Omaha daily bee., 1901-01-17
SAYS No OFFICERS KISSED
wangsr smoothe, Over Tuesdays Incident
Of BooS Investigation.
CADET MAHAFFY OF TEXAS is CALLED
Judge smith of Council Buns ruts
Lad from Lone star state Through
the Mil, hut Eiicits No
New Information.

WEST POINT, n Y, Jan. 16.-When the
committee met at the acad-
emy today and before any witnesses were
called. Congressman Wanger Of Pennsyl-
vania addressed the committeeman. He re-
ferred to the published reports of the hiss
ing incident at the close OF the afternoon
session yesterday. MIR. Wanger said that in
at least two newspapers army officers were
charged with taking part in the kissing. He
desired. however. to express his frm belief
that no expression Of dsapprobation was
made by any army officer present at the
time. He was pleased to hear that Colonel
Helm, acting superintendent of the academy
had instituted a thorough inquiry regarding
the matter. Mr. Wanger said that since the
had been treated with the ut
most courtesy by all the officers he would
be sorry should any erroneous impressions
become prevalent throughout the country
General Dick and all the committeeman
concurred with the views OF the Pennsyl-
vania representative and the matter was
then dropped.
Cadet Blrchie o. Mahaffy of Texas, who
was a classmate of former Cadet Booz, was
called and sworn.
Judge Smith examined the witness and
after perusing Mahaffys testimony. he said
the evidence given by the witness this
morning was in no way different from that
on the military courts record.
The witness admitted that the purpose
Of calling out a fourthc class man was 10
have him whipped. He had never heard Of
fourth class mtn winning in fight with
a higher class man, but had known of two
such fights that were called draws,
Dockcry Admits Cruelty of HaEing.
Cadet Albert B. Dockery of Missouri ac-
knowledged that he had exercised youn6
Macarthur, who was with fve or six other
fourth-class men.
what was the reason for hazing Mac
Arthur"
For not bracing hard enough" replied
Dockery
Are you satisfied you hazed Mr.. Mac
Arthur and that he was sick, in fact had
convulsions after it?" said MIR. briggs.
Eyes, sir"
"Did you think it was cruel?'
Eyes, sir"
well. young man, for your information
I will tell you that think it was atrocious,
because detestable, disgraceful, dishonor-
able. disreputable, heinous, ignominous. ILL
famed. nefarious. odious, outrageous,
scandalous. shameful, shameless villainous
and wicked" said Mr.. briggs, and the tor
rent of adjectives almost took away Dock
ery's breath.
Judge Smith got Dockery to admit that
when he found that Macarthur was i'll he
felt anxious en- account OF his responsi-
bility for the young fellows condition.
Instead of exercising this young man to
such a degree why did you not give him
chance to fght?" asked General Dick.
"He could have fought instead If he had
chosen to do So
Can you think OF anything more cruel
than to exercise a man into copyulsions?"
NO, sir" ..r 1gyrt
WAS there anything soldierly about it?'
mo, sir H
Left Hazed Cadet TO suffer Alone.
General Dick then made the witness ad-
init that he was worried and went to Mac
Arthur's tent. IL was dark and he could
Just see Macarthur lying still on his bed
and that fearing detection Macarthur was
allowed to lie there without medical aid.
Then you and the others who took part
in the hazng OF Macarthur were afraid 20
report his serious condition, fearing that
by doing so the facts would become known
to the authorities and you would be dis
missed from the academy
Yes, sir"
General Dick switched to the methods OF
calling out fourth class men and putting
them against well-traired upper r-class men.
He warned the witness against the practice
and scored him heavily for taking part IN
unmanly methods of practically forcing a
new conner to sure defeat and sound drub-
bing at the hands of picked representa-
tive of an upper class.
The witness was then allowed to 60
Cadet John c. Pegram OF Virginia fought
with F. NJ Smith OF the third class In
barracks on November last. He was
awarded the fight on foul and was in the
hospital for week after II.
The committee then adjourned until
o'clock tonight
When the committee Ieassembled Colonel
Clayton resumed his examination of Cadet
Pegram. The witness told of the fainting
of Cadet Kensel, who resigned short time
ago from the academy. At the conclusion
of his testimony Pegram said he did not
think that the fighting should be done away
with at the academy, but General Dick made
1t quite clear that he did not agree with the
young cadet. The committee adjourned un-
til 10 o'clock tomorrow.
ReturBs In Electoral College Vote.
WASHINGTON Jan. 16.-The returns
from Mondays vote in the electoral col
nf he