The age-herald., 1899-03-05
HE WAS DENIED THE CHANCE
Described the Effects of Partakins Of Ba-
 gan'S Embalmed Beef.
ISSUE OF THE MEAT PROHIBITED
The Beef Board Concludes It's List of Witnesses, and Will Visit the Packing Houses at Chi
 cago This Week.

Washington, March 1.-The court of in- quiry wound up It's weeks work with half days session today, having exhausted its list of witnesses now on hand. The court will start for Chicago early next week. Just before the close of the session today a volunteer witness presented himself, but was not accepted. He wore an army uni form and his name was Frank Rundas, late of the Third Nebraska (W. J. Bryan 5 regtmenD, and he had been recently discharged from the service and was on his way home.
 His story in brief was that he had served In the company kitchen with his command at Jacksonville and that during a long pe riod when the men were living on refrlger ated beef there was so much intestinal trouble among the men that the issue of this meat was stopped. At another time he got hold of some refrigerator meat in the kitchen that was of such a peculiar color that the attention of the company officers was called to it.
 The meat was cooked, but all the men who ate 1t were made sick. The inference drawn was this was some of the Porto Rico beet which MT. Daily had analysed and al- legged to be chemically treated
 Refused to Hear Him
 RunudS Sdlu He was on HIS way nome, but stopped off in Washington to offer this information to the court of inquiry if they thought 1t worth hearing. He presented himself to Colonel Davis, the recorder of the court, but was told that he would not be wanted as a witness. The counsel for General Miles will inquire into the ante cedants of this witness and if he appears to be what he represents he will be called.
 Colonel Gallagher, who was recalled in answer to a question from Major Lee as to whether he had issued canned beef to the Cuban refugees because our soldiers would not eat it, replied:
 I've issued the canned beef to the Cu- bans because they preferred to eat it. and the bacon to our men because they pre- ferred that. We were trying our best to give every one what they most preferred" |"
 "Umphl" 'umph!" umph!' commented Major Lee.
 Did Not Receive Any Complaint
 Major George Ruthers, of the commits sary department who had supplied the Seventh Army corps with refrigerator beef while at Jacksonville said he had never received a complaint
 Major Lee took up the cross-examination and deveuoped the fact that there had at times been complaints as to the beef and in that one case 800 pounds of beef had been condemned. Witness said he had three official complaints of the beef at JackSOnVllle.
 Lieutenant-Colonel Curtis Child, of Bos- ton, who was attached to General Fitzhugh Lees staff as inspector-general of the Sev- enth Army corps, said his experience at Jacksonville had been very satisfactory He had personally inspected many cars, finding very few sides of beef to which any exception could be taken. Witness said subsequently he made in- spections of Texas beef killed in Cuba in the past few months, reports of which are on file In the war department. He had made chemical anlysis and meteorological examinations of the canned roast beef made in Cuba and had made personal com- parisons between refrigerated beef, native Cuban cattle and Texas beef killed in Cuba, which had and had not been in cold storage. His experiments had been ex- haustive and conducted as fairly as possi- be, with reference to practical conditions. His own opinion was that the best meat that our troops could get in the West Indies was American cattle killed and refrigerated in Cuba as near as possible to the spot where it was used.