Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-12-17
eran,ss o'hers' II is understood the
e'"'''''s Oh license to the Jai-Alai.
ADMINISTRATION IN CttnA

alnong Others. IL is Understood tho
srah'lng OF license TO the Jai.AIai
ADMINISTRATION IN cuBA.
lie devoted particular attention 10
e ut'hck upon the integrity OF the
oihcial accounts OF the Cuban treas,,rv
mniie under Gen. Woods admInis-
ration and he was prepared. with anv
a.ouht or data, to answer TO the
an ,i ses OF loose and faulty accounting
anu AUDITING He took occasion Ia sov
ha r. the Weakness OF this charge might
.an ,u "sen esta plished long ago had the
9elale printed the accounts which he
transmitted to that body last wintar
IN answer to a resolution.
ROOTS RESPONSIBILITY
seoy Root was asked especlallv
| ABOUT the charge which Mai potb.
| polle made that Gen. Wood had inn,,.
| rneed the courts In the prosecution ~
| hathoone and had tempered with the
courts. The secretary explained M
some length the court system I'm Cuha
saylhg mat the court of first instance
vas realty an officer directed 10
~ US oeutc ana 10 obtain evidence He
Gna,, soinethlng IKE a grand jury in
nnuihg evidence, but was further ON.
powered to go out and Obtain evidonna
ningle with the people, procure nf,ida.
WITS and otherwise collect ovida,o,
against alleged offenders. He said be
Knew what Gen. Wood was doing In
this matter, and approved II, Tho GOO
Ietary said that In fact he drected tba,
me prosecution of the Offenders no VIC
orous, and Gen. Wood was acting IN
ms matter under orders from the war
department. ""'
NOT a GAMBLING GAME.
The secretary took up the subject q,
tne Jai Alai company concession and
9",u 'nat 'nls was not gambling COM
paiS, nor was the game pelo,a, PLAYED
u'!uel tne management of the company
- gambling game any more than WASH
morse race or game of baseball NJ
could bet on the results as upon other
games or skill, He said that the con.
cesslon or right OF the Jai Alai COM
paly was granted before the American
oCcupatlon' and that the concession for
Nhloh zen. Wood had been criticised |
was more or am addition to the building |
OF the company. The only question An |
regard to this grant was whether or |
not II would be contrary TO the Foraker
amendment, The whole matter was no.
ierfeu to the war department by Gen.
Wood. ~ WI"
The subject was first considered by
Judge Magoon law officer of the bu
roau OF insular affairs, who. after n
most careful review of the case. had
held that the extension did not come
within the Foraker amendment pre-
venting the granting of a franchise I'm
CuDa' The secretary said he reviewed
Judge Magoon's opinion and came to
Ihe same conclusion. The authority
granted to the company was then an.
proved by the war department, so that
Cen Wood in this matter acted under
he instructions and with the approval
IF the war department
FROM MAI, RATHBoNE
The committee received today COM
from Maj Estes G. Rath-
bone asking that he be called again To
iirect attention TO Il number OF things
which he said the committee had ig-
lored. He asked that his several re-
luests for the subpoena of Col Lebo.
fourteenth United States cavalry. be
Icted upon. He suggested that Col.
Jebo be questioned to bring out the
act that Gen. Leonard Wood was not
win his command on the first DAVIS
light at Santiago on July /, 1898. Re-
uest also was made that Mai. Gen. &.
y sumner be examined on the same
ubject
RATHBONE'S WITNESSES.
Attention was called by Mai Rath-
one to the fact that the committee had
cen asked several tip,no 10 o,,l..... |