The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-26
STORIES DIFFERED WIDELY.
A CHAPLAIN SAYS THERE WAS NO
CONFUSION AT TAMPA.

cfareS Innt NoAuHNSSEH ere
Treated with Less Consideration
Than Regulars, Because of InefIi-
cheney of ReGimentnl officers.
Red Cross People Cannot Criticise
the Government. Says DIR. Lesser.
New York, Nov 25.-Rev. Dwight Gal
loupe of Jersey City, who went to the
front as chaplain of the Ninth United
States Infantry, testified before the war
investigating commission to-day. He
contradicted statements made about con-
fusion at Tampa. He spoke In the highest
terms of the behavior of the medical men
in Cuba.
James P. Holmes, who served in the
| Seventy-first New York Regiment, was
examined. He was taken sick in Santiago,
and is still in poor health. He was al
lowed to lie on a couch while giving his
| testimony. He told of his experiences
with the regiment, and complained that
no attention was paid to the sick on the
| transport La Grande Duchesse. Holmes
said the volunteers were treated with far
less consideration than the regulars For
several weeks there was no regular food
in his regiment, and in his own company
there was no regularly organized mess
| from the time the regiment reached Tam
| pa until it was mustered out
Replying to questions by Gen Beaver
| Holmes said he did not blame the govern
ment so much as he blamed the ineffi-
| Gle ncy, carelessness and selfshness of the
regimental officers.
Mrs Mary Hatch Willard, who was sta
toned at Camp Wikoff with the Red Cross
| Auxiliary Relief Association saw every
| thing at camp in its brightest light.
I'm not one instance" said Mrs. Willard
did I know of any abuse which was not
rectifed as soon as it was brought to the
attention of the proper officers.
Louis L. Krauss. private of Company G,
| Ninth New York Volunteers, complained
that he was not treated properly by the
doctors at the Chickamauga camp. Over
exertion at drill brought on nervous af-
lection on June II. He appealed to the
regimental surgeon, DR.. Hubbard, and the
doctor said he was shamming.
Later was examined by another doc
tor, and he said | had the st. Vitus dance. "
continued Krauss. He said he had no
medicines for me and gave me pre-
scription to get filled in town. l had 10
money and went without the medicine
| ''Wul you tell US that doctors name"
II would prefer not I am an applicant
for a pension and l want no trouble vita
the doctors until my application is acted
upon!
medicine from the doctors In charge?
asked DIR. Connor.
"Oh, l got some quinine one day. All
the medicine they had was quinine and
salts and castor oil. They served it out
it turn"
]. Hussey of Brooklyn, a private of the
| Sixty-nnth Regiment, testified that the
best of all the food supplied by the gov
eminent was. appropriated for the use of
| the officers Hussey has served in the
regular army and said that not more than
cne-third of the regular army rations were
issued to the men of his company. ~ II
DR.. Monae Lesser, who was in Cuba In
medical charge of the Red Cross Society,
was next examined. Replying to questions
by Dr. Conner, he told of the arrival OF
the Red Cross in Cuba and of the offers
of supplies made by him at the instance
of Miss Barton.
"Were the offers refused2"
II cannot say they were refused.
acted as spokesman for our party, and
was informed that there were plenty OF
government supplies on hand. / offerel
DR.. La Garde at the Siboney hospital tn,
services of the Red Cross nurses, and h
said he had nurses enough, but he Lacked
cots Our relations with the medical Of
ficers of the army were most cordial Their,
was never any clash"
DR.. Lesser said the wounded wer
promptly and scientifically attended 20
and that the surgeons generally acte,
splendidly.
None of the fever cases was without shell
ter. Those of the SICK who slept in tn
open air were not suffering from fever
and the night air was good for them.
LAS far as l know, said DR. Lesser
none of the sick at Siboney suffered from
lack of medicine. There was a scarcit
, of food for the sick, ! believe. There wer
; no supplies of sick food, except those o
the Red Cross Society.
Asked by DIR. Conner to tell what h
knew of the condition of the transpor
Concha and Of the precaution taken n Sc
: lectng the men fit to be sent home to tn
United States, DR.. Lesser said the trans
port was in excellent sanitary condition
!, was well supplied with food and medica
supplies, and only the men who were act
ually convalescent were sent aboard. TIL
trouble at sea was occasioned by the re
lapse caused by the change of air.
WAS the supply Of food and medicine
sufficient for those aboard?' asked d.
, Conner.
! ! Il cannot answer that question. TIL
: Red Cross usages do not permit me
criticise the government.
: You are not asked 10 crticise."
II cannot tell if the supply was sufH
cient or not without criticising those VIII
; put the supplies aboard. / believe tina
not one death occurred on the Concha bu
=, was caused by the patient himself, or b
the mistaken kindness of one of hi
$ friends There were more deaths Of We
low fever convalescents from over-feedin
$ than from the effects Of the disease il
e self"
. IF a Red Cross nurse should see an OF
], ficer take the life of one Of his men, woul
she be permitted to accuse the officer {
murder?" asked Gen. Beaver.
r mo, sir"
I Gould she tell what she saw?'
q Eyes, she might tell what she saw, bu
she could not give her opinion as to il
e being a murder or not"
I Further questioned by DR.. Conner, Di
i Lesser said that although no deaths r.
= suited on the Concha from lack of drug
Z there was no dougt that had there bee