The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-18

WAS there and deprivation IN ac-
count of the shortage of tents? asked
Governor Woodbury..
1T was so reported" responded DR..
Hoff.
Whose fault was ito" he was asked.
Not mine" he replied. Il did all
that I could do"
of Arkansas had complained of the
neglect of the troops from hat state.
The witness replied that the Arkan-
sas troops received the same edica
care and attention that had been given
to other soldiers under like conditions.
He knew of no case in which men in
the hospitals had been compelled to lie
on the ground, but he thought there
We're probably cases where sick men
had been kept under flies for several
days.
DIR. Conner read an extract from the
letter of the Arkansas governor, saying
that he had made a personal investiga-
ton of the conditions in this hospital
and that he had fOun the conditions
deplOrable-simply disgraceful." He
charged that the doctors in the insti-
tuition were all northern men, unfamil-
lar with disease incidental to the south;
hat there were cases of fever, in
which fever patients had gone without
water for twenty-fOur hours and in
which sick men went without attend
ance from the SurgeOn-withOut re-
ceiVing q dose of medicine for a week.
Replying DR.. Hoff said that several
southern physicians We're engaged at
the hospital and that he did not think
it possible that men could have been
neglected as indicated by the govern
Or's letter. He had heard of no such
cases.
a statement in the n9tI1rn of a 70
port was e from DR.. Samuel D.
Hubbard, surgeon of the Ninth New
York, rejecting to some extent upon
the Second division hospital. He
charged that the water for the hospital
was bad, coming from Chickamauga
creek, which he said drained the camp.
DR.. HOff thought the only safe plan
was to regard the water in the pipes Is
infected. The intake for this water was
about 40 feet above the mouth Of Cave
Spring branch, which drained the
camp, and some physicians had re-
garded it possible that It might be in
fected through the instrumentality of
side eddies which might have taken
water from the small stream into the
pipes.
ORDERS OF THE DEPARTMENT
BEFORE THE COMMISSION.
After devoting the forenoon to hear
! ing the testimony of DR.. Hoff, the
commission ave the remainder of to-
day to the reading of papers submit
ted by Secretary Alger, with his state
ment concerning the conduct of the
war. The papers include orders fol
the movement of troops, cOmmunica-
ions to the secretary of war from the
officers in the field and from the navy
to them, II various other documents
bearing upon the subject of the inves-
tigatiOn. The documents reveal the
fact that General Miles recommended
the occupation of the Isle of Pine;
about the time of the battle of Santa.
go and hat Secretary Alger diSapprOv.
ed the suggestion. 1t also appears
, that General Miles recommended tina
some point between Santiago and POr
to Rico be taken previous to the be.
ginning of either campaign. The cor.
reSpOndence also developed the fac
that there was an apparent conflict Of
authority betWeen Generals Miles anC
Shafter at Tampa, before the Santiago
campaign was inaugurated. 1t also
shows that orders were issued by tht
secretary of war that in the event tina
General Shafter should be disabled by
sickness or other cause. the command
of the troops at Santiago should de.
VOlVe upon General Wheeler, and upOr
the next in command in case of the
disa bility of both Shafter and Wheeler
The commission has summoned Ma.
jOr Louis J. Jeaman, a surgeon in the
First volunteer engineers, to appear
before it. n he is expected to testi.
fly at tOmorrow's session. He has re.
Gently been quoted in New York as
saying that 200 men had died daily be.
cause of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of tn.
quartermaster department.