Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1899-02-16

cause such vegetables andrOther damaged
Without the warrant 81 board aP o ffe snrVaG
This was done through ignorance. their
omc ersanot knowing What7svas necessary
= = = Ree1f1ri9szated sResf.s..
Path day OF ssepte mber last to the LIS SIS
day of December it's members had taken
testimony in Il different. towns and cities
hundred letters, communications and
newspaper clippings from persons living
in all parts of the country. Nominations
of numerous officers and enlisted men had
been made as to the quality and condition
of the meatriasi,e dstoa the troops i The;
that the refrigerated beef issued was si pure a
sound and wholesome. 80 =
con the 2lst day of December last Maj.
quest Of the president Of this
appeared Sbefores it: He refused, to be
sworn, as all other witnesses had been ex-'
would make his statements without being
sworn and was reSponsibIe4for what he
So IL Hs. proceeded and fer the first time
legation was made that refrigerated beef
issued to the troops had been chemically
treated. H. .,s =:7'sr
rem Gen. Miles Charge.
I'm the statement, revised by himself,
Gen.. Miles .said:. There was sent to Porto
Rice 3S7 tons of what is known as so-called
refrigerated beef. which you might call en-
muhication from br W! II. Day, major
and chief surgeon United States volun-.
teers on his ISIS staff. bearing date Of Sep.
that:x.In the several inspections I made in
the various Camps and troopships at Tam
pa, Jacksonyille, Chickamauga and Porto
Rico Il found the fresh<b beef to be appar-
emily preserved with secret, chemicals
which destroy its natural flavor, and which
I 5o also believe to be detrimental to the
Although DR.. Daily. swears that he in
formed Gen. Miles about the LIST of August,
1893, that he suspected thatsthe refriger-
not appear that the general informed the
war department that an officer Of his staff
had made this discovery. nor does it appear
officers under his command to probe to the
bottom an allegation which, If true, con-
cerned the health, of 275.0O soldiers Of the
Of Dr. DAILY, which he handed to Gen. Miles
October p last, that he then specifically
stated that the refrigerated beef furnished
treated It does not appear that when
this charge was made, October p, it hav-
ing been already made to him in August,
1898, that Gen. Miles communicated to the
secretary of war or to the commissary gen
eral the belief or suspicion entertained by
him that refrigerated meat, dangerous to
in failure to do which there was dereliction
of duty. It is true that on September 20
he had directed that an order should be
issued, but the order specifically mentions
canned fresh roast beef and nothing else,
and it was the reports received in answer
to this that were presented in abstract by
the general at the time of his appearance
before the commission and since. '
DR.. Daily Criticised.
I'm his report DR.. DAILY does not make the
all-important statement that he had al
though he suggests that such analysis
should be made. He does state that in the
several inspections made by him at Tampa,
he found the fresh beef to be apparently
preserved with secret chemicals He said
that at Ponce the beef he examined was
ly preserved by injected chemicals For
months, as it appears,SD DAILY concealed
the. commission of crime affecting men
physician he was bound to 81 protect ad lu
regulations Of the agricultural depart
spections are made (and no packing house
in the country is allowed to do business
without governmental inspection), after de-
Gals and showing the practical impossi-
bility of putting impure meat upon the
market, goes on to say:
1.-The commission has not confined itself
to merely verbal or written proof I'M
mediately upon hearing the testimony of
DR.. Daily on. the 2oth Of January, kilograms
v ere sent, to all issuing ccmrnissaries in
Cuba, Porto Rico and at the various home
camps occupied by troops, asking that
SAMPLES Of Refrigerated beef be at once
and forwarded to the commission These
samples were to be of one pound weight
from the outside and one pound weight
from the inside of a quarter. In response
to this request many samples have been
received, and later sent to the chemists of
the agricultural and interior departments
suit of analysis has been reported to us in
20 cases. and, as will be seen by the reports
appended. in no specimen examined has
either bOric or salicylic acid or other dele
ferrous chemicals been found.
No "Embalmed" Beef.
I'm view Of the facts above set forth the
commission. is of the opinion that no re-
frigerated beef furnished by contra ctors
with Spain. was subjected to or treated
with any chemicals by the contractors or
those in their employ. t'-
Medical Department.
This important part Of the report is dwelt
upon at great length by the. commission
be. properly understood. A glance at the
commissions summing up, however, will
sufileiently indicate its nature:
months of May, June and July was neither
ample nor efficient, reasons for which may
be found in the lack of a proper volunteer
gress to authorize it's establishment and
to the nonrecognition in the beginning of
the value OF women nurses and the extent.
to which their services could be secured.
That the demand made upon the re-;
sources. of the department in the care Of
the sick and wounded was very much
greater than had been anticipated, and /
in like proportion, these de-
mands We're imperfectly met.
That powerless as the department was
to have supplies transferred from point
to point, except through the intermedia-
ton of the quartermaster's department., it
fill the regulation duty of furnishing all
medical and hospital supplies
r That the shortcomings in administra-
ton and operation may justly be attributed
in large measure to the hurry and confu-
sion incident to Understanding of an army
Of unframed aims officers and men ten times
arations in advance had been or could be
made because of existing rules and regula-
tons. -
8 THAT Notwithstanding all the manifest
errors, of omission rather than of COM
a vast deal of good work was done
hi n low