Hutchinson gazette., 1899-01-19
BITTER ATTACK ON MILES.
,COmmlssary General EagaD Calls
His Superior Officer ALTAR.
APPEARS BEFORE WAR BOARD.

General Charles y, Eagan yesterday
reappeared before the war inyestiga.
tion commission TO answer the charges
OF General Nelson A. Miles concerning
The commlssary supplies furnished the
army during the recent war, General
Eagan's statement furnished the sensa-
tion OF the war commissions history,
md was regarded by old army officers
MS one Of the most remarkable attacks
over made In the history Of the service,
Eagan read his testimony from q
large written statement. Hc denied
numerous statements OF General Miles;
charged that the lntters testimony
constituted severe reflections upon the
commanding generals OF the expedl-
tions. He referred TO Miles as "this
same commanding general Nelson A,
Miles, and said whoever called the
beef furnished "emballned beef" was n
liar
General EagNn referred TO the fact
that General Miles had refused TO be
sworn and commented on the fact that
he was the only one OF 500 witnesses
who had so refused. General Eagan
said he himself preferred to be sworn,
General Eagan referred TO the mys'
terious manner In which papers disap-
peared from the files OF tho War dc.
partment.
General Eagan's testimony regard
Ing the embalmed beef was as follows;
General Miles was asked by your
committee how timed fresh beef be-
came part OF tho army ration, His
answer Is; You had better ask the
secretary OF war or the commissary
general. think they can tell you, l
know II was sent to the army as food
and the pretense is that 1t was sent as
an experiment
General Miles in saying that this
food was sent 10 the army rs o pre-
tense for an experiment says that
which implies corruption, which nine
ty-nino out Of every 100 people will
understand to mean corruption, be-
cause II was "a pretense OF expert
ment, he says not even giving credit
to me for furnishing 1t as an expert
ment, but that furnished it under
the 'pretense OF an experiment
"This Is a serious charge, and should
not be made by any man lightly nor
without ample evidence to support it.
Taking the statement in the sense It
was probably intended, the sense that
will be accepted by the country at large
the sense that already the press almost
wholly of the United States has accept
ed it--indeed some OF that press be-
cause of it, called for my dismissal
from the army and my court-martial-I
answer that II was not furnished un-
der the pretense Of experiment, nor
even as an experiment, and IL when
General Miles charges that 1t was fur
nished as '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 will
fully, deliberately, Intentionally and
maliciously,
."If his statement is true that this
was furnished under pretense OF an
experiment, then l should be drummed
out OF the army and incarcerated in
prison with ether libelers.
His statement is a scandalous libel,
rejecting upon the honor of every off,
Ger in the department who has con-
tracted for or purchased this meat, and
particularly on the commissary gen
eral-myself.
"In denouncing General Miles as q
liar when he~makes this statement l
wish to make it as emphatic and as
coarse as the statement itself wish
to force the lie back into his throat,
covered with the contents of camp
latrine.
~ wish to brand It as q 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
peOplo anu 81 OSJTdClLeu Judu Juc
street bootblacls would not condescend
to speak TO him, for he has fouled his
own nest, he has aspersed the
honor of a brother officer with
out particle of evidence or fact to
sustain in any degree his scandalous,
libelous, malicious falsehoods-viz., 4,
that this beef or anything whatever
was furnished the army under pre-
tense Of experiment.
General Eagan made vigorous at
tack on the inspector generals de-
partment in connection with this
investigation. He asked why were
not those inspections made while the
armies were in the fields.
General Eagan referred to the re-
ports from officers, and submitted by
General Miles, concerning beef fur
1ished, as irresponsible statements.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE war in
vestigating commission passed to-day
resolution of censure of General
Eagan for the language he used yes