The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-05
THEY DEMAND PRARY'S PROOF
HOCSE COMMITTEES WANTS IT
BEFORE VOTING REWARD.
% Ne Does Nee suhlDit % Ne Further
COaslderaIisa WIN Ne giVea To DiIls
PrONtsilng Ter . Reward fSr Isau' tils
Friends aay Ne vim Not COnABiy.


Providing Fer q Reward f1g Isam Isls
Friends aay ne vim Not COnagiy
WASHINGTON. March civil Engineer
Peary n between the devil and the deep
blue SEA. his enemies say and his friends
admit. a. a result 20 to-dAy's meeting Of
the sub-committee % the House Com
mittee on Naval Affairs. which N con
aideTinG the proposition Of rewarding
him for his Arctic explorations. Mr..
Peary's friends. acting for him. fatty
refused To submit his proofs to the sub
committee. Prof. Gannett 90 the Geo
logical Survey. a member Of the board
81 the National Geographic Society.
which ofhcially decided that Peary reached
the pole. declared that he had Pearys
authority for refusing To permit the
subcommittee To retain his data.
Although Representative Alexander OF
New York. a clasamate Of tbs explorer
at BowdOin College and his varmest
admirer and defender IN the House. took
ISSUE with the statement and said that
Peary wanted the sub-committe@ to in
spect his records he declined to take the
responsibility Of leaving them at the
Capitol.
Before the subcommittee adjourned
MIR. Alexander endeaVOred to have
stricken from the stenographic record
all reference to the refusal Of Pearys
advocates to permit Congress to see the
north pole proofs. The subcommittee
declined to entertain the suggestion.
30 warm was the discussion and 80 earnest
the attempt % Mr.. Peary's friends on the
coInmittes To attempt To reward him
without INSPECTING his records that Repre-
sentative Macon OF Arkansas quit the
session in a hun. He declared before
he went, however. that he did not pro-
puse TO -IegislAte IN the dark and that
he would expose the whole business
u the subcommittee attempted to reward
feary without first having every scrap
OF evidence hearing on the discovery OF
the role before H.
Mr. Peary will he obliged to make an
important decision before next Tuesday,
when the subcommittee will meet again.
Unless he submits his proofs 80 that the
subcommittee can have them published
a. an offscial Cs)Cumcnt 30 desires
no further consideration will probably
I've given tn any Of the hills proposing a
reward for him. II he does submit them
the sub committee. feeling that u IN not
qualified ~ pass Judgment ON the value
Of Arctic data. viii call IN a number Of
slun. II they decide that Peary reached
the pole the subcommittee viii then take
up the proposition OF rewarding the ex-
plorer
Mr.. Peary doesn't want money from
Congress. but he does want the title OF
Rear Admiral Of the line. In u letter
To "A friend he tells Why he thinks he
should lie hcnOred by the Government
with immediate retirement IN the highest
grade and suggests a numfrr Of caHe,.
which he believes should BE- considered
as presidents. He Is not particularly
Interested. according TO his own STATE
ment. in a gold medal OF in the thanks
OF Congress. He does want the rank
Of Rear Admiral. wants Il badly and does
not mind admitting the fact.
There was 50 much disorder al tO-day's
meeting 10 the sub-cOmnittee that RO
action was taken On anything Mr.. Alex
ander was requested. however. To So Mr..
Peary within the neHt few days and find
out whether he N willing ~ submit his
proofs unreservedly to the subcommittee.
His friends seem 80 think he will not do n.
inaSmuch AZ he N all tied up with maya
zine contracts which demand his original
data.
IL Is ten To one that the sub COMMITTEES
wall authorize the printing Of every line
% Peary records that II can get It's handr
On. While Mr. Peary has several warm
iriends on the sub commIJtee a majority
- understood tO demand his prooIs.
although not through any Jack Of fTiendli-
hess for him
MIR Macon 81 Arkansas said TO-DAY
% IL - only IIst to the country that P~ary's
proofs should be published as "A COngrsa
document before We go on record a.
that signal honoTs he ,
heaped ON hun The committee would ~
ridiculous 90 urge that he be- rewarded ,
and when asked what proof it had that 4
p-ary had reached the pole he able 10 .
replv. None I never did believe IN F
~aialatiug IN the dark