The Sentinel=record., 1912-06-14
HOUSE ADOPTS MEASURE WHICH REMOVES GENERAL LEONARD
 WOOD FROM OFFICE.
PERSECUTION IS CHARGED
Alleged That Certain Congressional Leaders Have Object in Removing the Present Chief of Staff
 Of the Army.

Washington, June 13 - Startl!hs charges of an intrigue against Major General Leonard Wood, chief of stan of the army. begun by the late Sen ator Marcus A. Hanna, were only part of series of sensations which attended the adoption by the house today of the army appropriation bill conference report.
 Alusion to Major General Charles F. Humphrey as "the agent for the powder trust" and to Senator Du- Pont's former connaction with the powder business, furnished other in eidents
 Nevertheless the house adopted the report which had been approved by it's conferees and accepted by the senate, and if President Taft signs the bill, as it is said he will. General Wood will be removed from his office on March 1. 1913, and the retention or disposal of many army posts, which the war department has characterized as ueiess will be left to a commis- sion.
 Representative Prince began the fight against the report by character iziHg 1t as an insult to the army. the house and the country" and in the debate which followed, Repre- sentative Cooper brought in the name of Senator Hanna.
 In all my public career" MT. Cooper began, ''I know of no officer who has been 50 indignantly mis- represented as General Wood. was told on the very best authority that when General Wood was in charge of affairs in Cuba q certain senator asked him what he proposed to do abonf Major Rathbone, director of posts of Cuba, then involved in the postal frauds.
 Senator. responded Wood. I propose to prosecute him
 Do that Wood. replied the sen ator and l win see to it that you never rise higher than captain in the service.
 Since that time," continued Mr. Cooper. that senator and his power ful friends haNe hounded him.
 The interchange which followed brought in the name of Senator Hanna.
 Representative Martin of Colorado made reference to Brigadier General Pershing and his rapid rise in the army The general is a son-in-law of Senator Warren of Wyoming, chairman of the senate appropriations committee, former chairman of the senate military affairs committee and one of the conferees on the bill.
 Men in the army who are sons in-law of legislators and who have been allowed to jump 700 numbers over the heads of other officers to a brigadier- -generalship," shouted MT. Martin, would have a better chance of promotion if a man of General Woods type were disqualified. He referred to General Wood as "the best man in the American army to- day"
 In the names of the commission of retired officers which would dispose Of the posts, was that of General Humphrey and Mir Martin demand ed to know If the general had a,% yised the house couferees Chair man Hay of the military affairs com mlttee admitted 1t was so
 IVY tlls TttOTltQ UtpTtSeuNdllFc e Martin, General Humphrey. as yon all well know, is the agent for the powder trust"
 Minority Leader Mann agreed with MT. Martins view regarding General Humphrey
 When the supporters of the Jill got their innings, Chairman Hay de- clared General Woods removal was Tor the good of the army and that the general had proved himself "an incompetent chief of staff"
 The report, carrying all the so- called anti administrator amend ments, was finally accepted n to J2 it now goes to the president. War department officials maintain it woald disrupt the general staff and over turn the army organization. There are hints Bhat it's constitutionality may be tested if 1t becomes a law Many members of both houses hold that the disputed amendments are not proper in an appropriation bill,