COURTMARTIAL ORDERED President Directs Trial of Maj Glenn deferred to ns Participant i I in Water Cure Washington May Following the precedent pre-cedent set In tIme caso of Gen Smith the President has himself through Secretary Root ordered tho trial by courlmartlal of MaJ ISrtwJn F Glenn Fifth infantry ono of Iho ofllcciK referred to as a participant In tho administration of the water cure in tho testimony developed before the Senate Sen-ate Philippine commission recently Tho Capt Glenn court will meet at Cat halogah Samar P 1 onMay IStb it Is slated at the War department that time order for tho trial of MaJ Glenn by ollllma rt hal Is In accordance wit 11 the 1 determination of the President announced an-nounced on the 35th ultimo as a result of the testimony before the Senate Committee Com-mittee on the Philippines III regard to the Inlllctlon of tho socalled water cure Tho original plan was to try Muj Glenn and tbo other officers Involved with him In this country but It was found more expedient ex-pedient to have the trial lake placfc In the Philippines for the reason that most of the principal witnesses arc now In lhat country It IH mid that Gen Chaffo Is partly prosecutor In this case and will rcvlow limo testimony and findings LIeut Conger and Palmer 11 Lyon assistant as-sistant surgeon of volunteers who were said to have been associated with MaJ Glenn In the torture of tho prcsUlcnte of the town of Jpbarras arc now In this country Their cases arc helm Investigated Inves-tigated by J 1IccAdoCl teGenem I Davis Da-vis with a view to determining the advisability ad-visability of trying them by courtmar thai It Is i now said that such actIon will depend to a considerable extent on the Ivldcnco adduced at Iho trial of MaJ Glennn At present there Is doubt as to tho degree of ivsponslblllty exorclned by these officers In the particular caao of alleged torture under Investigation