Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1919-04-10
ANSELI LETTER
TEXT ON court
MARTIAL IN i. s.
Continued from Yesterday.

S %AkNass@4%E TstE{R&yE6A ~
fContinued from Yestelday.)
This statement reproduces a story
far different from what actually oc-
Cured. The facts are these: Colonel
White, the executive officer of the de,
partment, called my attention to the
4 fact that ] was directing the policy
of the office and exercising sole power
but had never been designated to do
sc under Section 1892, Revised Stat
ntes. and that for my protection !
should place the matter before the de-
partrnent and suggest that I be desig-
matted in accordance with the statute.
I told him tina i ought to confer with
General Crowder, called up his office
on the telephone, and found that he
was out, and then wrote n memoran-
DUN, the purpose of which was not TO
benefit, but to present an official sitna-
ton to him as it had been presented to
me. recommended for purely Off
cial reasons that such an order should
issue, and asked whether or not he
~concurreds He replied by memoran-
dunn saying, 1t would be entirely
Agreeable to me to have o take up
directly and in your own way with
the Secretary of War the subject mat
ter of your letter yesterday
Memorandum Filed
ut never Occurred to me that this
language sNgaA not other h frank
and candid and that his agreement
was conditional upon personal present
alton to tifFaE Secretary of Wa. / took
1t up as all other Official business, ex-
cept when this Secretary of Wa had
manifested a desire for personal con
ference, that Is, / filed a memorandum
with til eehlieflo f staff, in which ! used
the language al, General Crowder, and
in due course / was furnished with o
t~ypewrittsp Copy Of the order of the
Secretary of War. / know nothing
about any mark on The order for sus-
pended publication, nod do l know what
tho terms mean. / only know that
va got the usual typewriter copy of the
x e &e - IL lAoD10yE III pSi sSi III Ai1
subject. Everything was done offici-
ally and by written memorandum
4Surely General Crowder will not
now deny that he concufTed in the
step taken, namely, that / should be
designated by order TO control the pol
icy Of the office. since + was RESPONSE
BILE for all the work, and MS cannot
deny that in such matter the chief. of
staff acts for the Secretary Of War and
that regulations require normal trans,
action OF business be through him.
reference tt. the order itself will
show that it is not In the form in.
which I recommended it, but that it
proceeds TO confirm the verbal direc
tipns WHICH 4 assumed the Secretary
81 War had previously given. The Ian
guage OF the order is this:
yssdirection OF tie President, and
III a~ccordaace with Section So of the
Revised Statutes, he verbal orders Of
The Secretary Of War OF the date Of
IA, 1917. designating Brig Gen.
Samuel 4 Anseli, judge advocate, ma
t afflys as acting Judge advocate
general OF the army are hereby COP
firxneda and made of record, and he will
continue to take charge of the office
and perform the duties Of the judge
Acknowledgement of the army until
further orders Il during the absence
asof b CHIEF Of that bureau upon other
July
General Crowder says nothing is