Show WOOD9S CUBAN GAREER Major Rathbone Reviews His Island Record VIOLATED SEVERAL LAWS Employad ExCenvict to t Further Fur-ther His Ends r Maj Rathbones Charges Submitted to Senate Intimate Wood Had One Long Uninterrupted Grnft i Washington Nov 201Iuj Estes G Rathfootie formerly director of posts in jf Cuba was given a hearing today by the Senate committee on military affairs ivliiuh Is investigating1 the chnr cst ° cs-t against Gen Leonard WOOd in opposition 1 oppo-sition to his confirmation as Mnjor General The committee was in session about one hour Nearly the entire time was given to Maj Rathbonc who reiterated reit-erated the charges made several times before to the Secretary of War the Senate committee on relations with Cuba and In public statements following follow-ing his trial in connection with Cuban postal 1 frauds SPECIFIC CHARGES FILED Maj Rathbone filed specific written charges with the committee lie alleged al-leged that Gen Wood while military governor of Cuba had accepted money from the Jal Aliil which was he said a gambling concern and asserted that he had made a personal friend and boon companion oC an exconvict Tie also charged him with glvlmr Instructions Instruc-tions of an entirely unconstitutional and unAmerican character to the courts VIOLATED THE LMVS With reference to the charge that GovGen Wood had exceeded his authority au-thority in giving I instructions to the courts Maj Ralhbone said that the General had pursued this course in the Cuban postal case when he Ralhbone was under prosecution This was he said In violation of an article of the penal code of Cuba and In a manner prejudicial to the rights and Interests of those under trial He also charged Gen Wood with authorizing the use of exparte deposit Ions in the postal cases a proceeding which he asserted is contrary to law and the principles of law and in this case contrary to instructions in-structions given by the Secretary of War GIFTS FROM GABBLERS Maj Hnlh one charged that In accepting ac-cepting gifts from the organization commonly known as the Jal Alai to which Maj Rathbonc said Gen Wood has granted a tenyears exclusive concession con-cession Gen Wood violated the For ulcer law which prohibited the grantIng grant-Ing of franchises or concessions during the occupation of the Island by the American authorities He also charged that the acceptance of these gifts constitutes con-stitutes a violation of an article of the penal code oC Cuba Other charges were made against Gen Wood as follows fol-lows PLOTTED AGAINST OFFICERS With complicity with another army officer In the preparation and publication publica-tion of an article reflecting discreditably discredi-tably upon an officer who ranked both of them In violation of un accepted canon of military service and constituting l consti-tuting an offense commonly known as conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman With directing and causing caus-ing the Auditor of Cuba by a military order to violate the law in the treatment treat-ment of accounts with utilizing the services of an exconvict with whom he was on intimate personal association associa-tion in an effort to displace his superior supe-rior officer and by such means to secure se-cure to himself the vacancy thus created cre-ated FRIEND OF EXCONVICT Incidental to these were many more charges MnJ Rathbone also offered to produce evidence and testimony In I support cC the allegations He submitted sub-mitted a number of documents to the committee and gave the names of several sev-eral witnesses whom he asked the committee com-mittee to summon AL the afternoon sessIon of the committee com-mittee Maj Rathbonc submitted a trnn pcrlpt of the records of the courts at Havana showing that Gen Wood as I military Governor pave orders to tho courts as to what they nhnuld do In the matter of giving ball and the conduct of some other business SUBPOENAS ISSUED I A summons Issued by the Senate Allll i tan Affairs committee vats served to uijht on Brnat Leo Conant of the Now Ycrlc law ilrm of Page < C Conant citing him to appear before the committee tomorrow to-morrow In connection with the charges against UrlfGcu Leonard Wood made In u an effort to prevent his confirmation as iMajortJeneral Mr Conant has been In Washington several days prosecuting Cuban cases before be-fore the Spanish claims committee Il In I Understood thin this subpoena was Issued nt the request of Maj Rathbonc who learned late today of Mr Couanttj presence pres-ence III tho city Mr Connnt will bo cx pcelcd to give testimony ar to the character t char-acter of tho Jal Alal the aliened Rambling Ram-bling establishment which Gen Wood Is charged 1 with having given a tenyear m concession to operate In Havana 4 WOOD AND THE GAMBLERS Mr Conant went to Cuba as an attache of the evacuation commission and while thcrj ho acted ao legal adviser of Gen 7 lmllow in command of the department r of Havana Later ho nerved Gen AVood In the rams capacity Another witness nummoncd tonight by the Military Affairs committee Is Herbert Her-bert 7 Brown a newspaper man who was In Cuba during the American occupation occu-pation Jin la said to have made inquiry into the character of the Jnl Alal company com-pany panyWITNESS = ON THE WAY MiJ JiimcH E Runcle now practicing I lau in Havuna has sent a cablegram to i ii 1 UlImh i of the committee Mating Hint I 1 he will mil from lliminu tomorrow and will be In Washington Tuesday He will 4 I bo examined by the committee In refer + Mice to his Plntpnent that Gen Wood Inspired an article In the North American Review reflecting on the administration i Oi MaJCJon UrooUs his predecessor Ill 6 GovernorGeneral |