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EsLebeDeutschland772 ESTABLISHMENT OF MILITARY JUSTICE .
War Department or any bureau of it, and which are entirely beyond your lega l
competency .
4. Besides whatever of controversy has arisen upon these fundamental con-
siderations, concerning which I have given expression to my views, directl y
involves the Secretary of War, whose subordinate you are . Even more, i t
directly involves you and your office as well . I beg to remind you what th e
record will show, that in my original endeavor made near the beginning of th e
war to subject courts-martial to departmental supervision and control, th e
Secretary of War, the Assistant Chief of Staff, the Judge Advocate General ,
and the Inspector General opposed . I had occasion then, in a brief filed wit h
the Secretary of War and read into my recent statement before the committee ,
to comment upon the views of these military advisers of the Secretary of Wa r
and to pronounce them professional absolutists upon this question of militar y
justice. They and you stood upon the one side of this so-called controversy
and I upon the other . I can not, therefore, but regard you and your office a s
disqualified to make a full, fair, and impartial investigation .
5. Knowing nothing specific of the subject, scope, and purpose of your in -
vestigation, and excepting, as I do and for the reasons given, to your jurisdic-
tional competency, and likewise to your fair qualifications, to make such al l
investigation as that which you contemplate, affecting me, I am not inclined
to have aught to do with it voluntarily .
S . T . ANSELL .
EXHIBIT 4.
Record of a general court-martial convened at Fort Bliss, Tex ., pursuant to
paragraph 13, Special Orders, No . 240, Headquarters, Southern Department ,
August 31, 1917, in the eases of various noncommissioned officers and private s
charged with mutiny . Trial was held September 17, 1917, at Fort Bliss, Tex.
Sentences approved October 16, 1917, by Maj . Gen. John W . Buckman, Nationa l
Army, commanding :
General Court-Martial Order No. 1174 .
HEADQUARTERS SOUTHERN DEPARTMENT ,
Fort Sara Houston, Tex ., October 16, 1917 .
Before a general court-martial which convened at Fort Bliss, Tex ., pursuan t
to paragraph 13, Special Orders, No . 240, Headquarters, Southern Department,
August 31, 1917, were arraigned and tried :
Pvts . Clarence Maheu, Calvin Kunselman, Ralph K. Green, Wilfred Kight,
John J . Poryanda, Frank J. Adamik, John Van De Vooren, Orel Perrier, Andre w
J . Brown, Wilburn L. Monson, Henry C. Park, William F . Hess, Roger Graves,
and Rupert P . Orndorff, all of Battery A, 18th Field Artillery .
Charge : Violation of the sixty-sixth article of war .
Specification : In that Sergts . Clarence Maheu, Calvin Kunselman, Ralph K .
Green, Wilfred Kight, John J . Poryanda, Frank J . Adamik, John Van D e
Vooren, Oral Perrier, Corpls. Andrew J . Brown, Wilburn L . Monson, Henry C .
Park, William F. Hess, Roger Graves, and Rupert P . Orndorff, all of Battery A ,
18th Field Artillery, acting jointly, and in the pursuance of a common intent ,
did, at Camp Fort Bliss, El Paso, Tex., on or about the 22d day of August, 1917,
voluntarily join in a mutiny which had been begun in Battery A, 18th Fiel d
Artillery, against the authority of First Lieut . Harry A . Harvey, the command-
ing officer thereof, and did refuse to assemble for drill .
PLEAS .
Each : To the specification and charge, " Not guilty . "
FINDINGS .
Pvt . Clarence Maheu, Battery A, Eighteenth Field Artillery : Of the specifica-
tion and charge, " Guilty . "
Pvt . Calvin Kunselman, Battery A, Eighteenth Field Artillery : Of the speci =
fication and charge, " Guilty . "
Pvt . Ralph K . Green . Battery A, Eighteenth Field Artillery : Of the specifica-
tion and charge, " Guilty ."