The sun., 1901-05-23


in the history of the Military Academy
has the iron hand of punitive authority
fallen 80 heavily upon the corps Of cadets
as it fell to-day when the order came from
the War Department fully and completely
sustaining Col. Albert L. Mills, the super
intendent Of the Academy. IN his recon-
mendatIons for the punishment Of certain
cadets who lately became involved in
breaches Of discipline Of very serious
nature Five member, Of the second class
are dismissed, four members OF the same
class and two of th" third are suspended.
and scvcnty-two more members Of The
corps are to be punished summarily as the
superintendent directs.
The cadets who have been dismissed
are Henry L. Bowlby Of Nebraska, John
4. Cleveland Of Alabama, Traugott +.
Keller Of New York. Raymond 4. Linton
Of Michigan and Brchic O. Mah-ley Of
Texas, all of the second class
The following cadets have been suspended:
Olan c. Neshre Of Illinois, BENJAMIN +.
Mcclellan Of Mississippi, James A. shannon
Of Minnesota, Charles IclGord Of Utah.
all Of the second class. and Thomas y.
Gimperling Of Ohio and Harry liawley
of New York Of the third class. They are
suspended without pay until April !, 1902
Only once before, during the administIa-
ton Of Gen. Merritt, was there punish-
mcnt inflicted upon The corps any thing
like in severity 20 that which has now fnl-
len. Gen. Merritt dismissed three cadets
at one swOop. That was considered pretty
severe, but the punishment the corps has
brought upon itself this time is record
breaker Il il even nor" than that 1t II
an epoch in the aCadcmys history. In
the opinion of all those who know the insti-
tuition bcs, II means tho end definite and
conclusive, a that tradition Of haziug.
which for years has been the bane Of
academy life
Although the technical charge on which
the cadets were punished was insubordi-
nation. the insubordindton IN question
had it, origin N the old hazing spirit which,
although somewhat dam rcncd b, the rum
pus that was kicked up over the Congress
sional and the army invest cations of last
winter, was by 10 mean, broken, The
cadets, us the result OF those iuycstiga
tons, voluntarily drew mp and pledged
themselves 10 an agreement to refrain
from the more objectionable features Of
hazing As Tar as II went this agreement
was well enough The troublr was it did
not 90 far enough II was plain 10 every
one vino read it and who was familiar with
the cadet point Of view, that there were
roscrva .ou, and omissions which left
f,, "a & IHIiDp fburipf4
through the pledge Nowhere IN the
d,,,r,,p, v,s ,Lor,.. an c,rli,it acraament
10 '.' '"'" u" ''''N Nv" '"''''l "'o'e' Iil-
tiCuaTly, there was no reference to the
uaii,r Of "uracIul"
"u,.,,.,,,," ,.,.,..,-,, #, i.r.ir,. tho ,IoLa
-
10 'hN' an aINuI"IE 'NaSHIa''d ana pam
luI ioTlI "I '"' ao'ul'I I"sliloh III PrdN.
u'' u O''",,'N " - "'I anu pIuT,I loil "L
torture Inc ,au'I7 "I"Ie me Army
ana L"n-Ir'> t"iilHF'''N openly ut-
l'hde" I,H,.'~, anu Hi'nE Sr' 'iirni-
e'lN'S III ,l'IdH'' 10 l' "''9 81 NV A'h i'Hy
ana To- III" authority oi th'r superior Oh
hcefs ~ i,"Fr'l !" lhN hTdcihS praCtlce
H. l"lN'uat. lH'F lo"h U' Ii'poSltrOiS
pu~illoh uil lh' 'iin!li"lN OF NE Iadct
corps were superior /" lir dulhority OF
IN" "NlI'iN III IhdTE' 81 lhe hslliu uloh.
EN"ll Il'l l"uE' IIHlhIN showed tnat
they had not trd~p'd thc iaGt mat IN this
particular lh"N were lGirlloGsN IN no
WRONG. II was "ul oi lhl- -ulrll that grew
IN" irOuh'N NhIch resulted IN lhe out
rdENyHH Hi"a.h ~ u!- lil!iNr Wlllrli !Gt3
been uuw au heavily punished The ISSUE
was -qulrrE raised ~ 10 whether the
cadets or ne "nln"ls her" m charge ran
III" Military A'au'my Inc War DEPART
m,ut. IN confirming Nlpt MISS recon-
mpudlllou~ aS tO punishment, has definitely
dc,idod that II }, the Superintendent and
not the CORPS of cadets who is In authority
here IL now remains 10 be seen whether
an influence which heretofore has been
detrimental tO discipline here at tho
Academy can be- again invoked. This il
the Congressional pull" Heretofore
cadets who we're suspended or even dis
missed for good cause were sometimes
Hblr through their Congressman or Sem
utorS 10 override the authority Of he
Superintendent and come ba, k trlumphantly
io their classes
Tho five cadets who were dismissed took
the Il,t train this afternoon headed straight
for WASHINGTON FOR DAYS back. cadets
who were unl"r a cloud and who knew
thut they were nabla 10 get u!-i what they
have got. have been Keeping the wires
hot with tal"grams io senator, Congress-
men and others whose influence they had
reason 10 horr might h" of value 20 them.
l}v wire also they stirred MP their friends
and relatives To the same action And
oven that is NOT all lad,fS here who are
not in tine mess have been "a SO 'elcgraphing
10 inNuonlnl friends and ru congressman
and Senators. urgng them 10 glve their
influence tor the al--rHupd cadets II re-
mains 10 be- seen villa, the effect Of all this