The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-01-05
GEN. WOODS SOFT SNAP
Drawing $500 Year and Perform
ing M Service.
HE ONLY ABUSES THE PRESIDENT
Not on Detail Not on Leave Of Absence
Just Major General With Moth.
ING te De-


Washington, January & Tae softest job
iu the government service Is Reid dowu 10y
Major ttcneul Ioona7l Wooi He draws
$500 per year and bis duties apparently
o'us.s, e amusing the pgesldeut-or per-
hsps tAe statement may De reversed, tie
president is amuslu. aim.
More than Oul government ofdcial whose
ltars require no least eight hours attend
a-cc at the desk durns the day have asked
rye. ntiy why Wood is not put 20 work II be
to continue drawing the salary attached
90 his .va. Tley have locked up the records
aud asce-Jalned J1at Wood Loft the island
%. Cuaa last June. Since that tune ths
c-.g service be has rendered the country 10
reform tcs the 500 monthly pay lac draws
d.. been "trip 10 Europe. daily walk ar
horseback ride with President Roosevelt or
presidential boat AZ boxing, feuclu- OF
s--=le sites each dag when he IS Ia Wash
lg-rou.
When 20 is recalled tha- generals in the
asLf WAC 94tlUu4 Wood ia age, length Oh
service ali 900 real service rendered the
country, see la-t az work iu various pos-
lers ~ iAis uauon aul iu TIE tropical IS
--iHt> we laFe N0loiret. Il Is Thought 10y
>sMy THAI Mood Is rapidly becoming about
lle ccs.LEsE lHAugN Uu tine government pay
-e.l. These facts considered hc looms up
nothing else uo is perhaps tuu ablest
tlli-l general .u tne ARMY. Yet he is
also tae only iIicr and ,aafeI-he wears
major generals Insignia bgl for "a period OF
r.frl months Ll uGs done nothing 20 dc
eve tla decoration unless bIs resent eN-
r..ll lU raising blue lump on very ,trtIl-
t"as person bead may ur termed brave
enough go Wuftt >u-A reward.
gr5oral Wood should Dep heartily ashamed
OF tle classification be- receives iu the army
register iu a long uet ~ soldiers men
'."usI t.rre Ae alUuc rs classed without a
hAEd "g definite work. Iie is ineH-
toned merely SIS e ug!o- general. A major
-"urr~. zoo large, with "a rowing commission
i- something out of place I'm this busy gov
toy to dag enjoying just such com mis-
r4is i1line. drooIns soldier Of the Bepub-
De- j. the Nery same, too. whom the prtsi-
dem. defended from a general attack last
year ll "a speech az Harvard. IL was soon
after Wuul had returned from Cuba du4
tla stories NJ lis connection With the su- ar
trust s. effort, 30 lower tAc duty on Cuuiu
sugar were going the rounds 81 the press.
President Roosevelt, ln his defense 81 the
staiwalt broadshoUldered general. said iu
effect.
Those people who speak Of Leonard
Wood in this connection cover themselves
with iufamy."
30 Tar as can be ascertalned. Wood D.,
not on leave. He has been given no special
detail The social functions at the White
, House, where the general spends the major
portion Of his time. are arranged and con
Quoted under yhe supervision Of Colonel
Bingham III Mood had a detail it wouil
necessarily read, n based on his present oc
cnpatou. official exerci-cr OF the previ
dent or physical culture director at th'
Tho facts presented here are not emauat
Ing from that class OF citizens generally
known as the common sculd and fault
finder. They are being discussed ny con
.s,ryativc senators and representatives.
Woods id.eucss Is remarked and condcmnc'