The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-31
PROOF PlLING UP.

Administration Republicans are talk
ing of Mckinley and Roosevelt as a
presidential ticket for 1900.
Unless the president rids himself Of
Alger and the beef scandal and all re-
sponability for the poisoning of soldiers
with embalming fluids, we question if
Roosevelt would consent to be his run
ming mate
And, with Alger held by Mark Hanna
in the same leash with Mckinley, there
is more. likelihood of the race of 1900
being made by Mckinley and Alger.
Roosevelt was before the beef inves-
tigation commission the other day. His
attention was first called 10 the un-
wholesomeness of the meat supplied by
the commissary department, by Eagan,
While the transports. crowded with SOL
diers, were awaiting orders TO proceed
to Santiago. He saw a soldier prepar-
ing to throw away his ration Oh beef.
The colonels exact language before the
commission follows:
Il asked him why he was throwing it
away. He said, 1 can't eat II. told
him that he was u baby, and that he dld
NOT go 10 war 10 eat fancy menus, and
that If he was not satisfied with the "a
tons he mad better go home. lie ate the
meat and vomited. 1 asked other men on
the ship if the meat made them SICK, ana
found that there was general COM
plant. The canned roast oeSf was no
good. / made an effort to find out II only
certain cans contained bad meat or II the
men were only grumbllng. / heard that
the volunteers were the only ones VINO
grumbled and that the regulars were
II Tod
gated. and discovered that the regulars
were grumblng just as much as the vol
unteers. Then / got some OF the canned
roast beef and ate mouthful or Two
myself 1t was not good, but as the
transports were leaving l could do noth-
ms.
What was the sole meat component on
the voyage to Cuba?
The canned roast beef was the sole
meat component.
What was the health of your troops?"
Like all the others-sick. Toward the
emu OF the campaign l did not regard 70
per cent of my men as fit for service. Al
the end Of the campaign only per cent
OF my men were as fit as when they LETT
What was the meat component on the
voyage from Cuba TO the United States?'
Canned roast beef
Was ii in good condition.
1t was unit 10 eat. Not one-fifth OF
the stock we had aboard was eaten.
I'm your report OF July 20, did you make
reference to the food supplies?"
lave you copy of that report?"
80.
can YOU get one"'
The report is in the war department. l
understand that it has not been printed
yet. and that this is an oversight"
DIG you make any reports 10 General
Wheeler
over TO General Wheelers camp person
ally, and l told his officers that the men
were not receiving the right kind oil
food.
With your experience with the First
volunteer cavalry. VIII You tell the court
whether or not you consider the canned
roast beef whOlesOme?'
Il regard II as an utterly unfit ana as
an utterly unwholesome ration The
canned roast beef which we received at
Santiago was wholly unfit TO eat. l make
that statement unhesitatingly. / wish to
state most emphatcally that my expert
ence with my regiment at Santiago proved
TO me beyond the shadow of q doubt that
the canned roast beef supplied to the
United States soldiers was unpalatable,
UNBEATABLE and UNIV holesome and. also,
that TO the majority OF the men under me
IL was not even satisfying; that 1t did not
appease their hunger, but it made them
sick. This Is stated not only rom eX-
perience. bat from the experience of the
men under me-
This is the testimony of one of the
leading Republicans Of the United
states. ii is the testimony Of a politi-
clan who is more of man than an
office-seeker Theodore Roosevelt is
one Of the shining lights of the Repub-
lican party, but apparently not MEM
Der OF the Hanna presidential syndi-
cate. He saw regiment of as brave
men as ever went to battle poisoned
slowly by vicious and incompetent
administration, as they offered up their
strength and manhood on the altar of
national defense.
When asked concerning the so-called
refrigerator beef, Of the same that Cen
eral Miles had experience with in Porto
Rico, Colonel Roosevelt said:
'on the start from Tampa to Cuba
there was one case of what might be
called embalmed beef put aboard I was
told to put il in the forward part of the
ship II had been chemically treated, and
was nut aboard as an experiment, and
we we're told that it was just the kind of
meat TO keep in the tropics. Well, it