Show TUSK COIitlNS COMPIAIST Lieutenant OelJons has a Paper on the Subject I I Which Gives She Other Version Ver-sion of the Story Washington 9The following papers signed by the late commander com-mander of the Jemmette are given for publication by the navy department de-partment Asiatic Steamer Jeanne tee and drifting in pack Decembers 1880 The following is a statement of an occurrence this day in which Mr Collins treated me with such disrespect dis-respect as to cause me to relieve him from all duty in the ship and to intorm him that on the return of the vessel to the United States I would report him to the secretary of the namy My order in relation to dally exercise requires everybody except the sick and man on watch to leave the ship at 11 am and remain out of her on the ice till 1 pm Of course it teas understood that Mr Cal ins sin uld come on board at noes to make and record injthe chart the meteorological me-teorological ttoeryation for that hour but i have observed on several sev-eral occasions ot late that he seemea to remain on board much longer than such duties required I haa considerable trouble last wiuter in getting Mr Collins to comply witu the order in regard to daily exercise ex-ercise Sis delay in getting out of bed his requiring time for breakfast when up and dressed etc making it sometipaes 1130 am before he made his appearance on the ice I pointed out to him then his failure to obey my order and remonstrated with him on repeating the offense I insisted on the order being obeyed and finally secured a literal compliance although as he informed me he had his own opinion of the wisdom or necessity for such an order or words to that effect To aay at 1120 pm I went to the cabin to see why he remained long and at the same time to close my air port and L found he had removed his coat had lighted and was smoking his pipe and while writing in the port chartroom chart-room was carrying on a conversation conversa-tion with Mr Danenhower and I i said nothing and returned to the deetf At 12 p m he had not yet come out I I went again to the cabin and found him at tie stove adjusting his gloves and continuing the conversation conversa-tion as before referred to The following follow-ing as the substance of an ensuing talk I asked Mr Collins Has it required all this time to make a record of the 12 oclock observations He replied Well sir hardly know tIle meaning of your question I said the meaning of my question is this It is necessary for you in order to make and record the 12 oclock observations to remove re-move your coat light your pipe engage en-gage in a conversation with Mr Danenhower and remain in the cabin until 1220 pm i answered curtly Well perhaps I might have lone it quicker but I did not know my minutes were counted for me I said in substance I have seen nt to issue an order that every body should go on the ice from 11 to 1 and your coming in the cabin and remaining until 1220 is a disrespect to my order that I will not submit to nor allow to con tinue I have noticed several days that you were longer than necessary neces-sary in taking noon observations and today 1 satisfied myself on the subject He replied Oh very well if you are satisfied of course I have nothing to say I was not aware nor I did not know it was necessery to follow me up I asked what do you mean by that r He said I mean that in taking me to task as you do you are doing me a great injustice in-justice I said as this matter has gone so far it must go further Be good enough to ire move your coat and sit down When seated Icontinued of Mr Collins representations injustice injus-tice have only to be made in proper language to secure you all the justice you want but I dont like your manner or bearing in talking with me while you seem to assume that you are to receive no coirection direction di-rection or dictation if I differ from you its my misfortune but of no importance to the result He commenced fI come here supposing sup-posing interrupted Never mind that part of it You you are herein here-in fact and we will deal with the fact He resumed I do not like the tone and manner in which I am treated I replied I have a perfect per-fect right to say what I say tq you He replied J acknowledge only the rights given you by the naval regulations regu-lations I enquired Do you mean to imply that 1 am doing anything contrary to the regulations V He said I mean to say you have no right to talk to me as you do I replied You should not havd disobeyed my order He said I will not admit such au assertion I havo always carried out your instructions i inquired Do you undertake to contradict me LIr Collins and to say that I am asserting as-serting what is not so He replied I mean to say my dear sir that I have not disobeyed or violated your order I said But Mr Collins I say you have disobeyed or violated my order He promptly and emphatically em-phatically replied I say 1 have not I said Great allowance allow-ance has been made for your igno ranee of naval regulations you position on the ship and your being so situated for the first time but you must remember that the commanding com-manding officer is to be spoken tin t-in a respectful manner and with respectful re-spectful language and you do nob seem to attend to either particular He replied I treat the commanding officer of tIns ship with all the respect re-spect due him as the head of the 1L 1 I JM 1 i expedition but when he charges me with violating an order I say I t 1 1 have not I said Do you suppose i 1 you will be permitted to talk i I to me in that way Are you beside 0 yourself He replied Not at all I I I am perfectly calm and collected and 0 I 1 know what J 1 said i say and you f contradict me Hatly in that way Have you lost your senses He replied = Y re-plied no I have not los my senses 1 i H know what I say 1 went on i 11 When say that by remaining in I I t the cabin as you did lodiy you violate orders ti I my you continue to contradict me He answered t I When you say I have violated an order I say I have not I then I 1 I rose saying that is quite enough Circumstanced as we are the matter mat-ter cannot be conveniently dealt with here but upon the return of 1 the vessel to the United States or i her reaching some pointolcommun i i ication I shall report you to the secretary of the navy Meanwhile I you will perform no duty in the l i ship beyond completing the work f I14 I called for in my written order of tf t i f September 1st Throughout the 1 > t whole interview Mr Collins was r curt contemptuous and disrespect t t ful in both language and bearing j the manner of his answering i i answer-ing being more offensive even than the words Instead of making If suitable replies and proper explanations explana-tions of a violation of my order he F arraigned me for the manner in k which the questons were put and f contradicted flatly when I said he had violated my order Mr Danen I 1 hower who left the cabin at i = my first question was in his room necessarily in a position tt to hear the conversation and 1 notified noti-fied him that I should refer to him as a witness He volunteered his willingness to have a written statement i f state-ment made for his signature while M it was fresh in his memory and I therefore requested Lieutenant Chipp to write it from dictation I dicta-tion as Mr Danenhowers eyes prevented t I pre-vented his doing so himself t i GEO W DELONG Lieut U S Navy Comdg t December 7th i860 1 I iti I f Upon reflection and recalling as r far as possible what was said have to make the following additions to I the foregoing memorandum In the I l places designated by Nos 1 2 S I etc as to the exactness of the places i r I I am not certain and there may be I I i i some little doubt as to sequence of I i H i words but as to the language employed ci trt em-ployed as similar terms so closely r I 1 allied as to not affect the meaning f certain by the smallest trifle am absolutely r 1 r t r I b i t |