The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-05
ALGER'S EMBAMED BEEF
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timony Major Lee submitted written
request from General Miles for the ad
mission of the official report of 147 men,
representing twenty-six regiments, as
testimony. 1t was stated that these
reports all bore upon the question of
the character of beef supplied to the
army and were pertinent to the inquiry
1t was also stated by Major Lee that
General Miles had at yesterdays ses-
sion of the court submitted the names
of 123 officers and enlisted men whom
he desired to have the court summon
as witnesses
Following is the text of General Miles
proposition for supplying new witness
SEES:
II have the honor to enclose a list
Of witnesses, all of whom will give ma
terial and pertinent testimony in the
matter now being inquired into; and
to the end that the whole truth may be
arrived at I respectfully but urgently
request that these witnesses be called
and examined in the order in which
their names appear, or, if it is found
impossible to secure their presence,
that stheir testimony be obtained by
other usual methods.
'tAs far as it can be now determined,
in view of the facts that have already
been presented and will soon be pre-
sented, it is not that any additional
testimony will be required; 1 reserve,
however, the privilege of adding to the
above mentioned list such other wit
nesses as may be necessary hereafter in
case of new developments"
General Miles proposition did not in
clude the acceptance of the reports of
the officers as testimony. but the sug-
gestion was made by Major Lee in his
behalf.
DISSECTING-RO DOOR.
Dr. Edwin l. Nicodemus of PhiIadel-
phia, a surgeon in the Porto Rican
campaign, testified that both the
canned roast and refrigerator beef was
very unsatisfactory. The latter beef
on the transport Mississippi was sug-
gestive of the dissecting-roOm the odOr
being characteristic of an embalmed
body. Some of the men, after eating
it, had manifested symptoms of ptO-
maine poisoning. He inferred that the
beef had undergone chemical treat
ment because the taste and smell were
different from the normal taste and
smell of meat.
Lieutenant Dixon, Tenth cavalry.
commissary at Lakeland. Fla, last
summer. testified that the refrigerator
beef was always good. but the canned
beef was very unsatisfactory.
DR.. w. S. Deyoe of Chicago, an in
spector of the agricultural department,
who in 1894 made an inspection of the
packing houses of Chicago on COM
plants, was called TO testify concern
ing his report, which could not be
found He proved a very unwilling
witness. saying that he saw no reason
why statements concerning facts of
four or five years ago should be
brought out here to the detriment of
the business of a firm which had since,
so far as he knew, Obeyed the law. The
court insisted, however, and he said
that the firm of Nelson, Morris & Co.
was the one which had been especially
investigated. The testimony had been
given mostly by discharged and dis
gruntled employees, and was TO the
effect that the carcasses of cattle had
been taken from the tanks and placed
on the local market. The findings had
not been conclusive. There had been
no evidence that the firm had connived
at this disposition of the carcasses of
animals, and there was a denial of the
complaint by the firm. He said ne had
at the time been reasonably we'll sat
isfied that the law had not been COM
piled with, and that he had reported to
the department that there was founda-
ton for the complaint.
REPLY TO GENERAL MILES.
During the afternoon the board sent
reply to General Miles, saying it
would take the matter of his PROPOSE
ton to supply more witnesses under