Carbon County News | 1910-03-11 | Page 7 | Declines to Submit Proofs

DECLINES TO SUBMIT PROOFS commander peary under contract with publisher publishers and can not comply with committee committees request commander peary ha has ined to submit to congress the proofs of his discovery dl of the north pole ite ile bent sent to 0 o the sub com cittee of thu the houe committee on naval affairs on monday londay 1 the following statement tat ement commander peary atud nd hie his frier tas say that contract contracts signed months ago a ith his publishers render it ble to nue make his records and scientific data public nov no it I 1 not only subject peary to heavy damages dar nages a loss which he cannot meet having just extricated himself from debt in c erred in ct A ith hia his various expedit expeditions ione but it would be brea breaking kink faith with hi his publishers publia lers nh atch ch he lie Is unwilling to do under ecy any circus sta lance uce I 1 after heating statements by berre genta senta tives hobson of alabama and moore of pennsylvania urging a con gressional gress lonal reword to plary irrespective of the question of bis proofs oo 00 fa the committee adjourned adjourn ed without t taking action