The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-01-21
DALT FOUND POISON
In the Beef, But the War
Board Has TO be Shown.
SOME HE SAW AT TAMPA
Was Boycotted by the Flies,
the Doctor Says.
SOME HE SAW AT TAMPA

washington. D. c., Jan. 2o.-dajor ". II
Daly. chief surgeon with General Miles
and whose field service stretched from
Tampa to Porto Rico and whose report
condemning the beef furnished the expedi-
tionary forces created a sensation some
weeks ago. made his long-awaited appear
arce as a witness before the war lnVesll-
cation commission today. Surgeon Da-y 5
reDort was the strongest in language OF
those submitted by General Miles IN SUD-
sanitation Of his attack on the beef sup
plies. DR.. DAILY has been too i'll to appear
heretofore. He was accompanied by Cen
eral Miles stenographer, despite the pres
ence OF the commissions official stenog-
Iaoher.
On being sworn, the witness identliled
the report submitted as his own, changing
its date, however from September 81 10
October 81. He was willing. he said, TO
stand by his report. Il was wholly volun-
tary and was not called out by any request
or in obedience to any circular or letter.
50 far as he remembered. He had heard
nothing Of an official circular calling for
reports. AT Ponce, however, some time
between August and j, he believed he
had communicated to General Miles some
observations regarding beef supplies At
Tampa, on shipboard, he had noticed
quarter Of beef hanging free in the sun,
and he became interested in the expert
ment fhaving fresh slaughtered beef
placed under such moist climatic condi-
lions, to see how long it could stand it.
THE FLIES BOYCOTTED IT.
Il observed" he said, that the flies
especially the bull flies. did not affect il;
did not alght on it. or If they did, they
got away from it very quickly. He had
cut off a piece Of the beef at Tampa and
cooked it, but it neither smelled nor tasted
naturally"
Later he helped the men corral some
horses and subsequently he had troubl2
with his stomach, which he first attributed
20 the activity Of corraling. Then ne
noticed indications Of chemical Greserva-
tine that brought back reconections Of
chemical stuff he had used to preserve elk i
in a hunting expedition in the Rocky
mountains some years before. All that
day at Tampa and the next he had an IN
pleasant taste IN that previous hunf:ng
experience he had ana,yZed the chemical
preserYative and found it to contain borax
and salisylic acid. These were 10 be used
externally on the elk, but ne had rubbed /,
IL in the raw flesh and also injected it, /
Questioned IS to these Ingredients, he said
borax was not safe to be used in coEnac /
ton with food nor for ordinary medicinal
purposes, while the salicylic acid was most
nauseous, loathsome and disgusting, al /
most destructive of digestion
DR.. DAILY said he should say the attempt
to preserve the beef by chemicals was not
a success. That had been his ex.aerience
on the transport Panama in the beef car
ried by which ship he was pretty cure .
chemicals were involved" That beef. he
said, was very foul Most of the beef
which the Panama carried was refrigerai- I
ed. They had secured a ton of beef and
for this they at first had one and one-haIf
tons Of ice, later increased to eleven and
a half tons of ice. The beef, however, had /
a decidedly peculiar odor.
AT Ponce" he went on to say. 81 Oh
served the refrigerated beef taken from
the transports. Il had peculiar odor.
observed the examination Of spoiled beef
o. one Of the transports. It was done nv
a butcher down in the hold. He thrust
his arm i'm every direction into the putrid
meat trying TO find a solid pice This
meat had the same peculiar od1r."
STICKS TO "EATBALAIED BEEF
lie AIDED that the Panama's beef war-