The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-02-01
THAT EMBALMED BEER.
General Miles Reiterates Els State
Inents Concerning It. ...:.
HAS OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE,
He Declares, That Chemicals Were
Used to Preserve tho Meat Sent to
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Said the Canned
Roast Beef Was Nauseatinr.

| TIC hectares, That Chemicals Were
Used to Preserve tho Meat Sent tt
hcSoldiers-soldiers Said the Canned
Roast Beef Was Nauseating.
New York. Feb. 1.-General Nelson A.
Miles gave out statement last nigh,
after having denied several published
Interviews attributed to him. He pre-
faced his statement by saying:
Il have been most freely quoted
without authority from me or without
any utterance' on my part. 1t has been
a source Of great annoyance to me-"
His statement is as follows:
ION the Goth Of last September I is
sued an order to regimental command
ers to report to me concerning the beef
which had been issued to their men.
At the time that l went before the
war board investigating committee
had only received reports from IA Of
the commanders. Now r have 80 re-
ports They all tell the same story.
The evidence proves the truth of the
statements which 1 made. In addition
to the reports of the regimental COM
mahders I have great mass of evil
dence,. consisting Of communications,
afiidavts. etc.. from officers. soldiers
and civilians. Every part of the
country has contributed to the mass Of
correspondence which have received
In reference to the beef served to our
soldiers, and the evidence Is all cor
roborative of what l have said.
. Il have overwhelming evidence that
the embalmed beef was treated with
chemicals in order to preserve it. I
have afiidavtts from men who saw the
beef undergoing the treatment, or en-
balming process.
Now, as to. the canned roast beef.
That was different from the embalmed
beef. The canned roast beef was the
beef after the extract had been boiled
out OF it. You have seen the adver-
tisements. Beef extract; one pound
contains the substance of from four
to five pounds of prime beef Well.
this is the beef after the extract has
been taken from 1t. They put this
beef pulp up in cans and label it Can
ned roast beef The soldiers report
that the canned beef was nauseating.
If swallowed 1t could not be kept on
the stomach"
1t was pointed out to General Miles
that he had been quoted as having
said that If the men who. supplied the
beef would deposit S1.G0O in such way
that 1t could be made to pay the cost
of the proceedings he would furnish
absolute proof Of his assertion. He
was asked what tribunal he had In
mind, or to whom he would furnish
this proof, and in reply said:
II made that statement in response
to the offer Of the beef men to pay
100000 for evidence of the truth of my
allegations against their product.
looked en- their offer as bluff, and
took that way Of answering it. have
no particular tribunal in mind. I~have
the greatest abundance of evidence to
support the charges l made. and do
not think that any part of the thousand
dollars need be spent in more investiga-
tion."
General Miles has received tele-
gram from Colonel A. A. Pope, of Bos-
ton. requesting General Miles to draw
on him for $1,000 to prove that chem
icals were used to enbalm beef fur
'risied to solaiesss~ this aosferl svilts
not be accepted for the reasons already
glven.