The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-21
RathbOne Gives Testimony Be- fore Senate Committee Ol
 Military Affairs
CONANT Is SUMMONED ID
 APPEAR AS NEW WITNESS
Was Legal Adviser to General Wood and May Be In Position to Give Some Inside Facts Con-
 corning Cuba.

Washington, November 20.-Summons issued by the senate military affairs com mittee was served tonight on Ernest Lee Conant of the New York law firm of Page & Conant. citing him to appear be- fore the committee tomorrow in connec- ton with the investigation of charges against Brigadier General Leonard Wood It is believed the subpoena was issued at the instance of Major Rathbone.
 MT. Conant went to Cuba as an attache of the evacuation commission and acted as legal adviser to General Ludlow. Later he served General Wood in the same ca- pacity. and 1t is declared he Is compe- tent to give some inside facts relating to the manner in which the concession to the Jai Alai was obtained. Another wit ness summoned tonight is Herbert J. Brown. newspaper man. who was in Cuba during the --~~ican occupation. who Is said to hay ~'" the character of Il
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 Major Estes c. Rathhore, formerly dl- rector of posts ia Cuba, was given a hearing today by the senate committee on military affairs. which is Investigating the charges against Leonard Wood In op- position to his confirmation as major gen. eral. The committee met at n and was in session unfi -searly the entire time z- .aajor Rath- bone. "'' relteratvu the charges made several times before to the secretary Of war, the senate committee on relations with Cuba, and in public statements fol- lowing his trial in connection with Cuban postal frauds.
 with reference to the charge that Gov ernor-General Wood had exceeded his authority in giving instructions to the courts, Major Rathbone said that tho general had pursued this course in the Cuban postal case when he tRathbone) was under prosecution. This was, he said in violation of article 3S7 of the penal code of Cuba and in a manner preJudicial to the rights and interests of those under trial.
 Rathbones Charges.
 Major Rathbone charged that in &C., cepting gifts from the organization con- monly known as Jai AHa. to which Major Rathbone said General Wood had granted ten years exclusive concession, General Wood violated the Foraker law which prohibits the granting of franchises or concessions during the occupation of the island by the American authorities. Ho also charged that the acceptance of these gifts constitutes a violation of the penal code of Cuba.
 Other charges were made against Gen. era Wood as follows:
 With c6mpliclty with another army offi- cer in the preparation and publication of an article rehecting dsereditably upon an officer who ranked both of them in viola ton of an accepted canon of military ser vice and constituting an offense common- ly known as conduct unbecoming an of ficer and a gentleman; with directing and causing the auditor of Cuba by military order to violate the law In the treatment of accounts with utilizing the services of an ex-convict with whom he was on intimate personal association in an effort to displace his superior officer and by such means to secure to himself the va- eancy thus created