The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-28
WAR 1yrEsr1GAr1Ne COMMISSION.
The Witnesses Heard Yesterday at
 Huntsville, Ala

EAuhisNAAie, Aht.
 Huntsville, Ala, Oct 27.-The com- mission began the examination of wit nesses to-day, with General Louis H.
 Carpenter, who is in command in Gen.
 eral Wheelers absence. He has been
 at Chickamauga, Tampa and Fernan-
 dina before coming here. He said the
 camp at Chickamauga was too crowd ed. That at Tampa was unsatisfactory,
 but it was not intended to be perma-
 nent That at Fernandina was ideal.
 The food supply had been ample
 throughout, but quartermasters sup
 plies were generally slow and there had been especial trouble in securing tents.
 There was more difficulty in getting
 supplies at Tampa than elsewhere be-
 cause of railway congestion.
 Charles M Candy, the surgeon who
 was in charge of the medical supply depot at Tampa, said he had been able to fill all reasonable acquisitions for | medical supplies with promptness, but i many bulky articles for which substi- tutes could be had were not supplied, Regular troops were easily satisfied, but the volunteers were exacting. Still | there were some delays and he men, toned one instance of supplies ordered from New York that were not received for two months. He had fitted out the Shafter expedition for Cuba and thought that in the main the expedi- ton was fairly supplied. This was es- pecially true of the first requisition. Half of the supplies he had on hand C., l,A boI afterwards made supplementary ship
 ment of two wagon loads. He had af- rewards heard that many of those l stores came back to Tampa in the hold l of the Iroquois. He gave the name of 1 Captain Munson as authority for this
 latter statement, and he was sure that Captain Munson would testify willing i ly and fully. First Lieutenant Coklin, of the Sec l ond artillery who was in the Santiago
 campaign, said the only material de- 1 feet in the supplies was in the powder,
 Wkich he thought should have been smokeless. He said that in going to | Cuba the guns and horses were sepa- | rated, but he understood that this could | not be avoided. He was the only mem
 Der of his battery who had not been
 sick as a result of the Cuban campaign, l but he did not think the sickness could | have been prevented. Major Lobe, in command of the Sixth cavalry, con-
 plained of the difficulty of securing | lumber, firewood, horseshoes and stoves | in the camp here He stated that the
 tents were of poor material and leaked 1 He also said there had not been suffi-
 cient medical supplies in Cuba and that i the transport Gate City, in which the l command came, was poorly suited for i the purpose. Captain Stretch of the 1 Tenth infantry gave in detail the hard l ships of that regiment during the San l Juan fighting. Tie said there was nc time when the men had nothing to eat 1 He said the sick were fed at Montauk
 better than they ever had been before | in their lives.
 The principal witness at the night | session was Dr. Charles M Lee, who
 was executive officer at the detention I hospital at Montauk Point. He said | the hospital was crowded. That on oc- 1 casionS when large numbers of men
 were received it was necessary to re- move men from their beds and put ] them on the floor to make room fol l them all. He said there was deficien- 1 cy in supplies. The inspecting com- missioners who visited the general hos | pital here to-day found the institution | without stoves. They took the matter | in hand.