Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 23, 1881, Page 12

12 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1881I—TWELVE PAGES. A CLEAN DETENSE. Outrageous Charges of Corruption Against the County Board, The Same Being Purely for a Selfish and Knavish Politioal Purpose, Commissioners Uurling and Wool Show Good and Valid Reasons for ‘Thetr Actlon. All About the Contracta Conncoted with the Oourt-Honse Building, COMMISSIONER, BURLING, ARCHITECTS ANSWEIS me weeks tgu tho Ties began publishing m inessat tantier about the corrupt practlees of the oh} County Board prior to 1878, Sines the vurlous nuttters to whieh publicity was given Mad appeared In THE TRinuNs from four to six years age, It wos diMenlt to see tho reason of thols putilication. except, possibly, the fact that they had not at the tine of thelr occurrence or of thele publication in Tas Tansy found thelr Way into the ‘Znea, ‘The object ulmed at, however, became apparent last week, when nother artlely was printed in reference” to alleged, frands in the construction off the County-Luilding sinoo 1478, —frauds in the substutionof x rotunda for the dome, fr the knocking otf of the surplus work onthe upper story, ete, ‘Then It becamn Wpparent that what toe Jtines was delving ot was: te replive 1s freas IC eould the present adininise {radon of county aifurs by oav whieh ean te Need for the purposes of dishonest contructors. ‘The objeet is to pret ” le feo antinst. the present RR er etn a otaltatrs, ant to detent this fatlus mony lepmiblican nom inees as possible, with wt hope of throwing Uo control of the Bourd inte tho hinds of that sane iy rit it for three years with he iligasivous cousegiuences to the vonnty, For tha purpose of digabusing the pubiia niin by showing thy fulsenoss of the statements put forth ly the Z'imes to furthor the ends of cons tractors who want fat Jobs und cannot yet them, two of the Commissioners thorantghly tes nuuihited with the subjeets, spactully referred to, were interviewed byt DUNG reporter. ‘The frat Of these wits ex-Commissloner Burling, hiniself an arcliiteet, and naturally well posted in veferenee to those mnadters concerning tho construction of tho Tuiidlog which were acted on during his tera of atten. COMMISNIONER NURLING, onhetg asked for his explanation, sald he had vend tho ehiarzes tn the ‘Fences, and would ronly tu the epeciticadions sertathiny: Speeibeation Na. 1 was tint Agirl 8, 1878, tho Board rezolved upon the erection of at rotunda “tomke te phice of the neplring deme thon way, tind Upon s the eounty ted InBFOT the s27h,000 estinted for its: » “would not “What Isto Tar doned After a cood deal of dik it wits de~ efded-to unlte with the elty In building a ros junta. aud Exun was ordered to prepire plans toy it, and ovlyo fer altering the lop atthe Wiking te accommodate the Court-Houee 10 the change. Cleaveland, the 1 architeet, and b got up a joint plan adopted. The dome way to vost mura A, The gorunde will cast nothing OW, but FP don't remember tho exact SPRCTIICATIO 2 : wns that the material used for tho dome, “which had cost the county over 840,000," was domitad to Mr. Sexton, “who nftterwards disposed of it at a Nunre exceeding 30,000," The ol materi) Mud’ to be taken out, and tt wax pag of the contract thut ho shomtd bave it. Thera was at losy of $7y,000 on the dome,” Speciticatlon No. d was tht the contract for the eutstone for this rotunda was trst let to: oll & Son Cor SH4.690, and, wtterwards to Bde ker Cor £25,00), tls true thit the contract wiia first let to WeNell,” said Mr. Murling, *but he baked square out, und thore was Ho Wily to hold hin. Walker proposed to do hls work, but the Board wouldn't Jet hinand forfeited” the contriut. New tlds weve wlvertived for. sind Walker put “vane and wot the contract after a good deal of yy on the prt of tha Bonar ‘hore was, {su to do the work, atid prices hud nd- waa that the contract.for and fron work fur the ro- Marvel 10, 187), ut MeNeil to do his PUM OUT, St comnpelled to carry, BAUR CONT tt Inthe meantine tho price oft iron aud Uricie bid anu wp. une ber nattited the Hourd that bu would wot geon, So the contract bud tebe relet. Hull the connty's rignts were not Jeopordlzed, and the mitten is In the courts." Speeiicaton No. & was that tho cuntrnet for the Arespeoot work tad been Jet to Sexton for THAT, whon Willlam Anderson, © whose suretios were beyond question,” bid 851000, eran ia myth, | belleve, | plan work, tho th coud wot be = know noth- IMe Burllig has been tin archi- ‘ain Chicago and knows about ated In the building tne} The ¢ refed i KuUred Judeiment tnthe fnture tat of the comity Wn tutti, contrasts, aid, awardad thay for the tres proof work to Sexton, becouse he was already n contractor, had pos- sessiun Of tho premises, and was likely to do the rar Properly. Sith was a lower bidder, but Cy fi WAS Urns Hust Atl, and it did nut seem pritdent to give bin the wort and we could not seo that he: bud cho frelllties Tor going ou with tt. Wo did't want soqwake any humbug arrangement pecification No. i wits that the Hoard voted a qratalty of 32,00) to O'Hrien, the plastorer, “YT hut isu fuet," sald Mr. Burhing. Wo contdn't get the work dong otherwise. We bad: qareed to tet hitn have tho bullding in Outuber, but dhiv’ttet bliatn unt ine, ite sald if wo lowed hin $3,000 he would puton an extra tore eet scattolding all over tha bulking we auen, und rush the work, We thauedht it for tho Interest of the county to ylye kl the money, Noe building wouldn't buve been ready for oo» Supaney this year If wo buda't done 60. ppeetlicution No. Twas that Anderson's bid fur the plasteriuge (BULKY wis henored, and the con Arnct fut to Thom O'Nelen ab SILBI7, ' Urlen's bid was the best one for tho cout ty," eaid Me. Hurling, “is be wes a responsible Mtn tad bud ood huckers. ‘Tho Hoird pres ferred hha to any of the others, Specttention Nu, 8 was uit the contract for plitinbinge nid: panel tting was lot ta Schister & npurter for SKK In the fue of Murry Byres bid of Sides, Jo Hogan, t think, waa the lowest biddor," ea Hurting. “but be bud ben a county: ut, nod bad a bad reputation, Schuster er were tho best Ne tiyrag Was i Hy waned went Irresponsible, and wane to trnat bling ws ho hid no mean: veltcation No, (was Uiit the stemmehentiny contract was nut let to samuel Pope for 827,874, Dutacven to doin Davis, whode bid wis $25,005, "Pope," sith Me Hurling, was somewhat lower than Divis, hut Davis hid a aottor rep tution 4 a tiecnunte, und so didn’t want to ox= periment, a4 Vopy hadn't hud the experience to autho work.” . Sperticution No, 10 wus thut, In tho Anal set Hement with Walker, be got $120,000 MORE THAN IMS CONTIACT PRICE. “He did a great deal of extra work," suid Mr, Burling, “and we allowed bhi sameiblog fia roundabout wiy,-soniy 820,000 for bis tosses Ly huving county orders discounted, T think, wo. monly tv divlous settloniune with bis”, fe, Hurting said he voted nant ly ine om Nelson the pasting contract, Wot beewide he was the tawest bidder, but becuuse hoe ‘vanted The wills tinted ana nat trescocd, Lis. judye Tent gn this poiut waa sound, us the frescoiny Jo tho buildin is batig rutied by tha dampness. ‘These spectiteations cover all the ring work tn which Sr, Burling ts charged with baying ty apart. Whether his oxplanalons ire suiicient, the render can Judge for bimsull. The morning Duper cot ap an Investigation ito Ci Hatioys which proved a failure, -b vontractors would not appear and © sq . Hy publishing what appudirs without oxplum ton to be crooked, Ib ducks ta biickes the ebire heter of tho men who refuscd to let the contract tor the entire justly work of the Conrt: House to, 4 iv which the Timed, for somu reason, wus ehumploning. COMMISSIONER Woon, MANATION COVES Al TIE CHANGES, The reporter next culled on Commiastoner Wood, und obtained from him the following statement, whieh [au completo answer to the charges against bin and othucs: lu Fubraury, 187%, u committes was appointed ou Uhy part of tho County Bourd to meot u situls Jar commilttes aa the part of the Common Couns ell of Chleaze toarrange mations it dittarcnve In regurl to the construction of the Court-House, ‘There hut prive to that thing been several matters of dispute betweon the two budies, cone trovercies respecting the Court-ilouse, Ita fours dations, the muteril to be used, and tho plan ofw building to be erected. At ono thie it was (ay hig been reported) inutually agreed that tho two ntructires should by unitorm tn appear dice, ‘and that adome should bo erected vom. 8 Ws inon to buth, und counvoting thon in the covtre, , ‘The olty ut vue tino aurved that tho county sbould put fin the pilluy, for the foundation of the dome to rest upon, which It did, the ulty agruvlug to puy Ita Luif of the expense, Alter the county haw put A the piling und constructed tty bait oF thy foundation of the dome, baviug: expended thereon some 87 the ity doture rgtoed that it would wot Juli ithe construction of (hoe ssme.and (hy county wad therefore compelled foubandon It ou ite part, Tous mutters stuod du the winter of 1878 aud 1872. “Theory sues to baye Leeu do valid oF Lluding wgrvemout bu» Y tions, was takon into a tween tho city and county in. reference to tho dome or its Toundations, but the Connty h gone on and, besides tho - piling, expended rome S000), rely lig upon the honor and good faith of tho City Government. One of the purpos close upon the west of the dome was to fae side tho central pordon of the Cou Ne} thor was toconnicet tha tw buildings, When It was determined, therofore, fo nbaudon tty nnothor pli was stiyuested 10 avconplish both objects, Viner these ulruinstutices the two committees before mentioned met, and the reatiit was tt res. Jutfon (recommended and appraved by beth the Commty and Chy Architects) to cutdowin the atte sory of tho buildings, vs ts well known was done, omitting some portion of the oxternal oroamentution, to build a rotiinds, and to cone neet the Hundoiph and Washington street, fronts by anureh atencty front. Ane, sive it was necessity to indlose the central etuirway of the County Nuilding hnimedintely, the County Bord took steps to revslve bids for the cut, stone, tusonry, and tron-work, whieh resulted In letting tue contract for the cut-stono work to MeNeil & Son at $14,500, and | tho fron and brick work to Suxton, they being the lowest’ bidders. ‘The contracts enibriced tho taking down and removing the cut stone and mason work of tho county partot the dema ton line whick would beconie the foutidation of the now rotunda. The charge that the Bonrd threw away the imateriats thug to be removed fa unfounted, for two reasona: First, ft {6 twndestood that tho value of the stone to te removed was about equal to the cost of taking dowa and) removing it; and, sdeondly, that the bids inaile for tho nis ronry, and foreqallzing the basement, or inkits dowt the stone-work, were upon the basis that the contractor would be entitted to tho material removed, Butie it be eluimed that Sexton ts Nublo tinder tia contract to account for such stone, 18 come have Insisted, thiy remains we Open, tnsettied claim on tho part of the county. With regard to the amount expended pon the dome as urlglonity designed, that oxpend= {ture, whothor wieuly’ or athorwise, was made, und whatever wig done ended long priar to 18, and no member of the preset Bourd ts, or can be helt, responsible fur action of tho Hourd in reference thereto, Nor ts it now niteriil to fuquive whether tho old Hoard neted with duy caution or not in ite deullags with the elty, ini to the contracts on tho rotunia, th i pre nwirded in February, 1850, with the werstandine that tho work should proceed {tn medintely. Tho contract for the cut-stone work was awarded to MeNeil & Son at 814,000. MeNeil afterwards atated that be had takeu tho contract with the tnagrstand.ng betweon him and Walker that: the latter would Curnish the stone nud pent the work, und that Watker hud refused to fuitill bis agreement, MINED FAILED ‘TO IMtOCERD c with the work, and (nally when tho Jolut Com mittee, tinding that nothing was being done, re- sate hin to proceed, hy gaye notes in writing that h ora vot und would not perforin bis Art=Hatise eunt! of Walker whetuer ho would take tho eontract in bis own name and: reiil i for the sum of S100. He replicd that he would take the con- trace at 815,000, at tho sume th. ealieging that it was mich tod low n price, but ctaiming that ho vould perform the cputract fur tho reuson that he bad the stone on band. Tho Committee, 1 think, thereupon recom mended to the Howed that the ‘contract be en- i into with Walker nt $15,500, This, it was supposed, would settle the matter. But when ie eume befuretho Hourd the recommendation wns resected, sing of tho menibers voting ab. sent at the tiie, and the proposition failing to receive it (woethirdsa vote ns tha hoy required, The Comuiites “was theraupon tustrycted to advertise for bids for the culestone work of tho rotunda, which was complied with, ‘The recon siderttion of such action would have been avalling, slice Walker iinmeiiately declared that he would not then tuke tho oelitract at tho price proposed, Bits were nccordiugly received. and opened duly 28, 187), the bidd belong Diner & Itodin= HOt NE SMU: Henry Korbor, at $29,585; Edwin Walker, at $3,070; Moldonweok &" Henne, at s 5 Tno bids wore not defultly acted upon at that tine, but it was almost tho unanimous opinion that. all should. bo rejeated, At tho next meoting the Bourd, on motion of Commis- sioner Fitzgerald, went inta Committee of the Whole to consider the bid of Edwin Walker, ‘Delug the lowest bid, and, Walker being present und nssunting thereto, the Committee recom- munded that the contrict by let to bim at $:25,- OW—belng $3070 less thin ble bids 1 will sa here that when the contract wag tet to MoNoll & Son inaterluts aud labor of ull kinds wore low, ut from about the Ist of May thoy had rapidly ndyanced, and it wus on tho Ist of August, tho time of lotth ip the contract to Walker, the zon ern opinion thit tho sum of $5,000 was a very low tizure for thy work to be pertormed, an Opinion contirmed by tho bids 1 hive mentioned. SEXTON'S CONTRACT. a\t tho same time the contrict was let to Mc- Neil & Son t contract was awarded and entered into with PJ. Sexton for the iron and ningon york of the rotunda at $9128, MoNoil & Son tilled to commence work under thelr contract for tho cut stuno, It was necessary that tho shonld do sy before Bexton could proceed wit! nny Bart at tho mason or iron work. Ho had frow tnie to time complained that he wag belng: delayed, that wizer and muitcrinis were advance dug in price, and that he would be compelled to atundon bis contract unless the cut stone could be furnished and putup, Ho clalmod damages for such delays: und funily, about tho Ist of Octohor, 16; tho timo for tho complotion of bis contrnet, he notiticd the Hourd In writing thut he consilored itat an ond, and that ho should not fulfill tt on bis part. The Board y notice to be given bim requirlag him to eel, and Juforming him that in cuse ho fulled tudo so under tho coutract he would be held linble for all dammnges. Every etfort was nude to induces bin to go on with the work, ‘The contract nad beun lot to Walker for the out- stony work, and he wis preparing and, 1 think, had already commenced wark, ‘The Board then advertised and recolved uow bite for tha musoury and tfon-work, On opon- ing tho bide, it was found thut PJ, Sexton was tho lowest bidder, his old belug, I thints, a littio over $10,000; at which price a contract was cti= tered into with Sexton, with a proviso theroin that tho muking of such contract should in no way alfect the rightof tho county to recover dhumages against bhi for uonefultiilinent of his former contrict, - In view of thoge fucts, [tb bas 1 at that the *reforns membors wore uct~ ongured In reforming thoir pocketbooks ' hat thore isin all this thut pertuins to the nocketbouks of members of tho old Bourd it is dutiicuit ty imaging, . ‘Tho wetion of the old Huard in ontering upon thy erection of a done, when no binding dgrege iment existed In refersneo to st with the City Covernment, may have beon reckless, mity Bub ject is nembera to censure, but, untoss other fuots can be shown, there Is ‘nothlog in it that Witrrnnta a ohirge of corruption. © ‘Tho arrangement to omit u portion of the attic stury and to ercet av rotinda imay buve been a milstake; it may have been unwise; this ju wt mutter of taste and judgment, Jut tt waa sup posal at the Umea tUme-the omissions recume tended would materially reduce the coat of tho Dat oxpudite ita complotion, Butwhern tho work, as chanlred, wis. spouitied und treated in detatt It was found that ‘ammo of the orun- inentation had to be retained, somo ot the inne turluta alroudy propared to bo changed or others furnished: in thelr place, and the amount of the deductions ageregited a inuch less wun thin Wa ut itrst ostlinuted. ‘Chat tbo county received. no cradit, hawoever, for such omissions fi ite sot- Hewment with Walker and with Sexton ty untrao, iu the suttemunt.inade with Walker of tho MeNell contract fur the eutestone work of tho Cuurt- House, this, as well as other considerus count, Walker ton prasented big ontire chilis uguinst the county, —for a bulunco remaining wnpald under tho contract, for oxtra worl, for discounts on coun ty orders, for incrouged cost of work done uftor his contrict was to bave been comploted. Ho coluling that - UE HAD BEEN DELAYED by tho nutlen of tho county In changing tho plain of tho work while in prowross, in wubstl- 1uting granitoolumns, pilasters, and doorways in place of Himestong, aud In beluging othor cons tractors on to the work, and in fuilmg to pay tue eatiiuics 80 a8 to enuble hin to push the work tondvantage., Ile autire account, us 0 now rocallect it, amounted ta ahuut $120,000, aud wis thatly compromised aud settlod at $15 dod. ‘Fis settioment ineluded wil oxtraa and all deduutiuns, It wad ut tho tlie considered fulr and Lonvat vdjustinent of ivory Important wnitter—t gottlemunt in full both fortunate und houorablo to tho eounty, Aud in referehoy to the newapuper ‘ubarge, hs surd as it Ie upon tty toe, that tho suin of $112,000, or any other amount, "wae divided anong ineimbers of & ring’? urleing from this (ransuction, | might bere Pit (hat it was well wiuleratoot that oyery dollar of tho amoput wows to Walker thereon, and of any cstimute atlowed hha for slong thie prior thureta, wont directly from. the County Troasuror. into the hands of his creditors, oF wud wu forestalled as to bu subject ta their exotuslyo control. : tn the gettuincnt with Sexton of big billot extrus in the brick und trou work of the Court~ Jtouse, all deductions vod omissions trom tho aitludtory, 6o fur ad related to bis work, were abo tuken into account, vetiuted, and tid settled, Tho bills for extra work and fur bls ance due undor tie contract ware carefully cone sidered Item by ftom, The oxtra work wae mogtly for additions wad chunges inde prior to Devombur, 1878." Choy consisted principally of Ingrouved tbicknoss of walla, in walls that wor. added to tho original plans, wud included a bule ance due pon tho oxtra contract for bullding the walld with sewer brick luid in coment Ins stead of cotumon Urlok lald in vemmon mortar, This ens: wus the balutice of whitt was knows ag tho "threw dollars uxtra per thousand,” Ip ‘hus been ahurRes, that this was asteat and has been generally so considered. Hut upon this matter tho pudjla bax been wileleud, aud bow Buxton and the County Hoard misreprosontod, IN 14 OWGINAL BID for tho Urlok und tron work of tho Court-Housa Boexton Included the entire work incue ostic Inute and proposed to do the whole uta given. price, it wus coucedod that jn cathwating on tho brick wark his bid iuelided tha sume at a6 ber thoussud. “When: about to commence ule Work the fourd coucluded tobave tho bavement ry brick walis laid jn sewer or hard-burned brick, und I coment mortar, aud called on bind fo nuk uw propnsition for the work tu bu so donu, Ho did gu, wad it wae uyrucd thut bo atid do that story with the sewer brick and with cement, und that be should be patd ¢3 extru for very thouguud of brlck-work so laid, Whoo tho bisement story was completed tho suuio CoUtruct wus made us to all the brick-work for tho building, _ Iu Decombur, 1878, soon ufter tho uew Bourd ‘Was organized, tho brick- work huyiug thon Leen eroupon the Connuittes inquired a tho top story. Mr. Sexton was puUnue the tyme of tho sowers ent mortie and tocunatrnet the tha work na required gunder his “Phe wetion was buku pet tothe enimty orig nil contrtet. the supposition that tt wold ma £1 per thousand for tho brter-wo But on furthor investigation tt wis Olscovered that ft would bo sich a ehitnge in tho Kind of material and inthe mode of construc: Horas would enitble Sexton to elalm amd tes for the remntning brick: cont show it to be worth, the ndvaneo in tho pric he contd have shown ee to bo thon worth S12 per thousand. ‘akeny pw ar tho situation. ta Round hastened to res ny te premises, Ko a8 to pore init Sexton to continie his work inter tha cons tract for tho extra tind of brick. othorwiso, the rommining brick-wark would haya vost tho county. €14 Insteni! of &) per thousand, wore whit he Anil such hat beet of brick and labor that yon brick inthe wall sonsfiter its notion The contract for It tloors was tot tod, Me Terwilliger fe Als for his kink uf doura— ereiKe of Its Jucdsemont the mn Jority of the Bourd preferred tho kind and styto. of door oltered by Terwilliger, wt iis price, to tho kind nndatylo of deor oifered by. Hnrris, which was very different thing, and that, oo, whon Harris altered bis nt £4, Was tho best or tho chenpest at now material to discuss, Delloved tbat Terwiliig ering style, quntity, and price, and so dealtat, THE ONNIEN CONTHACT. in tho season of 18e0 it was found that, It 14 fore A tis work In every story: of the building nt the sume Une, he would not et the plastering wlongzeo thit orhor worl: could cummpieted as was sles spring, O'Brien elalm he had been deliyed go furns tor he price Is not Tho majority almpl was tho best consitl of workthon: ond push tn tho following thut ‘al Breod ( time baving: already by) ho was Hot and itt a time of year when plasterors wero most Jn Qdumand and wages at the tirhest point. Ho showed his willingness tu go on with reasonable speed. einploylag stich (bought would be reasonably under thy eles Stunecs. And hu jropused to put ona turgor foreo nnd commenee work on o} building {f tho Loard) would for tha expense ot the lamelysInereis f stuging that would bo ‘thus required, had been to comnenco In gv of tho upper storius, and, us he compictod work thore, move his stoging down Cram tar to flour, For such additional staging he demanded adopted (resolution offering bin &2,000 ad- ditional compensation ff be would put up Necessary stuing and substintlully completa tho plastering (30 fur ug it could be done) cortuin time, which, | think, was tho Ist of rr, By this arrangement the ‘Bonrd mado pro- vision by witch the carpenter: work, work, und the plunbling-work cou! nad by which the building will be fully occupled ind soll dulng the preset summer, Instend of the following winter or spring, CONTHACTS FOL THE LNSIDE Wort, Tn tho letting of contracts upon bids recelyed, it must freequently happen thut the lowest bids are rejncted, and the contracts properly award: The reasons Cor this are force Of men ns ho ‘y xtury of tho plan ns to stain: ed ton higher bidder, obylous, nad need noe ve stata, The contravty for the curpenter-work, firo- " plumbing, was-titting, ivt-flouse wore ero were forty- zutol whom bil for tho ontire work, offering blds for exch kind. Some of the Jowest bids tande nquestionnbl: from what aro known as “ straw bidders.’ Much has been suid by way of consure tn referunce to tho letting of thes five contricts, Any one aequalited with such matters must hhow that to determine wise; between aneh a number of Mitieult undertaking. and tho atoitine ue ready to be lot In June, threo bidders itt all, el i properly. 18 are Was a very Thad the contracts heen let respectively to the luwest of tho bidders thorofor, It Is curtuln that cndless difliculties would nave arivun, and, In all probability, the: completion of the Court-House hindored ty dehyed nt least suothor year, The Joint Commitics, consisting of ten mem- ‘bers, reported in Civor of awa tracts te certain persons nained fo tholr report, Beven of that Conunittee afterwards agreed mn the conclusion that the report of tho Committre was tinwise, and concurred in tho ucdon of the Bourel th awarding the contracts, as Itdld, to By J, Sexton for the carpentry and fireprooting, to'Thomns O'Brien for tho” plistoriay, to Jubn Davis & Co, tor tho steam-hoating, to Schuater & Lumporter for tho plinobing and gua-itting, heh vernal bids amounting In the agyregate to hore bo stated that nroat deat was f thonowspnpurs, the Chicnzo Times, respecting the letting of those contracts, and in Its columns: the action of the Board bas been sevarely criticised, Whilo these bids were under consideration the Zimet advocated tha letting of all the contracts to one fird, whoao blils therefor mnounted to S28 155. Tnmadintel was announced, the Iounesy iros., in the aggreyiie iter the conulugion Times commeaneed, nnd upon i iled with the most bitter ubuse and tho vilcst en Ifa tenth part of the chirges of: bribory und corruption 11 ollice contulnad In the columns of this grout duly newspapor had any foundation In fiet, thore would surely oxlat, some prouf to sustain thom, and: tho causing them to bo fuvestizated ina court of Tho contractors public buildings of Cook County are not all of thoty nen eapable of coms Mr, Sexton, Jutin Davis, Job Schuster, H. Gamporter, Thomas O'Brien, are euch persenally nen of guod standing and cbore nuter, The publlo would balleye {euch of tham was enlled to tostify wader gnth he would stato that he naltbor: kuow ‘or wis Informed that nay uf the contracte for tho Inside work was to be awardod to thom ue- fore the vote was tiken thirvon tn tho. Board; that no Commissionor hud conferred with bim or Informed him as to how bu should vote thare- 1N THE FACE OF SUCIE CHANGES any oxplanation will be unavailing, aA plain stitement of whut has been dono can bo muda and the reasony therefor set forth, Cloud faith and hepest motives can ouly be shown by tha’ Bad faith and thisbonest motives when charged should be proven and can bo If thoy oxlat, ‘Tho public, therefore, must distlis and dere Rut those churges that are belug mude and to- peated in tho columns of the Zines, unless thay are swiftly followed up proofs Ina way | thot bo Imperative, engaged upon tho inittiug perjury, the production of bring the persons er) to 8 tril thereon, where crimes ure ine veatiguted: and punished. Tho bar. of public opinion t4 not the tribtiml where flagrant crimos ated, “The public, wufety and punee are endan, uy by private .ubbery. editors: o Tinea thon Uring their charges and proofs before Let thou fulluw tholr allogod. ourts and thore maky good ves, If they can, or fet thom a Grand Jury, malefuctora Into th tholr public utteral confess that thore ty no cause for theli aud startling attacks, ————__—. Maron Uchatiun Suicldo, Corresponuence New York World, VIENNA, Jute Blt is sitive dn event hid created so get na sensation Vienna us tho suickte of Fiekt-Starshal Buron Uchatius. mh groub mummy yon No doubt the reador bus heurd before of Uchutlus’ steel-bronzo cannvns, but the details of this importunt invention urotiutso wall known, ‘The artillery aerviee of Austin wus far behind the Krupp, of Besen, was the only mun considered rl it the propor standaril. me orders weru gi ands a vontract was mude by which Krupp was to change nll tho the Austrian artillery, Gi: Debatiug dlahked to seo so much Al ioney spunt in anothor counter: nyo chine forward with an inven whieh # colmittes of ary alt Uchatlis cannon was t Keupp’s, Une furmer was fred fore any cbunge could bye omar! Akrupp's cannon -showed sume dofects atter tho bret fifty nities and bechine dangerous favor ot Gen. guns usc by und wlx yours My LU EXAIINO cord Wus appulnt= tek with one of Uchatiue’ Jnvention, and it nuinber of hie guns were made at tho arsunal They werd ull found te be as sound and olf Archdu favor of them, tho Nrat ono exhibited breebt pronounced tn, gontrict wits wilnitiod and an Indomnittontion of 160,000 flor pind blu, and Uctutinn, vaunons Were hitroduced in tho Austrian artillery, . Ti squestion tow arose, would the How jmetul, gallud steel bronze, tho compotion of whieh remuined Gon. Uvbatlus' weret, bo upplicable to the large ar would these fortress and ia t dd from > Krupp, i tho furtiticatto! were tide With tho ‘frst great gun that wad ready, but the tubo widenod after tho frat tive whotd ‘Tho motel wits not hurd cnough to resist, odue by ae Junnense quantity of a Gunval tried asain, uch we they could out of bie for seyorul woeks the genial ine waly excitud, aud bad the aps pearance of aun iitonsely mortived wud tryimg Bilnister throwtened not ready by nu certuin dato ordera for the largo canuond would besentio Krupp, Perhaps ble experiments with the metul that day frulticas, and ho despaired of ulllimuto success, He went from tho {uboratory np to bis room and sbot bhnnelf with a sniatl rifle. Tho wows of ble death wus telegraphed to tha but, strange to way, umony tho wany telegrume wid leltend af condolence there |4 ne wo! dla: Austria isnot overfectilo da inventors, nd tho loss of thig great Bums fa greatly doe powder used, Ventor wus nury Lf hiv motul was mpeuroe ut Pesthy oof hardening to Judice a ronowned Engtieh [ron-wot to nrcanyo for purchusing his patont, ubous the samo timo Hussener process and Uchatlus withdrew, out teaviug any property to ‘bevause bo would not soll his fuyention to Powers, and the Austriuu Government dtd sot think it worth while to glye_ bb th pairiotle endeavors. Phu to live bpow bo tlorins—ubout: $250 a year—tho usual pension of Unicas tho Emperor graots bor suincome fruni bis private mei bia wife: und’ chile & Geucril’s widow, a ; No well-managed factory Is complyte with: out a full suppiot Ste dazobs ONG ease e emergency or accident. NASILVILLE Gen. Thomas and His Achieve- menis in the Light of History. Badeau’s Statements Refuted—His Nash- ville Obnptor tho Worst of His Military Romance, How Thomas Saved Roth Sherman and Crant—: Commander Who Sade No.Dnnders, Corresponitence Cineunnatt Gazette. Wastinaron, dine 4—The twenty-ninth chapter of Badeau's Miltary History of Ge Grant purports to glye, an accurate snd ju recount of the Nishyille campaign wider Gen. George IL Thomas. It ts, instead, both fuaecurate and unjust. Gen, | ‘Thomas emerged from the War one of its few unde feated Qenerals, No movement of ‘ils, from Hirst to last, had been marred by a blunder, For him and hls troops there had always been ayictory. He was the prudaiit oficer, who himman Ife mid the high interests repurdes of the Government iatters of auch concern us to forbid the rash uso of the one or the periling of the other, But whenever the supretee hour of battle cama it found hin with nll the menns whieh he could command gathered In well ordered and” prepared areny, and every -blow which le struck fell on tho enemy with = full and fatal power, Ifis was also n well-rounded character. in all hls intercourse, private nudoficial, he was the same quiet, modest, Mnmssumlig gentleman, With these traits wert mingled unusual firmness and resolu tion, ands courage whieh led him, whenever necessary, to the very front lina of the hot- test fighting, His army, from the highest to the lowest, had absolute confidence tn Itsy Judgment, and fooked upon his dispositions ay the sure forgrunners of victory. Ilo was tho idolized fathor of his troops. Naturally, those writers who froino books upon the theory that 1a proportion as other heroes are sintrehed and beaten down their own partieniar hero will rise toward colossal proportions have found It n- diMlentt matter tu deal with the perfect: record of Gen. ‘Thomus, Buteau, in, his heavy military novel, ine yatles all armies, and STRIKES At ALI, COMMANDERS EXCEIT SHERMAN, in the nttempt to earry Into effect his theory of ‘the best means of ewoglzing Grant. When he reached ‘Chong his greatest tisk rentined to be accomplished, ‘Thomus lind been uniformly successful and the Nation sounded tly praises. ‘The theory that he was slow at Nashville was the only plausibte ine vention upon which to hang a sustained attack. ‘This Budeau charges, and with this falsity seeks to shrivel the colossal figure of "Thomas in the eyes of the Nation. ‘The at- tack upon hint 1s most Ingidfons, | Its nunier- ong and malicious stabs are concealed under fringe of praises, ‘Lhe latter, fn the main, re elyen where notting less would be tole- rated; but every chance for striking home with’ a stab fs cagerly sought for and tm proved. «\ few Instances will ilustrate the eharacter o8 this brauel of Badeau’s work. Thomas was “apparently unanbitious,” “lacked in quickness and brilliancy,” “originated no great plan of campaign,” “not his nature to tnko the In- Itintive”’ “sometines slow when there was need of spect,” “not always rendy for napress|y, operations when his stiperlurs wished,” “ his preparations were so elaborate that they Jnterfered not only with his celer- ity, but with his bromptiiesise” “nevertheless he was, In some notable Justances, so eml- nontly successful thatthe world will probably: give ‘a yerdlet Inhis favor which greater soldiers [like Baden) might withhold,” “never aecopted thent opportunities] ult they were thrust upon hla?” “Thomas? de- termination to delay,” * Choinns’ situation at Nashville becomlug daily more humiltint- ing and dangerous,” “the mortifying se- quence of the great enmprigns of Grant and Sherman for Chattanooga and Athinta’? “ powerful but dogged nature,” © Thomas! inertness,” Grant “had seen the same traits a year before nt Chattanooga,” “the sine provuxing, obstinate delay bufore thy battle,” Such are some of the. dager-thrusts which z xumed to have been able-bodied, experienced soldiers, well armed, well equippe: vider, ats far os huninn foresight e wntinis of life, strength, and vigorous nes Mat Balt Get. Thomas in a dispatch to Halleck, after tho victory of Nashville, WHEN TAUNTED WITH DELAY IN PUNSULNG, ae he bad conthiually been betore the battle with delay In attuckingt 4 T amioing alt in ty power to crush Hood's army, and, if possible, will destroy it, [ut pure suing aly cnemy through in exhatiated country over mitd ror completely sugeed with heavy rans, Is no child's phys and cannot be aceon pilahed as quickly ne: thought of CT hope, in urging mo to push tho enemy, tho Dopart- Mnt remembers that Gen. Sherman tool with him the. complete organization of tho military division uf tho Mississippl, well equipped in every reapect as regards ainmiunt: don, supplies, and transportation, leaving ino only two corps, partially stripped of thole trans: pertation. to accommodate the fgreo taken with im, to oppose the fdvanes into” Tenicasea of that army which bad resisted tho ailvince of tie: Ariny of the Military Division of tho Missleslppl on Atlanta, from ‘the cominencemont of tho campaizn to its clo: id which is row, bn addle Yon, aided by Forrest's cavalry. Although iny pen cae may nppour stow, J feel assured that Hood's ariy van bo driven from Tennessee, and evontuntty driven to the wall by tho force: une der my command. ‘But tow miteh must not bo expected of troaps which have to bu reurgan: ined, espeataily when they have the task of de- stroying a force, inn winter's campaign, which wisuble to make itn obstiinto resiatincs to twico Its numbors in spring and stummor, Thon ts good enough to tell with what com piicenoy Sherman's grent ieiiys reating from a four months’ strigule with Hood's forces, now say these forces Btrenuthened with W000 citys alry, torn baek and relit for an attick on Thomas and Wis widoly-acattored commands i ‘On tho 2ud of Novembor Sherniun biinsell was at Kingston, and his four corps, tho Fifteenth, Seventeonth, Fourteanth, and ‘Twentioth, with one division of cavalry, were stretched atone from Rome to Athinti., The ratlroad and tcto- graph lines been repalrod; the slok and wounded bat sont back to Chattanuogay the wagon-tralns were loadd and ready to start dita day's notlee: tho paymusiers were paying the troops, und Sherman waited only until tho Presidential election was over in order to st There was now no serious gnomy in bls fron Hood reinnined nt Tuscumbia wad Florcice busy (tt collecting shocy and clothing fur his men aud tho nuzessary ammunition and stores for tha invasion of Tonncasce, while Heauregard, who had been plicod in general comnuind at the West, was nt Corinth supnrintonding tho Hebel preparations, Sharman having marched, Budenu thus falut- i deacribvs tho situntion—a deseription he should bave retuembercd In tha ebaptor follow. sug it, where begins HIS OUTRAGEOUS CRITICISM ON THOMAS “On tho l2th of November Sherman seyercd communication with the forces ont tho fonnes- suo, and troin this time Thomus received tits orders direet [rom Grant. Ho was dow in cons mand of oll tho Nutional truops between tho Miasissippt and tho Alleghuntes, ‘Lo him from this moinent wos committed the defense not only of Lennesaeo, but of ail tho territory ne- quited tn tho Attanta, or eveu in the Chattn- noes canipalgn. * Tnosamoe urmy, depleted, it 1a trua, but still the sume command tht: tad confronted Shore niin sv long aud so valiantly, now stood before ‘Thomas, and throvtened all at the West that in wyear of bittle olther Grane or-Shorman bud galued. After: wandering hundreds of miles, ‘ood ut bust found a bug, and radlroud com munication was uninterrupted dn fis rear from Corinth to Selina and Mobile. ‘ond tho Miasissippt bad boon Inforce hito, and tho only successful leader ot Rebel cuvalry during thy liter years of tho War had been pliced under bis commaud, Not unly did Hood outnumber Seboteld, but Shere wan, with tho pilek und flower of his ariuy, mon, horses, potouns ven, whut- over ‘ho chose to’ uke, all in the best state of = proparition, be murched in auothor direotion, aud u texperate effort, lt wits evidont, was nbuut to be innde to strike at ‘Thomus, whoso fragmuntary comtnund wis still scattered from Migsvurl to Bast Tennessee, The very boldness of Houd'a movement wae enleu- inted to affect the spirit of bls troops. They knew, If dotented, that nu other army remained or could bo collected ut the West indefense of tholr cuugo, Thoy wore to mect tholr old eno- my. ‘ The eyes of the South were upon thom, the Hobe! Presidont himself hud journeyed from 4 Hichmont to Incite thom, Sherman bad lofe thom an open door, and. thay wore whout to re- ¢lilm the aoil-upon whieh many of thom had beou born. tnd Hood attacked Thomas before, Sebofleld arrived, the result must bave bean digaatrous to the Nationul cause, But Forrest hid not returned from West ‘Tonuessee, and the Rebel chicf had lost some of tho uridor which couracterized the ussuults before Atlanta, IC ila strategy waa stilt bold, bis tuutica wore cure tainly tamer. He lugered. around Florence when oyery hour's deluy was of Incalculible ad- vuntnge to hisudvoranry, und far twenty duys, at this crisis of bis fortiine, he noltker followed Sherman nor assaulted Sebfovld.” ¥- This, thon, was the situation whon Thomus was loft to deal with x THE TREMENDOUS TASK which had Ucen Iald upon him. Shorman—leay- ig two snail corps, the sinallest of all tinder: him—hed murched olf tu the sea with no cnemy in his front. ‘The terns of onlistment of 15,000 of tho vetorang loft behind wore expiring, and wll of them did expire within a month, ‘Thotr places wero iiled with 12, raw troops and ibout 6,000 olvilian employes,’ His cavalry, ox- vept a very small force, was dismounted, Shere min had notified Grant’ tat be was taking oul, 60,000 with him to the sea, when in tact he tool over 02,000, and hid asstired him thut, while Fy . Hood's: force was 40,000, Thomns would hive ut Budent deals free-hunded from tho eover of [Ms control to meet him about 86,000 olfoctive his praises at the prediminently successtul General of the War. There fs nothing so strange Ins any other fiction ag that this soldier, so. loaded down with these above- reelted and most grave defects, should have enused the world—with tha exception of Badeny and two or three greater soldion— to nelfudlars hint great and successful, Budenu treats of Nashville tn one chapter, From tho moment he opens ft he seems to forget tho situation tis he preseits It In a pre- vious Shajier While discussing the march to the sea, Lo g CRITICISES AND CENSURES THOMAS FREELY: for “loing what he has before shown tha Grant ordered hin todo, and, of course, com- mended Grant for doing. Ue thus, in glar- tng Instances, seems unable to curry the thread of his own story from ote cliapter to the next, and whenover it Is found necessury, In order'to thrust at Thomas, to fgnore vital facts or distore them, this facile novelist never hesitates for an instant, Fur these reasons Ht becomes necessary to exunine thosy chapters of Badluan whileh precedgo his erlticlsm aa affairs wt Nash- ville, sluce from these, when corrected by the record on the subject, which wero open to him when‘ he wrote, the situation in which Gen, Thouns was plicat, and the task which was tmpased upon him, ean be mate clenr, The Nashville canpalens under Gen, ‘Chomns, was i sequel to the march to the sen. Lis stiecess was the snivation of Shere tinn’s tailitary reputation, Its failure would have compromised both Sherman, and Grant far more seriously than Thomas, It had taken Sherman four months of incessant fighting, with dio.combined arniles of the Cwunberland, the Tonnessee, and the Ohio, to foreo back the Confederates, under Joseph E, Johnston from Dalton to Atlanta, “From that polnt the Confederates now under Houd marched to Shermun’s rear aud threat. ened the safety of his comminientions, in invasion of ‘Tennessee, and a possible march to the Ohio, ‘Thomas iad been sent back to take char, of tho triqmentury forces and protect the rallway Ingsy and posts of supply, Sherman followorl Hood for ashort distance, aud then persistently urged Grant to let hin send baek -taThomas one corps,the Fourth, 13,000strong, with which to tuke care of ood, and allow hin {Suernnn} with the rest of his, three arniles to miurel deross to the sea, 'Thts was, Shornman’s astonishing proposition, which he constantly repeated to Grant at City Point, Grant): for i dine, as persistently sisted that [aod shoutt bo Nrut destroyed. * But finnily, ng uy result of Shermian’s utalug, ond under the cnormous assiimuices Wat hoe tad Jeft oimuch Inrger foreo with Lhomas than was really ordered to hiv, Grant finally allowed hf to start for Savannah, ‘The propyration for that march . WAS NO LESS HEMARKAULE thiny the anxiety fo leave Hood behind and undoriake it. When Grant urged Sherman to first attnek and rain Flood, who had passed to his ew, he protested to Grant tint " une Jess 1 lat fe Atlanta my force will not be equal to bls," and yet while protesting his own need of tha three veteran armies with which to equal Hood, he was willlng to leave ‘Thonns with one veteran corps, mud that the smallest, und. fragments scattered front the mountalys- ol Enst ‘Tennesseo and the’ Virginian Ine «to Contra Alissourf, to bo guthored in winter, tn the face of «a northward march of Hood, to protect Kentucky, Olio. and Indiany from ine vauion. When w second corps (Schollotd’s, 10,000 wtcany) had beon added to thosu sont Thomas, Grant guyo Bhermun permission to start for Suyannnb, Upon receiving this be ransacked bisurmiva to minke up a pleked body of 63,000 men for lis march away from tho enemy which hud ao long and so stubbornly resisted tls come - bined arilos, . Tho entire cavalry force of tho military dis vision wus put undor tribute to make the equip. mont of bis aeluutod force cauplete, Unsound den, UnsoUnT burses, Men Whose Lorms Wore OxX-~ pinta and word imalerial of overy pature wore urned over tu the force which wae boncoforth slngivbanded to confront and be requircd to doe struy the enemy which bad so wonderfully rer aluted tho wholu, . with which be : ‘The wost vxtriordinary efforts had bovn taken tu purge this army of won-combatants and ofsick men. . . . Our wusxons wore loud= ed with awmunttion, provislous, wud forage, oe + sotbatall on this ozulblt may bo as “the O} mon. He had also insisted that A. J. Swlth's corps of veterans would reuch ‘Thomas from Missourl by Nov, 1, whon tt face this foroo did not arrive at Nashville until Nov, i, where ft was In tho uot of disomburking while tho buttly of Franklin was in progress. It thus arrived too lute for uny asaistancy in the long cine Palen from ‘the entivstou to Nashviilo. As a rosult: of all, whan tho battle altho Jatter pinco camo on, and. ‘Thomas bud collected every nun under bis control for tho Higbt, be bad a totul of 65,472, or abottt 30,00U De low Sherman's luweat calimute, and at luist 15,000, or one-third, of those were, In ovary aonso, perfeutly raw troops, s Thy positions “ocoupied by. tho contending forces were clearly deiued. Thowns’ base wis Nashville, at the northorn apex of a triangle, whoswu aides were tho railroad south tu Decatur on the ennessou Rivor, and tho railroad south eustwasdly to Chattinvoza, also on tho Tonnes: seo Kiver,: Tho tyiso of this triangiu wie tho rivor botweon the points whore tho railrond crossed It, Hout beld that portion of the river about Tuscumblu and Florence, and Thorns the railroad nes and tho rivor about. Chatianooya and Stuvenson. | food hid rallroud comimunicas ton with Corluth, lilabase of supplies, and, have ing oquippod and organized his urmy, hy started dlrectly for Nashville by way of Pulaakt, Colum= bit, aud Franklin. ‘The distance from Chuttae nooga to Nushvillo wis 150 miles, and from tle. cutur to Nuwbyilio 120,, Columbia {3 lfty-atx miles south of Nashville, and Franklin ta ulna toon iniles south, both tho lutter pluces being on the ruliroad to Decatar,and ao an tho line of iood’s advance, . *) NO WONDER THAT ANXIETY, } koen and strong, But 1 at City Point whon It was known thut Shorian.bad cut lougo, and that Hood would invade Tonuesaee, No wonder that Bherinan should begin to have misgivings wa to his plan, sad doeclure that. Thomas’ comptete victory was nocessiry. to hie ows vindicnuon, and that If thoro waa failure bis marod “would be ndjudaed the wild ndventuro of A onuay foal," No wonder that Grant should ba wolghed dawn, us Baden, without intending It, clourly showa that bo was, with the yravo responsibility that ho had resumed tn gilowing: Sherman to marod away frotn this important theatre of war, From the moment those focllnzs took posses. sion of Grant und Sherman foulttindtog with ‘homng, who suyed thom both from themselves, ey. Grant daplayed it day by day, ani Bhormun took It up oo urriving at Savdunub,. Ag soun In the light of all that Bndoau writes, thle systematic, sustained, and inredsonable fauitNnding and censure wore means of ox- wus, devised in-advitice of u possible fuil- uro of, Thums, which could bu atterward pros duced and used for self-defense from the sturm which thoy folt would fall code spite of Thom: miviniy on them if should’ mareh on to lo. Wallthey knew, when too lute to runedy (holt graye oversight, that thoy had not provided Thowas with Proper ienns to nccoine jiu the greuttnak lald ‘upon. bitn, Woll did on. Shormun kuow that be bud largely overces thnated to Grant tha forco loft with Thumns, and Jt {a uo wondor that Grant: was soruly dle tressod when ho vung to aacertaliy Thomas’ real strength, or rathor tha’ great wonkuoss of his widoly-seattorcd forces, Bune _ UTE CAMPAIGN MACK TO NASILVILLE, Hood took five days to rotit and reat bis army after Bhorman disappoared in Georgia, and woh started worth with ns addition of pores 20,000 vavalry, Theso days hud Leon netively cmployed by Thomas jn propariug todelay the Conredur. ute tuureh while bis own concentration went un,’ ‘Thure was no buslor place thun Nashville on tho Uhuutro of war, The movements to restat Hood ere, all mude- under extreme qimoutttes. = ou Smith's voterans, promised for Noy, 1b; Sieh aria ea COO y's 5 yulry rong. * ison bad been abla: to raise only 2,006 horsemen, Flvo days {ator tho numwbor of vot- eran lost to Gon, Thomas by reason of uxpiray tion of tormaof sorvice had reachud 15,000, In fnot, this class of, soldiers hud been purvorcly eliminated frow’ Sherman's army and sent to ‘Thomng; and, aa if in very wookery, herman, Grant, and of cuurge Hatonu, counted them cone atantly there, in ull thelr yrumblings, us cifcut. vo men, and have su counteil. thom, and other thousands Ike thom, over since, ‘To Schotivid wus assigned the duty of delaying: Hood so the uttermost, ‘This task ‘was most sreditably. exeonted tinder the constant telus te OF lin, reagbing that place at daylight. Ate p.m. bo wus orteottny bis plane forauignt wart to Nusbville, whup Hood, moving: Bp rapidly at tacked at 4p, n., and thus unoxpeotediy to the ton troops fi i" TUK BATTLE OF FRANKLIN burst onthom. Tho Itobuls ware repulsed with qucb slauxbter. Had Suiith’s voturans urrived, a6 promised by both Graut and Sheroian, Thomas sweep awity, aid deelares have all the roa Kingston until Gel all ponds, ve at Frankitn, after checking him and dlecomit- fog bin. surprises iny Untlerstunding, Indeed, y to have forgotten bis own added sneers ut. Thomas’ way of maklhg war waa diferent from Sherman's” reet, Gan Ulehenbovoall th mid Lust, as wells the Wast, In order to ral equip another thousand ur two of horse,” Loo! over the fluid, and beholding aud stating the grout lesuea, th jaan of eines importance than the remount- Undor Forout nt least 12,000, fen, Thoinus was ready to attack this Cone hava beon bold, bis numbors, 1 words of Phomus make Badenu end bis bouk! He woll understood what failure Involved for the North behind bi and for those who wore hound ny and goudin; hdd hot intond that his tlow should fall short, of this scason of great uctivitys “ In tho meu tine, the situation ut Nashville was becommng: more huiwillatiug wi dasiyoruuy, not - should attack on tho Fh. necessary to innke a force only half of. Hood’ dhl not. arrive, ae bxpected, . Tho - dlspoals Hons for attack contiiued, howover, through tho Tthand sth, and on the latter day Craut moet wueaathy ordered Thomas’; removal, and direotod Bohotleld the order waa jasiod caine Thoyws' wol}l-cons: sidered and Suulclent reusons for dolay. . Next, _thorg foll 4 storm of sloct whick becaine a heavy coating uf Klaro ice, 0 that nelthor ‘borage nor jen could move cyon on level ground, and the Bai tein plated attack fnvolved tho storing of would tive reluforced Behotietd, nnd wade Mis + stand wl Prankiin, As ie wag, anil as Gan. Sobo- Hell reported, thy necessity oC falling back to Nashville beonme apgolate, Tivre O. horned Pett ection aites ls troops had been auccesstully withdrawn from tho whole souttiorn Hine of Tennosees, The vet~ orans from Missourl wore arriving, tho tiver was effoutuatis seitardid by gunbonts, and Hood Ma nok attempt to uross without discovers, ‘homes Know tho whole fell in whet ho wits opertting, every fouture uf Sts Lopnrip hy, every clement of its resaurecs, all about its [nes of atinply, and whit was needed for its defenses he bas been traversing It and studying. it for threo years, With this thorotgh knowledge, and bis unbotnded energy, ho bent hinwelf to the task heforoe him, He appreciated its magnitina nnd (ts Vital importance, Fallire menat the. tne vusion of the ty the reentiie of Shera from tho Ent, and the Indetintt prolonuation of tho War. Ile wis tot the man to strike unde svch momontons cireuimstnuves until he bid parhored ovory posniity clement of strength nt is control, aid knew that the bow he was to deliver was tho heaviest thie could be dealt. Every one who knows ol thoso days of peotarns don ‘at Nushyilio knows tht tho ellorts put forth were little short of suporhiinan, although Tadean Is plonsed to style its period of * huert- hess.” There never wasn tite or place or a ace res of alforts eiuce tha world waa eronted to which tte terme which Badontt now tsus are nore inipplicnblo thin ty tho rash nud rear and mighty and censcloss ongoing of that propa- ration ut Nashville, THOMAS AT NASITVILEE, itis toubttulwhother the history of tho War will show more unjust censure, persistent fault: Anding, and univise directions “bit on igno- rancu of the situation that ntnined in Ih f he Orst order nod ndvaniead Radenn quotes was this: “Do not let Fore rest Kut uit without punishment.” iloot was thon before Columbia with an infantry force iiperioe tn. jotleld’s, and) Forrest was operat foe on his flanks with 1,000 cavairy. Thoms: Maud not y alved the colufurcements with which to help Sehoteld, wv that only 3,000 ‘cavalry ‘These diticuitles, necurately | statad, which ‘Thomas detulled to Grant, Haden nifeuts to that Thome inust havo hd 6,500 cavalrymen, But he does not seen to heve tukan thine tuask bimgelf whothor 10,000 cavalyy under the commund of man whom Inn” previous ehuptor he himself styled “tho onty strecessfiit fatter of Moliel cavalry “uring the Inter yenrs of tho War" could bo “entaished” with §,000 horsemen, Tho dus thut Hood forced Schotleht across the river at Colurnbin Grint hid beard a rumor that Forrest was ln the rear af Shermun, utd tele- uraphed that, If it were true, It would glye Thoms wt ehinee to take the ofensive, Upon this Badeau sounds fia trinnpot and prochiins his sneers | There are few events i war which to Grant did not offer sn chatea to take tho offensive.” Here Tudoau quite forgets that be bad written only eighteen pages before: * Until Sintth could werive trom: Mlssourl, und Witeun remount his cavalry,” Schoticld’s force: wis thorefore Inferior to dtoud's, “and Ut pree vious to this he had written that Sebovetd hid heen pliced in command of utl.tho forcos in feontof the Nebel army, The withdrawal from Franklin to Nashville is hursbly criticised by Batted, but tte carefully coucunts the fret Unit it was frst ordered by: Grout, and then tuado absolutely veceautiry by tho nonearrivil of Smith's vetering fn thie to before, hors, assistad hy an able stut and uburdinates, was xirauing avery norve to gather and. equip hls fragmentary forces, camy the storm of diapitehes trom City Polut and Washington FALSELY CHANGING HIM with unnecessary delay and adesiro Lo remain on thu defensive, ‘Theso Badeutt revltes with gusty, and then dds bis own comments and censure, (rant wis entirely right in his estimate of tho relutive numbers of the opposinzurtules, Shor- man bid teit soflictent men bebind for avery: emeronyy, and it was only ‘Thoms’, polley of seattoring his forces and dafending avery asgull- wily pulnt whieh hit left so eimall an ariny for Beboveld at Pulusk! and Franklin, and inide tho Hirst falling buck Inevituble. And, quoting Grint tn further complaint, hy suys: “’Deoutur bus been abandoned, und so ) exeept the miuln one leading to Chattanooga.” Here again both Baden god Grant seemed ty bave, forgotton that tho very first order uf Grant, after giving permission for Sherman to march way, was, us quoted by Badeuu tn tho chupter: precoding the one now under discussions "It would be nidvisibla now for Gen. Phomeas to abandon nil the rallrond from Columbin to De- catur and therce to Stevenson." And again, ft this sume proceding chapter, Badeau revords that Sherwin before starting hud telegraphed Thomus in tho most urgent manners" If Heeessary break tp all minor polite and got avout Columbin as bly an Rey ng you cin, and ff. at bla"; and that, * those Instrnctions were Wentioat with those which Grant had given two weeks before.” On the pura where Baden quotes this bo criticl hone fur not falling Hick At Ones, and when he next refers tu it he censtires him for falling buck wtall, Ils crawn- uy elfort at this kind of worl ts where ho quotes from Sherma'a dispatches upon bls arrival nt Suvannih to show that It was coutrary to all ex- Sedation that ‘Thomusahould fall back to Nash- “ (ain somewhat astonished ut tho attitude of things In Lennesuee, I purposely deinyed at hams assured ne ha was Why ho ald not turn on bin Tdo not apyrove of nis evacuating Deentur,” White winking this promiient to sustuln bis” orn ntinck on hom, Badeau SEEMS AGAIN TO FORGET that in a forincr chapter ho hud printed Grant's ordor for Thomas to ubundon tha Mie from De- gatur lo Coltimbln, and. consid’ Thomas for vbeing slow about tty and alge that dn another ebapter be had printed this order from Shurman 0 gen began: one wriy and ssioatulaiy an ninor’ poluts if you omits given Just before the march tu the * You must unite atl your men tuto uxpeat to bout Hoo." And furthor, bo 8 at} 1 other wordg, ‘Uhomas had not Instantly retreated, Badeau's xenoral untalrs ness fg well jMustrated by the production of this digputeh of Bherman, While it hus’ tong been publlo property, and the object of muh publle lscussion, tho very last dispateb sunt by Sher- man to ‘Tbomas before the former marched to tho kent wis equally da public, and that wasn Notilention to thu dicated that the Rebel caus designed to march Hees Nashville, Unon this Thomas thut all information In inforwation trom und upon the thoory that it wits core ‘hours acted throughout, - % After underustimuting Hotl's forces, and Jurgely overstading ‘Thomue’ elfective men, Bas. erm donu says, with pitiable gravity; ‘Tho Nudoun) reo wis besieged by a force ut least one-third Aint abandoned to tho onumy, und thoro was no tclu. rst Nnvoutot Newb ville extupe tothe North.” lor thin ity own; every rallroud but ono wus ‘hid stateniont, in oxict terms, was equally as {rue of Grant’ position at Clty Pott ws of Thowus' at Nashville, ‘The enumy was in front of both. “hore was to telegraph flaw out of Uity Point *exeupt to the North,” and “all railroads botono wore abandoned to the onomy," Thomus waa as busy ut Nashvill attack as Grint bud over Vadeuu's next.theory, which and hvilis proparing to won at City Point. SUGQESTS AN INQUIRY DE LUNATICO, {a that Thomas dulayod because he shured an alleged desire of Wilson to bave a lire aud admirably equipped command of cavalry, having uvolved this absurdity,—this rather, to a great commanier—be proveods to Bullies ete Lhowes with tho remurk, * But tho and, insult, wneralot W grenturmy should havo rison to 3 twas tar from being noos- wary to risk tho security of Tennessee, as woll as the upsetting of ullor Grant's plans ut tho South judean authoritatively pronounced ata little more. cavalry. It ts probably pers ly safe to say thore ts vot another Ameriuan among the f2,000,000 who would print over jis pwnsame tho statement that ho believed Gen, orgs HH. Shpriis delayed attacking: Hood wt Nusbville becndse ho wanted toyuthor a large an adinirubl: [urpese for Cats lathe chargy by tho cloarest eauinped forco of cuvalty for show implication, bite unively ‘discussing | this theory and boldly muting ‘the oburga It ine volved, Badouu Sntirely omits Gen, Th plain, solldy and convincing military reason, which ho quotes in another plucot “ldo not aaa it pyudont to uttauk Hood with Jess than jomniis® cavalry to cover ny Hania, Decay ins ha bus in other words, ‘udorate horseman, whom Budeay concedes to bio, and suceossful, with halt Ww contemptibic do these few Day by day Thomas was strengthening bimsolf at Naehviliey delliing and orcaniaiuyg. lis 12 ruw troops and his 6,000 olviiiun cuiploy es, and twith unabated vfort and iudomital working ugalust most formidable obstacles, ‘was fast unthoring nis powers for ps ie euorgy' THE DEATUNLOW HK INTENDED TO DEAT. | ding bin to unprepared attack, and eating dostrnotion, And yot Hadcau writes Lute on Deo. 6 Grant orderod an attack. Thomue, who knuw the risk, responded at once that ho'woutd wake dispositions, order, Ho had, - In fact, of | ae Own) Boe: and obey the raut on tho” Bth that ho Hiut tha cavalry tu be putin command, Bofore jopes, ‘This roason wus not buld to. be wi suiluiout for not attucking, and. Logan woe dizectud to proceed lo Nusbvillo with the pure su of relloving Thoms from the command uf y, and Grant bimecll started from City is army, Holnt (pe the purpose of gulng toNashvilie. But the thi w which Thomas bad beeu anxiously wilting for vame, and as xeon ns his propar army could ytind he maved it against the highta where Hood was fntrenehed, drove dim from his front, back from Nashville, and Outot Tennesavo, THE MAGNITUDE OF THE Vierory itis unecessary to write. Eyory chon Kuows of it thie resuited from heed thorough preparntion, mud tn eplte of the most oxiapernting efforts to turn hin fron bly pice pees intooglear for argument, Uatlent cluges is, chipter with, praises, euett carefully set ag with censure, oriticism, and sneers. In the face of the oriers that ho Mimeclt printa ina pree vious chapter, he qiotes Shermit as cinphatic. oliy supproving tho fallluy Luck from Decatur, While adinttting the completeness of tho vine fry, he seeks to bullttle it by the dectaration that thoru was litle tight loft i Toots arny after Franklin, that tis skill and bolduoss ad disupponred, and thal Thomas would buve faulted” oud hind ouly fought a8 before Athinta, Thorne huldltig tard ut alt points. solely to doe lay Hood and gitin time for. preparation at Nasbyiliv, and dotng (twit with adeep rense of what depended upon there’ rotaining efforts, Tacent sheers nt ns his fiveternt dispositing to cover every ling and hold every pulnw te Hlecluves With. glaring and Inexeusnble. error that “whon Sherman startail for the coust Thome He bad in hand tt force superior by 10,000 to Hoots army." Even counting thn’ 1009 tnen whose terms expired two wouks after Shor. nan sent thom buok to Thongs, the stutement Isnotiruc. © Thore was we vecess! toe falling Wack, excopt what ‘Chonas Imposed upon bite self by not concentrating courtier,” ways Hudent And yout, ns hue beul scon, Sinith's voteran corps, whieh Griutt? und “Shorimnn regiurdud ag tho most iniportant rolutiurcement ordered to. Thomas, wus a month lite itt. reiehing bine Radeon vindieates his own critielsms upon the quluy for cavaley, by. deetaring -that, afters Wilson's cavalry did nat fight as cavalry, but Misnoanteds ‘This he deems so important 'that ho prints dt fn itulles. Noth. less than a bale. qatllon of English porter would tive mado a stupid enough to. fori that toward tho close of the War vavalty trast dnverlaty dtd ita hast and most olfectiva tiehtlue dismounted, riding close to the enemy and faving its bores at hand for such ineyements ns might become teeevsiry, Saye Badeans * Tho victory would wen as sploniid an tho rout as desperate: ‘howe moved on the day when lee was test ordered to nidvatce. ‘hose who bial watched tho gigantic work of preparation at Nasbvilio will ba faclined to responds "Nadeau would havo boen it better historian IF HE WAD NEVER EEN nowy, “tt he (Hood) had weted ag hut a scorn Goxurals, on elthor eile, lind neted on alee avore oF necasions diving tho: War, Grant's ap prohenslons might hive been terribly Justined Thad the Mebel commauder moved to the Ohio, and compuiled Thomas to follow, Ubsut offices would! never hive been forgiven.” , stich olroumstanees, What about the forgiveness of the uiliver who marched off to the son with 2,000 tien and the wholo organiza. tlon af tho, remy, and left Thoms to imprapisa suillclunt force to mec’ tho oldvand sitecessful, opponent of the three nrmiecs? Aud what about the forgiveness of Grant, who permitiod jt? TE Vboms’ own Hertennuats bad acted toward himushe did to Grant the bate of Nashville would have t1 A Hebel triuinph.” Tony entise this triphammner-blaw of Hadeau'a to full With leas force on those who, alter read- toy bis willitury novel, still desire to retain tholr respect and veneration dur Gen. ‘Thomas, to wotice Has Uniden omits ta stute the fact that every one af Thomas’ prinelpul, subordinates, alter being lf t uiptory orders: forattuck nud the-reesons for delay, formally. advised hin not ta attack until bis pending: preptirations were uni plod. Just before elostug his chapter Radenu affects to excise ‘homas whily repeuting his stock slander, Grant indeed dd not regard tho tne aetion of Thoms as defitat or dsrespectfut, Houttrlbuted tito temperauiont rather than Judgment.” There was no trace of inaction Trem tho day Sherman felt on his fall excursion, ttl Hood was driven defeated out cf Tennessee. Never was greater and more sustiined activity Upon any portion of tho theatre of war, as if to cuunterbulance this alfected: exciso of ‘Thoinns, ae Tule cnters upon tho Inst page of his chapter he gous back to Chattunooga, of all places, and to the tiny of Mission Kidge, of all thes, and prints VIUS MONSTROUS ASSEHTION? he exine tralts which word exbibited in the Ho campulen he (rant) bad seer evinced at Chattanooua tho year before. Tho same pro- yoking, ubstinate deliy before the battle, tho aume splendid, victorious, Irresistible. energy afterward.” . an Tho fucte In regard to Chattanooga, us Bademt could not help knowin, oven from priated reeords woleh havo passed uodor bls wero that, when Grant wrote Lhomns postpone the attuck on Lookotit Mountain beawse Eberman bad pot arriveds Thomas ndvised agutnst waite ing. nnd obtulied: Grant's consent to mtack Lookout, which was dong, Furthor, Grint him eolf, in his: formal report, states thut Thomas, with hig troops, did on the 2k! what had been {ne tunded for tho 2ith—niinelys attacked tho cues my in front of Missionary Ide without walt- {oe for Sherman, and carrlod and beld tho ade vanced ling of works, | Want shall bo sald of winnn nasuining to write Iistory who ignores records as widely kuown a3 tho publi reports of the very ailicer whose Ifo he i3 writing, for the purpose of framlog an ute terly false attack upon such an oftleer ts Georgo H, Thowns, and in connection with such opera: dons us those of his stormingurmies at Lookout Mountain and Measionnry itudgee It. would not be possible within tho Hints of & Howapaper page to property point out the Inace aurniey aud tho injustice which dufico what Badeau hag written of Gon, Thowus and bis aring. | Whit bas here been given ta enough to show that hid volumes cannot be trusted as history, and. that they should bo spurned by every lover of tho truth, and by overy advocate of hoverable dealing with tho mcmartes of tho Nation’s ded. * HY. 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