The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-06

what may be the worst trouble he has
been in since he entered the army
THE STORY FROM WASHINGTON
Washington, June 6-Gen- Miles is
suspected by officials Of the war depart
ment Of giving the correspondence TO
Senator Culberson upon which the
charges of cruelty against Lieut. u. i
Arnold are based The official records
Of the war department have been laid
before the senate and the heads OF de-
partments do not know how possession
OF them was gained A searching IN
VestigatiOn has been Instituted ana II
the suspicion in the official mind is con
firmed by investigation, General Miles
summary retirement IS certain BOTH
Secretary Root and General Miles are
out of the city. There are four DuI eaus
where the leak may have occurred. TIE
adjutant generals Office. the office Of
the army headquarters. the Office or tie
Judge advocate and the Immediate Of
fee Of the secretary Of war Wherever
the leak occurred. the gut1sy VIII be
punished If proof can be established
Mr.. Sanger, the assistant secretary of
war, averts that in no way did the pa
pers go out. of the secretarys office.
Adjutant General Corbin says that they
could not possibly have leaked from his
office and General Davis, judge advo-
cate general, IS equally certain his office
is not the place to be suspected. The
president has conferred with General
Corbin and Mr.. Sanger.
There is no doubt as to the disingen-
uousness of Senator Culberson's denial
of the insinuation that he got the
charges from General Miles. Mr.. Gull
bersOn, when pressed by Senator
Reveridge, as to whether he had obtain
ed the papers from the war department,
replied that he had not Mr.. Beveridge,
asking directly, if General Miles had
given them to him, the Texas senator
made no answer and MI Beveridge
drew the inference that the refusal to
answer was equivalent to admitting an
affirm atiVe. Later Mr.. Culberson rose
to make a careful explanation, IN which
he said that a gentleman not at all
connected with the army, furnished him
the papers, and they had not come to
him directly, nor, so far as he had
knowledge, indirectly from General
Miles.
It is the belief around the war depart
ment that some clerk or typewriter
connected with the headquarters must
have copied the charges made against
Lieutenant Arnold and held the copy
until it could be used to advantage. It
is fully six months since the papers
passed through General Miles Office
The ajOrity senators of the Phil pplneS
committee take the affair hard. They
have rested on Secretary Roots state
ment that he had been entirely frank
with the senate and furnished all the
cases of alleged cruelty that were in
the possession of the department.
The Democrats on the committee, not
satisfied with Secretary Roots word,
have tried to nave a resolution report
ed from the committee calling for all
such papers on file in the war depart
ment The majority of the commit tee
has always replied that the word of Sec
rotary Root was enough, and refused
to assist in getting the desired data
from the department.
ROOT SAYS IT IS UNTRUE
Washington, June 6.-Seeretary Root
today stated that General Miles has not
BEEN summoned to Washington The
general it is said, is now en- route from
Fort Riley, Kan, to West Point. in re-
spouse to an invitation to attend the
centennial celebra ton there next week.
MILES SAYS IT'S so.
Chicago, June General Miles reach
ed here this morning and left this after
noon for Washington He said to a re-
porter of the Associated Press:
Il have been ordered to Washington
I am not going to the exercises at West
Point
He added that he preferred not to dis
cuss his reasons for going to Washing
ton other than that he had been ordered
to do so.