The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-02-10
FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 10. 1890.


The mountain is through with its
labor and we have as the result what
everybody expected. most ridiculous
little mouse. The so-called War Invest-
eating Commission has ended its months
Of painful efforts 10 procure endorse
rnents Of the administration from men
whose bread comes from the admins
tration. II has formulated its report and
presented IL 10 the President and a. has
endorsed the President and everything
he ever did 80 has endorsed Alger and
everything he ever did, and it has de-
clared that no men were ever served by
better subordinates from highest To low
est than these officials had with but two
exceptions. and these General Miles ami
his chief surgeon. Major DAILY, who had
The effrontery 10 let the public know that
Alger had allowed MS friends Of the
beef-packing combine to charge the gov
eminent tremendous prices for poisoning
those Of our soldiers that they did not
starve.
The announcement OF the commissions
findings concludes m Ost appropriately by
informing the public that "the commits
sion is a unit in its report and there is
no minority report" OF course, It is
INIT and Of course there IS no minority
report
We can truly say that Of an the farces
we have ever luaown this war investiga-
ton was the gre Attest. The President had
10 sort Of authority in law 10 appoint
the commission and any Investigation
and report IL might make could. there
fore. have no roore influence or weight
than q newspaper article He ought TO
have known that everybody would under
stand that 80 was appointed TO approve
81 all that he and his subordinates had
done and that its effect upon the public
mind. instead or being favorable 20 him
and them. would only be TO increase the
suspicious OF them that The inkinEs of
the real facts that had leaked ont 10 the
public had dispersed ia iis mind II any
thing were wanting 20 load Mckinley
down TO the breaking point with his Sin
bad burden Of Alger and Algerism, this
War Commission was that thing.
The most noticeable thing about the
1orecasting Of the report that has been
published. ls its treatment of the alleged
beef scandals. u is given ont that tho
commission reports there is nothing IN
the allegations that beef was chemically
treated and that the canned beef was all
that was necessary for emergency IA
lions. Now everybody knows there has
been no real Investigation of either mat
ter. There has been prefunctory exam
ination with both. hut General Miles has
not been afforded an Opportunity 70 pre-
cent the evidences he accumulated that :
beef was chemically treated and the !
speciac charges made by an old ana ex- I
perlenced beef packer. AIR Marshall. o. +
chicago. that the beef pat IN cans has .
eli OF It's nutritvo qualities extracted .
before It Is canned. has not received even /
a perfunctory examination.
There O. but ono thing the Alger in- Z
euepoe has accomplished that appeals (
90 us Tor approval. and that Is the pro-
curing Of a mitigation OF General Eagan's /
sentence. The court martial was I'M
dopbtedly right 90 sentence General Z
Yagan. but # was a case where the
Equality Of mercy" has the amplest scope /
Tor its exercise
But the moral OF the whole case is that +
81 the Democratic party would only dis
card free silver and its war upon vested
rights and nominate a sure enough Dem
ocrat on real Democratic platform Al
ger would swamp Mckinley