The age-herald., 1898-10-25
spanlards Would Enlist

been enlisted with us but for their home ties.
 Spaniards Would Enlist
 "They found that We were giving them better treatment than their own govern ment did. l am satisfied their own officers were swindling them. The officers were lat and sleek-looking, but the men were i'll ana pale and apparently under-fed." He old not believe there were a sufficient num- Der of doctors in the Cuban campaign. He thought the coatract surgeons were capa- ble doctors, bus they were not familiar with army methodA and did not know how to get the necessary medicines. Speaking Ess- erally of the Cuban experience, he ex- pressed the opinion that the supplies had been as liberal as could have been reason ably expected. Colonel Bisbee said he had no complaint of the voyage. The regiment was held at the detention camp for three oays. He said in reply to questions from General McCook that a distress signal had been put out for food while they lay out at sea, and when some vessel came along slde he said he had called out to those aboard to bring them food. He stated in explanation that the food was wanted for the officers mess. The men had enough he said, such as it was.
 IL was the usual constipatng dose. Af- ter this and while at Montauk they got more than they needed We got it from the people of the New York relief associa- tons and citizens They sent us eyery-
 II Tar more than we wanted" He said he knew of no deprivation at Montauk The raw recruits were bowling to get into house he said, but that was all.
 Major Dempsey, of the Second regular in- fantry, covered very much the same ground as Colonel Bisbee. He said that his command had never during the San uago campaign suffered for want of SUD- plles- Men had some times at night felt the want of covering, but not of food. Not more than half the men in the regiment were fit for duty at the time of the sur dender of Santiago. He had heard a doc tor say that quinine and castor oil were the only medicines he could get Major Dempsey said the only deficiency he dis covered at M$ntauk was in the matter of transportation facilities, which seemed to be taxed. He had also heard that there were not enough cots. Other members of the two regiments of regulars stationed here who were examined were Captain Waring, of the First; Lieutenant Lutz, of the Second.
 Deficiency in Rations
 Sergeant Katz, of the First; Private Eel tus, of the First; Sergeant Stahl, of the Second, and Private Punchell, of the Sec ond, all testified that while there was a deficiency in the rations issued while the troops were in the trenches in the vicinity of Santiago there was no real suffering on the part of the men on this account; for the rest they expressed tnemselVeS as satisfied that they received as good at- .tention as they could have expected under the circumstances.
 Colonel Bullard, of the Third Alabama, which had been stationed at Mobile previ-' ous to coming to Anniston. said his com mand had received all necessary supplies, and that the health of the command had been good throughout.
 Colonel H. M. Stallman, of the. First Wisconsin, complained that the supplies his regiment had drawn at Camp Douglass, Wis. including clothing. shoes and arms, had been poor. He did not consider the ~ ..--s . - s,.>~ = r,| -.