Show ARMY SCANDAL SCANDALS S OVER THE OCEAN Brigadier General Garlington at Manila Looking Up the Quartermasters Dept Washington Aug IS The war depart department department ment meat has learned that Brigadier General Ernest A Garlington who was specially charged by Secretary Taft to make a fur further fu ther thor investigation into the alleged irregularities Irregularities irregularities in the quartermasters depart department department department ment in the Philippines arrived arrivE in Ma Manila Manila Manila nila July 5 and entered upon his work the following day da daThe The original investigation was based on the allegation that a number of at army of officers officers stationed In the Philippines had caused a lot of expensive furniture to be manufactured for their use and for sou souvenirs souvenirs to be sent to their friends in the states for which no proper return was wax made to the government General Leon Leonard Leonard Leonard ard Wood upon discovering the condition of oC affairs made a report on the subject to the war department which was the th ba basis basis baMs sis Ms Of several special Inquiries Much conflicting testimony was taken the re result result sult suit of which was to leave in doubt the question as to whether or not any of the officers had been culpable to a degree that affected their integrity or whether they had been simply careless The names of at some officers of at high rank were brought into the case to their great Indignation as they the declared that they the had settled in full at the highest market price for the furniture f produced by the army quartermasters mechanics It appeared ap appeared that the method of keeping ac accounts accounts accounts counts In the quartermasters shops was the cause for the different statements made to the Investigators and it is certain certain tain thin that in some cases It was clearly es established established established that an amount of labor was charged up against certain articles utterly out of proportion to their value So Gen General General eral oral Garlington was Instructed by Sec Secretary Secretary Taft to proceed to Manila and en endeavor endeavor endeavor deavor to get at the bottom of or the trou trouble trouble troubie ble bie Upon his report will depend the course to be adopted by the department In its treatment of at certain officers alleged to have misused their privileges |