of the New York Yacht club was held at the club house, 67 Madison ave nue, tonight. The meeting was called for the purpose of presenting to the members the report of the special committee ap- pointed by the club to investigate the now famous Dunrayen charges. There was large attendance of members pres ent and or the five members that formed the Investigating committee the Hon. E. J. Phelps was the only absentee The other members were: Captain Mahan, United States navy; J. Pierpont Morgan, George L. Rives, who acted as secretary of the committee, and Hon. William C. Whitney. Among the members present who were prominent in connection With the races for the Americas cup ana yacht owners entitled to vote in the club, were: Ex-Commodore James D. Smith, J. R. Busk. A. Cass Garfield Archibald Rogers. A. Carey Smith. S. Nicholson Kane, Latham A. Fish, Newbery Thorne, Woodbury Kane. w. Butler Duncan and J. Frederick Tams. a
 J. Pierpont Morgan, in absence of Hon. E. J. Phelps, the -irman Of the committee, read the vport. The mem bers frequently interrupted the reading at each telling point with marked ap- plause When MT. Morgan concluded the report was, on motion of Ex-Commo-
  ed. amidst n scene of great enthusiasm. vote of thanks was rendered to the committee for their very able and ex- haustive communication. and the com mittee was discharged.
 Captain Ledyard's resolution that the consideration of the report and the mat ters pertaining thereto should be post poned until the next general meeting Of the club on the 1st proximo was second- ed and agreed to. The secretary was di- rected meanwhile to forward copies or the report to the members of the club. The feeling was one of entire satisfaction with the findings of the committee. The report makes pamphlet of thirty pages. It concludes with this summary:
 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 investigation, had it's origin in mistake; that it Is not only not sustained by evidence, but IS completely disproven and that all me circumstances indicated by him as giv- ing rise to his suspicion are entirely and satisfactorily explained. They deem II, therefore, but just to MT. Iselin and the gentlemen concerned with him, as well as to the officers and crew or the De1eho- CT, that the committee should express empha tically their conviction that nom ing whatever occurred in connection with the race in question that casts the least suspicion upon the integrity or propriety of their conduct.
 And ttS committee are not willing to doubt that if Lord Dunraven had remain ed present throughout the investigation so as to have heard all the evidence that was introduced he would of his own mo- tion have withdrawn charge that was so plainly founded on mistakes and that has been so unfortunate in the publicity it has attained and the feeling to which 1t has given rise."
 Nothing more harsh than Is contained in these two paragraphs is said about Dunrayen in the entire report. A full stenographic report of the testimony re- vised by counsel on either side is ap- pended to the report.