New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-07
THE BEEF INVESTIGATION.
coMMIssARY-GENERALS CHIEF CLERK
TESTIFIES.
THE TINE LIMIT IN THE CONTRACT
rour11. REPRESENTATIVE PROCESS

POWELL PREVENTATIVE PROCESS.
washington. April Elm the Army Beef Court of
,rru,ry to-day the letter OF Armour q CO. propos-
M 81, use the Powell process for the preservation
49, heof was submitted as evidence by Major Lee.
Ting for General Miles. 1t was addressed to the
-.,,r,,ssarv-General. dated at the firms Washing
,or ofsce on July 10. 1898, and read as follows:
As supplementary and explanatory Of our bid to
supply pave the exclusive control of the Powell
~ ess for preserving flesh meats. and that TINS
process b mS Completed with most satisfactory
nes This test was made under the supervision
OF Oo SyseS You Of the results We are advised,
However that he received four careasses OF oeei
srd treated according 70 the Powell process fart
OF nd part were not These carcasses were dis
trihuted 10 the Sd Cavalry the 9th Cavairy, ont
and we're hung in the air the upper deck OF the
Transport troopships. lying at the wharf IN 'ne
nnovsment of the ships. The pieces that were not
wrapped fermened In less than seventy-two HI Sn
while the pieces that were covered or wrappigo ,sts
about one hundred hours These practical 1 ness
made under the supervision OF your Own d nieces
show that by means OF this process b1 sayentv
or carcasses can be kept longer dnan o me
WS We hq haeTe WE NAY safely Say that such results
have never before been accomplished in the history
which We have made in the past and Of the result o
Of the tests made under the supervisor oil Eogo
oyr ofi~er we believe that we are absoluteN sdIe
IN the assertion that this IS the only process or
method which will secure the results ie'''e" -
The testimony begansto-d with Dr. l.. clifford
~ov assistant surgeon In the District OF Columbia
volunteers He was Tampa and IN Cuoa ana
testified that the command was attacked Win
diarrhcea 70 extent of an epidemic aiter eating
refrigerated beef at both places After the second
..aol, ~ ,bis character the regimental surgeon
ordered that the issue Of the beef be stopped
When this was done the darrrpa1 ceased
Mr.. DE CAINDRY's EVIDENCE.
,,.,,,o ma Ca,ndrv who, been chief clerk in
,he office of the CommissaIS General for twenty
wears related his connection WITH letting 'he oeei
Contracts Az the instance of General Eagan he
had first sent sout forty fifty kilograms TO dealers
In beef asking for bids TO supply refrigerated peer
~ beef on the block General Eagan having sup
ua Tho form Mr. De Caindry had been in
s,ructed nv General Eagan 10 prepare the original
sof, If the contract for the beef supply ana AFTER
come submitted adratt feehng con-
eden+ that II was complete II was theh lhat men
understood 10 be representatives or swift 20.
hro,,rh+ ND the question to the length OF
80, haof sbould keen after issue Memoranda for
no,ces containing the Neutrality-suspicious. clause
vrerA brought to him by Captain Davis. Assistant
Co,,roissary-Ceneral. Details were lacking ana the
suggestions as TO time seemed 10 De ou''
He had tried to get details from captain laws "
recard 70 the twenty four-hour clause. ana was
od that the under standing was fhat reirieera'ois
=. 90 Ia built on shore and in the rear or the
moving .roops the intention being TO have the peer
evnosed for the minimum time-oniy. ne hau a' '"o
tine ronted out the apparent CONNECT pet"ee" '"o
,7ortv-fo1r and seventy-Swo hour clauses. IN oiie
- ,hc revis,cc1s General Easan had interhned IN
his own handwriting cause"
reading as follows:
Witch shall not be more than seventy-two n%gas
. 5't lime Of storing the'same in~such reirs
f eT9i3 sne ''i'''
rr4,s clause Mr.. De.Caindry said, he did not un-
derstand al the time but he had no au'hoii.s -
a,-I,- 1Ollr
was inserted General Eagan appeared DUBIOUS
ahout II. but said nothing more. MT DE Oainui!
said that he had been so worried by the apparen.
inconsistencies in the contract that he'had Kept al
memoranda a TslqsRg to asked sRs m aajGr1ee
They are not in the file boxes boxes o,es,ons that
The M tSe as i ia charge e Of these boxes ana
mt Captain Davis was the especial con nnssnn al
General Eagan Asked If he had any s reason that
snv Of the iata had been withheld by Eagan or
s1snic,on then and that he had none now His i'm
preston was thar they were undertaking to 40
10 Know Just how they wanted to do IT.
MIR De Caindry gave Of the particulars CON
in Fi~-da He spoke Of a letter from Armour &
Co in which they argued that The G9ntraSt should
although their bid was somewhat higher than that
What became of that letter. asked Major Lee.
"A portion Of it is in the files" said MI %, pc
Cand hut The bulk Of It was retGrnSd 10 the the
last page containing the Endorsement OF the Sec
rotary Of War and the Comnissa ry-General An
Office copy was however. retained.
The witness then read the letter from Armour
& Co. dated July 49, bearing on this subject put
he said ne had no remembrance Of eyer having seen
the letter before. The letter was then put in evil
oence o,,,
Az this point Major Lee asked Mr.. De Canary
whether he had ever offered his resignation as an
Official Of the War Department. and the witness
replied that he had done
Il rendered my resignation on the day following
General Eagan's appearance before the war COM
mission. he said. go a., -
Major Lee was about TO proceed with this line or
questioning when Colonel Davis objected on the
ground that the inquiries were not pertinent. Ma
5or Lee then dcsisted. Withdrawing the hrst ques-
ton. ~. o,
Dr. Richard A. Pyles. chief surgeon Of the Dis
Of Columbia volunteers testified that me h re-
given them dysentery, but expressed the OPINION
that this was due 10 the fact that they ate 100
much ~ Il He said OF the canned beef that the
men would only It when they could get no other