The times., 1899-04-04
ARRAIeNMENT OF ARMY BEEF.
Developments Expected Mt Todny'>
Session OF the Court.


Interesting testimony. adverse to army
beef will come before the Beef Court to-
day. Dr. william H. DAILY, of P.ttsburg.
and DR.. W. S. Devoe. of Chicago, viii BE-
seen in the witness chair.
DR.. DAILY will testify that so-c1l ed re-
frigerated beef used on the hospital trans
port Panama by sick soldiers was treated
with boric and salicyiic acids for the pur-
pose of preservation. DR.. DAILY was wit
ness before the Alger Relief Commission
and WAS one of the early Witnesses before
the present Beef Court. During the la
war he was chief surgeon on the stan Il
General Miles. and saw service in the
various Southern camps, in Porto Ri o, AMI
on the Panama
When he appeared before the Alger Re
lief Commission he testified that at Tam
pa he was made sick By eating small
piece of so-called refrig grated besf. His
symptoms were the same as those he OBJ
served during spell of sickness brought
upon him several years ago while on a
hunting trip in the Rocky Mountains.
During that trip he ate some yenisol which
had been preserved with horic and silicylic
acids. When he became sick OF Tampa he
recalled the Rocky Mountain incident
He testified that he was the surgeon OF
the hospital transport Panama or her voy-
age from Ponce to Newport News. TIE
meat on IEdt snip utu DtSn Adhtl Oh llS
refrigerator ship Manitoba. Its appearance
was suspicious. and he prepared soup
from il. When he arrived at Pittsburs h.
| subjected this soup to chemical analysis.
and found in il boric acid and s3licyitc
| acid He submitted the residuum of the
SOUP TO the Aiger Relief Workers, and they
| turned il over to a Government chemis-,
who found that it contained the chsm-ca's
| stated by DIR. DAILY.
| When this witness appeared before the
| Beef Court he wes permitted to testi
| cnly as to his experience at Tampa and n
| Porto Rico He was not allowed to tell OF
his examination of the meat en- the Fana-
ma, it being said that as this testimony
| would affect the reputation OF certa mea.
| meaning the beef men, they had right to
| be present. 1t was the understanding that
the Beef Court would recall Dr. Da y This
was not done however. DR.. DAILY having
come to Washington in Obedience to a dis
patch from Major Lee. counsel for Gener4l
| Miles.
His appearance IN the session chamber o.
the court yesterday was not expected by
the Judge advocate, and the Court went
4 into executive session, the hearing Of u.
DAILY being postponed until today.
DIR. Deyoe will probably testify that beef.
after having been condemned by Govern
ment inspectors and ''tanked' was lfJ-r-
ward sold as sound, Governmentins pecte
beef.
This gentleman appeared before the Beet
Court at Chicago. He was asked as to tne
correctness OF the allegation that some
packing houses had fished Condemned bezf
out of vats and had canned IL. DR.. Devoe
would not answer the question directly but
stated that his report on the matter WAS Cn
file at the Department Of Agriculture. II is
said that the report has disappeared. Dr.
Devoe will be questioned as 10 the con- EMS
OF this document.
II is understood that the man who IS al
legged to have written the interview with
General Miles. which was pub ishtd in the
New York Journal, and which General
Miles denied on the witness stand. wi n
examined to-day. The judge advocate e<-
poets that the reporter viii testify that
General Miles did make the statemen Ee-
credited to him in the interview. No wit
ness was examined by the Court yesterday