Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-08-30
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found guilty OF swindling the governmen
cut Of 81 $1,000.
CAPTAIN Carter. # Is freely reportc'
here in army circles. has notified ms
friends IN the engineer corps and various
members Of Congress. who assisted II
securing appropriations for the Savan
nah harbor improvements, that If he goes
20 the penltentiary he will take othcrs
with him.
The reply Of Colonel Barr judge-advo-
cate in the Carter court-martial. to the
briefs OF Carriers counsel. has been Sc
cured by the Journal correspondent
Colonel Barr says. in effect, that Car
fer's counsel. in their brief to Attorney
General Griggs, insuted the court and
deliberately falsined the evidence.
A crisis in this notorious case is
coming. Carriers threat is pregnant with
suggestions. and army circles are excited
over his implication that the Engineer
Corps, the highest branch. the aristoc-
racy Of the army, Is corrupt and that
members of Congress may suffer.
The Carter case is evidently the root OF
a villainous series Of consplracies Tor
plumber The prelminaries to the trial,
as explained below, clearly show the re-
markable influences at work IN Carriers
behalf during three years preceding his
trial.
Thlrty-sx months after he was origl-
nally accused ne faced the court His
original exposer. finding Carter white
washed by one army investigator. died,
crushed and discouraged.
Captain Gillette, who succeeded Carter
at Savannah, and who pushed his charges
and secured Justice 50 far as an army
court could give IL, refused TO be side
tracked
The nocturnal conference between Sec
rotary Alger. General John NJ Wilson.
chief OF the Engineer Corps, and Captain
Carter, after charges had been nled
against the latter. seems to be a subject
meriting investigation.
II is an interesting fact that President
Mckinley was in the House OF Represen-
tatives when the notorious Savannah ap-
prOpratiOns were made.
CARRIERS WARNING.
Il will not so to the penitentiary
alone" This is the substance of the
notice reported to have been served by
Captain Carter on all his confederates.
engineer contractors and members of both
branches of Congress.
Captain Carriers ultimatum means that |
his cO-cOnspratOrs must save him or he
will pull the wreck down on his pals. The |
threat is said 20 have caused widespread !
CONSERVATION IN the Engineer Depart
ment for these reasons:
!. The Engineer Department labOred |
assiduously to prevent the charges against |
Captain Carter taking such form as would |
expose the loose methods Of the depart |
ments expenditures on public works.
?. When Captain Garter came back |
from England, knowing that "A trial was
Imminent there was "a secret night con- |
ference between himself. Brigadier-Gene- |
raj John NJ. Wilson, chief of engineers. |
and Secretary-Of-War Alger at the house |
OF the Secretary. Captain Carter sue
ceedcd at that conference In having a
Board Of Engineers appointed with the |
hope Of a whiteNash. The board was /
appointed. but Captain c. Il. Gillette. who |
had preferred the charges. was so relent- |
less and furnished such evidence that |
the board was obliged TO find against |
Carter.
J. General John N. Wilson's next step !
was 20 have the charges against Cap |
tain Carter drawn by Colonel George b. !
Davis. late of the beef court of in /
papers TO the Secretary of War 10 the |
effect that the Judge Advocate General !
was sick, ard that his assistant, Major /
Morrison, Was too busy 20 take up the |
case. Secretary Alger yielded to General !
wilson ana sent the papers 10 Colonel |
Davis law professor at West Point. Col |
onel Davis made out the charges. but |
they amounted TO an indictment. on !
which. II true. Captain Carter would have |
with possibly nothing more than |
ii Tepumend
CUMMINGS BLOCKS TT.
Representative Amos Cummings block |
ed this game. He demanded why The !
Judse Adyocate-Generars Office was ig |
noied. Secretary Alger and the others I,
feared exposure. the Secretary ordered /
the papers back into the hands OF the /
Judge Advocate General. the case went |
e. trial. and Carter was convicted
The whole theory of the Judge Adyo- |
wa to show that an officer |
of the engineers had 1t in his power 10 !
loot the Treasury. and it is even now
maintained that there are a dozen or |
Iaore Carter eases i'm connection with en- |
s Eeer work along the coast of the United |
States.
The conviction Of Carter was seen TO |
be blow at the Engineer Department |
and congressional ring methods. and |
hence The tremendous energy which has |
been expended to save Carter
The Journal CORRESPONDENT can state !
that the secret archives of the Engineer !
Department show that three years before |
Carter was brought TO trial charges were
Preferred against him by am officer now |
dead. Hts failure 20 bring Garter To jus, |
lice and his subsequent treatment, it is |
said, killed him.
This officers charges were heard, ana |
Colonel Hughes, OF the Inspector Gene
rafs Department, was sent TO Savannah |
TO investigate. Whatever that report |
was. Captain Carter was not brought To
trial. but the fact shows that the En-
queer Department had timely notice of
Ceptain Carriers crookednoss and did not
bring him to trial.
What is feared from Carter now Is that
he Will In his private or fuller statements
name conspirators In high and low
places He may. point out the long con
tnued raids on the Treasury at other
river and harbor improvement centres
and call by name the officers and others
guilty of conspiracy To defraud
MAY GIVE THE NAMES.
He may names the Senators and Repre-
sentatives whom his contractors ana
lobbyists have been buying for the past
fourteen years. He may name the en-
yineer officers who appeared before the
committees 10 influence the appropria-
tons. the larger part OF which he Is con-
vicied OF having stolen and divided with
II was stated to-day that Il was serious
~ contemplated TO stop the government
work an Cumberland Sound because of
the lmpossbility OF making IL a success