Show I STILL L LAMENTING Mt T b bM M L t Desertions and All Al Other Troubles of the Laid aid To Its Is COURT GOURT MARTIAL TRIALS TRIAl LESS Only Two Persons Tried by h Military Commission Last Year Oct Oct lO The r rl ra port of ot Gen U Davis Judge ad advocate oMle general to the tho secretary of ivar shows he tue total number of trials by general court martial l during the year yea to hae been being 1016 less ieee II than thanIn In iii time tho preceding year Ar ArTho Tho Tito marked m diminution In lit time the num nuni number nUI her ber of ot trials by general court martial inertial which amounts to 10 nearly twenty per percent cent of oC the number of caws tried In the year ended ond Juno 30 3 ISM 1901 says 1 the Judge advocate general is j very iery Ier gratifying tying lying as n Indicating that the conditions ot of thus the Ih military service are now itow no such as U asto Uto teto to require lose lew lel frequent rosette reft to Jurt purt 1 tI Ur In JD order to fl discipline 11 In the ito military establish l t V It I tI Is alto also noted hated that only two persons were vere wee tried trie by ii b military seventy lens lees than thou In the preceding year r Commenting on this the general g SRI yn Tl The large decreed in trials by mill mili military mil tary commission wa was due title to the Ito fact that pence existed during the tire entire year In the Philippine Islands 8 except In portions Inhabited by I the Iho Moro Ioro tribes Thirty commissioned officers were rero convicted by b general court martial the time sentence being disapproved In two eases cases cle nod and four tour were wore acquitted Of thu Ihu 39 enlisted men melt mel convicted sentences were wele disapproved In 40 41 cases taI The Tho num number ber her of ot enlisted men macit acquitted after At trial was 31 Nine officers were vere dismissed by h sentence and In four tour this the semi sen sentences sn of dismissal I were sere commuted to low 10 of ot numbers The number of at men sentenced to dishonorable discharge 8 I Appended to the report are IUt extracts extract from trout the lie reports of nt Judge advocates of departments The following Is II quoted front from the reports of o U ut Cot Col oi Dunn judge ratio rado advocate department of or Colo Cole Colorado Theop Thelo desertions le In large part Ilat are lre attributed to 10 the malign of saloons anti and Int brothels situated user near ner the tle reservations seducing enlisted mon men trout from frol the paths of decency This Is only another of ot tho the many In fa favor faor a avar vor var or o ot of restoring to tho lie army armity RI the lie can ein canteen teeth teen which provide places or of went mont mind and social Intercourse where men inert could get light refreshments under re restraining reo straining decent derent and orderly Influence ence Capt Capt acting Judge advocate department of ot Texan roxas nays With Wih the beginning of ot the Ih work on the addition to the lie post poet ot of Fort Sam SI Houston It I IH Pt observed that lust time the tle prices of property Immediately in iii 11 the rear Ier of ot the this reservation have Ill materially advanced 11 that arrangements ae are re already being bell made for tor the construe lon mu of ot the usual assortment of or saloons that the tire Virtual abolition of ot the tue can canteen n teen feature of ot the tho post exchange has hRS made a I universal accompaniment of I every elery military post I think th It Is be Its I yond vond question that Hint Ihl permission to sell I beer ber In the hut post exchange would drive out lot of o business nt nl least of or orth the lie th low lol resorts In lit the tho vicinity of nt pots posts |