The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-24
[A1AN'S FOUL WORDS
Charges Upon Which the Commits
Sary Will Be Tried.
SET R
DESCRIBED AS DIsGRAcEFUL
AND INSULTING.
Specifications Consist of Language
Used By Eagan When Testi-
flying Before the Commission
"Unmilitary, Ungentlemanly, and
Abusive" According to Charges.

Washington, Jan. 2S.-The charges
n specifications upon which Commits
sary General Eagan is to be tried this
week ave been given to the press.
The charges and specifications are as
follows:
Charge 1.-Conduct nnbecoming an
officer and a gentleman. Specification:
In that Brigadier General Charles P.
Eagan, commissary general of subs,st-
ence, u. S. A, did. while testifying as
a witness before the commission an
pointed by the president to investigate
the conduct of the war department in
the war with Spain, submit and read
as a part of his testimony a certain
written statement in which he did make
use of, and thereby publish, the fol-
lowing disgraceful. grossly insulting
and ungentlemanly language with ref
erenc to Major General Nelson A.
Miles, commanding the army, namely:
If, and when General Miles charges
that it (meaning timed fresh beef was
furnished as a 'pretense of experiment
he lies in his throat, he lies in his
heart, he lies in every hair of his head
and every pore of his body, he lies
wilfully, deliberately, Intentionally n
m~aliciOusly."
In denOuncing General Miles as a
lier, when he makes this statement. 1
wish to make it as emphatic and as
coarse as the statement itself. l wish
to force the lie back into his throat
with the contents of a camp latrine."
This, at Washington, D.. c., Jan. u,
1899.
of good order and military discipline.
Specification: In hat Brigadier Gen
eral Charles P. Eagan, cOmmiSsaTy
general of subsistence, U. S. A, did.
while testifying as a witness before the
commission appointed by the president
to investigate the conduct of the war
department in the war with Spain,
submit and read. as a part of his testi-
mOny, certain written statements in
which he did make use of, and thereby
publish, the following grossly abusive
and unmilitary language with reference
TO the major general commanding ne
army, namely:
If, and when General Miles charges
hat it (meaning timed fresh beeO was
furnished as a 'pretense of experiment.
he lies in his throat, he lies in his heart.
he lies in every hair of his head and
every pore of his body, he lies wilfully,
deliberately, Intentionally and malici-
OuSly. If his statement is true that this
was furnished under 'pretense of an
experiment. then / should be drummed
out of the army and incarcerated in a
state prison. If this statement is false,
as l assert it to be, he should be drum
med out of the service and incarcerated
in prison with other hbelers.
His statement is a S~candalOuS libel,
rejecting upon the honor of every Ofh-
Ger in the department who has on
tracted for or purchased this meat, and
especially n particularly on the COM
miSSary geneTal-mySelf. l wish to
make it as emphatic and as coarse as
the statement itself. 1 wish to force
the lie back into his thrOat covered
with the contents of a camp latrine.
L wish to brand it as a falsehoOd Of
whole cloth without a particle of truth
to sustain it, n unless he can prove
his statement he should be denounced
by every honest man, barred from the
clubs, barred from the society of de-
cent people and so ~OstTacised that the
street bOotblacks would rot condescend
to speak to him, for he has fOuled his
own nest, he has aspersed the honor of
a brother officer without a particle of
evidence or fact TO sustain in any de-
gree his scandalOus. IibelOus, malicious
f~alsehood. viz: That this beef or any
thing whatever was furnished the army
under 'p%retense Of experiment
This at Washington, D. c., Jan. u,
1899.
TIE precise nature of General
Eagan's plea TO these charges and
specifications has not yet been deter
mined upon. So far as the charges are
it is understood hat General
Eagan Will not plead guilty to either
of them. a strong legal contest is lO0k
ed fer in the proceedings before the
cOurtmartiaI.