Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-01-19
PASSED no BE ENACTED.
THE BOOSE INQUIRY.
Cadets Do Not Think that Hazing Has Injured
Any Of Them.


West Point. n. ". Jan. lS.-Thc con
grcSSional committee Of which Gen.
Dick of Ohio. is chairman. will prob
Military Academy, tomorrow night.
The congressman have probcd deep
since they came here. 10 days ago. into
the hazing which has maintained AZ
the academy barracks and camp for
several years past and have obtained a
mass of evidence in excess of that ad-
duced at the military court of inquiry.
1t was shown. today. that there arc
cadets in the first class who. from the
time they came here as ''plcbes. have
been opposed to haZing and fighting.
Cadet Francis W. Clark of Illinois, tes-
titled To this and said that these praC-
tices should be abolished. He was
compimented by Mr.. briggs, who said
that Clark was credit to the academy.
The examination of Cadet Douglass
Macarthur was continued. Friday. by
the congressional committee investi-
gat ng the hazing practices At the
academy.
Young MacArthur. who is a pale lad
and anything but robust looking. said
in reply to questions that his health
at present was about the same as in
the summer Of 1899. Questioned fur
ther about the occurrences on the
evening when he is alleged to have
been hazed into commissions the wit
ness said ii was Cadet Dockcry who
rad directed him to 80 to the tent
L.
fourth class mon were also hazed at
the same Soirec. the exercising last
ing for over an hour and being con-
Quoted in two tents At the same time
hy Cadets Dockcry and Barry, who
went from one tent to the other.
Witness did not report the fact. but
the affair became known to tn" au-
thoritics and Col. Helm. the command
ant, made an investigation. The Wit
ness had availcd himself Of his priv
ilegc under the regulations ana did not
answer any questions for the reason
that he did not care to go further in
To the matter.
In reply to Chairman Dick the Wit
ness said that although as a general
thing he was not more submissive than
other fourth class men. he had no rcc-
ollcCtion of having given any offcnso
Ia lead to his being hazcd. and that
in fact he had been haZcd for nothing.
on another occasion during the en-
Campment Of 1899. witness said he had
found Cadet Murphy i'm 4 fain;inG con
dition and unabl to help himself as
a result of having been exercised.
cadet VIM. g. caples of Missouri.
was then sworn. He identified 40 out
Of list of - forms of hazing submit
ted by Judge Smith as having hcrn
practited on himself when he was IN
his "Plcbc" year. The next year the
witness had put fourth class mon
through practically the same forms
Of exercising and had given doses of
TohaSco sauce to some of them.
Cadet Francis II. Farnum of Penn
syivania. next took the stand. Farpum
is the young man who succeeded EocSr
as an appointcc to the academy from
PENNSYLVANIA. He is one of the fourt \
class men who was hazed at the same
time Macarthur and others were ex-
'cICiscd in the summer of 1S99. He said
that the violent exercising on that oc-
casion made him feel sick and dizzy
but lie soon got over it,
Rev. Herbert Chipman. Epscopa !
chaplain to the cadets. was then called
and examined by Judge Smith. He be-
lfeved the moral tone of the cadets
during the last five years would com
pare faVorably with that of any other
Institution. There was absolutely no
religious intolerance among the cadets.
Cadet Truman w. Carrithers of IL
linoiS, said he had been called out to
fight in 1885,? His opponent was Cadet
Shannon, who knocked him out in the
second round by blow on the iav.
His jaw was broken.
Cadet Henning f. Collcy of the pre-
sent third class. was the first witness
examined after the midday recess
Collcy said that he had been one of the
principals in four fist fights since he
came to the academy in 1899
Cadet \. j. Lynch of New York. was
the next witness. He denied that he
was looked upon as the authority on
boxing in the academy. Lynch said he
did not know much about hazinG.
when man is called out by the
committee can he get out of fighting?"
| asked the chairman.
Yes. sir. he can simply refuse to "a
into ii" replied the witness
Gen. Dick shook his finger Mt the
witness end said slowly: Don't you
know that if he did so he would be cut
and nstracizcd by thc whole corps?"
YES, sir. said the witness in an ar
Sumehtatlve tone. at the same time
shaking his finger at the general, and
rightly So
You think So" asked the chairman
Yes. the man who would refuse tc
'ight man OF his own size. and weight
has no business IN TIE army. Give N,