The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-29
EACAN GUILTY
CONVICTED OF ALL THE CHARGES ON
WHICH HE WAS TRIED.
Sentenced to Dismissal from the
Army, but with n Recommendation
for Executive CIemcncy.
PAPERS NOW In ALGER'S HANDS
AND WILL SOON BE SENT TO THE
PRESIDENT FOR REVIEW.
Latter, 1t Is Thought, Will Commute
the Sentence to Suspension
from the Service.
FEARS OF EAGAN'S FRIENDS
AFRAID HE MAY KILL GENERAL
MILES If HE is DISMISSED.
May be Put Under Physical Restraint
IL the Finding of the Court
Martial Be Affirmed.
Latter, 1t Is Thought, Will Commute
the Sentence to Suspension
from the Service.
FEHRS OF EAGAN'S FRIENDS
AFRAID HE MAY KILL GENERAL
MILES If HE Is DISMISSED.
May be Put Under Physical Restraint
If the Finding of the Court
Martial Be Affirmed.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2S.-It was stated
to-day that General Eagan had been found
guilty on both the charges on which he was
tried The only sentence that can be i'm
posed for conduct unbecoming an officer
and gentleman" is dismissal. On the other
charge, conduct prejudicial to good order
and military discipline" the penalty could
range from a reprimand to dismissal. The
testimony shows that General Eagan, from
the day General Miles testified, a
changed man. In a word, that he was men
tally unbalanced to such a degree that had
he killed Miles he would have been acquit-
ted on the ground of temporary insanity
Eagan's friends dread a chance meeting be-
tween him and Miles. They fear Eagan
may kill Miles in an uncontrolled fit of hon.
ieidal mania For this reason his friends
maintain surveillance over him, and stand
ready, should he be dismissed, to place him
under physical restraint. 1t is hardly be-
lieved that the President will order a SEN
tence Of dismissal to be carried out because
of General Eagans mental condition when
he prepared and read his statement to the
war investigating commission. The fact
that he had been practically charged with
corruption in Office by Miles and that the
mental state this produced on him was bor-
dering insanity, if he was not, for the
time, actually insane, will, it is believed
induce the President to exercise his power
of clemency. In any event, General Eagan's
military career is closed, just as that of the
late Judge Advocate General Swain was
when he was sentenced by a court-martial
to eleven years suspension from duty, this
carrying him beyond the date of his COM
pulsory retirement from active service
r,1 f.,4c
for Eagan.
An Associated Press dispatch says: Cen
eral pagan, commissary general of subsst-
ence, has been found guilty of the charges
of conduct unbecoming an officer and gen.
tlenan, and of conduct to the prejudice of
good order and discipline, and of the speci-
fications thereto, and has been sentenced to
dismissal from the United States army but
with a recommendation from the court for
the exercise of executive clemency. Under
the regulations, the court, having reached
the conclusion that the accused was guilty,
had no choice in selecting a penalty, the
regulations prescribing absolutely the one
punishment dismissal, for the omense
Therefore the only hope for General Eagan
is in the direction of communication, mitiga-
ton or disapproval. Colonel Davis, the
judge advocate Of the court-martial finished
his revision of the record of the courts
proceedings this afternoon and at once
placed the papers in the hands of Secretary
Alger. This action settled at once any doubt
that may have existed as to the routine to
be pursued IN the treatment or the case.
AS for Secretary Alger, as soon as he has
read the record he will place it at once
with the President, who under the law, is
the final reviewing authority 1t is his privi-
IN IN tQlx ha J,
of the courts recommendation that Glenn
ency be shown. The indications are that
the papers will be in the Presidents hands
early next week. -
Gen. 7. II. S. Stanton, who has been pay
master general of the army since March,
1895, will close his active military career
Monday. when he will be retired for age
General Stanton is convalescing from an at
tack of pneumonia. Ever since he was
stricken down Col. Asa b. Carey has been
in charge of the paymaster generals office
and probably will be General Stanton's sue
eessor Colonel Carey will reach the re-
firing age in July. This will enable the
President to appoint Col George II. Glenn.
the senior colonel of the corps to the office
of paymaster general two years before his
retirement for age.
Funeral services over the remains of ex-
Attorney General A. II. Garland were held
this afternoon at the Colonial Hotel. The
parlors Of the hotel and the corridors were
crowded with personal friends that General
Garland had made during his long resi-
dence in Washington. The Rev. Father
Lee OF st. Matthew'S Catholic Church. per-
formed the funeral rites. and the remains
were placed on the $40 train for Little
Rock, Ark, where the state funeral will
be held. The party accompanying the re-
mains South included Rufus G. Garland.
eldest son of the deceased, and James K.
Jones. jr., who volunteered to take the place
OF Sanders Garland, another of the gen
erals sons. The honorary pallbearers were
Attorney General Grlggs. Justice Harlan.
Justice McKenna, J. II. McKenny, clerk of
the Supreme Court Senator James X.
Jones. Senator James II. Berry Senator
Arthur +. German. Representative T. C.
McRae, Representative W. r. Terry, ]. M
Wilson, w. r. Smith and Franklin II.
Mack
The President to-day sent these nomina-
tions to the Senate: Wm. c. Hook, United
States district judge. district of Kansas:
Marcus c. McI4enore. United States at
torney for the Eastern district OF Texas;
James II. Worman, OF New York, now COM
mercial agent at Cognac, to be consul at
Munich, Bavaria; William T. Fee of Ohio.
now consul at Cienfuegos. to be consul at
Bombay, India.
William Gather Hook, appointed to sue
ceed Judge Cassius G. Foster, of the United
States District Court for the district of
Kansas, who recently resigned. was born in
Green county, Pennsylvania, in 1857, and
viii enjoy the distinction of being the