Show PEARY DOWN house committee refuses to honor pole discoverer representative macon openly hints he has doubts whether naval officer found top of the world wash washington ington dr frederick A cook no doubt has gotten much solace balaco out of the fact that the subcommittee of the house naval committee has refused to bestow a reward aprin commander Il robert E peary tito the house committee wants proof penry peary hits has refused to submit it for the reason that it would interfere with ills his lectures find magazine articles hal dently peary thinks more of the money lie he can make by writing and lecturing than lie he does of a reward bestowed by congress s so 0 there the matter rests arcata representative e macon alacon of arkansas was tile the chief objector to conferring congressional honor upon peary leary until the commander produces tie the proof of his claim that be found the north pole 1 I confess that I 1 am exceedingly skeptical about mr air penryn ever having discovered the polo declared mr air macon alacon before tho the committee and I 1 am going to protest protect against any honor being conferred upon him by congress until lie he hoa has established beyond a reasonable doubt that he did dia discover cover it and it must bo be established in the open and not net I 1 in the dark ile he expressed himself as being indignant at the thought of being called upon as aa a representative of the american people to c confer a high honor upon any one of its citizens in tile the dark all legislation by congress lie he said ought to be open and above board mr dacou macou said lie ho wanted to direct attention to one discrepancy in mr peares story this was till the speed ace which the explorer declared he made from the time capt bartlett Dart lett left him until lie he reached the pole mr peary said that for five days lie he made 26 4 miles per day but mr air macon said NORIN POIX Q A A no 71 az JT aa ar POINT OF tims i j 5 wa MS mst A i r I 1 ikast 15 skast goo 5 oo 00 dilaj W I 1 ay N I 1 1 9 1 1 1 PW 01 C 51 I 1 SW qz 1 I 1 ira aff wa jf 1 I ry I 1 V N PO VIS ft AND y bottro a fas c PY wito OVER 1 CAP diagram of peares route tills this appeared very singular in view of the fact that the peary party had made but bill miles per day up tip to the time bartlett Dart lett left the astonishing part of mr peares statement said mr ali macon Is the number of miles ho he traveled every day after bartlett Dart lett left him and when no lie white man was with him as witness his only comp companion anlon being hla his negro valet and four eskimos ills his greatest marches singularly were all north of the bartlett Dart lett camp from that time dine forward going to the pole and returning to cape columbia he claims tu have made an average of 2134 20 4 miles per day until lie he rea reached elied the pole 44 miles per flay day on his way back from the pole to bartletta bartletts Dart Bart letts camp and miles per day front from Bart bartletta bartletts letts camp to cape columbia mr macon declared that mr peares ow own n statements showed that he equaled tills this speed but twice during diring 1 the entire journey to the pole the first day lie ho started from land annd lie he made 26 miles in 14 hours of forced march which mr peary has told us was about the limit of human endurance mr macon alacon quoted lout shackleton gen greel and others to show that ten or twelve tieh P miles per day daar or slightly more perhaps perli aps Is considered the limit of human endurance cling over polar seas beas the only member of the committee who did not vote to deter defer action on I 1 the bill was representative engle bright of california who said he was convinced that mr peary had discovered the pole and that the committee had bad sufficient clent proofs before it representative dates bates of Perin pennsylvania syl heretofore considered a supporter of peary offered the resolution which ras ana adopted declaring that the commIt irv must have further proof before prue pro ceding eding |