The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-08
.EAGAN is THE SCAPEGOAT
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legations of the chemists employed by
| the court, the court says:
| 1.-The contents of all the cases. which
consisted of boiled rather than roast
beef. were found to be perfectly sweet,
with an odor of cooked meat The beef
in nearly all the cans appeared to have
been softened by exposure to heat. but
apparently without injurious effect as
to its quality; apart from this, the meat
contents We're found to be in a good
state of preservation in every case No
trace of preservative acids was found
in any of the cans.
No Evidence of Chemicals.
There is no testimony to the effect
that any of the canned fresh beef sup
piled to the subsistence department
since April 25,, 1898, had been chemically
treated or subjected to the action of
personalities of. any kind, save small
quantities of common salt having been
added as seasoning to the production
of the packers"
Detailing the numerous investiga-
tons of the keeping quality of the
canned fresh beef, the court concludes
that in no case did the number of
tainted cans greatly exceed in amount
one per cent of the entire number eX-
amined."
Several pages of the report are de-
voted to the consideration of the allie
cations made by General Miles that the
refrigerated beef was treated with pre-
servatives, but the statement is made
upon the threshold of this question,
that but little testimony was submit
ted by him in support of this conten-
ton"
The inference drawn by the court
from the absence of such testimony is
adverse to the existence of the practice
alleged to prevail by the major general
commanding
Attention is then called to the fact
tnat the testimony bearing upon the
characterization of the beef deals with
II only at the time of its issuance to
the troops, and analysis of this testi-
mony is made with the result of show
ing considerable difference in view of
the substances used and the mode of
their application"
Considerable attention is given to DR..
Days testimony concerning the refrig-
Grated beef on the transport Panama.
and also to his report concerning the
beef supplied to the immunes stationed
at Chickamauga. Referring to the doc
tors analysis of reSiduum from beef
secured on the transport, the court calls
attention to the fact that he approved
the findings of the board of survey and
that Notwithstanding there We're other
1leulcal 011lCerS on DOarQ, no reference
was made by him to his suspicion that
the meat had been chemically treated.
Referring to this and to another Incl
dent. the court says:
1.-THE testimony shows that the beef
treated by the Powell process, which
was declared by DR.. DAILY to contain
boracic acid, was in fact treated by flu
migation, and the materials employed
contained neither boracic nor calicylic
acids. The beef from which the broth
was made on the Panama has not been
positively identified as refrigerated
beef, and the connection between the
residuum of the sample taken from the
ships cauldron and that analysed by
DIR. Clark has not been established to
the satisfaction of the court"
A chapter of the report is devoted to
the consideration of the cause of the
sickness in the army in the Santiago
campaign, but 1.-The court finds it i'm
possible to conclude that either the
canned fresh beef or refrigerated beef
appeared to any appreciate extent as
causes of disease
Speaking of the ration as a whole
the court says:
AS to the effects of the food sup
ply having regard to both sufficiency
and quality, it seems to be clearly es-