The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-25
Win Take Refuge Behind the Immunity
Guaranteed Witnesses
COURT NOT LIKELY 70 SUSTAIN N \ h 4 I.
On Being oyerrulsd, III WIN rlsst csllIy
and Ask for Mercy. Il
OTHERS ARr THOUGHT 10 BE lAplICAIEI|
The Corain,ssnry GeMcrAl Supposca
10 Iinyc strong Backer~-pesnex~
ing Proof N Bcing Gatheresl.
lsneclal Dispatch q The post.

Washington, january 2i--In defiance Of
army rules and precedent ana IL violation
Of public opinion Brlgadier General Eagan
made himself 'couspcucns" BY again aln-
pcsring at the war department today HIS
friends suited that he was completing his
line of dctrnse and that no would hs
pronpty on hand at the court mail
when Il asscmblcs at the Ebbittusn to-
morrow forenoon.
Eaganb preliminary fight 5he trial
win he on terhplcallties and |inst tho
jurirdic,ion cf tho crurt. lIhttorncy.
A. $ WSr,hingtop, viii malf strong
ucptcst Tor HIS client. Eagangl, II Ia
further ta,d rndcayor 10 takduyc he
hind the presidents promiaa protect
abe wilnesses who testified fore The
Eyar inycatiga,ion cnuimisslofhis limo
cf ,lclcnsc, however. can not Eaxau,
al tic president In ordcfinH he b.
court nartislcd recognized In vitnpcr,'-
ton ured ~ him saFioue Ole against
military Law and courtets. sh the court a
throw out Eagan,s technicas and hts
point in reference to tho prin'inl pro-
stectlcn which Il nndonbteMill, than
Tho friends OF the conirpisssfneiai say
he will plead guilty and thfimself on
the mercy ii he court
The scandal nc aFeulrelW import
.aneo because nf the disclos,ircS,,u!ling
an affidavit from the Pennsylvania voldh-
teer artillery and the statement Of Captain
Hean that no did not believe the complaints
made against tue army beef, until he had
given II q fair trial. and Ind fallen sick
with many OF his ynen who trlod 70 ont;
the stuff Tho revelations OF the character
cf tha food bought by the goyernv.st
from tho contractors was the sensation o.
administrator circles. gss az
And all OF II Is fully corrobcratrd hi
new facts cf ii similar Character II the
war department ostrich was TO take ~
head out OF the sand and see Its TRUE posi-
ton inthis scandal there would DO an In,
atant change In theofecble character OF Tho
so-called Investigation.
Now that II is being proved that etn-l
baImed beef was sold TO the army BY tho
government contractors the people are
aslsing who II backing Eaga,i.
His attack OH General Miles must have
powerful interests behind II.
Who iiis the government - Also impll-
Gated In the beef contracts is another thing
seeks TO discover,
Briefly these arc the facts; Complaints
OF eiubalmed beef issued 70 the soldiers
we're made. They were denied and rr-
iteratod. Whom an Alper commission N'fa
appointed TO inyertlgnta the testimony
showed that tbr beef Was bad. This ap-
prcntly infurnted those Interested
Eagaii called Gcueral Miles liar. Tide
extraordinary deliberations Ia the pyo-
cee1ings following wore even more SUE
picious than GGneraI Easan's muprece-
dented attack on the commanding gencrRl
OF the army, II was finally decided to-
vote 10 condemn the war department ma
also 10 rebuke General Miles for dcfounc-
ing the beef and TINS creBtinE govern
ment scandal, IN sIppprt qf their coii-
rluslans ti,e committee claimed W have
found nothing SERIOUS againat the Ngef. u
II has even been denied, with SugpleQSit- Z
that any beef was chemical
treated or put through the enlbalmipx
process and sold 10 the government.
But testimony coming In from SOURCES
entirely outside OF the war department
sustains General Miles original assertion
that d majority Of the soldiers could rot
eat the beef. aud that those who did cat
Il became III and incnpacifated for aer-
Vice Investigation shows that large
busipess Is done IA supplying packers ~ ~
chemicals for 'embalming" beef IS Il 81 ;sT
The writer has scen N extract ~ 49,
tense OF the process which has been deuie4
rs existing w the war department 81
Such beef has been prohibited N I1as
ropean armies. Aftachespf Europ1ap GQ8s
at Washtngtoa who heyy ~
The testimony and heard army
Tell their cxpericnres are etnaxqd a. e1lsal
seeming rotfcnness 81 thIe WI depe5
ment combination, Witch ttsl heed
INTO the mire and Corruption sI10 Q6ela<ql
tself clean. Only Az days ~ NJ Ncllfps
pear oficial visiting WaHhinUt10 6ekfd Z
when the principals - thio' Z -