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Show GEN. WOOD EXONERATED Root Says There Is No Foundation for Rath-bone's Rath-bone's Charges. WASHINGTON, March 23. Secretary Root today took official action on the charges made by Estes G. Rathbone against Brig.-Gen. Leonard Wood. He made an indorsement on the papers saying that no answer to the charges was required from Gen. Wood, and no action will be taken thereon, that it was known to the Secretary of War that the charges in every respect were without just foundation. I The Secretary refers to the part taken by the Military Governor In the post-office post-office cases in which Rathbone was a defendant, saying that Gen. Wood at every step had the approval of the Secretary Sec-retary of War, and exercised only such control as was necessary as Military Governor. He refers to the game of Jal alai and declares that the gift accepted by Gen. Wood had no relation whatever to any official action of his, but was part of the expression of gratitude of the Cuban people toward the representative represen-tative of the United States, and to have refused the gift would have been un-courteous un-courteous and unjustifiable. The action of the customs officials in reference to the gift, the Secretary says, was strictly strict-ly in accordance with the law and official offi-cial propriety. The indorsement closes as follows: "There is no foundation tor the k charges, |