The record-union., 1898-10-06
Gen. Wheeler Completes His Testi-
mOny BsfOre the Commission.
Deals Entirely With the Conditions Existing
al Camp Wkof.
General Boynton Describes In De-
tail the Situation at Camp
Thomas, Eu1ogizing Throughout
the Supply Methods of the War
Department.

WASHINGTON, Oct >. - General
Wheeler completed his testimony be-
fore the War Investigating Commls-
sion to-day and was followed by Cen
eral H. V. Boynton, who was still on
the stand when the days session closed.
General Wheeler's statement of to-day
dealt entirely with the conditions at
Camp Wikoff. and General Boynton's S
with these at Camp Thomas, where he
is now in command. General BOynton
described in detail the provisions for
supplying the Georgia camp with wa
ter, and told many interesting facts
about the location of the troops and the
precautions taken to care for and pro-
tect them, whether sick or we'll. He
said the men wasted more food than the
army of the Cumberland consumed dur
ing the civil war in the siege of Chat
tanooga, and he eulogiZed the supply
methods of the War Department
throughout
GENERAL WHEELER ON WITNESS
STAND.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8. - General
Wheeler resumed his testimony before
the War Investigating Commission to-
day. The examination on the line of
the New York World" charges was re-
sumed. He said if there were any
camp horrors" on the 9th of Au-
gust, as charged, the commander of the
camp was responsible, for he had full
power to furnish relief. There may
have been individual cases of suffering,
but as a rule he knew the soldiers Were
we'll cared for There was certainly
no lack of food
General Wheeler admitted that i'll
many instances there were men i'll in
their company quarters. Often men
not very i'll preferred not to go to the
hospitals, and the hospitals were too
crowded to make room for them.
Some time was spent on the charge
that General Wheeler had said that
General Eagan, Chief Commissary of
Subsistence, had countermanded an or
der of his for supplies. This occurred,
he said, but it was due to a misunder-
standing of general orders.
General Wheeler also explained the
circumstances concerning the death of
Private Hugh Parrett.
My inquiry" he said, developed the
fact that DR.. Tabor was little gruft
to the men, but it also developed the
fact that he proved so efficient III the
field that they were devoted to him,
and had petitioned for his retention in
the army This, he thought, was one
of those individual cases of neglect, and
he thought ii was TO be explained by
the fact that DR.. Tabor was probably
i'll himself. He found this to be true
in other cases, and had demonstrated
with physicians for being irritable with
patients"
General Wheeler said it was true that
many soldiers would fall on the streets.
He thought that all of them had been
weakened by their experience in Cuba,
ana most of them had the germs of
fever in them. 1t was not strange,
therefore, if some of the men had
fallen to the ground at Wikoff
The General took up a statement at
tributed to DR.. Sem concerning the
sinks. He said the sinks were covered
every hour with earth or lime He
had examined the ground, and found
that the soil was not porous. He also
found that other physicians did not
agree with DR.. Sem as to the danger
from typhoid. There was no outbreak
of fever such as DR. Sem had predict
ed, hence it was a false prophecy. He
admitted also in reply to such a charge
attributed to DR.. Cyrus Edison that
small percentage of hospital patients
We're lying on a floor August Both. They
We're, however, supplied with beds, and
in no case was there complaint on this
account
The fact is,' he said, that the sur
geons and other officers and men con-
Quoted themselves most heroically, and
it is painful to me that there is an ef-
fort To make it appear that they were
complaining when they were not. DR..
Myron had also predicted typhoid fever,