Show UNCOVER SCANDAL FOR COURT MARTIAL ARTA Believe Board Was Called Caled to Try Colonel Cornman of Fort Wayne IN ON FORAGE GRAFT Said lo to Have Allowed Mounted Of Officers cers Money Not No Entitled to tOI ton D D. C. C Sept 7 A 7 A big army i f camo came out to today ny In the Ihu of oT the tho heaviest court- court n. n l since pIneo 1539 when Commissary I mal mial al Hgan ligan gan was placed on trial ulal for Cor In 4 Miles Milos several kinds ofa of ol a 1 liar lar General Merrill Merritt was president lof ot t that court court Major General Frederick D. D Grant commander of or tho the division of or the Hast rast heals beaus the court appointed today con- con besides him of or six brigadiers and six lx colonels colonels It I is to assemble at Fort ot Wayne ayne tho tim mi military tar post at Do- Do troit on September 29 20 for tho the trial triai of ot such Much officers as may be bo ordered be beCore before before be- be fore Core it Titus Thus far Car Colonel Daniel Gorman Corman commanding tho time Seventh Infantry tho the headquarters of or which and the first and second battalions of oC which are arc at Fort ort Wayne Vayne Is tho only officer positively positively known to be on the point of or b beIng boing bo- bo ing ordered before tho the court on 00 c charges ar s lu limit but t it Is l known hero that other other oth oth- er cr officers of ot that regiment will wUI bo be be before before bo- bo fore tore it It Wholesale grafting ot of a a. 0 potty poty character has been disclosed at that post Trio Tnt port personnel of or tho the court Includes all al time the tle d department commanders in this thin country except It General Geneal W. W II I. I Carter Cartor commanding at Rt Chicago and ant General W W. S S. Ed at nt Omaha Omalis Omaha Tho scandal arose arSO in Cm Cotters Cotter's tor's tors department of ot time the Lakes and 31 It is obvious wh why he was not made a member mt of or tho time court Reason flea Rea son soft SOl for to not not General Edgerly a n member Is not apparent of oC Iet ft rotting Grafting I Tho The graft at Fort Wayne ano Is in the Insignificant mate matter of oC forage for COl horses ostensibly owned b by the time mounted amounted mount amount e ed officers on duty there The Time quartermasters quartermaster's quartermasters quarter quarter- mount mount-j masters master's masters accounts show that a number of or In Colonel Cornman's com corn mand manY owned c 11 horses rHesa rHes a and if vero were therefore therefore there thero- fore tore entitled to receive forage for tor thornA thorn thom A secret of ot Inquiry was wa convened three montis ago It found the officers claiming to lo own horses did not us as a n matter of or fact act own them thorn they merely hoW hold hel them under a A collateral count collat era eral title tte created by bills bis of or sales which purported to show that the time holder holter of the bill bm lad lah Jad bOU bought lt them from Crom Contract Con Con- tract Surgeon J. J I I. I I. I Burkhart also stationed stationed sta- sta sta sta- at that post post Colonel Cornman's offense may havo have consisted simply In allowing time the Quartermasters Quartermaster's quartermasters quartermaster's bill bi for fo forage or O fed rod to tho the horses own owned cd by tie contract surgeon Burgeon to I ass through hit his office but it I Is ts contended contended con eon tended that ho he should have ha e known of ot tho fraudulent character of tho time transaction transaction trans trans- action and that In not knowing It I heIg ho he hoG Ig 1 G guilty of or negligence and inefficiency rime Tho few tow here who know time the facts which arc are said to havo I long ns l been en sup sup- presse pressed expect time the trial of Cornman to o pave pavo the way to removing tho the lid ld rom a great real kettle of at corruption It I IB la stated tonight that Captain Charles G G. French Frenchi quartermaster of ho time Seventh Infantry will wi bo be one of ot he tho officers placed on trial because the he forage was Issued by him Colonel Colone Took look No o Notice It I is charged that ono of ot tho time facts discovered by lh the secret court of Dt InQuiry Inquiry in- in ulry Is that Dr Peter C. C Field I tho the surgeon of oC the time regiment complained to lo Colonel Cornman about the tho arrange arrange- mOnt ment existing between the time contract surgeon and somo of the time young mounted mount- mount ed d officers an and that the time colonel re refused reused re- re used fused to take lake any notice of ot it holding It t to bo be a row in tho time medical corps Th The TimO young officers OCCAr told tho the court of inquiry mm try that Colonel Cornman Cornmon know lenew I about bout tho timo arrangement and tho they took tool It t for tor granted that ho lie approved It lt II I Therefore they rhey are aro not 8 severely I re I men neo toned In the cite 0 report of ot In the Ino court U J I Inquiry So secretive were officials I of ot the tho war 0 orca r department apartment today about th mutter that hat It was impossible to learn lern at t the surgeon generals general's of office fco the time Initials of at ho time contract who made tho timo called o so faint fako sale salo to th time the officers It I vas sas intimated however ol howo that his imis contract con con- tract with wiLl wih the tho t had hall been or be soon Roon terminated Time The court martini martial cannot try him hint because ho Isa is isa isa a civilian It I was said Maid at nt tho time war department th hat t no person oth other than Secretary Wright ht and General Bell Bel chief of ot staff taff know lenow what officers other than Cornman will wil bo bu put on trial that they hey and they alono have o lu been handIn handIng hand hand- un In Ing the time case caNe They hey aro 10 on ott 01 tho time wa way Leavenworth Fort hero trout from Tho Time law allows forage for tor lH hOrses actually owned by y officers whoso whose duties du- du ties ios require them to lo bo be mounted In tos r lending that thai they owned tho the horses hortes which Contract Surgeon Burkhart furnished fur fur- them lhor tho time officers who drew time the tor toro o are aro guilty of ot making returns and for tor this the penalty penally Is dismissal |