The age-herald., 1898-11-19
DR. CREENLEAF
 ON THE STAND Was Chief Surgeon of Troops in the Field. MEMBER OF MILES STAFF Said SI z.s s Remained Unload ed on@ 2 sports at Santiago. TOOK = LAW INTO HIS HANDS s
 Captured Some Pontoons and Landed Medicines for the Sick. SOME ONE TERRIBLY AT FAULT
Captured Some Pontoons and Landed
 Medicines for the Sick.
SOME ONE TERRIBLY AT FAULT
Could Not Fix the Responsibility, But Intimated That Shafter's Incom-MS potency was at the Bottom EzH
 of It. Others Testified.

New York, November 1S-The war inves- tigation commission met here today. All the members were present except Colonel Denby and Major Miles.
 Dr. Charles R. Greeneaf, chief surgeon of the troops in the field, on General Miles staff, said in some respects Camp Alger was good camp for small body of men, but there were many drawbacks. The water supply was poor and the region was known to be highly malarious.
 There was a deficiency of privates in the hospital corps and of medical officers, and at times of medical supplies. The best in- terests of the sick, Dr. Greenleaf said, were not seriously imperilled, but the efforts of the physicians were generally embarrassed.
 Taking up the question of the lack Of tents, surgeons and medical supplies in Cuba, Dr. Conner asked pr. Greenieaf how the medical supplies were unloaded at San- tiago. ..x or Greenleaf said he did not know. "Who finally unloaded the supfsas.S - asked pr. Conner. .-.-~-~ q did. captured some pontoons and took the law into my own hands"
 You unloaded in forty-eight hours sup. plies that had been lying in the harbor two weeks. Why did not Dr. Pope. chief sur geon of General Shafters corps, land them within those two weeks?"
 II suppose that he was at the front att tending to the wounded"
 Did Dr. Pope take charge of one wound- ed man?'
 'I cannot say" replied Dr. Greenleaf. TT am sure that pr. Pope did the best he could. l had full authority from General Miles to do what I thought best"
 In reply to question, Dr. Greenleaf said he supposed Dr. Pope had authority from General Shafter sufficient to enable him to unload the supplies at Siboney as he Or. GreenleaD had done.
 Somebody at Fault
 There is no doubt" said Dr. Conner, that somebody was dreadfully at fault. Cannot you help us to find out wno it wasp Dr. Greeneaf said he could not.
 In reply to another question, Dr. Green leaf saia that it was usual in time of war to anticipate the wants of wounded men and to expect that there would be wounded. He could not tell if all proper arrange ments had been made in Cuba, but he knew that the stores had not been landed. He declared positively that he found no evil dence of any neglect or incompetency on the part of any medical officer.
 Questioned as to the condition of affairs on the transports, Dr. Greeneaf said he did not personally inspect the transports at Cuba, but those leaving Porto Rico un- der his personal direction were well equipped in all respects
 Camp Montauk Dr. Greenleaf considered an ideal camp for its purpose. No com plaints of any moment were submitted to him, and the small grumblings he heard he investigated and found to be without justi- hcation. Questioned as to the discomforts endured by the furloughed men, who sick and weak, were compelled to loiter around the railway station awaiting fares and fur loughs, he said that all that trouble might have been avoided by the establishment of a quartermaster's office at the hospital.
 Dr. Conner asked why the large force of women nurses who had offered their ser- vices had not been accepted. Dr. Green leaf said there was no way to care for them at the camp.
 Granting of FurIoughs
 Dr. Greenleaf, still replying to questions told of the methods of granting furloughs from the hospitals at Camp Montauk and of the influence brought to bear upon the surgeons to grant these furloughs He said if man to whom leave was granted died at his home the surgeons were blamed for letting him leave the hospital, and where leave was refused, if the man died his friends declared that home-nursing would have cured him.
 General Beaver asked Dr. Greenleaf if sick men were taken to the battle line and when the doctor replied in the negative General Beaver asked why so much stress was laid on the fact that no medical sup. plies were taken to the front unless it was usual to send medicine to the men, and not men to the medicine.
 Dr. Greenleaf said that supplies should have been at the battle line for the men taken sick there. Dr. Greenleaf said that he would not have selected Camp AIeer as a camping place for soldiers and that in his opinion Camp Miami, Fla. was fitted only for 8 quarantine hospital and should not have been used as a camp for 10000 men await ing transportation to Cuba.
 Ex-Governor Woodbury: "Is 1t proper to criticise the department for not having employed female nurses sooner than it did?'
 Dr. Greenleaf-'T think not. General Sternberg, and agree with him, did not believe that the firing line was the place for a woman. Tn the hospitals the women nurses rendered excellent service. but at
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