The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-22

/ terS horse.
He said it would be shown that the
/ guide piiing, said 10 have been paid for i'm
/ properly, was for the benefit of the United
/ States and not for that of the contrac-
! tors, as had been stated.
1t would he shown, he said, that Capt.
Carriers statement that new soundingS
showed that more mattresses would be re
! CURED in the Tybee breakwater was Who'll
| ~ and absolutely true. Sounds had been
| taken he said, and reported 20 Capt. Car
! ter. and it was upon these that he based
! his recommendation.
II would be shown, he said that the al
! legged false kilograms intended to deceive
/ the Secretary of War, were not intended
| TO deceive, as the secretary knew at the
time he had gone % New York. having
! previously sent him 10 inspect some work
/ at Sandy Hook.
| with regard to the quarantine rock, he
said il would be shown that Capt. Carter
| expected Congress TO make an appropria-
! ton for cutting off the point there before
/ he wrote his letter 70 the chief of engineers
| and that there was no conspiracy and
/ no thought of any conspiracy to de-
fraud the city of Savannah. by compelling
! them 10 sell the rock at low figure The
| city afterward sold rock outside of the
harbor line which it was not obliged to re-
move under this letter large quantity of
rock, for which it received a sum il was
| glad to receive
About the charge in relation TO Hutchin-
sons Island, where Excessive rentals"
is the term used. it will be shown that
the employees of Capt. Carter made inqu-
| ries in reference TO the rentals; that it
was reported to him what The rentals
were; that they were excessive has already
been shown, and that the statements that
he made in that letter which has been in
troduced here. were true, so far as he
was concerned, and believed by him. ana
were not intended to and did not deceive
| anybody.
The next charge is the test-
mony in the Brown case. Capt.
Garter did testify in that case
and he did testify that the instructions
given were not to pay for rock unless
they were up to the specifications, but not
| as would be suggested, that any rock that
| was on the cars was not paid for unless il
went into the work
The next charge is unbecoming conduct,
in reference TO the Hirt money The
charge there is that Capt. Carter received
$132l0 from Mr.. Hirt because he had not
returned the diving outfit belonging to IA
snag boat, and that he misapproprated
the money, In thai respect it will be con-
tended as matter of law and matter of
fact that the money was never the money
of the United States but the money of
Mr. Hirt. In reference to the $3.50, that
Capt. Carter got himself, it was a reim-
| bursement to him of his own money paid
for the United States AS to the balance,
we will show that he endeavored to try
| to put that into the United States funds,
as to make it available under the APP
| preparation, to which ii properly belonged,
and was informed that that could not be
done, because as soon as it was turned
into the treasury, the only way to get ii
out was by an act of Congress, but that it
should be held by him until he could use
it on work to be done under that appor-
| priation. When he left this city, having
been relieved here, he relied upon the
fidelity and honesty of the man who had
| the actual physical possession of the
money; he supposed the money was i'm the
| safe where it belonged, and we win show
TO you, that it was not spent out in a
| slush fund; that it was not spent out for
Capt. Carter, but that it was used by Mr..
| Sterley, for his own benefit and for lis
! own purpose.
Something was proved think, at the
last sitting, or the day before, in reference
! to this mattress work, attempting to show
| that those mattresses went to pieces on
| the Tybee breakWater, and that there was
| l000 goo yards on Hilton Head, Afterwards
corrected to $4,000 yards The absurdity CT
! that claim is plain when it is considered
is 2l0, 900 yards. We will show that the wit
ness Hale, the alleged expert, where he
! said there was $4,000 yards of brush fas-
cinss, that there is less than fifty cubic
| yards of brush at that place. That is rot
| important of itself, except as characteriz-
ing some of the testimony that has been
introduced as showing to what length the
witnesses have gone In order that there
| may be injury done TO this officer.
/ 9tfemnt
/ deceive the chief engineer by a false per-
sonal report will be shown to be a cleri-
| cal error.
81 have gone briefly over these charges
and briefly outlined what the evidence
| that will be produced will show, and when
we have gotten through think there will
be no doubt in the mind of any officer of
this court of what his. duty win be, to
say that this accused officer Is not guilty
of single one of the charges that have
been alleged and made against him."
Mr.. B. f. Finny, chemist, was The
! first witness sworn for the defense. He
was accompanied by small-siZed chemi-
| cal laboratory, with rocks and instruments
tor the purpose of making explanations.
1t was quite a lesson for the court and
spectators in one point at least the meth
cd of determining specific gravity.
Mr.. Finney was questioned by Mr.. Blair
Specl1c gravity, ne SAID, Is the weight OF
a substance compared with the weight OF
an equal volume of water at 60 degrees
Fahrenheit. Mr.. Finney explained the
methods of determining specific gravity
Mr.. Blair read from the record Witness
A. S. Cooper's method of determining the
specific gravity of a porous stone, by
which he left the stone in water for hours
and took its weight Immediately after
taken out That said Mr.. Finney, would
be getting the specific gravity of the stone
and the water in it as we'll Specific grav-
ity, the witness said, depends on mass
but not on volume. Specific gravity is a
fixed and definite thing.
Mr.. Finney said the specific gravity OF
a rock which Mr. Cooper put at 103 was
2.56, which he had determined by powder
ing and using the specific gravity flask
Other pieces of the Florida rock intro
duced by the prosecution. he said had spe-
cific GRANTEES ranging from 247 to 26S
The specifications under the contract
called for stone of a specific gravity OF
"a.
In replying TO Col. Bars questions, on
cross-examination Mr.. Finney said he
had frequently determined specific gray
ity for commercial purposes. In case OF
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