The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-24

EAGAN in EVIDENCE
In Full Uniform at His Desk at De.
partment.
THE CHARGES AGAINST HIM
Are Contained in Two Specifications
that Arc Identical.
MORE SUPPORT FOR GENERAL NILES
Captain Wayburton Of the Pennsylvania
Volunteers Gives Testimony.
THE MEAT WAS UTTERLY UNFIT 10 EAT.
All the beef Issued to Ills Batfnlicu
iInd 70 nc Hurled, as II Could
Not Re Eaten.
Captain Wayburton Of the Pennsylvania
Volunteers Gives Testimony.
THE MEAT WAS UTTERLY UNFIT TO EAT
All the liccf issued to Ills Pattnlicu
iInd 70 nc Bnricd, as II Could
Not &c Eaten.
Especial Dispatch IL The POST j

Especial Dispatch to The Post.)
Washington, January 23.--Tho fact That
Drigadiei General Eagan is under arrest
and will appear Tor court martial trial on
Wednesday and Thursday does not deter
him from occupying his office in the war
department, and apparently acting as COM
niissary general in 4 directing capacity.
He occupied his desk in full uniform on
Saturday and again today, in face OF state
ments from high war officials that he
should not make himself conspicuous AT
under arrest.
The excuse offered is that affairs in the
commissary department are in such a
tangie that General Eagan is compelled to
be present to assist in untangling them.
Colonel Weston. who has been designated
as General Eagan's successor, has wired
from New York TO Lieutenant Colonel
Davis, supposed to be acting commissary
general, stating that he is i'll and asking
him to continue to act in that capacity
for a few days.
Contrary to expectation, the document
upon which tho Eagan court martial Will
be based Will be brief. This document has
been prepared. and Is now ready for sub
mission 10 the court when that body meets
next "Wednesday There are two charge,
and under each there is ono specification.
the specification being the same in its
exact wording in each case and consisting
of the typewriter illumination miscalled
Testimony which General Eegan read TO
the war investigating commission. ldt-.
orally these charges aud specifications are !;
Charge l. Conduct unbecoming an off
Ger and gentleman.
Specification L. In that he, Brigadier
General Charles p. Eagan. on January ~,
1899. did appear before the investigating
committee and testify, making use OF the
following ungentlemany language Cen
eral Miles was asked by your committee
how timed fresh beef became a part of
the army ration. His answer is, You had
better ask the secretary of war or the
commissary general. ] think they can tell
you II was sent TO the army as food, and
the pretense is that it was sent as an ex-
pertinent" General Miles in saying this
food was sent 20 the army as "a pretense
for experiment says that which Implies
100 people will understand 10 mean cor
ruption. because it was O ''pretense OF
experiment" he says, not even giving
credit 10 me for furnishing IL under the
"pretense OF an experiment. This is a
serious charge, and should not be made
by any man lightly nor without ample evil
dence to support it. Taking the statement
in the sense that II was probably intended
and in the sense that 1t would be accepted
BY the country at large, the sense in which
the press almost wholly has accepted it,
indeed, some of that press because of !,
called for my dismissal from the army
and my court martial---I answer that ~
was net furnished under the pretense of
experiment. nor even as an experiment,
and il and when General Miles charges
that It was furnished as 'pretensc of
eyperiment' he lies in his throat. he lies
in his heart, he lies in every hair OF his
head and every pore uf his body; he lies
willfully, deliberately. Intentionally and
maliciously. II his statement is true that
this was furnished under pretense OF an
experiment. then | should be drummed
cut Of the army and incarcerateh In State
prison. II his statement Is false, as ] as
cert IL TO be, then he should be drummet
cut OF the service and tncarcerated III
prison with other libelers His statement
lis a scandalous libel. rejecting upon the
honor OF every officer In the department
who has contracted Tor or purchased iaia
meat, and especially upon he commissary
seneral-myself. III denouncins General
Miles as a liar when he makes this state
merit | wish to make II emphatic and as
coa.se as the statement itself. | wish to
force the lie back into his throat.
/ wish TO brand It as a falsehood OF whole
cloth. without q particle OF truth TO sua-
tain ii. and unless he can prove his state
ment he should bc denounced by every
honest man. barred from the clubs, barred
from the society Of decent people. and so
oetracised that the street bnotblack would
NOT condeseend 10 speaE 10 him. for he has
fculed his own nest; he hns aspersed the
honor of a brother gf'icer withopf~ parti-
e,e Of evidence or fact 10 sustain in any
degree his gcandalous. libe!ous, malicious
falsehcod. viz: That beef or anything