New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-12-20
submit BRIEF FOR DOTY
Counsel Reply to Report OF
Commissioner Bulger.
DECLARE IT PREJUDlCED
Tell Governor Dix That Health
Officers Administration
Has Been Good.

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| Officer of the Port. submitted yesterday 10
I Governor Dix A brief i'm answer TO the
arralenment of their client by Special COM
missioner Charles y. Bulger, who con-
Quoted an investigation into the quarantine
station. They take up the charges seria'lih
and declare that the accusation Of unousi-
nesslike administration was general anu
unsupported. discredit the testimony oil
Denyse and the immigrant women, say the
accountants were violently BIASED and as
sert the quarantine was efficient ana 'he
| food. treatment and sanitation good
George Gordon Battle and George S. SEQ
field the counsel assert the bitterest preJu-
dice is exhibited in the Bulger report ana
add:
! The report abounds in the most violent
and extreme language The Commissioners
has I'm practically every instance taken lne
| word OF discharged employees. OF leiloi ar
and hvsterical immigrant women anu VI
| Witnesses who were concededly II the low
! est character, as against the testimony VI
distinguished physicians on the auNlsV.s
/ committee, and equally distinguished PnS
| sicians who were not serving on that Coli-
/ n,ittea the testimony of the staff OF phNsl-
! clans and OF the trained nurses VINO nav
| charge of the medical anars AZ Quai a.
/ tine His so-called conclusions are noli-
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! IN he supported by such evidence entlIeiy
dsregarding the evidence on the o'hei ''"e
| Of the question. - for
/ He gives no credit to DR.. Doty, 80 iaT
| as We can see. for any single ac.; ~ ~
ing 10 his report the administrator OF ~.
| Dotv is an absolute and disgracetul taliuIe
! In every particular. And this in the laCss
| OF the unanimous testimony OF NAM VI
| the greatest physicians IN lHe W., oreniv
! During the entire hearing 1t was opeI.y
stated in the press that the demeanor, tile
| actions and the language OF the coIll I,is
/ sioner showed "A very h''ei 80 IN
against the Health officer ana W.T. III
! c6reistent with that impartial attltuuS ol
| n,ind which such an official Is III uuiy
| hound 10 maintain. We had hoped tldt tiiiS ne
/ view was mistaken and that me I epoi i
! the Commissioner would De CAIN .'''i "a 80
and judicial I'm its character. BuI we ne
! gret to say that our IoPeS "
! terly disappointed ,-.,oo. s,ds IN
| The fact that the COMMISSIONS Iiiius -
! favor of every intimation ana every Luz.
! gection against the Health Ofncer, anu ~
=, Lii him with success in any par
! .tc,,lar shows of itself that ne coulu no.
! have considered or determined tHS Su"Jo'
! In fair and impartial matlhei ,oyirg
dannation is so wholesale and so sweeping
/ a. "a evlnce conclusively the absence Va
| any proper discrimination.
,s an illustration Of prejudice. the orlef
mentions that in his report MI
stated that the steamboat Governor
had been used at Quarantine many Sea' -
INT was really the property OF Hugh nam
soy the builder, yet the coniihl' 9io'''i' -
ie declared, failed 10 mention tndt tle '7'
timony showed the Governor Flower WAS
registered in Ramsey's name simply ne
cause the state had refused puliuei >
claim Of a few thousand dollars, nor did he
bring out the point that she had been IN
usa eighteen years without the slightest
Interference.
The commissioners report said:
During the investigation l frequently
asked for evidence explaining TINS matttI I,
and promise was as frequently mace lllat
such evidence would be produced. ms
promise however. was not redeemed anu
Inc question OF ownership of the steamer
remains unsolved, although 1t was IRE
ouently stated by counsel that the Hedltl
officer himself would testify and explain
this and many other matters winch me
examination of other witnesses hau ~
yeloped. but as the hearings in this pro-
ceedlng were drawing 10 a close IL was
announced In a sorrOwful tone or voice
BY learned counsel for the Health Oncer
that the latter was suffering from nervous
prostration brought on by overwork in
resisting the invasion az cholera. ana that
ne had gone to the woods 10 recuperatc.
Soon afterward. however, | learned from
authentic ana Cfedlple sOuI''H 'ildt TIC
chief Of the New York quarantine nad
gone away TO evade the service Of sub
pHna commanding his presence as wit
ness. and that at the time Of his departure
| he was in possession Il his usual good
! health.
/ Or Doty's counsel say this is an as
! founding misstatement; that they offered a
! statement and a telegram from Or. Her
mann NJ. Bggs in attendance OF DR.. Doty,
| but Commissioner Buger refused 10 allow
either to be read.
Meeting Mr.. Bulgers charge, that IL was
evident DR. Doty had been living the so
cial rather than the strenuous life" they
say the doctor has been faithful. and. In
deed. had not had a vacation for six years.