The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-15
MORRISON IS DUE $eooo
Wood Got the Money to Pay
 the Indebtedness.
Hanna Makes . Formal Request That the Accused oiaesr Bs Brought from the rhslipplnss
 to Testify.

f sWAeNtNAtpAs 4ccs 44~<WH1u tho H4fI4f0 Committee on Military Atxairs today re- suEzed it's ts,investigation Of charges aanfnst Gen Leonard Wood. four witnesses Wefa waiting 10 be heard. These wcrn Dx. e. F. Fisher Of Chicago and ' O. IinNons ilsees city editor of The Jacl<sonfiile fEYa.5 Times-Union, managing editor ana city. editor respectively, Of The Havana Post. published during American ocrupaflont T. H Levison of New York and nsn. John R 8rooIe. retired.
 Mr. Fisher was callsd firsf. Hs told thn story. of General Wood's intimacy with bsilairs and attempted to show thai cef- ernl Wood knew of BelIairs's boa record. MT. Fisher said that in septeuaher, 1a,o. no accompanied General Wood on a kfin. to the Isle of Pines. and there told him of an article which he had ordered nrznf- Cd in The Havana Post exposing B6|iaisn. Tho witness said that General Wood sold him he did not want the story rrinssa. ana that t had not been used on account QE that request pr. Fisher took charge oT the Havana paper at the ra0naat Df General Wood. and he had also acted q the correspondent 0g the Associated rxesa for . short period
 Mr. LaFonfiseA was then caiIsd: hnt the ccnamittee took an adlouxnnient far the opening of che Senate without sva- cecdins far with his examinatson. HA was called b eorrcboFatc the tsstimouy Testimony of xaEontisee. Mr. Lnkputisee was recalled af the 6fs texnoon session ana corroborateS tIss ts9. tImony Efveu by Dr. FIsher. f1e said that before General Wood and pr. Biaiier started on their trip 10 tho Tale If pinNs
 the latter instructed him dsaFoufissal str write the article concernlnr HeIiairs AT. LaHopaiaes said ha took the uuaStlnu siS,. Ger consideration ana as Ils case sf isBs3 snit it would be neceaeary to AIaInin6si wlfnesfeg from the United afafes fo nss49 al4o c1sNKReNs daeidod that flsN qisillN ishF print the aTticIa HIe saia fkef .s1Ias. ESl Fisher returned he was greatly arIl sfs6 and asked .sxon did not bFlsf ffs{ krz ticIe hopeT' When pr. Fisher iasr.,S.s that the article was not prfsiAd h~ S,e~ l greatly relieved and said General Vtnss1 dId not want it used
 ! Tn addition t0 his corroboration of 3r rlsnera testimony 1dr. LaFontlaee toia Of sne manner n which he had learned of
 Baiiaifa's chafacter and awore also that General Wood knew all about ft. He.
 said ne learned from persons who went
 10 Havana from Florida that Bellairs had served five years in Florida convict carrne
 three years in one and two yeafs ir
 another The crime Of which he had
 been convicted was forgery on branch
 ElUML|UH.
 ateccgnizsd by Convict.
 MT. La Fontiseo sald that in Nav. 7eoo.
 convict from Florida named Iohnson
 came to him and said that he had econ bellaifs and General Wood toEether ak the
 races in Havana and that he recozfii9ea and spoke to Beilairs who mokionea him
 to keep silent. AccurdinR to gohua1nsm story as told by La F0nklaee. 9ailairs ex. eused himself and met 1ohnaon, askine
 him to remain quiet concerninh his crime inal record.
 After this incident. testified Mir. IA. Fontlsee. General Wood sent for him ana asked him what he knew of Ballasrs's record. Mfr. La Wontisea aald he told General Wood of his talk with Johnson and also what he had learned from other persons from Florida That was iu Juna. lsoA and according 10 Bfr. La FOntIsse, General Wood then asked hlm to zee Johnson and ascertain whether he would leave Cuba and remain away if his pas sage were paid to New York and money gtven. Johnson answered.: why do want to leaye7 have too good a thing here bleeding EelIairs." Afr. La Fouti- see returned to General Wood and gave him Johnsnn's answer. Mr. La FonfIsee said that later Bellairs and General Wood went to New Fork
 When General Brooke was before tho committee two weeks ago hs referred to two orders, one issued by the War De-
 partment and the other by hixhself to
 carry the first into effect. which he was
 unable at that time to furnish He went on the stand today to present the orders and undergo an examination concerning
 them. The order issued by the War Department directed that all funds c0ls Iectcd in the provinces of Cuba should ba sent to the military governor at Hava-
 ma. The charge was made that the order
 had been issued by direction of General
 Brooke for the purpose of getting hold of the funds collected at Santiago and to deprive that province of it's own revenues.
 General Brooke told the Military Af- fairs Committee today that the order was Issued at a time when he was sick in bed and that he had no previous knows- edga concerning it. The other order filed with the Committee today was one tho witness issued after his recovery. It dt- rected General Wood. in command of the Province of Santiago, not to make expen- ditures for public purposes In excess of slO.Oo0 q month without first submitting the question to the military government
 General Brooke said today that General Wood had ignored that order and had gone on spending money without author ity from the military government. Gen. eral Brooke was asked whether he had withdrawn the revenues from Santiago for expenses elsewhere. He answered that Santiago had received all its own revenues and more than s9J00oo additional
 Mir. Morrison. a lawyer at l4 Broad- way, New York. testified that he was in- terested in the Eiectrose Company of Havana and that his company received contracts Of General Wood for disinfect- ing the city. He said that there is still due to his company the sum of $500 on contracts and that Cuban officials in Ha- vana swear the money was paid to Gen eral Wood to discharge the indebtedness. Mir. Morrison said he believed that Gem eral Wood received the money.
 During the hearings today Senator Han- na made a formal request of the Com mittee that General Wood be subponaed to come home from the Philippines in or-i der that he may answer the charwaa against him and that he may be Queaa toned concerning hia actions in Cuhn