The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-07-09

one cadet to compel another to do l ''menial serVice,'
 l Another cadet was sentenced to walk ! the sentinels beat four hours every l Wednesday and Saturday afternoon, for
 six weeks for similar oflense, and
 other punishments equally severe were | imposed upon every cadet who was
 caught ha2ing, but even this did not | stop +,
 The superintendent knew that hazing
 was going on every day and every night
 in the camp, but it was impossible 10 1 catch the offenders, and the ''plebes who were ha2ed refused to answer when questioned about it. Then Colo nel Mills issued an order holding cadet captains responsible for what occurred in their companies, and requiring them
 to report daily all cases of hazing that occurred in the camp. This order was
 intended to enlist tho cadet captains | in the support of the superin- tendent'S effort to suppress the evil He believed that they had sufti- cient influence with their companies to do what he had failed to accom- plish, and that if it were known that all 
 the captains misunderstood the order They construed it to mean that the su- perintendent expected them to act as spies and informers upon their con- rades, and the next morning they hand ed in unsigned reports which stated that nothing worthy of mention had oc- cured during the day The four cap tains, who were the best men of the present graduating class, were prompt ly placed under arrest and ordered be- fore court martial. The next morn- inS the eight lieutenants who had as- stunned command presented similar re- ports. They also were arrested and or dered before the court. The Gorgeants initiated their example. and the next day every officer of the corps of cadets was suspended and under arrest. It became a case of mutiny, but by per sonal interviews and an interchange of explanations the mutinous officers sub mitted written acknowledgements of their errors, and as a punishment were reduced to the ranks.
 Then Colonel Mills appealed to the cadets to protect the reputation of the academy. The newspapers were filled with sensational articles and unfavora- ble comments, and he convinced them that the hazing and the events that had followed had done great injury to their own reputaon to the academy and to the army at large Whereupon the four classes held meetings and adopted resolutions pledging themselves to abstain from physical hazing. The action of the first (senior) class was re- ported in the following letter:
 West Point Military Academy, Oct. 20,
 1S99-
 To the superintendent of the United States Military Academy; Sir-I have the honor to state that as a result of class meeting held by authority of per init granted Oct, 1, 1899, the following resolution was adopted:
 Whereas, The military academy has of late been made the object of attack on the ground of alleged brutality in the practice of hazing fourth-class men: and
 Whereas, We realize that such at tacks will result in ultimate harm to the institutions
 Therefore, while asserting the gen eral falsity and injustice of those at Jacks, we, the class of 1900, resolve that the subjecting of fourth-class men to ing shall cease, and that our efforts shall be lent to its immediate suppress sion.