Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-09-07
MILES IN NEW YORK.
Does Not Disclaim the Kansas City
Star Interview.
ADMITS IT MAINLY RIGHT.
Arrived on the OLDHAM With All tho Sol.
diers In His Charge Well - What
He Has to Say About
Ills Charges.

New York Sept. 8.-The transport OBJ
dam, with Major General Nelson A. Niles
aboard, has arrived. There was brief
inspection at quarantine by Deputy
Health Officer Sanborn, but as all were
found we'll on board there was no de-
lay. The transport got under way. went
to anchor off Tompkinsville and later
came up the bay. She anchored of
Bedloe's island, and Captain Arey OF
the transport waited for orders from
the deputy quartermaster. Colonel
Amos S. Kimbal. When these finally
came, the OLDHAM was ordered to pro-
coed up to pier H of the Erie docks. at
Weehawken, where the troops disem-
narked and were placed on trains OF the
Erie railroad for transportation to their
homes.
The General Meigs, the quartermas-
ter's department boat. left to take Gem
eral Miles off the OLDHAM. The plan of
the uuartermaster's department was to
take the general to the pier at the foot
of West Twenty-se second street Thence
he and his family and staff were driv-
en- 10 the w OIl-<AolOtlo, "ASAS oSA'
eral Miles will stay while in the city.
The OLDHAM arrived off the bar early.
She had sailed from Ponce. Porto Rico,
on Sept with Major General Miles, his
wife, son, daughter and staff; Colonel
and Assistant Surgeon General Charles
r. Greenleaf, Captain F. A. Whitney
and the officers and men of the Second
Wisconsin volunteers. $50 men, the hos
pital corps and so horses. There were
also on board several newspaper corre-
spondentS.
The vessel brought no sick. She had
started with all we'll aboard, and that
was the report which the surgeon in
charge gave to Health Officer Doty's
representative when he boarded the
vessel. The sailors and soldiers had
decorated the vessel profusely'with flags
and palms, SO that she came into port
looking like the return of holiday ex-
curson. Long streamers of interna-
tional code flags f1oated from each mast
head to the rails. Aloft there were more
flags, and from the fore truck streamed
an American ensign significantly placed
above Spanish battlefag.
Fathers the Charges.
An interview was secured with the
general on the charges accredited to
him by the Kansas City Star. The gen.
eral declared that the interview with
him published in the Kansas City Star
was in the main correct. He refused to
retract the most serious allegations
made against the war department. A
few minor points of the reported inter-
view, he said, We're incorrectly stated.
but on the whole he fathered the state
ments. According to army regulations.
his reiteration of charges against hts
superior officers will force the secretary
of war to order the general to appear as
defendant before court martial. That
Is what General Miles friends say he
wants. He wants the administration of
the war in Cuba to be thoroughly over
hauled.
Whether or not the general considered
Secretary Alger's course in regard to
him as an affront he would not say, but
that he meant to stand to the last by
his statements made to Mr.. Whepley,
of the Kansas City Star,
was indicated by his manner and the
tone of his voice In accepting RESPONSE |
oility for the accusations.
General Miles stated that he did not |
lesire to critcise the conduct OF any
officer engaged in the late war He ex- |
pressed the opinion that there has been |
90 much criticism, complaint and con- |
lemnaton published already and that
he public had lost sight of the success
md glories of the war.
General Alger did not go so far as to
'ay that a court martial would be i'm
oerative if the general did not retract
II deny responsibility. He now has no
'ther resource. He will have to order
me. but the president may intervene
md permit General Miles to ask for a
'ourt of inquiry. In either event the
of the war will be thor
ughly ventilated.
That General Miles will demand a
ourt martial of inquiry If he is not
curt martialed is certainty His COM
nents upon General Alger and Adju-
ant General Corbin portended that, and
he positive manner of his affirmation
# his language to the Kansas City
'tar's correspondent leaves no room for
oubt.