Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1919-04-10

ated.
II organized two boards of review
in this office, but they were limited by
orders of the Wa Department to CIV
ing advice. / instructed the review
ing officers of this department them
selves to submit cases to clemencY
| upon their initiative, Notwithstanding
the fact that by general orders of the
! War Department this department was
limited to advising simply upon the
question Of legality, and cleniancy con
sideration could be had only upon aP-
plication, ami application could be had
once in six months.
IF responsibility for such malad-
ADMINISTRATION as has existed in this OIL
flee is to be located, it must be located
first upon application as has existed
first upon the secretary Of war. He
specially instructed me IN November
thutnot matters of particular import
ance, no matter concerning the poll'
cies OF the office, and no matter con
corning appointments should be dealt
with by me except with the approval
of the Judge advocate general himself,
Difficulties of Administration
The difficulties of administration
have been u to the fact that | nave
been in fact responsible for the output,
but have had no authority of direction
OF choice of help and means. That au-
tlority was reserved for General Crow
der, who had but little time and atten-
ton for this office. He knew little or
nothing about the administration of
tirely absorbed and consumed in his
other duties. Though charged by the
Secretary of War with the policies OF
this office. he was at the same time
tie Provost MARSHALL General, member
of the War Council, and, as it was
termed in the department for a White,
Legislative Liaison Officer. 1t was I'M
possible for one man to be both Fro
vest MARSHALL General, Judge Advocate
General of the Army and War Council
or and do his duty by either place, and
this clearly showed him when, in No
pember, 1917, I asked for the Issuance
OF an order urder section 1882, desig-
Mating me. the senior officer in the of
office.
at was a case in which General
Crowder desired and the Secretary OF
War permitted him, to assume more
duties, duties that were in no sense re
lated. than a man of greater capacity
than General Crowder could carry.
This was bad administration; oper-
ated to the great injury of this de.
partment. l. proved an insuperable
obstacle,
General Crowder takes credit that
the existing Clemency Board, upon
which / am still held as the president,
established by him upon his re
turn to this office, as though he dis
covered the situation necessitating it
AS a matter of fact, that board came
about from a report that i filed will
the Secretary of War during General
Crowder's a~bsenee-ta report showing
that the situation was fast growing
in~tolerable, due to the more strenuous
efforts that We're being made to main
tain a certain rigid standard of disci
pine after the signing of the armi
stice.
II was charged with being a e
convert to these views and that during
the revision of the articles Of war ant
before I contributed no constructive
ideas. The veiws I now hold ! have
held since my cadet days. I held then
and expressed them throughout ~
seven years of i~nstructorship at Yves
Point. I held them and practicet
them, SO Tar as able, in my company
as those who served with me Woult
testify.
SIN 1905. in the celebrated case o
Grafton against the United States
then pending In the Supreme Court
Grafton, the soldier appellant, havini
no money for the employment of conn
sci, i asked the permission of the Wa
Department to represent him as cour
Sci, inasnuch as / desired to establish
Iii that ease. what 4 think the court al
establish, that courtsrmartial are sui
ject to the great principles Of the Bil
OF Rights.
Appellate Power Question
"The Judge Acknowledgement say
that he was SO much In favor of 81
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