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Show ANSEEL ATTACKS BAR ASSOCIATION Maintains American Articles of War Are Not American In Principle. WASHINGTON, April 21 Colonel Samuel T. Ansell, former acting Judse advocate general, and chief figure in the attack upon the army disciplinary disciplin-ary system, today accused the committee com-mittee of the American Bar association associa-tion of having placed itself under the domination of the war department in its Investigation or military justice and of shutting its cyeg to the truth His assertion was promptly challenged chal-lenged by Chairman Gregory. "If you are for justice, this committee will strike hands with you " Colonel Ansell specifically attacked the right of Martin Conboy of New York to sit on the committee. The relationship re-lationship between Conboy and Major General Crowder, judge advocate general, gen-eral, had been such. Colonel Ansell asserted, as to make him "a staunch j supporter" of General Crowder. For I that reason. Col. Ansell said, Mr. Con boy should withdraw from the com I mittee. Mr Conboy was not present at the session, but Judge Gregory pointed out j that he and the other members of i the committee had known General j Crowder and respected him highly and I added : "I do not think that would influ-' influ-' ence my mind." Col. Ansell was assured by Ju).'', Gregory that he might have all the time he wished to present his case or to call ofticers or others whose views he wished to be presented. Col, Ansell An-sell will continue whh his argument.! He did not pass today beyond the legislative historv of the articles of war, seeking to show that they have never been changed substantially or brought into harmony with American Ideas of right and justice. Col. Ansell opened his hearing v i a prepared statement which he dc- j clared his conscience required him to make before he could proceed His attack upon the method and person-j nel of the committee was contained in this document Declaring that he was the leading i opponent of the army court system.! and had been subjected to military restrictions" in his efforts to reform it, Hie officer eaid the fact tha; the' committee "at this rather late date" had asked him to appear was slgnifi-, 1 cant to him. He expressed regret that ' the committee did not call him sooner, I in order that be might have bettor prepared the case he desired to pre-I pre-I sent. I "Military justice." Col Ansell said, "is not being best nerved by the ' method of investigation pursued by this committee, but on tho contrary Btandfl in a fair way to ufler at your ; hands," "It would seem natural that you at the outset would have offered me the opportunity to be heard, he said, "and .reasonable opportunity- to have heard , those who share with me the views ' 1 hold. "None of this did ou do Instead, ou have ignored me until the end of i in- bearing. You have shut your eyes and designed to regard me as an ofUcer of no special knowledge on this subject." With iv single exception "and that perhaps inadvertent," Col. Ansell said, I all the witnesses who had been oalled i were on the side of the war depart-i depart-i ment. "II has been apparent to mo pvi r j since the committee assembled," he continued, "that you have taken up an attitude of co-operation with the war department" He added that there had been frequent conferences between the committee and the secretary secre-tary of war, the chief of staff, the acting act-ing Judge advocate general and other officials whose views were "noior-tOUSly" "noior-tOUSly" opposed to those he held The committee had established such a relationship re-lationship with these defending 'he present system, be asserted, that those in opposition who prevlouslv had been denied fair consideration" had little to expect. Judge Gregory here, interrupted to ask from whnt source Colonel Ansell got his information as to the committee's commit-tee's activities, declaring the Officer's statements were 'entirely inaccurate " Proceeding with his statement. Col. Ansell said the witnesses appearing before the committee had been summoned sum-moned "In a way that precluded mere coincidence ' He declared three ma-i ma-i jor generals summoned In one day Wood, Scott and Chamberlain entertained enter-tained views so fully known that tht ir 'testimony was a foregone conclusion. It was "the harsh action" of one of i them, he said, which led him as act-ling act-ling judge advocate general to rocbm-mend rocbm-mend creation of the clemency board j now functioning while another "had a l national reputation for severity." It was brought out that former SCO ! retaries of war have been united t) submit their views to the commits e and that Senator Chamberlain, leading lead-ing critic in congress of the military justice system, also had been asked to make such presentation as he SUW fit Colonel Ansell charged that the opinions of "officers out of uniform'1 were the only ones that could be sought with reliance as the military machine prevented men in the service from speaking frankly either through fear of discipline or because the machine ma-chine had induced compliance with its views." oo |