The Anaconda standard., 1899-01-31
TOTALLY UNFIT FOR USE
Overwhelming Proof in the Beef
Scandal.
SOLDIERS THE VICTIMS
Sixty-Three officers Report That the
Nutriment-Q Quantities of 1t
Were Condemned.

New York, Jan. 30.-A special to the
Herald from Washington says:
Reports of So officers representing
more than dozen regiments, scores of
companies and thousands of soldiers,
We're rto-night laid before the special in
vestigating committee, furnishing over
whelming proof that the men in the ar
my were made victims Of an outrageous
beef scandal
Major and brigadier generals, colon
els, majors. captains, sergeants, leu
, tenants and members of hospital and
medical staffsstaffs join in declaring in
their reports upon army beef that it
was totally unfit for use. Corned beef
escapes without great censure, but
canned roast beef and the so-cailed
fresh beef with which the soldiers We're
served is denounced without exception.
According to the evidence placed in
the hands of the committee, the beef
was unfit for use, 1T was tasteless and
nauseatng, all of 1t was stringy and
devoid of nourishment. none of the sol
diers would eat it. except from extreme
| necessity, and many of those who did
were made i'll thereby. Great quantities
of the beef was thrown away, and Ma
| jor j. NJ Lee who served as a sani-
tary inspector in the camp at Mont1uk
Point. recommended that large lots be
removed las a sanitary measure
Neither climate nor transportation, ac-
cording to to- days evidence can be held
| responsible for the quality or condition
of the beef served to the army. The
testimony of the 63 officers shows it was
uniformly bad in Cuba, Porto Rico, at
| the southern camps in this country and
at Montauk Point. The evidence also
| indicates strongly that all of the nour-
| ishing qualities of the beef We're taxi
en- out before it was sent to the soldiers,
| and that these nourshing qualities are
| used by the great packing concerns and
| sold as extract of beef.
| Major General Henry W. Lawton.
writing in October, declared that the
| beef was of such quality that the men
! still We're refusing to eat it, and that 1t
| had been decided not to issue any more
of it, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt wrote
| that "the canned roast beef was prac-
| tically worthless and the present gov
ernor of New York. speaking generally
of the beef served to the troops, de-
clared: THE meat ration was so bad
| generally as to be inedibe'
| Following is a list of the men whose
| evidence proves ali that has been
charged about the beef scandal:
Major General Henry w. Lawton.
Brigadier Generals; Gilbert S. Carpen-
ter, Lloyd Wheaton and George M.
| Harries.
| Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
| Majors A. II. Bowman, A. w. Corliss,
| J. NJ. Lee, r. A. Pyles, George F. Dow
and Frank G. Armstrong.
Captains ]. X. NNaring, Abner Pick
ering, j. B. Jackson. George S. Young,
D. L. Howell, j. l.. Van Orsdale, Alex
ander Creig, Jr., H. N. Miller, Francis
| M. Bean, John S. McNeilly, Edward J
Gihon and Frank B. Gray.
Lieutenants Preston Brown. Charles
E. Muir, William ]. Lutz. Robert Nc
/ Cleave, A. B. DonWorth, j. w. B. Nit
che1l. James L. Clinton, w. @. Reading
! r. w. Parliman. Frederick D. Costello.
Henry A. Thayer, William Fl. Jackson
/ F. G. Taylor Fl. E. Putney, George A
Bowland, William N. Jackson, L. G
Hunter. Fl. w. Gross, S. G. Sweet and
| F. A. Washburn. Ir.
Sergeants Guy r. Viskinski. Victor J
Hosmer, Berry, M. w. Lithbridge
/ and H. w. Nash -+.
Pherson. William II. Weed, Jr.. F. P
4 Coennen, A. B. Varnum, Clifford Cox
Lewis II. Wilson, Marion w. Harris
| Willard p. Pratt. 2. P Murdoch, G
Winfield Stutbine, II. S. Van ShaiclS
! Arthur w. Post. G. "A. Garretson, e. v
S. Negus and H. w. Miller.
/ S25 reward to any, one, proving that E,