The age-herald., 1901-12-26
Powerful Pressure Being Brought to Make a Complete
 Investigation
ADMIRAL DEWEY HUMIuIATEO
Action of Secretaries Long and Root Places Him In Embarrassing Po- sitlon-Mlles Has Powerful
 Friends at Work.

Washington, December 25.-(Special.)- It now seems inevitable that Congress will take up the Schley case, with all its new entanglements-the rebuke to Gen eral Miles and the discrediting of Admir- al Dewey's opinion by Secretary Long.
 Powerful pressure is being brought upon members of Congress to make complete investigation from beginning to end Friends of Schley. Dewey and Miles declare that 1t is intolerable that three such distinguished officers shall be left in the position in which they are now in on the official records, and Congress Is to be asked to wipe out the stain
 Admiral Dewey. humiliated by the position in which the action of both Sec retaries Tong and Root places him, Is keeping studiedly aloof from the news papers His extreme and unusual re- ticience is regarded as significant of some step for the vindication of his action in declaring Schiey entitled to the credit of the battle of Santiago
 The Cases Now One.
 The cases of three officers have now become one, in official opinion, and their fight for vindication will probably be made together. Secretary Long declares the Schley incident closed and Secretary Root says the Miles incident Is closed, but those who know Miles, the Indian fighter, assert that he will never rest under the humiliating rebuke delivered to him Sat urday by Secretary Root His friends say that 1t is foreign to his nature to rest quietly under such humiliation, in his opinion so utterly undeserved
 What step he will take is problemati- cal A court of inquiry. 1t is pointed out, would be almost impossible because of the embarrassment in which 1t would place army officers in asking them to pass on a case which the President had already decided. Action by Congress Is regarded as the only way out of the difficulty. Much doubt Is expressed as to the right of the President to order such a rebuke as that administered to General Miles. and if a court should find that General Miles had committed an impropriety in giving the interview 1t would be extreme ly embarrassing. Some believe that Gen. eral Miles will ask to be permitted to place his reply to the rebuke of Secretary Root upon the official records
 Miles Has Powerful Friends.
 General Miles has many powerful friends in Congress. Dewey and Schley have many, also. It is believed that If the matter of a Congressional inquiry comes to head, the inquiry will go to the very bolt of the whole matter, The friends of Admiral Dewey are deeply wounded because he has been charged with im- propriety in stating his honest convic- tions upon the Schley inquiry. Why General Miles should be rebuked and Admirals Belknap and Brown, on the retired list, should go unreprimanded for uttering practically the same lan- guage Is not understood here. Admiral Belknap is quoted as saying just what General Miles said.
 Miles Refuses to Talk.
 General Miles refuses to say word relative to the rebuke administered to him by Secretary of War Root and Pres~ ident Roosevelt because of his utterances on the Schley controversy.
 He was shown two alleged interviews with him in afternoon papers. and wrote the following:
 You are authorized to say. what have repeatedly said, and that is have nothing to say on the subject"