Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1899-01-13
EEan Denouno.. General Miles.

washington ulapafcn OF tho 18th
says: Most vigorous and sensational
testimony was given before the War
Investigation Commission today by
Commissary General Egan, who APP
pearing unexpectedly to meet ths al
legations against the beef issued in
tho war, vigorously ar aligned Ma
jor General Miles. commanding the
army.
General Egan's testimony on this
point was:
General Miles was asked by your
commission how timed fresh beef
became part of the army ration.
His answer is You had better ask the
Secretary OF War or the Commiseary
General. I thrnx they can tell you
[ k.ow that it was sent to the army a.
food and the pretense is that it WA
sent rs an experiment.
General Miles In saying that thii
food was sent to the army as pre-
tenss for an experiment. says that
which implies corruption, winch
ninety-nine ont of every hundred
people will understand to mean cor
ruption, because it was 'pretepse of
experiment he says. not even giving
c: Edit to ME for furnishing it as an
experiment, but that l furnished it
under the pretense of nm experiment
This is q serious charge, and should
not be made by any man lightly nor
without ample evidence to support it.
TnkiDg the statement in the sen .e 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 accepted it--indee1, some Of tile
press because ni it called for my dis
missal from the army and my court
martial i answer that it was not fur
nished under the pretense of expert.
ment nor even rs an experiment. AMI
when General Miles charges that it
was furnished rs 'pretense Of an ex-
pertinent he lies in his throat. he lies
~ his heart. he lies in every hair m
his head and every pore OF his body,
he lies willfully, deliberately, inten.
tioDally and maliciously.
@If his statement is true that this
was furnished under 'pretense of IN
experiment.' then / should be drum.
med out Of the army aud iDcarcerated
10 prison with other ibelers. His
statement is u scandaIous libel which
reflects upon the honor OF every Off.
Ger in the department who has con-
tracted for or purchased this meat and
especially and particularly on the
Commissary General-myself. In
denOuncing General Miles us 81 liar,
when he makes this statement, I wish
to make it rs emphatic and as coarse
us the statement itself. / wish to
i1rce the lie back into his thro4t GOV.
cred with the contents 1T camp
lalrine. l wish 20 brand it us false.
hood ~ whole cloth without particle
Of truth to sustain it, and unlees he
can prove his statement he should be
driven out Ut the clubs, barred from
the society OF decent people and 10
ost racised that the street boot black
would not coodescend to speak to
him, for he has fouled his own nest,
he has aspersed the honor Of broth
er officer without a particle Of evi.
dence or fact to sustain IN any degree
his scandajous, libelous. malicious
talsehoodR, viz: That thu beef or
any thing whatever was furnished
the army under 'pretense Of expert
ment.'
General Egan referred to the fact
that General Miles had refused to be
sworn and commented on the fact
that he was the only one Of FIVE hun.
dred witnesses who had 80 refused.