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1 Expulsion of Cadets from Military Academy 1 (1871)

handle is hein.milandgov/explsma0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 41sT CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. REPORT 3d Session. No. 28. EXPULSION OF CADETS FROM MILITARY ACADEMY. FEBRUARY 7, 1871.-Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. ASPER, from the Committee on Military Affairs, under the resolu- tion of the House authorizing an investigation into the circumstances of the expulsion of Cadets Baird, Flickinger, and Barnes, and their subsequent enforced resignation, with the recommendations of the committee on the subject calling for action on the part of the House made the following REPORT: The Committee on Military Affairs, instructed by resolution passed on the 12th day of January, which is as follows- Resolved, That the Committee on Military Affairs be empowered to send for persons and papers to investigate said matters of the expulsion and subsequent enforced resignation of Cadets Baird, Flickinger, and Barnes, and to report the facts to the House, with such recommendation, by bill or otherwise, as the facts, in their opin- ion, may warrant, and the committee shall have leave to report at any time- Having taken the saige into consideration, did delay action on the same until the 23d day of January, by request of the Secretary of War, on account of the semi-annual examinations taking place in the academy on the first days of the month ; and on that day the committee resolved to ask the House of Representatives to so modify the order as to au- thorize the sending of a sub-committee to West Point to make the inves- tigation on the ground, and to take such testimony as could be found there; and on the 24th day of January such modification was asked for by the chairman of the committee, which was granted, and the committee was so authorized. Whereupon Hon. Joel F. Asper, Hon. Jasper Packard, and Hon. H. W. Slocum, of the Committee on Military Affairs, were appointed the sub-committee, and fully charged with the burden of said investigation; and in pursuance of the said resolution, the amendment, and their ap- pointment, did proceed to West Point on the 27th day of January, and there inquired into the circumstances of the expulsion of Cadets Baird, Flickinger, and Barnes, and then proceeded to take the testimony of the superintendent and commandant, together with that of several offi- cers and cadets of the academy, which, together with the documentary evidence in the case, having first been submitted to the Committee on Military Affairs, is now reported to the House as a part of the report of the committee, required under said resolution. Your committee have found no great difficulty in ascertaining the facts in the case, as the War Department and the officers and cadets at the academy have promptly placed at the disposal of the committee eveiry means and facility in their power to enable them to make a thor- ough and ample investigation. Your committee have found and report the facts in the case to be as follows: That the 2d day of January, 1871, was observed as a holiday at West

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