Show o THE DOLPHIN I j 1 Secretary Chandler on Garlands Gar-lands Dolphin Decision S 3 > WICKED ASSAULT ON WHITNEY I I A Newlyfl edged Cabinet llntst l 3c cling InMisused Povror Other News Notes3 That Dolphin I BOSTON July 14Y E Chandler ExSecretary of the Navy has written a letter to the Journal in referenc to the recent opinion of AttorneyGeneral Garland that Roachs contract for building the Dolphin is Void that the 1 payments to him are illegal dnd may be i I recovered and that the Dolphin may be seized as security for repdyrn6rtf The ExSecretary says This may seem to bean extraordinary decision but it was not difficult to an Attorney General who when sb requested wiped out an amendment of the United States Constitution with the utmost promptness prompt-ness Lawyers business men and fair minded citizens must judge of the soundness of his principles wf t > Cbajitller assorts that the plans for the Bolphini engine werJTdeSitjnVd and I adopted by thgN ivynepartment and advisory boars and the bidders had nothing to say about them or to do with them He contends it is pro posteroua to suppose the department hail no right to say to bidders You shall guarantee that these engineswhich we have designed shall produce 2300 horse power and shall move a ship fifteen Knots in a gale of wind at sea1 Every competent and responsible ship builder Chandler says would reply jif you wish to guarrantee resultsI must design the ship The letter continued con-tinued Let it be noted that this wicked assault upon Mr Roach by two newly Jfleilgea cabinet ministers reveling in misused power is perpetrated perpe-trated solely for the assumed reason that the Dolphin has not fifteen knots seaspeed when in fact on every one of her several trial trips she has > reached fifteen knots and t the last trip was made af sea in pursuance pursu-ance to the orders of Whitney but Whitney enraged it the result says the sea was not high enough and fifteenknots seaspeed meansseventeen apd a half knots when there is not a nigh sea and upon this arbitrary assumption I as-sumption the whole fabnc of the outrage committedbyhim is built Fhe communicationeOncludes bysaying that even the packed board organized by him Whitney to condemn Dolphin Dol-phin reported that the engines boilers amLnfam machinery appeared be In l accordance with the contract and the changes made by the advisory board |