Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1904-12-20
WILL NOT TOLERATE HATING
CONGRESS TAKES PEREM.
TORY ACTION.
The Naval Academy Authorities
Have Been Notified of
The Same.

Congress served emphatic notice on
the cadets at West Point and Annapo.
iis yesterday that its recent laws
against haZing were not mere mass.
ing sentiment, and that Young men
expelled from either academy for haz.
ing will stay expelled. One wear ago
last October three midshipmen at rho
Naval Academy-John Ii. Lofiand.
Earl W. Chaffee and Joseph ID. Little
were expelled for hazing three men
OF the first-year class
The new men had committed some
slight breaches of discipline. for
which Lofiand. Chaffee and Little. be.
ing officers in the corps of midshipme
should have reported them. Instead
they chose TO put the men through
some brutal exercises. The facts be.
came known. the midshipmen were
lrled by court martial, found guilty.
sentenced TO dismissal and expelled.
Under the law of 1874 they were thus
forever Ineligible TO reappointment
TO the Academy; under a subsequent
act. passed in 1908. they were made
Ineligible for appointment as commits.
stoned officers in any branch Of the
service until two years after the grad.
uation of the class of which thew had
been members when expelled.
Almost from the moment these
young gentlemen were expelled from
the Academy they have had their
friends In Washington working for
their relief. As they were barred by
law from reappointment to the Acad.
emy, the plan was adopted TO pass a
bill authorizing the President TO an.
point them as ensigns in the navy. 50
that, instead of being punished by ex.
pulsion, they were really to be pro.
NOTED by being jumped into the ser.
vice. Representative Lacey. of Iowa.
has been the tireless champion of this
preposterous bill. In the closing hours
OF the last session he tried to slip the
Dill through under suspension of
rules, but failed.
were in the House, he tried il again.
This time he had a carefully worded
resolution, which. if passed, would
nave made his bill a continuing order
before the House when Congress reas.
sembles next January until it was dis
posed OF. Mr.. Payne denounced the
hazing indulged in by the midshipmer
as mot a gentlemanly or even a de
cent thing TO indulge in Mr.. Mann,
OF Chicago, said that to pass this bill
and appoint these men to the navy
woud be "a slap in the face OF the
Naval Academy authorities - Several
other members denounced the bill
warmly and gave notice that Mr..
Lacey would have to have a quorum
in the House before the resolution
should pass. Mr.. Robinson, of In.
diana, said that to pass the bill would
make outrageous conduct at the Naval
Academy the price of a commission
in the navy.
The resolution, already moribund,
was given its deathblow by Mr.. Brick,
OF Indiana. who warmly advocated its
passage, saying that hazing was,
after all. only boyish prank, which
the lads in manly way had not de-
MED. " That settled it. When the
vote was taken only 30 men voted foI
the motion to suspend the rules. Mr..
Cannon took final shot at it. With.
out stopping TO count the men who
voted against it. he announced
There are 80 votes in the affirmative
and n votes in the negative. Two
thirds having refused to suspend the
rules, the rules are not suspended anC
the bill is dead :"