The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-01-20
WILL REPORT SOON.
War Investigators Will Finish
Work Within Ten Days.
WHERE BLAME WILL BE PLACED.
Fault VIII De Found With AIger and
hiIes-Lncll Of Proper Military Or
GanizatiOn viii Be Held Re
sponsible For Chief Evils.

NEW YORK. Jan. 16.-The Herald
this morning says:
president Mckinley will have in his
possession the fun report of the wal
commission within the next ten days.
This report, it is asserted, will not
be d Whitcwash of the army admins
tration 1t will be unanimous on all es-
sential points. 1t will declare that the
primary trouble is due to the lack OF
proper military organization.
1T will show that Secretary Alger
was weak, especially in his relations
with Major General Miles, but it viii
not find him responsible for the camp
horrors. Subordinate officers will be
blamed for the conditions which existed
with respect to these matters. Neither
the secretary nor any member of his
family it viii be stated had any inter-
est in any Of the camp sites.
Major General Miles will be criti-
cised for his conduct before, during and
since the war.
THE report will show that it was he
who recommended the location of the
camps at Miami and Chickamauga; that
it was one of his aids who selected the
camp sites at Camp Alger; that before
the war he recommended the concen-
tration of the regulars at Chickamauga,
and that Secretary Alger strongly OBJ
jected to the location of a camp at Mi
ami, but was overruled.
1T will show that General Miles was
directed by the secretary to make an
inspection trip of all the camps, but
informed him that he was in the habit
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1T is also stated that the secretary
should never have permitted Miles to go
to Santiago, though an observation of
this kind may not be included in the
report. These instances convinced the
commission that the secretary should
have taken steps to have compelled
General Miles to comply with his in
structions.
Coming down to the beef controver-
sy, the commission will find that Cen
eral Miles charges We're unfounded,
that the 13 officers whose reports Cen
eral Miles submitted as showing the
beef supplied for the Porto Rico army
was unfit for use never served in Porto
Rico, and that there was absolutely no
criminality in any of the contracts
made for supplies for the service.
80 far as the Santiago campaign is
concerned. the commission will report
that General Shafter conducted that
movement as efficiently as could have
been expected under the circumstances.
'No fault will be found with General
Shafter, except with respect to the
points which he in his testimony ad-
mitted.
1.-THE commission will recommend that
the transport system he placed un-
der the navy. Colonel C. e. Humphreys.
now on General Brooke's staff. who had
charge of the fitting out of the trans
ports, will be called upon tomorrow to
explain the condition of those vessels.
and he win have to make a very good
explanation to satisfy the commission.
Commanding officers of the transports
will also come in for a share of the
blame
''fhe commission viii recommend the
radical reor@auiHation Of the inspector
generals dep rtmant and, it is said. will
sharply criticise General Breckinridge
for his action IN leaving his inspection
department to take part in the Santiago
battle ms cad Of staying at home to at
tend to his inspection duties. Had there
been more inspections the commission
is satisfied the enidemics of typhoid and
many of the Irregularities which pre-
vailed would not have occurred.
General Brooke will be criticised for
the conditions which existed at Camp
Thomas, and the medical DEPARTMENT
will he blamed for lack of inspections
and failure to carry out proper sanitary
regulations
The quartermaster gen raj viii be ac-
quilted eff charges of high prices paid