Evening star., 1899-04-14
Passes Upon General Miles Request
Concerning Officers Reports.
DEFINES THOSE TO Be SUBMITTED
Dr. Curie's Testimony Contradicted
by Three Witnesses Today.
PROF. WILEY TESTIFIES

| effort to close the hearing OF new evidence
| this week.
| 1t has denied the application of Maj. Gen.
Miles to have five additional and unheard
witnesses called. Permission is accorded
him only to bring Inspector General Breck-
| inridge into court in addition to those who
| have testified already for him.
| The request of the major general COM
/ manding that 200 more reports from officers
be admitted to the record is the subject of
the following regulation promulgated to-
| day:
! 1T is ordered by the court that the reports
| submitted by the major general command
| irg on April 13 be received and read in evil
| dence except the following:
Il. Those submitted by officers who have
| already testified.
so Those rendered by officers who have
| ST omitted reports which have been read in
| evidence, unless such reports contain mat
| ter not covered by their testimony or by
previous reports.
- Those relating to operations in Cuba
| or Porto Rico which were submitted by Off
| GERS who did not personally participate in
| the Santiago or Porto Rican campaigns.
| 1t is believed that General Miles will be
| recalled to the stand Monday, but it cannot
be learned what other prominent figures in
| the inquiry will be required to reappear:
| The expectation is that General Eagan will
| be re-examined before the close of the pro-
ceedings. The evidence today was almost
wholly unfavorable to the Miles allegations.
The colonel and two surgeons of the I'd
New Jersey Infantry Volunteers mildly
contradicted the testimony of Lieutenant
| Colonel Currie of the same regiment, who
was of the strongest in General Miles
favor.
DIR. Adams Testimony.
| DR.. Charles P. Adams of Hackensack, N.
| j., the earliest witness today. AS ma
| icr nd ptaI of no
| Jersey Infantry Volunteers, he testified he
! made daily examinations of the rations.
Two conGemna tions of meat were made by
| him; one of beef, the other of mutton. Only
| two complaints were made to him, and
! these were that meat had spoiled Although
aware that meat has been, and is, chem
| ically preserved, he saw no evidences of
! such treatment of the meat he inspected.
| He was of the opinion that the beef issued
| at Jacksonville was pure in this respect.
| He said he was on the alert for such a dis
| covery, hut never observed it. He admit
| ted that Lieut.. Col. Currie of the regiment,
who was p physician also, had called his
attention to the discoloration of knives by
| the refrigerated beef.
Dr. Adams, on croSS-eXamination by Maj.
| Lee, said that the camp a Jacksonville was
oVercrowded, and consequently in insan-
| itary condition. He did not regard the ra-
| lions responsible for the sickness there,
! but said it was due to the indiscretions of
| the men.
What DR.. BIundeH Said.
| Another physician, DR.. Charles r. Blum
dell, the assistant surgeon to DR.. Adams,
followed the latter in the witness chair. He
! halls from Paterson, n. j., and is of the
| dapper type of young doctors During the
| early part of last summer he heard no COM
| plants from the regiment but in August
| two were made to him at Jacksonville, and
| in both instances he found the meat was
deconposing. This he attributed to ex-
posure to air and sun. He had never, he
| said, suspected that the meat had been
| chemically preserved and never heard any
| such suggestions while he was in the ser
| vice there. He did not think the food
| caused the typhoid or remittent fevers, but
| he said that II was mistake to give solid
food TO men suffering from intestinal dis
| orders.
| Cross-eXamined by Maj. Lee he explained
his method of inspecting the rations issued
| to the regiment, and said that he had made
reflections of the meat.
What percentage of sickness was there
| in the regiment asked Maj. Lee.
Il should think about 90
Col. Edwin W. Hne the commander of
the I'd New Jersey Infantry, young, red
faced white-haired man of corpulent build,
was the third to testify. He swore that he
exercised great care with regard to the ex-
animation of the food supply, and heard
but one complaint of its poor quality. He
found that some of the meat had been af
fected by exposure to the sun, and part of
| it had become discolored. He said h. had
received no sugges ton from Lieut.. Col.
CUrrie that the meat had been chemc al
lied, and that he never suspected it had
been done. His evidence practically cor
| roborated that of his surgeons, who pre-
ceded him. All three contradicted Lieut..
Col. Curria.
Prof. WiIey's Evidence.
Professor H. w. Wiley, chief chemist of
!
called. He testified that he had investi-
| gated the subject of canned meats and
analyzed samples furnished by the COM
missary department of the army, and from
the various military camps. He said he
does not consider canned meat a complete
food for human consumption, as there is
deficiency of carbohydrates. He said no
competent food chemist could mistake
horse flesh, carpenters glue, tallow and
salt for canned beef. The same kind of
food, day after day, would produce nausea.
With potatoes and rice canned beef would
be then a well-balanced ration. The sam
| pies he examined We're good and palatdble.
Prof. Wylie maintained that no careful
| chemist would overlook the presence of
maggots, worms bacteria in his analyti
cal work. Preservation of meat for GER
tain length of time would improve its pala-
liability and digestibilty. The loss of nu-
tritive value through boiling or extracting
the mineral sa would be infinitessimal in
quantity.
Would chemical analysis disclose wheth-
er or not the meat came from inferior
diseased cattle?' asked Major Lee.
The witness replied that If the flesh was
infected it would appear.
Would the difference between horse and
beef meat be disclosed?"
NO. sir"
Prof. Wylie stated that in all the samples
| examined by him there had not been OBJ
served any deleterious agents chemicals.
All the meat was of practically uniform
| quality. He gave a long and scientific de-
scription of the process of analysis and of
| the method of canning meat.
EmDlOye of Armour & Co,
The succeeding witness was Geo. B. Tay-
| lor, an employe Of Armour & Co. He stated
| that he has charge of the icing and re-icing
| of refrigerator cars in transit. He describ-
| ed the process by which temperature of
40 degrees or less is kept in the refrigerator
cars. car going from Chicago to Tampa
would be iced and re-iced five times in ALL
There had been no complaints of the icing
concerning the meat shipped to the troops
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