Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-03-23
GENERAL NILES
CLAIM UPHELD.
Witnesses Testify that Army Beef
Was Doctored.
CARLOAD OPERATED UPON.


Chicago. March ga The members Of
the government court Of inquiry nm
ished their iabors In Chicago today and
left for New York this evening. The
testimony OF GOV. Roosevelt will be
tnkcn. after which the court will pro-
coed to Governors Island Thr evil
dcncc brought forth today was largely
cumulative In It's character consisting
mainly OF criticisms Of canned beef
and refrigerated beef from soldiers
who ate It and watched Its effects In
Cvba and Porto Rico.
rsavid Ficischmann. bcilboy In the
Hotel Morrison. told OF a visit to the
known man whose purpose IL, supposed
to be an experiment In the matter Of
preserving beef by chemical treatment.
W. G. Marshall. the provision spec
cialist. whose testimony was expected
TO be Sensational. threw no additional
light ON the question. his evidence be-
Ing principally the cxprcarlon Of the
opinion that canned beef as now i'ut on
the market Il eotally unit for human
food.
Lieut.. l.. y. Hartman u tle First
cavalry. who was acting feslinunial
Quartormaster while the rcgimous was
stationed at Lakeland. Fla. waa the
nrrt Witness summoned today.
lie testified that rcfrigutntoT beef
was received from Armour & co. II
was brought TO Lakeland In cars. At
first II was very good and there was
40 objection TO II. but In three or four
days Il began to get poorer la quality.
In two instances "a board 81 survey re-
jcctcd the beef. In one ease the Wit
ness rejected a whole carload.
ANALYTICAL CHEMISTS STORY.
DIR. r.. Il. Murdoch. who WIS FOR two
years president ~ the auxiliary m'di-
cal stan In tho Chicago health depart
fnent and ~ au analytical chemist. was
the next wiincia. He stated that the
had made several examinations OF both
canned and refrigerated beef. dating
back several years. In the latter part
~ June. iSah. he said. some canned
meat was brought 20 him to determine
itr character. He found that the meat
was apparently boiled beef. II prob
ably had been boiled somewhat before
II wan scaled In ihc can and somewhat
after. There wuu In the can quite n
quantity OF common salt and also nj
trittc Of potaini. called Haltpctcr. There
prcHcryntiycs. rnhd the witness, must
have been IN the .cnn before the boil
ing was completed. because II had sat
ufatcd the iibcr OF the meat and hard
cned II.
la his report 20 tho gentlemen who
brought him the meat. tho wltncnh
stated that this was the great object
tion to canned meat. " should be
cooked without nnlt In order to be nu-
trltioun: the seasoning should be placed
IN II or on II after the cooking N COM
pictc. Tho character OF the meat. Ia
Dr. Murdock's judgment was low
Grade. Two 81 the cans contained but
very small quantity of muscular tia-
sue. which II the nutritious portion OF
the beef The examination was con-
tinucd by the boiling of the meat re-
tort 10 see how much beef extract
could be taken from four poufsin OF u.
the amount produced WIS 10 small u
was not pcrccptlble; u was not enough
oven 90 be used as u culture medium In
experiments In bactorlclogy'
With reference 10 the examination OF
fresh beef. the witncna Hnid that nt
three different times there wcrc
brought TO him pieces N what seemed
TO be ordinary meat from the markets,
which evidently had been kcpt for
some timb. presumably In rcfrlgera-
tor.
noRAcTc ACID.
II found salt In very small guam.
tity." anid Dr, Murdoch. " and some OF