The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-03

about forty pounds of this was ever used.
A large amount was condemned by a
board of survey, and of large number of
apparently perfect cans he had personal
ly opened, about one in five was absolute
ly putrid while none of it was wholesome
and fit to use.
Lieut.. John s. Sewell of the regular ar
my, who served as major of the FIRST Vol
unteer Engineers, and who was aboard the
transport that carried Clarence Walters
to Porto Rico. testified that there was no
canned beef aboard this transport to his
knowledge. There was canned corned beef
in cans such as We're described
by Walters as containing canned roast
beef, He recolected Walters, but the lat
ter never had complained TO him of the
ration or of his treatment while in the SER
vice. On the contrary Walters said he had
been very well treated
1t Made StubbIebine sick,
Private stubbleine of the Seventy
first New York, said he had been made
sick three times by eating canned roast
beef and thereafter avoided it as much
as he could. He was shown some of the
freshly opened cans of beef on the ia Bile
and said it was in a general way like what
he had seen in Cuba, but was some what
better meat
OF the refrigerated beef nearly all that
he saw was tainted.
Guy P. Vistinski of the First Volunteer
Engineers, had been three months in Por-
10 Rico and had only eaten canned roast
peef once, It made him sick. There was
one brand of canned eorned beef that also
made the men ill., but another brand thew
could eat. They only got a little of this
sort.
X. G. Miller of Rochester, a machinist
by trade, and private of the Eighth Ohio,
had had large experience with canned
roast beef while camped in Cuba His
testimony was clearer and more assured
than that of most of the enlisted men.
About one-third of the canned beef was fit
for use, and the rest condemned. One
half the refrigerated beef had 10 be buried
and of the rest very little could be said
to be good. The men We're hungry, and
ate il.
Saw Them Picking Meat.
Or. Maxwell Christine of Philadelphia,
the witness who was supposed TO have
seen the chemical preparation of meat in
the packing house of Swift & Co, in Oma-
ha, testified that while in. Omaha last year
he had been through the slaughter house
of the Swift firm and had seen a man
with a canula on the end of flexible
tube showing il into sections of meat and
injecting them with fluid He did not
know at the time what the fluid was, or
whether the meat being treated was corn
ed beef. pork or refrigerated beef.
He paid little attention to the matter at
the time, but when the discussion over
embalmed beef arose he deemed 1t his duty
to write to Gen. Miles. telling him what
he had seen. He did not say In his letter
that 1t was beef which was being Injected,
but said merely that 1t was meat. He
had regarded this communication as con-
fidential, but IT had gotten out and brought
him a great many letters. Among others
was a letter from a man in New York
signing himself Wentz, and asking If DR..
Christine knew that the injection process
he had witnessed was the regular way of
corning beef and hams, as the injection
with picking fluid reduced the period of
picking the meat by several weeks.