The age-herald., 1899-01-21
ANALYZED TIE INGREDIENTS Found the Beef Contained Borax and SaIicyIic Acids. MADE kUN -oOUS EXPERIMENTS
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Surgeon Daly Stated That His Report Which Caused Sensation Was Made Voluntarily and Not on Solici-
 tation of General Miles.

Washington, January 2o.-Major w. 1T. Daily, chief surgeon, with General Miles, and whose field service stretched from Tampa to Porto Rico, and whose report condemning the beef furnished the expedi- tionary forces created a sensation somo weeks ago, made his long awaited appear ance as witness before the war investi- gating commission today
 Surgeon Daly's report was the strongest in language of those submitted by General Miles in substantiation of his attack on the beef supplies Major Daly has been too i'll to appear here, and he was accompanied by Gen. Miles and stenographer On being sworn the witness identified the report sub mitted as his own, changing its date how ever, from September 31 to October 31. He was willing, he said, to stand by his report. It was wholly voluntarily and was not called by any request obedience to any circular or letter as far as he remembered He had heard nothing of an official circular calling for reports.
 Communicated With Miles
 At Ponce, however sometime between August l and 12, he believed, he had com- muncated to General Miles some observa- tions regarding beef supplies. At Tampa on shipboard he had noticed a quarter of beef hanging free in the sun, and he became interested in the experiment of having fresh slaughtered beef placed under such moist climatic conditions to see how long 1t could stand it. .t
 "I observed" he said, "that the flies. peeially the bull flies, did not affect it. did oli0 i0bt ap fhpv away from it very quickly He had cut off a piece of that beef at Tampa and cooked it, but 1t neither smelled nor tasted natural ly. Later he helped the men corral some horses, and subsequently he had trouble with his stomach, which he first attributed to the activity of corralling. Then he mo- ticed indications of chemical presence that brought back recollections of chemical stuff he had used to preserve elk in a hunting expedition in the Rocky mountains some years before All that day at Tampa and the next he had an unpleasant taste.
 Analysed the Chemicals
 Tn that previous hunting experience he had analysed the chemical preservative and found it to contain borax and salicylc acids These were to be used externally on
 
 flesh and also injected it. Questioned as to these ingredients, he said borax was not safe to be used in connection with food nor for ordinary medicinal purposes, while the saicylc acid was most nauseaus, loathsome and disgusting, almost always destructive of digestion"
 Major Daly said he should say the att tempt to preserve the beef by chemicals was not a success. That had been his experi- ence on the transport Panama, in the beef carried by which ship he was pretty sure chemicals were involved. That beef" he said, twas very foul. He thought the gov ernment beef requirements of the centract- ors were very unreasonable. Everybody knows" he said, "that beef exposed to moisture and warmth for twenty-four will be very much tried.'
 Recurring to the transport Panama, he said most of the beef it carried was refrig- erated. They had secured ton of beef and for this they at first had one and one-half tons of ice, later increased it to eleven and one-half tons of ice The beef, however, had a deeidely peculiar odor. At Ponce" he went on to say, q observed the refrg- erated beef taken from the transports.
 Had Peculiar Odor
 It had a peculiar odor. I observed the examination of spoiled beef of one trans- port. It was done by a butcher down in the hold He thrust his arm in every direc- ton into the putrid meat, trying to find solid piece. This meat had the same pe- cular odor."
 He added that the Panama's beef war; ranted his report that its odor was like that of dead man, injected with preseryatives. He also depicted the strong odors aboard the transport Chester.
 General Beaver asked If the witness did not think his examination purely super- f1ss. xad without sny suhstaDtlA knoy1- edge.
 'No. would not say that" witness re-