The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-05-08

quoted as saying that he had "over-
 whelming evidence that the beef was
 treated with chemicals to preserve it,
 and that he had affidavits from men
 who saw the beef undergoing the em-
 balming process, The court notes the
 denial which General Miles made of this part of the conversation as it was print
 ed in the New York Herald, but prints
 the charge as part of the allegations,
 saying on this point: "The testimony
 of both MT. Reid and MT. Berry of the
 New York Times agree in the verity of
 the interview as reported by the for
 mer, and this is found in the Herald
 clipping. The court does not therefore
 ignore this paragraph, but treats it as
 part of the allegations which are un-
 der investigo tion."
 Summing up the results of the inves- j legations of the chemists employed by the court, the court says: "The contents of all the cases, which consisted of boil
 ed 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 soften- ed by exposure to heat, but apparently
 without injurious effect as to it's quail ity, and apart from this the meats con tents were found to be in a good state of preservation in every case. No traces of preservative acids were found in any of the cans. There is no testimony to the effect that any of the canned fresh beef supplied to the subsistence depart ment since April 25, 1898, had been chemically treated or subjected to the action of preservatives of any kind save as small quantities of common salt have been added as seasoning to the product of certain packers"
 i Detailing the numerous s-investigations made of the keeping quality of the | canned fresh beef, the court concludes that fin no case did the number of swelled or tainted cans discovered great ly exceed in amount of one per cent. Of the entire number examined"
 1 Several pages of the report are de- voted to the consideration of the allega tion 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 submitted by him Oh the support of this contention, 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 com- manding. .
 Attention is then called to the fact that the testimony bearing upon the decentralization of the beef deals with it only at the time of its issuance to the troops and an analysis of this testi- p1ony is made with the result of show ing considerable difference of view as to the substances used and the mode of their application"
 Considerable space is given to Dr. Da Tvs testimony concerning ngtherefrigerated beef on the transport Panama and also to his report concerning the beef sup piled to the immunes stationed at Chick amauga. Referring to the doctors anal ysis of residuum from beef secured on the transport, the court calls attention to the fact that he approved the finding of the board of survey and that not withstandng there were other medical officers on board no reference was made by him to his suspicion that the meat had been chemically treated.
 Referring to this and to another inci- dent the report says:
 "The testimony shows that the beef treated by the Powell process which was declared by Dr. Daly to contain boric and salicylic acid was in fact, treated by Immigration and the materials employed contained neither boric nor salicylc acids. The beef from which the broth was made on the Panama has not been positively idertfied as re- frigerated beef and the connection be- tween the resduum of the sample taken from the ship Cauldron and that anal yzed by pr. Clark has not been estab- lished to the satisfaction of the court.
 A chapter of the report is devoted to the consideration of the cause of sick ness in the army in the Santiago cam paign, but the court finds it impossible to conclude that either the canned fresh beef or refrigerated beef appeared to any appreciable extent as causes of internal disease.
 Speaking of the ration as whole the | court says:
 "As to the effects of the food supply | having regard to both sufflciency and | quality, it seems to be clearly estab- lished that the army ration as supplied | without modification, to the troops serving in the West Indies was by no means we'll adapted for use in a tropi- cal climate. If this be true the unfit ness of the ration should have man ifested itself by its failure to keep the { troops, who subssted upon it, in the best possible condition for service in hot climates. This, in the opinion of