Show SINCLAIR AIR STIRS wm ANOTHER SCANDAL Evidence Shows Much of Oregon's Or Oregon's Ore Ore- gons gon's Armor Plate Is Condemned DIG UP OLD RECORD RECORDS Happened H Fifteen Years Agi Ago Agi i and Plate Is Still On OnS Warship S Sept 5 Real Rear Admira c. c P. P Mason Iu on o of tho bureau o u ot commerce admitted that tho battle 1 11 on once co the tuo pride 0 of ih th U united States Mates nu navy has carried sine the day du shy j was hum built tons o of oC d de le- le e armor plate platt In Iii addition the naval al authorities r t told that the conning toof to tov ci r of the lie Oregon which b by expert testimony tes' tes mony given nearly I 1 K 1 ii lars ago afo wa was shown to be he full or of blowholes is on this essel which may an any day dao b Iii called to aid in defending the tho coun countr r an au enemy It Jt I Is also that the thc armor armur by h tho thu Carnegie company limited up to the tatter latter part pan of 18 1803 which Hilary A A. Herbert then n secretary of the th navy r recommended b be stripped from the Lle Iud Indiana lana New ew York Massachusetts la and several other smaller small small- er cr ve v els hus has never nc been removed The investigation In ot or the matter was wast wasI t I prompted ed by hy the assertion In Upton Cha Sinclair's book The rhe Money Ioney cr ers erE and anti that thero there arc ships in our navy Y covered with armor armOl plat plate that was sold to the thc government for fur four or 01 live five times what it cost to the investigation InUi in 94 13 Ui 3 which resulted in tho the cel celo- celo armor plate scandal tho the author author au au- au- au I thor thoI 88 says 8 Nothing much was w va ever oer done about it it rho Tho government go could not afford to tu let the real facts get out But of course cour c the Insiders in tho tito navy na know knew a about out it and the memory will last as long a iia us th the ships last bast fought Out Democrat Democrat- Tills part of the thc book Is a bitter attack at at- tack on cit several known well men who have been connected for years wJ h tho steel industry and whose Identity identify it is easy to trace It charges that at atthe the E fl time of tho armor J plate t scandal v S they t y LI b bought ghi Ui out t the th Democratic pat part and und secured d the support of ot a President of the United States Slat fl made ir in reference a up lawyer rYer wh Pittsburg tile book to a a. the information upon which tilt Hit aLvo government investigation In was go an and to plate A 6 69 t 9 said ald by tho the book k manufactured for tho the ti vs have J. c c been Oregon reporters discovered all nil th the I was ivaa laid Jad before the In In- rt 0 uh Ii have puid Vo l' l J t u. u t t tn I cr t i it ti 1 u Y na t PCS PC p ec e Lot lov n n thc navy t U that Ut the tun S. S V still U o 1 Ui th the H plate it i IB op originAlly ori- ori orli orix orl- orl l I S 1 hips upon wh It t wu i in x whether T I 1 can not ot state correctly the Is stilt still on the armor n n question and the other vessels which Oregon In the Investigation were welO involved of ot without rot referring erring to the records said Admiral Mason lason bureau the also atso interviewed This Is first when not of the kind which can information without ti the tho permission out bo ho given gl h no ho secretary y of the navy nan of or the added a dd e d tho the Showed 1 then visited Metcalf was I Secretary conference confer confer- would have o a that ho said Admiral Mason lason during tho the with ence ento the notified ho day lIU In III tho the afternoon the thc Instructed had J I that he hc reporter or ordnance to thief of tho the records bureau were In his office show what can not behel be beheld beheld department The Thie navy for the fact acl that the hel held responsible manufactured prior to the in investigation In- In annoy Jno the shops in is sUit still on said Admoral Admoral Admoral Ad- Ad Intended which 1 It H was for moral Mason Captain W. W T. T T Samp- Samp head of this bureau eon BOn then at the and und removed recommended that lint it itc be c Cummings Also the tested the mattel matter mat mat- which took tool committee 1 1904 jOt made a simi simi- simiL similar tel ter up in March L resolution was later lar rain I tn A ur t. t un L of ot the house hout-e passed by In this but bul tho the matter matter mat mat- concurring tives tho through the senate ter never got to provide pro funds legislation Without not I armor armor could work worle the for fOl such uch removed And today tho ho I have e been of the vessels vessel equipment entire armor almor ii In qu question i estion is of or o obsolete b so Captain let e. e Sampson The rhe report Lieutenant A. A und and R. R Alger S Professor composed the In- In who V Ackerman S appointed by Secretary SeeS See Sec board 1 produced then Herbert was v S In part it if Is as follows s 's S l larl ut of cr the ani- ani havo aYO fully ull considered C We TC several men who either S davItS liB made by participated In iu the manu manu- witnessed or 01 They r facture of or the of or armor the armor was carelessly that treated with tho the view viewS wrongfully S on Increasing the tho output Thc They state I stateS S oC or the plates were many man cases S that Iu lu which only at tho the ends end from crom treated were taken taleen They the tIle test c t specimens at least two cases test In aO that treated after they thoy tho had hadl were plates tho the government In- In by selected y heen l i in n that have o to state IU Finally we 5 whole quantity of ot armon ar- ar the QUI out belief belleC at al Is 15 this company supplied b by ly mon Joor cent below In quality least per can furnish and they S the tho best 1 t that has been dam- dam that thit th the government conclude that aged We We Ve therefore has Inis damaged fiR tho government to tile tiit of paid to the Car- Car l 1 All 11 because wrongfully nolo company S obtained cent of or all armor Fite n per pcr thom them b by furnished containS contain contain- value ot of all plates I Thc holes or other serious serious blow S tug iut serIO been concealed have o defects defectS c which the navy c I If amount The forfeiture would be bo a proper propel f testified the Carne du company compau on th ho part of to rho arl d from appealed to President result that the to toS total to- to the Cleveland with was reduced b line tho S S tal amount of to 10 The IO- IO President shown the tho Is taken tal bY b the to time the address In the following noW tiled taO of the na naVY and of oC the records this other othel cn case Js board S of time the Time The award desire to mc t S exhibiting a Uti honest not flOt satisfy Usty mn my S doeS al all the alt companY compan the Iv 5 5 tu to give or Of tIme the reasonable or of the proof obtained the tbS Nt that It Two Page continued on S t SINCLAIR STIRS ANOTHER SCANDAL Continued from rein Page Pago One o of construction were wro discovered about tho lie third day of oC November 1 1st 8 1 On the sixteenth In day of or Sop- Sop lember 1893 sonic some Intimation of o the Irregularities reached tho the managers i i 1 t the company and a letter Is produced 11 written by one of tho the superintendents enjoining greater caro care In the tho preparation preparation tion ton of armor amorI amor I 1 am am nm willing to assume that the tho tho faulty aul construction began on tho the third day of ot November 1892 and was wa corrected cor cor- on tho the sixteenth day of ot September September Sep Sep- On all aU armor manufactured manufactured manu manu- for or the tho government between these dates date I think 10 per from ruin rom the price should bo be deducted Tho The amount so 80 manufactured between between be be- 1 tween these dates Is reported to be he tons n nd ad Its Is value 1404 1401 49 11 Ten per cent of or this value Is h th the thu amount in my opinion that should be be- be forfeited by hy tho the company to th lh government S Signed h by G Grover GIO Cl rover Cie This letter which was signed by Pr Pro Cleveland himself Is the itO th baSIs baxis for or the charges made mado a against the hi former Cormer President in Upton UllOn Sinclair's Sin Sin- clair's clairs cairs cair's book bool rite Tho records show how that when the tho appeal appeal appeal ap ap- ap- ap peal was made to President Cleveland Cleveland Cleve Cleve- land hand and the thc Carnegie Steel company compan was viLs represented entell by Senator Knox of ot Pennsylvania Captain W. W V. V T T. Sampson Samp- Samp son eon argued argued tho case cat for or tho the na navy department de tie- and tho reports show that he lie Cou fought ht to lo have tho the position of or the board upheld I by tho the President In this connection a n letter leler written by Secretary Herbert to James II I. I Smith of ot Pittsburg Is interesting Tho The communication is in tho the handwriting of or Secretary Herbert lerbert and is n as follows fol tol- lows Dec Dee 27 7 1892 To Jarc James II I Smith Esq Dear Deat Sir Sir Carnegie and Frick appealed from m my rny decision to the President who ito has tho Ito matter malter under advisement ad I havo have no doubt ho will vilI wi sustain me tue mC though possibly ho lie may ma not nol estimate the damage damage quito quite quie as high as I did Yours truly II I. I A. A Herbert Her Her- bert Subsequent to this a 0 secret investigation gation gaton was made mado under tho the direction of Secretary Herbert and settled by President cut Cleveland's decision congress con con- gross gress took tool up the lie matter mater und and the Cummings CumminS committee came into C t- t once After hearing all aU the tho evidence md and examining W. W ID E Corey and und Chins Chaa Cha M M. t. t Schwab this committee in its Is recommendations recommendations rec rec- to congress eons said sid In Inart part art under the head of ot criminality If I the criminality of or a wrongful act Is to be bo measured by the tho ton lon ion with wih which it i Is tho magnitude ot of the thE 0 likely to result from Its Is perpetration and tho the want of or provocation octon Iro with which It I is 1 lone done the frauds which your committee ln find are worth worthy to be bo called crimes Tho The servants of or tao Carnegie Steel company whether with wih or without the tho Knowledge ot of the thu company to Increase their gains deliberately continued for many months month to commit acts whose natural and probable consequence would be bo the sacrifice of ot the lives of our seamen sea sea- tea tea- men in tune time of war and with them perhaps th the thu dearest interests of or tho thu nation naton Lu No uNo flue or mere money ion tion ton is an adequate atonement for or such Buch wrongs The commission of ot such frauds la is 11 a moral crime of thu tho gravest charac charae- ter telo Your committee d do d. not consider It as 38 within their to draft a criminal statute but they do feel ce under to call cl tho the attention of or tho the house to the lw lit importance of or protecting In tho the future the interests interest of the treasury treas treas- Un UI ury the lives of our seamen arid and ull tho ho safety of the lie nation by y appropriate leg denouncing tut as criminal anti and all al anc such suell acts of ot fraud and und deception lle inac upon UIn thy ho government in cornice cornice- with Jt J J v oS t t h t r. r 5 I 1 r I 11 1 closure by ho hl cu Cum hi I app appears ars from Oll I-Oll the r records on ilk Hie ilkin In tho the navy and from all al that the present secretary know about the thc case casc to lo have been the tho end o of the Iho thema I ma matter In it was found fo that hat thIt lh the lawyer referred lo io by ly th the tho author of or Tho Thu Money roncy Changers Js Jalc James lL IL Smith to whom Secretary Herbert lelbert wrote the tue lolet letter commenting upon President Cleveland's decision a as al to the amount to b be forfeited by the tho Carnegie |