Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-11-11
WILHELM AS ARBITER
Scheme That Spain Has Deter.
mined to Spring on the
United States,
IF THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS FAIL

Dons Decide to Maintain Their Claim ts
Sovereignty in the PhiIippines-Fur
ther Testimony Taken by the War In.
quisitors at Detroit-Gen. Miles Report
Is Out, but Criticises Nobody-Cubau
President Coming Round to Our View.
Madrid, Nov. 11.-El Heraldo asserts
that the Spanish government has de-
cided to maintain it's claim to sovereign
ty IN the Philippine islands. and that
in the event of the peace commissions
failing to agree, to ask Emperor Will
lam of Germany to arbitrate the ques-
tion at issue
Detroit, Nov. 1.-THE first witness
before the war investigators, who met
at the Hotel Cadillac yesterday. was
Major A w. Corliss, of the Seventh
regular infantry. He camped at Chicka-
| mauga and Tampa, was wounded at El
| Caney and came home on the much
talked about transport Seneca, the trip
she was talked about. He had no COM
| plant to make as to his treatment. He
said there were two surgeons on the
| Seneca and one female nurse; but there
were no delicacies for the sick except
little matted milk and cereals but
that the men were fairly we'll taken
care of, notwithstanding the scarcity of
supplies
General Dodge read a statement re-
ported to have been made by a soldier
of the Seventh regiment to the effect
that positions as corporal were readily
obtained by paying a stipulated price
THAT is lie," responded Major Cor
liss
Badly Equipped for Sick Men.
Captain Charles A. Booth, Seventh
infantry, testified that he returned
aboard the auxiliary cruiser Prairie, |
which had no accommodations for car
rying troops. There were no regular
nurses aboard, and the two doctors
witness considered, were young and in |
experienced and hardly qualified to cope |
with the conditions, especially as one of |
them was ill. Captain Booth said the |
men were all in such miserable condi-
ton from malarial poisoning on reach
ing Montauk that their stomachs would
retain nothing.
Lack of System Is Noted.
DR.. Charles B. Nancrede, surgeon Of
the Thirty-third Michigan volunteers
testified. In his judgment the regi-
mental medical officers were competent
as class. He commended as satisfac-
tory the care of the wounded during
and after the Santiago fight. He added:
Il saw at Montauk no wilful neglect.
but 1 did notice Inconvenience and
discomforts consequent upon the lack |
OF division of labor and responsibility |
Interference from friends and relatives
was a great source of trouble and I
thing caused the furloughing of a great |
many patients from the hospital before
they were well enough to be removed"
Disinfection of Bed Clothes.
I.aNV pr1ne n Z |
Rivers. major surgeon of the Thirty
second Michigan volunteers, was heard. ,
He said that at times they were short
on medical supplies at Tampa. DIR. ,
Conner read from a report of an in !
spection of the Fernandina hospital )
Aug. is and called attention to the criti-
cism that the bed clothes were not
cleaned. Dr. Knowles said that
-hcse clothes were sprinkled with | s
chloride of lime and with bi-chloride e
II mercury when they could get it, and | f
lfter that were thoroughly boiled The II
number of nurses was totally made 2
luate- He had made acquisitions to the v
,hief surgeon of the corps. DIR. Henley, c
or more nurses. but did not go farther a
n his quest He intimated that il was Il
10 use applying to the surgeon gen. 8
raj d
Condemns a Division Hospital.
Rev. Helen Stuart Richards. of Bos-
on, testified upon the condition of the :.
ospitals at Camp Thomas, where she .,
helped care for the soldiers :,
rom June to Aug. by permission of =,
ieneral Brooke She said: In the .,
econd division, Third corps. hospital | -
would mention general disorder, lack =,
I quiet, absence of disinfectants and e.
orrible stencil Patients were fire. =,
uently filthy and they were very in
bathed. Some with high
evers were never bathed, not even
aving their necks and arms sponged "
found patients with their eyes nostrils F
nd mouths full of horrible flies. Mos W
uito netting was there, but il was not bl
lways in use. The nurses were in CT
Ompetent; they were all taken from
ne ranks DR.. Conner said that was
he only way provided in the army
equations Mrs. Richards could not II
any instance of neglect on oH W
lie part of the doctors. W
No Food for Sick People. ="
Captain George S. Young. COMPANY
!. Seventh United States infantry. tes- =
fed to having returned from Cuba on
oard the Concha which carried lis sick
en-. There was nothing to eat on the q
oat excepting the ordinary rations-i
IT any such food as sick people could
Il.
The commission left Detroit this y
orning for Washington. o.
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