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Show m IS IDE ON Iji KEflD my ECommittee Would Dis-Btme Dis-Btme Army Officer for Ac-i Ac-i I tivity in Politics. fcllMONV IS QUOTED tJ,ter Is Charged With False Certificate and "Altering Vouchers. Hfcrv'GTO.V, Aug. 24.- Th house iljlSC on nor department "-:nendi-EiT reported that Major Beecher fl B- A-' whnrn tlle President "SLalDted to bi deputy paymaster the army. be,?n engaged Mjjj irtJvlty, particularly In the president Taft; had bean four L,fMj with aerioiiB offenses, never K1 ndrver disciplined mora oe-Kq oe-Kq br a reprimand. 'l2ripatlon of MaJ01" &-Ya case I 'Bvlds attention because of the L'Kiio3 committee's charges that il BrBtlmson was withholding lm-I lm-I mU, bearing upon It. It Is bo-,f bo-,f ,nniniltici 's report has been Kkr President Tufts nomination lWL Ray for promotion yesterday. line for advam i :tn-nt under the hJRnj ualri the president and Sec-W:mn Sec-W:mn decided to Kend In his :j.L."j 8):ii leave Its confirmation to That a fight will be made rate haa been announced. jB-smlttee findings In part follow: Kltey has been engaged In pollt-Hrltles pollt-Hrltles in tho interest of the Re-u Re-u BKparty ariri particularly in the Ln- committer, bellies that 1? one III li allowed favors and lm- 11 result of political Bervlces o- It must be an example of all If such practices prevail at all .m, to fee how the umiy ;an re-1 re-1 j drawn mere and morn Into iti .pd becoming a political ma- ! like Assurances. etounlttee state? its findings with-(II with-(II Bdlflg disrespect to the president tie hope that "he may see fit to Wc such explanation of the clr-, clr-, ices ict forth as will assure the . that the army Is not being nsed i ! (feal purposes ' it j nfert declared that the secretary . ' , W determined that the comm.lt-''Ul comm.lt-''Ul not spe certain tultth hear-f. hear-f. MM. said to have been found efhee of General Edwards, then the Insular bureau. U' k rharge-1-" relating lo the .-Ife cf ' byte of ths war department, on W , of tthlrh Major Ray was sell se-ll sprlrcuJided, the committee con-I con-I lit was ample justification for pKttdlng with the court-martial, Pftayee who complained became Kto his wife and rofu&ed to press i fffon quoted from the testimony B committee by officials, includ-rrr includ-rrr Paymaster General Snlffen, aid Major Ray undertook to lm-jJM lm-jJM lltlca' Importance upon jd Crookedness. fcn iTiLjmlttfed by the war depart -Bbttport said, showed that Major Kti bn charged with knowingly ,.P ' certificate resulting In j"t a fraudulent claim against j-M'it an, thai court-martial ,But against him had been !aBH'; t'p showed that Major oeen charged with directing W c't!s to alter vouchers eo as gay fa- travel pay had bee.n paid Mdljehargcd Phlllppl ne scouts a nd I W eon-espnnding credit on his I accounts, although he "had intentionally paid the scouts no travel pay." The committee expressed the belief that the papers which Secretary Stlmson refused re-fused to transmit would throw light on tho motives of General Bell, commanding the Philippine division. In dealing with the Ray case as he had, and suggested that "it eeems hardly possible that there was not behind the unmllltary course In the matter some political motlv on the part of some one other than General Bell," Stlmson 's Failure. "This." the report concluded, "might alBO account for the failure of the secretary sec-retary of war to Inquire Into the mattor which he considered highly Irregular." "A table prepared by General Whipple, Whip-ple, showing all of Major Ray's Stations nlnce he was commissioned In 1898, Khows the following with respect to presidential presi-dential campaign years. Tie was stationed sta-tioned at Chicago from .Tulv 12, 1P0O, to April 22. 1901, at Chicago from April 2fi. 1904. to May 31, 1907. on leave of a.bsence from January 29. 190S to August 17, 1908, which the record shows he availed himself to go to Chicago and was on temporary dutv at. Chicago from August 17. 1008. to October 81, 1908. He was assigned again to Chicago on November 127. 1911" |