Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1899-01-13

EEan Denounces General hilea.
a Washington dispatch Of the 18th
says: Most vigorous and sensational
testimony WIS given before the War
Investigation Commission today by
Commissary General Egan, who APP
pearinR Unexpectedly to meet the al
legations against the beef issued III
tho war, vigorously ar aligned Ma
ior General Miles. commanding the
army.
General Egan's testimony on this
point wat:
General Miles was asked by your
commission how timed fresh beef
became u part Of the army ration.
Illus answer is 'sUn had better ask the
Secreiar, OF War or the Commissar.
General. thin6 the y can tell yon
Know that it was sent to the army rs
food and the prrtense Is that it wins
sent rs an experiment.
General Miles III saying that this
food was sent to the army rs IL pre-
tense for an experiment. says that
which implies corruption, which
ninety-rine ont Of every hundred
people will understand Ia mean cor
rupti"n, because it was 'pretcuse of
experiment he says, not even giving
c:sdit to me for furnishing it rs an
experiment, but TINT l furnished it
under she prrtense OF nm experiment.
This ia a serious charge. and should
not be made hy any man lightly nor
without ample evidence to support il.
Taking the statement in the senSe it
was probably intended, the sense that
will be accepted by the country ut
large, the sense that already the press
almost wholly uf the United States
has accepted it-iudeel, some OF the
press because al it called for my dis
missal from the army md my court
.martial-I answer TINT it was uol FUR
nished under the pretense OF expert
ment nor even IA nm experiment. nnl
when General Miles charges TINT it
was furnished rs Il 'pretense ~ nh en-
pertinent ha lies in his throat. he lies
III his heart. he lies in every hair OF
his head and every pore OF his body,
he lies willfully- deliberately, inten-
tionally and maliciously.
III his statement is true that this
was furnished under 'pretense OF al
experiment. then | should he drum
med out Of the army aud ~incarcerated
IN prison with other libelers. His
statement is Il scandalons libel which
reflects upon the honor OF ever oil.
Ger in the department who has con-
tracted for or purch used this meat and
especially mil particularly ON the
Commlssury General-myself. In
d~enouncing General Niles ,s u liar,
when he makes this statement, I wish
to make it as emphatic and rs coarse
as the statement itself. / wish to
i1rce the lie back into his throat GOV.
cred with the contents nf "a caup
lairine | wish "a brand il ,us a false.
hood ~ whole cloth without a particle
OF truth to sustain ii, and unless lie
n prove his statement he should be
driven out ui the clubs, barred FROM
the society OF decent people and 10
"stracised that the street bootblack
would not coudescend to speak to
lim. for he lias fnuled his own nest,
he has aspersed the honor ~ a broth
er officer without Il particle of ryi
dence or fact Ia sustain in amy degree
his scandaious, libelJus. malicious
falsehoods, viz: That this beef or
an! thng whatever WAS furnished
tn" army under 'pretcnsu 81 expert
ment.'
General Egan referred to the fact
TINT General Miles had r~cfuscn Ia he
sworn and commented ON the fact
that he WAS the only one of five hun.
'ired witnesses " no had so refused
General EgHn said he himself pre-.
TERED to bn sw o
Witness charged General Miles Iii.
rectly with disarrangmg and hamper
ing the administration Of the War
Department by calling officers from
their duty where their presence WINS
absolutely npc.qanry