The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-22
GEN. PERSHING DEFENDED.
Onicers Named as witnesses by h Manila
Newspaper Testify to HIS Innocence.

Np1pNt NsANN
WASHINGTON, Dec. Ex-senator Francis E.
Warren, chairman OF the Military Affairs
Committee. again defended his son-in-law,
Brig Gen. John j. Pershing, to-day from
the charges published in a Manila news
paper that he had lived with a Filipino
woman who had borne him children.
OF the officers named by the Manila news
paper as witnesses, Col. Jasper Morrison
has been dead for two years, Capt. II. L.
Swobe of the Quartermaster's Department
ut Omaha has denied the truth of the charges
against Gen. Pershing and has expressed
readiness to take the tand and testify
TO Gen. Pershing's innocence and Capt.
Sydney +. Cloman, who was recently APP
pointed Military Attache OF the American
Embassy in London to-day added his denial.
The Manila newspaper said that there we're
three officers on the stan OF Major-Geu.
William A. Kobbe, retired, who could testify
TO the truth Of the charges.
The Manila American does not name the
oficers,' said Senator Warren. therefore
their denials ann he had but | call atten-
ton to the fact hat Gen. kobbe gave one
Of the strongest Endorsements OF Capt.
Pershing for promotion to Brigadier-Gen-
eral. The strongest hackers OF Capt. Per-
shing for the promotion were MaJor-Gen.
George W. Davis and Maior-Gen. kobbe,
who at different times commanded the
division to which Capt. Pershing was at
tached during his service in the Philippines,
SO there il not a witness named by the
Manila newspaper who does not testify to
Gen. Pershing's innocence of the charges
and to his general good character.
The cruel thing about the publication 10
that il draws a picture of domestic trouble
between Gen. Pershing and his wife, my
daughter, that il entirely without justifica-
ton. They are very happy, and Mrs.
Pershing has never credited the charges
for one moment
Mrs. Pershing wrote to Senator Warren:
you stand by Jack no matter what infamy
may be said of him."
Senator Warren, in speaking of the oppo-
sition TO the confirmation OF Pershing's
nomination as Brigadier-G General when IL
was pending before the COMMITTEES on Mill
tary Affairs, of which Mr.. Warren is chair
man, aid that he offered 70 retire from the
committee room while the nomination was
being considered, but the members of the
committee we're unanimously in favor Of
the confirmation and declined TO permit
the chairman to leave the room.
The fact has been brought out that the
same story had reached the White House
in the form Of an anonymous letter and
that the President made the appointment
Of Capt. Pershing as a Brigadier-General
with full knowledge Of the reports, but not
until he had been convinced, al the result
of an inquiry conducted by Gen. George
W. Davis, who commanded thed division in
the Philippines to which Capt. Pershing
was attached, that the story was untrue
and was being circulated by officers dis
gruntled over the promotion Of Capt. Per-
shing TO DO a Brigadier-General
The authoritative statement was made
to-day that there would be no investigation
of the charges against Gen. Pershing, either
by the War Department or a committees
| OF Confess. The War Department had
looked into the allegations, it was said,
and was fully satisfied that they were not
iustifed