Show CHADWICK IS REBUKED Severe From Secre Seere Secretary Secretary tary of the Navy 0 LONG LONG S So WORDS WEDS 4 I 0 0 CRITICISM OF ADMIRAL WAS INEXCUSABLE T r It Was the Fiery Captains Second Offense and Only His PleaS Plea Plea That His Confidence Was Betrayed by His Interviewer I Saved Him Hm Prom From More Severe Punishment 4 0 0 Washington May 2 Secretary Long toy today toy made de public the correspondence has taken place between the navy department d and Captain Captin Chad Chati Chadwick Cha wick respecting reet the te published inter interview Interview view vew in which tile the tie captain is f reported as RS severely sely reflecting upon Rear Ad Admiral Admirl mImi miral mirl Schley S ley The Te letter leter was written today ty and ad was forwarded only after iter the secretary had a confer conference ence enee on ene with wih the president pred on the subject The departments action in the case cas is a a severe svere reprimand and nd it is note noteworthy note noteworthy worthy that tat its is letter has been b n made mae public pub a fact whIch in adds to the weight of the punishment admin administered administered administered The correspondence enc consists of two letters one from Captain Captan Chad Chadwick Chadwick Chadwick wick and the other oth r from Secretary Long Lon In his is letter leter to Secretary Long which is dated New York April 21 2 Captain Chadwick says I have haye in no po 0 way been been privy to the publication of a said Sid article artcle The Te cir clr circumstances on it Is based bad are areas areas areas as follows On the or of this month in passing down Fourteenth street in Washington Wahington I was saluted salute by Mr At t tk Idus k correspondent of the Brooklyn Eagle a gentleman whom I have known in Washington a number of years and ad adawaY always awaY favorably Mr Atkins had called cle my attention Jan 2 last Jast to ton an en editorial in the Eagle of f I think Dec De 31 1899 18 expressing an extreme desire for me to read it and asking if he could could see s me I I declined to ts see him as a I knew that he probably wished wish to dis discuss dis cuss curs CUE a 8 confidential subject I later ob obtained tamed a copy cy of he the paper referred to toan and an read the editorial referred to It I was 85 a discussion of the controversy re regarding regarding regarding garding Rear Admiral Schley and an az pro pr proposed posed po remedy ry viz The promotion of both Rear Admiral Schley Scle ey and an Rear Re Admiral A trl Sampson to vice vic admiral amral He Wrote a a Note On the occasion of the casual meet meeting meeting ing in on l the l or ins I entered entered into a conversation with Mr Atkins regarding the editorial I asked him if ir he had received u n note which I had ha 1 sent sn him hm ore on on r reading it i in which I said aid the the writer wier was wa evidently n t aware aware of the facts in the case ce and that he e en entirely en entirely mistook the principle involve This 11 was V the te tet text of the note so s far faras fara faras as a I remember re Mr Atkins said sid yes ye he heh hethe h received dl the note not not and had bad ha not need Ud it it In I any An way I replied of af course coue not nt it was entirely private I 1 re repeated repealed pealed what I had said in the note note and ad said id the question upon which v the te navy nv stood sod was w not the the advancement o of any particular r man m but one of honor I 1 added adde that tt the whole differ difference difference ence in the matter mater was as with the te press pr in general genel which had bud failed to put before the e country the facts based upon un Rear Re Admiral Schley own sig signals sign signa nals n na and an dispatches stated sate in the let letter ter tr of O the secretary of the te navy oNY to the senate of the th of February 1899 that the people in general gener were thus ignorant of the true status saus of the case c that the th letter which of course cours was virtually the presidents statement saten of o the te matter was as severe revere an arraignment as a it I was possible to regarding an tn officer and ad accused acus him of conduct such sc that no officer should ton remain reain silent slen under und t the 0 accusations acusa accusations Should Clear Cear Himself Rims lf That every sentiment of military mitry honor demanded that rt Admiral Admira Schley Schley should suld ask uk for a court crt to clear himself himsel of such su h charges oare and that I believed I every ever officer of the navy would be be pleaded to see s him cleared for the honor honorof of the te service and that I could certainly certainly certainly say so r for myself that so s long longas IonS as a he remained silent under these thre charges cha I would not take his hand or meet mee him socially that that it was impossible impS impossible sible to advance advae Admiral Admirl Schley as a the editorial proposed so long as he here rested re under une these NEs charges without de do d the whole standard of honor and duty in t the navy that the whole navy so far as 1 I knew was of this opinion and that its is attitude was a amter matter of The foregoing gives my ray remarks in substance ant and an purport as far as aB my jay recollection serves me the convert conversa conversation convers tion was wail entirely etrel r private eo so regarded by me one and and also akeo aJi I supposed by Mr Atkins Atin as evidence of f which latter is the fact ft that he knew that my y note which consisted of as faras far as I can cn re remember remember remember member but this one ne short hort phrase ph e mentioned was private and also als that nearly or quite quie a week passed p d before bEfore I he mentioned my l n conversation conversation public publicly ly It I was in no n sense and in no part Intended for publication nor considered an interview Secretary Longs Reprimand R Secretary Long in his letter says The Te department regrets that It has occasion to reprimand an of your rank rk and an experience e for inexcusable able indiscretion and anti offense against again the navy regulations 0 It I appears front froni your letter leter that in your ur interview with Avith wih Mr Atkins whom you knew to be a newspaper corre correspondent core Indent you yo spoke of a fellow officer your senior in rank in n a way y calculated ed to bring him hm Into int int contempt You knew thin thia thi to tt t be a of the naval regulations which forbid the communication communication cation by interviews of f such ouch comment and criticism You knew it to 10 be against agins the te good go order and anti discipline of the service because beu it Is the example of one on officer in high hig rank reflecting upon the honor and character of ot another an example which and follow followed ed e tends teno to bring brn the te whole service into contention and a nd scandal You knew that the professional business of ot your interviewer is I o collect material for publication His Hs Second Offense While he may ma not have had justification cation caton in publishing lat you under understood understood I stood so and regarded as u tood by b i him hm to be private you knew the risk you ran and nd within a year had been ben reprimanded re for similar m in t yourself and the welfare of the service to to the same risk with wih he ie e same se You have thus thus again agin and further impaired the the confidence conf dance dence of the department in yur your ladle indis indiscretion ceton It I is true te that that your yo r case ease differs tram from some recent reent offense on the part of other ether officers inT that t remarks remark made by them hem jv were re made on occasions and under circumstances which they knew kl assured their pub publicity publicity In ee sure ua un reservedly accepts your yur statement statement that that your you remarks were In no sense EnSE and In Inno n no part Intended for publication nor considered as an interview intel v vI It I is for this reason roh that th it tak takes no other action acton than this emphatic rep reprimand rad the receipt of which you will acknowledge Very Ver respectfully r JOHN D LONG Secretary rr 0 |