Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1908 — CASE OF THOSE CADETS [ARTICLE]

CASE OF THOSE CADETS

Story That the President Had Commutated Their Sentence la De- . nled at Oyster Bay. Oyster Bay, N. Y., Aug. 4.—Whether the dismissal from the West Point Military academy of the eight cadets who had been found guilty of hazing is to be made permanent, or the young men, reinstated through congressional action or executive clemency, is shill undetermined. This attitude of the government '« set forth in an official statement issued by President Roosevelt through' Rudolph Foster, who is the acting private secretary to the president in the absence of Secretary Loeb. ndw on his vacation. The president characterizes as erroneous contrary announcements. The statement explains that the president has not as yet heard finally from the secretary of war ns to the latter’s recommendations in the matter, and that therefore, the national executive has reached no flipal decision.