People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1895 — Admiral Meade’s Case. [ARTICLE]

Admiral Meade’s Case.

Washington, May 15.—1 t is reported that Admiral Meade declined to furnish the navy department with the evidence which can be made the basis of a court-martial. The navy department has called upon him to affirm or deny the accuracy of the interview attributed to him in which he criticised the president and the secretary of the navy, and Admiral Meade, In response to this demand, has courteously replied, declining to avow or disavow the interview. Admiral Meade, in other words, proposes to throw the burden of proof upon the department to show whether he has or has not violated any of its regulations.