| Show t 1 t I t 1 t t. t I. I M t. t 0 4 II I H i Representative Williams lliams of Mississippi found V the he opportunity of pf his life in the House yesterday esterday r l 1 ed it beautifully at the expense of juni junior r near Hear Admiral In the course of his rI Mr Ir Williams interpolated an ori original inal poem Joern I entitle r Who ho is ilS Papa Pap in the versea wh which ch he lie read en the tiie creator of or orth th the Sampson son boom Ts described 11 as the great greatest st tar tar that over ever ver stayed ashore V VV Incidentally 1 tIll the Sampson Schley Sampson Schley contro controversy V came up for discussion and nd we WO are sorry sorry- that float it did sp so SOO soon after l' l the n f principals in it n But t the truth of history must be vindicated and while there remains a man of prominence e in ill the tile country who has the assurance to att attempt its falsification cation as some still do 10 consid consideration for the memory mem mem- ory orr of the dead Cad must give place to the duty the country ow owes s and the Am American r can people acknowledge edge to the real hero helo of the sea fight tight of Santiago Whatever I hafen the official conclusion might be said VV Mr 11 illiams Williams the Am American rian people had c me to thc conclusion that Admiral Schley had hall something To V do with that fight V VV We p should sa say so If is due to the commander V on the occasion and to the officers and men who whoso so gallantly fought under his direction that Captain Sampson with his gunboat commission as acting ug rear ar admiral not only was voluntarily absent from froin V V the battle which he lie k knew ew to be he imminently impend impend- V V 1 ing i g but that lIe he never ne was legally in command of V the he fleet fiet e t. t His appointment as commander in chief V leally clearly was vas as in defiance nce of the thio law g governing eining the thenay navy nay in that it assumed to place ilace him in command V over W officers above e him him ill irr tank rank This is a fact V which cannot be bp gainsaid The TIle statute statute- covering the ca cave case e is perfectly plain and does not leave heave a loophole loop loop- hole for doubt on the subject t It was Crown in shield if f we were v c are re not mistaken who ho was responsible for the violation of law in the pr premises In an an- an event it t was vas as violated and no no one knows know that it was I I V i 4 4 V better than of the e Navy Depa Department Every elT care has eu taken l to suppress this tills truth alId to pre prevent nt the tue American people from knowing that that flint the credit V of the Santiago O victory was given omri officially lly to a man who had no lot or 01 part in ill it who left the scene after r being cautioned that the tile Spaniards Span Span- lards were ere preparing for a sortie and who if he Ie had been present would not have been lawfully in jn V Vin command in the presence of his Superior Commodore Commo Commo- dore Schley V Not only was the credit given to Sampson but the lions lion's share of the time prize money to which he had hadn hadnot hadnot n not t the time shadow of a claim in law or 01 in irr equity r We Weare Weare e eare are greatly in error if the time law officers r of the time Government Government Gov Gov- were vere er not aware of all this thi when they allowed allowed al al- al- al lowed lowed Sampsons Sampson's claim to be passed by bJ the Court of Claims Claim without as much nuch as a a. single word of ob ob- ob It is time that the country was as informed concerning this hidden scand scandal l. l Truth is mighty and must prevail I V V |
