The Saint Paul globe., 1899-01-13

his course of securing these reports
would not be construed as seeking ad
verse reports He cited Gems. Merritt
and Shafter as approving the beef
Newspaper reports emanating from
Gen. Miles that $4,000 pounds Of beef
were condemned at Porto Rico is alb
solute falsehood. No such quantity
was condemned there or elsewhere.
Witness said Surgeon Daly's report
that the beef apparently was infected
with chemicals to aid in preservation
was a "falsehood and he made it out
of whole cloth" He denounced the
assertion that chemically prepared
beef had been issued anywhere, and
said he did not believe Surgeon DAILY
had that belief-then, since or now.
Why" he asked, did he shrink
his duty?- Why not then make chemi-
cal analysis, and why keep this infor-
nation to himself and then spring it
suddenly on the committee and the
whole country. and imply that packing
houses have been cheating the gov
ernment-violating their contracts. At
no time did he inform the commissary
general or the secretary of war of
these things.
LIE DIRECT APPLIED.
This" continued the witness. SIS a
scandal, calculated to ruin thousands
of people and discredit and put infamy
on one of the great Industries of the
world. Gen. Miles, in his testimony
refers to the beef as sent out under
pretense Of an experiment. This i'm
nI,o
to be made lightlys Already the press,
almost wholly. has accepted this view,
and some have demanded my dismis
sal. 1t was not an experiment. nor
pretense thereof. Gen. Miles lies in
his throat, in his heart and in every
part of his body. He should be drum
med from the service and imprisoned.
Il wish TO force the lie-in his face.
Unless he should prove his statements,
he should be avoided by everybody;
should be barred out of every club
The witness denounced in the most
sensational terms his CMiles) scandal
liable and malicious falsehoods.'
Gen. Eagans testimony on this
point follows:
Gen. Miles was asked by your COM
mission how timed fresh beef became
a part of the army ration. His answer
is: You had better ask the secretary
of war OF commissary general. think
they can tell you. 1 know it was sent
10 the army as food and the pretense
that 1t was sent as an experiment.
Gen Miles in saying that this food was
sent to the army as a pretense for eX-
pertinent says that which implies cor
cuptiOn. which ninety-nin out of every
hundred people will understand to
mean corruption, because it was a pre-
tense of experiment, he says, not even
giving credit to me for furnishing it
as an experiment. but that 1 furnished
It under the 'pretense OF an expert
menu. This is a serious charge, should
not be made by any man lightly nor
without evidence to support it. Taking
the statement in the sense it was prob
ably intended, the sense that would be
accepted by the country at large. the
sense that already the press almost
wholly of the country has accepted 1t
indeed some of that press because Of
it called for my dismissal from the
army and my courtmartial-1 answer
that it was not furnished under the
pretense of experiment, nor even as an
experiment. and if when Gen. Miles
charges that it was furnished as
'pretense of experiment he lies in his
throat he lies in his heart, he lies in
every hair of his head and every part
of his body. He lies wilfully, deliber-
ately. Intentionally and maliciously. If
his statement is true that meat was
furnished under 'pretense of an ex-
pertinent then 1 should be drummed
out of the army and incarcerated in
states prison. If his statement is
false. as 1 assert il to be. then he
should be drummed out of the service
and incarcerated in prison with other
"a oa11f iS a
libel and rejecting upon the honor of
every officer in the department who
has contracted for or purchased this
meat, and particularly Of the commits
sary department upon myself. In de-
nouncing Gen. Miles as q liar 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, covered
with the contents Of a camp latrine.
I wish to brand 1t as a falsehood Of
whole cloth. without a particle of
truth to sustain it, and unless he can
prove his statement he should be
driven out of the clubs, barred from
the society of decent people and so
ostracized that bootblacks would not
condescend to speak to him. for he has
fOuled his own nest, he has asperSed
the honor of brother officer, without
a particle Of fact to sustain in any
degree his scandalous. libelous, ma
licious falsehoods. viz: That this beef
or anything whatever was furnished