The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-01-01
ROOSEVELT GIVES S
REBUKE.
SINGING
Army and Navy Circles Stirred to Their
Profoundest Depths-Maclay Dis
missed From the Navy Department

WASHINGTON. December 21.-Pre-
sident Roosevelt took a hand in the
SampsOn-Schley embroglio today and
the hand was heavy. 10 Jared the
Army and Navy to the foundation, and
officers of both branches of service are
standing aghast tonight at the rebuke
administered to Northumberland
/ Miles. Through Secretary Long, the
President called for the instant resig-
nation Of Edgar Stanton Maclay, the
maligner of Schley Through Secretary
Root, the President administered CEN
sure to General Miles in such terms
that the sting of it will last forever 1t
/ is causing all kinds of talk tonight i'm
the hotels and clubs but the one point
agreed on everywhere is that there will
| be no more open talk by officers In
either branch. The Sampson -Schley
controversy may be threshed over; i'm
the Army and Navy departments there
will be the silence of the tomb.
| General Miles, in addition to writing
| two letters Of explanation to Secretary
| Root, in the last one asking that the
| President be made acquainted with the
contents, personally called on the Sec
|retary and stated his position. The in
terview was frigid and unsatisfactory
to Miles He was informed that he had
violated the first rule of an officer and
that the offense could not be overlook
| ed. Then Miles called on the President.
There were about fifty persons, as
usual, i'm the large room where the
| President receives visitors General
| Miles tried to have a private audience
| with the President, but was unsuCcess-
! ful Fully twenty-five persons heard
| the President administer a singing re-
buke to Miles, who left the White
House Inundated.
! The President assumed the entire re-
~
Miles, and not only that but he took
/ matters in his own hands, received the
| Lieutenant-General commanding the
Army in one of the window seats of the
| Presidents office and nayed him alive
! for the interview he gave out in Gin
( Cinnau. The President was much i'm
earnest, and he told General Miles,
/ without mincing words, that his print
ed interview commencing the course of
| Admiral Dewey and, by inference, de-
Inouncing the majority of the court
| was a gross breach of military disci-
pline which could not and would got
/ be tolerated.
/ The scathing rebuke heard by many
Iother people was even more severe
/ than the official letter of censure signed
/ by Secretary Root but which is under
stood to have been practically dictated
! by the President himself
! General Miles freely admitted the
authenticity Of tha interview. He de-
/ Clared, however that he had not the
remOtest idea that his words reflected
upon the court in any way He told
| the President, what he said in his let
ter that the interview referred entirely
to those persons who had declared
SchIey to be coward and poltroOn. and
cast no reflection at all upon the Navy
Department or upon the court.
. This personal explanation was not re-
ceived as at an sufficient by the Presi.
dent who was entirely out of patience
with General Miles, and told him tha
Ian officer of his experience should have
sense enough 10 refrain from any com
ment whatever upon "a controversy
which concerned the Navy Department
alone.
The days developments began witt
the approval by Secretary Long of t.
findings of the majority Of the court o
inquiry, and his disapprOval of Ad'
miral Dewey's course in going out oi
the record to declare Schley in com
mand at Santiago. Then came Miles
interviews with Secretary Root and th'
President and the publication of Sec
retary Roots letter asking Genera
, Miles to explain his interview anC
Miles replies thereto. Later Secretary
Longs letter to Admiral Barker askini
for Maclay's resignation was mad
public. All this was done by direction
of the President,