New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 24, 1919, Page 5

- DISAGREE ASTO COURTS MARTIAL Col. Avsell and Col. Wigmere Testily Beiore Bar Committee e o Vashington, April 24.—The radical difference of opinion that exists not only in military circles but among lawyers as to the present system of military justice was brought out sharply yesterday before the commit- tee of the American association in the conflicting views presented by Lieut, Cel. Samuel T. Ansell, the affi- er of the regular army who is chief ailant of the sy . and Col. John Wigmore, temporary officer and wide- 1y kncwn as a student of law in civil life, byt the most active defender of the present system in the absence ot Major Gen. Crowder, judge advocate- ral. "he court-martial system does not ed more law: but more facts,” Col. more asserted, urging that amend- went of the present system to insure perfectly feariess counsel for the ac- d” to bring out the facts would -d remedying such de- s had been disclosed. ‘“‘Therc a feeling that by putting in more chnical law, we will get more jus- tice,” he added. “I- do not believe that.” Col. Ansell, resuming his argument which will not ho concluded for an- other day, defined the real issue as the quéstion: “Whethet military justice is zoing to be conducted by hard and fast milftary rules, or is it going to take on an aspect of civil justice. It we had had legal control from the beginning of the proceedings,” ho asserted after displaying charts show- ing the extensive machinery set up In the judge advocatie-general’s office | to corrsct errors, “we would have had need for this great revisory ma- chinery at the top.” Col. Wigmore took direct {ssue with statements made by Senater Cham- berlain and Col. Ansell. He quoted a speech made by Mr. Chamberlaln on the floor of the senate which de- c the army court-martial represented neithér a system ce or a system of law. “If any man, after rational Inquiry what- ever holds to that view,” Col. Wig- more declared, “he is hopeless.” Similarly, he chalienged Col. An-} frequently repeated charge that military justice system s rchaic.” On the contrary Col. Wik- more declared there are elements in the army system so advanced apd modern that men in civil practice can only dream of the day when they will be applied .in civil courts. Colonel nsell's Suggesions. Oel. Ansell entered today upon the detailed discussion of changes in law he desires made to accomplish his main purpose of divorcing the legal aspects of the army completely from | the possibility of military domination, He' recited fizyres to show that 94 | per cent. of the elisted men brought | to trial were convicted. “Either this is a most inhumanly perfect machine,” he said. “‘or a most inhumanly unjust nt. BELL-DELL This is the “Bell-Dell” comfort sleeve idea—In front it appears as an English high line shoulder—in the back the Raglan effect has been applied—The com- bination accomplishes a notable and practical style point. $35 and more tried are convicted,” Col. Ansél] added, but continued: ‘‘Of course, people in ithe: army are net going around con- victing enlisted men because they are enlisted men and acquitting officers because they are officers. That is not true; but we do know that the offi- cers get beiter trials.” The records of the clemency board, | of which he is the head, Col. Ansell said, show that 36 per cent of the cases reviewed were not well tried and that 20 per cent, werp poorly tried. William Freeland, of Jacksonville, Fla., urged that a military appellate court be created, citing his own ex- perience as civil coungel for two men ' who had been dismissed from the service some years ago. Representative Johnson, of South WILSON EXPLAINS STAND ON FIUNE Says Ameri& Is Italy’s Friend, | But Cannot Give Over City Parts, April 24.—President Wilson has issued the following statement sefting forth his stand on the Fiume | question: Dakota, made pubdlic Jast night a tel-! egram to the bar assoclation commit- ! tee asking that there be summoned as witnesses in the {nquiry some of the men who are alleged to have suf- fered injustice because of the present system and that they be permitted to testify without fear of punishment of the War department. Unless this was done, he sald, the investigatien would become a farce. The intervention of the American Bar association In the controverep was directly due to the suggestion of Lieutenant-Colonel Ansell, S. 8. Greg- ory, chairman of the assoclation’s committee, stated yesterday in deny- ing a published report that the com—l mittee had been organized through the desire of the War department to forestall 2 congressional inquiry. Sentences Reduoed. Colonel Sedgwick Rice, commandant ' of the Army disciplinary barracks at Fort Leavenwernii, said that about 9 per cent. of the men recelved at the ' disciplinary barracks whose séntences included dishonovable discharge had that portion of the sentence suspend- ed. From the beginning of the war up to'Aprit 19 a teral of 6,467 prison- | ers had Dpeén received, he szaid, of whom, on thelr own application, 1,910 had beén assigned to the disciplinary battallons, to which only men con- victed of purely military offenses had been eligible. Of these, 1,107 were | restored te duty as a result of thelr, work in the battalien. Of those restored to duty the agz- pregate of their sentences was 8,288} years, which had been reduced through the disciplinary system to 5,659 months, the average time served being five months and 3% days. The officer told of the formation by | direction of Secretary Baker of a clemency board at the barracks in February, adding that it had always ‘been his understanding that the long sentences imposed during the war were intended as a lesson and would | be adjusted after the war. The Leav- | enworth clemency board has forward- ed 3,200 recommendations for clem- | ency to the clemency board in the judge advocats-general's department | and about 50 per cent. of these have | been acted upon and retyrned. He added that approximately 500 men werc released immediately as a result of this action and that paroles would | be granted in a large number of cases, The recent strike ait the discipltnary ! barracks, Colonel Rice sald, was brought about by “professional agi- | tators and strike leaders” among the prisoners and the only complaint made was against inequality of sen- tences. 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Jugo-Slay : chiefly depend for their access to the “In view of the capital of the questions affected, der te throw all possible light upen what i invelved in their settlement, 1 hope that the following statement will comtribute to the final form tion of opinion and to a satisfactory solutjon. “When Italy entered the war she entered upon the basis of a definite, private understanding with Great | Britain and France, now known as the Pact of London. Sinece that tim ithe whole face of circumsatances has | been altered. Many other powers, great and small, have entered the | struggle, with no knowledge of that privats understanding. “The Austro-Hungarian then the enemy of Burope, and at whoge cxpense the Paect of London was to be Lkept in the event of vie- tory, has gone to pieces and no long. exists. Neot ogly that, but the several parts of that chipire, it is agreed now by Ttaly and all her associates, are to be erected into independent states and agsoclated in a League of N tions, mot with those who were v cently our enemies, but with Italy herself and the powers that stood with Ttaly in the great war for liberty. | “We are to estabiish their liberty as well as our own. 'They are to be among the smaller states whose in- terests are henceforth to be safe- guarded as scrupylously as the in- teredts of the most powerful states. “The war was ended, moreover, by proposing to Germany an armistice and peace which should bé founded on certain clearly defined principles which set up a new order of right and justice. Upon those principles the peace with Germany has been concelved, not enly, but formulated. Upon those principles it will bo exe- | We cannot ask the great hody of powers to propose and effect peace | a new | basis of independence and right in | the states which originally consti- tuted the Austro-Hungarian empire and in the states of the Balkan group on principles of another kind. We must apply the same principles to the settlement of Europe in those quarters that we have applied in the importance and in or- empire, peace with Germany. It was upon the expleit avowal of those princi- | ples that the initiative for peace was | taken. Tt is upon them that the | whole structure of peace must rest. “If those principles are to be ad- hered to Fiume must serve as the out- let of the commerce not of Italy but of the land te the north and north- east of that port: Hungary, Bohemia, Rumania. and the states of the new group. To assign Fiume to Italy would be to create the feeling that we have deliberately put the port upon which all those countries { | | i Mediterranean in the hands of a pow- er of which it did net form an in- tegral part and whose sovereignty, if | sét up there, must inevitably seem foreign. not domestic or identified | with the commercial and industrial life of the region which the port must serve. 1t is for that reason, no doubt, that Fiume was not included in the Pact of London, but there definitely assigned to the Croatians. “And the. reason why the line of the Paat of London swept about many of the islands of the eastern coast | ©of the Adriatic and around the por- tion of the Dalmatian coast, which | lies most open to that sea was net only that here and there on those | islands, and here and there on that coast, there are bodies of people of Italian blood and connection, but also, and no doybt, chiefly because it was felt that it was necessary for TItaly to have a foothold amidst the chan- nels of the eastern Adriatic in order that she might make her own coasts safe against the naval aggreéssion of Austria-Hungary. i “Bu¢ Austria-Hungaty no longer | exists. It ls proposed that the fortifi-| cations which the Austrian govern- ment constructed there shall be razed ' and permanently destroyved. | “It is patt also of the new plan of | European erder which centers in the League of Natfons that the new states erected there shall accept a lim- itation of armaments, which puts ag- gressien out of the questien. There can be no fear of the unfair treat-| ment of groups of Ttalian people thers, | because adequate guarantees will bs given, under international sanction, of the equal and equitable treatment of all racial or national minoritie IF WOMEN ONLY NEW What a Heap of Happiness It Would Bring to New Britain Homes. Hard to do housework with an aching back. Brings you heurs of misery at lelgure or at work. | It women only knew the cause— that Backache pains ofts weak kidneys, "Twould save much needless woe. Doan’s Kidney Pllls are for weak Ikidneys. Read what a New Britain citizen saye: Mre. Marja Murphy, 103 Columbia 8t., saya: ‘Doan’s Kidney Pills cer- tainly did me a lot of goed when I | had kidney complaint. My back was weak and lame and I was in run down condition. T had no energy to do my housework and whenever I swept the floor, my back ached so I thought it it would break. I oftén had dizay head- aches gnd my kidneye scted irregular- 1y. A friend advised me to use Doan’s Kidney Pills and on deing so, I was soon free from all kidney trouble.” 60¢, at all dealers. Foster-Milburn Co., Mfgre., Buffalo, N, Y, come from l “In brief, every question with this settlement aspect—a new asbect given very vietory for right for which Italy has made the supremec crifi of blood and treasure. Italy, along with the four other great powers, has come onc of the chief tees of new order which she las plaved honorable a part in establishing. “aAnd on the north and northeast her natural frontiers are compvletely restored, along the whole sweep of the Alps from northwest to southest, associa | to the very end of the Istrian pen la, including all the great wat within which Triest and Pola lie, an all the fair regions whose face na has turned toward the great penin upon which the historic life of Latin people has been worked oug through centurics of famous story ever since Rome s first set upon her seven hill: “Her ancient unity is restored. Her lines are extended to the great wall which are her natural defence. It i within her choice to be surrounded by friends; to exhibit to the newly 1 ated peoples across the Adriatfe that noblest quality of greatne nanimity, friendly - gene preference of justice over inte “The natic associated the th the nations that knew nothing of tho pact of London or ial understandin. ginning of this gr g Who have made their supreme sacri- fice also in the intcrest, not of ua- tional advantage or defence, but of any other spe- lies at the be- struggle, nd | unmist th now sottled peace of tited with her in urging her to as which cannot be m order of Burope, older associates 1ken in the new ple are drawn, millio Italy’s own fair countrs linked in"blood, as well as In afte tion, with the Italian people. S Ues can never be broken and Ame was privileged, by the generous com- mission of he ociates in to initiate the peice we consumm which she in which I v “The compulsion is square every decision in with those principl nothing She tru: Hop es that nothir s strong, ora side. She is as! are abouat to itiate it upon terms elf formulated and as her spokesman. upon her to takes a part She can do s Ttaly, and in Italy will that cannot made consistent those trust bel of her asle e with sacred ot now in peopl liberated veo- peoples whose rulers have sunted them worthy of a all the right of the world to such settlements ot ues- tion, b states new ples never t; above and and old of peace nd 2 for which America and these ouly, upon which she Only and be principles r ip she Lop 5, will the people r to make peace.’ COOK’S GARAGE, Plainv ip | America is Italy’s friend. 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