The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-26
KINGS LANGUAGE WAS ROUGH.
,no,n COMPLAINING MEN TO LOOK
Up HIS SATANIC MAJESTY.

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Very ImprOpcr-Further TestimO-
Regarding the Conditions at
c,mn Thomas-Nurses Were In
.ounetent and DIR. Hubbard Said
% Have Been Tyrannical-COmmi
siou Goes to Huntsville.
Admission. Ala, Oct. 25.-Dr R. D. Boss,
..s,srant surgeon in the First Infantry
mas the first witness before the war in
,.s,ieating commission to-day. He was
,,.,b this regiment and with the Fourth
,rfsntrv in Cuba He arrived at Santa
an JuIv TO- He found the medical sup
Niles short and was unable to secure any
Of them for a few days until he learned
how TO get them from the division hos
oital There was a sufficiency of quinine,
brt O shortage of morphine. However, he
had all of this latter remedy that was
absolutely necessary. He was able to Sc
cure hospital stores, SUCH as food delica-
oiss nv "hustling" for them, getting them
from the Red Cross Society and going to
Santiago for them. He had requisition
on the chief surgeon of the division for
these supplies, hut had been unable to
secure them because they were not there
However. he had no serious illness in the
command
DR.. Conner asked if the government
could not have gotten these supplies to
Santiago as promptly as the Red Cross
and DIR. Boss replied that while he had
no Information he thought it could have
done so. He had left Santiago with the
Fourth Infantry. and gone to Montauk
Point on the Seneca. When he left Cuba,
he said. the command was "all broken
rp" and every man of the command was
sick on the way North. The doctor him
sef was sick and in the detention hos
pital at MOntauk and he testified to the
careful conduct of that institution say
ing the supplies were ample and the at
tention was all that could have been
desired.
Col Fyffe, of the Third Tennessee, hav-
ing made request to supplement his state
ment of yesterday gave some particulars
concerning the sinks used by his regi-
ment He said they We're very near the
tents and that it was impossible to re-
move them further owing to the proximity
Of other regiments, six of them being
within a stones throw. In one instance
the sinks of another regiment were with
in twenty PAGES of the tents of the line
officers. The character of the soil also
had rendered it impossible to put the sinks
down more than four feet, rendering it
necessary to renew the sinks every two
or three days. Thus the soil became
honeycombed with sinks.
Nevertheless the sinks were carefully
looked after and his regiment had been
especially commended by the brigade CON-
mander for the condition of its camp.
Other witnesses examined were Lieut.
Reed Of the Fourth Wisconsin, Lieut.
West Of the Third Alabama, and Lieut..
Haley OF the Third Tennessee.
Lieut. West is the commissary and
quartermaster of this regiment. and Lieut.
Reed was commissary for his regiment
for a time West said the supplies were
ample and excellent, but Reed complained
somewhat of the meat supplied before the
regiment left Wisconsin.
Lieut. Haley is commissary for his reg
iment He said there had been few com
plants that the rations were insufficient
but he thought the complaint was caused
by the return of men on furlough.
Other witnesses of the forenoon session
were Fountain Ragland and Edward Sim
mons, two colored men of the Third Ala
bama; H. c. Lemke, a quartermaster SER
geant of the Fourth Wisconsin; Congress
man Colson, colonel of the Fourth Ken
lucky. and Iiant Col CabaI of
ond Arkansas. Col Cabell said in reply
10 questions put by DR.. Connor that he
nad observed condition of affairs at the
hospital of the Second Division of the
IArd Army Corps in June which he con-
sldered horrible. He had himself seen one
SICK man lying in the rain without the
protection of a tent fly and be had been
informed by other officers that several
others mad been left in the same way He
thought the doctors were honest enough
out they did not know how to get supplies
Mule drivers had been used for nurses
and he had been reliably informed that
many of them We're in the habit of getting
drunk and on this account neglecting their
patents. He said DIR. Schooler was the
UNlSlon surgeon at the time. Col Caben
is lieutenant in the regular army and his
testimony made an impression on the
commission.
Maj. Charles F. King. surgeon of the
100 On w lStOuSiu regiment, was one OF
me frst witnesses of the afternoon. Dr.
hlhs said the medical supplies of his regi-
meht We're insufficient and that there was
mueh decay in getting acquisitions filled.
ne thought there was a sufficient guam
uY OF food, but said some of the men
Moui1 not eat it, preferring to buy food
tCr themselves. Gen. Wilson asked il
the men had ever complained to him as
surgeon OF the regiment and DR.. King
ItpNed that they had.
what did you say to them?' asked the
general
n i told them to go to the devil and cat
"ial they had he replied
1nmk that very improper reply for
you to have made" said Gen. Wilson,
anu ne declined TO further continue the
examination.
1T. henry Fl. Lee, major and surgeon
u lhe Ihlrd Brigade, First Division. Third
CoFps, said he had urged the removal of
'ne camp from Chickamauga because he
,oHsidefed the water bad and because Of
'u9 impossiblity of getting deep sinks
MAJ benson, who was inspector general
~ me First Division, Third Corps, at