The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-21

treated chemically came, he believed
from DR.. DAILY, who presented it lat
in September and appeared subsequent
| ~ before the war commission. He sal
! he did not recollect whether DR.. Daily
report was volunteered or whether
had been ordered to investigate and re
port on the meat. 1t was general tai
among the officers at Ponce, Genera
Miles continued, that the refrigerate
beef must have been subjected to som
chemical treatment TO make it kee
for seventy-two hours. Dr. DAILY:
however, was the first official report
General Miles then read a long sum
mary of a hundred letters received b
him at army headquarters, giving tn
various terms in which the army mea
was characterized. These include
.embalmed," "decomposed," injected,
poisoned" Spoiled" and the like.
In addition, he showed a summar.
of reports on refrigerated beef con
demned and thrown overheard from
transports c. c. Yeamans, from tn,
Yosemite, reported the condemnation o
5000 pounds; Lieutenant Colonel O'Nei
OF the steamship Chester, 1000 pounds
Colonel James Hamilton Lewis, 1000
pounds. He said that ne should fl
Sept. p (the date of DR.. Days report
as about the earliest at which the
question of chemically treated meat
had been brought to his notice so as
to command his full attention.
Colonel Gillespie took a hand in the
inquiry when General Miles finished
describing the nauseating qualities OF
the canned and refrigerated beef
Dld you, general, ever eat Of this
peef?' Colonel Gillespie asked.
presume | did, about the time we
were at Ponce said General Miles,
with some hesitation. Yes, 1 presume
1 did"
Then" said Colonel Gillespie. cit
has not such characteristic qualities as
hand?"
mo. sir
COLONEL HORNE'S TESTIMONY.
General Miles, then left the witness
chair, and Lieutenant Colonel Evan
Horne of the Thirteenth infantry was
sworn. He said he was, at the out
break of the war, major of the Twenty
second infantry, and was through the
entire Cuban campaign. Witness said
he had used all kinds-canned, corned,
refrigerated and canned roast beef. He
SAID the criticisms of the canned roast
beef began early and We're made often.
IL was objected to on the score of its
lack of nutriment, it's taste and its APP
pearance. After the men got cooking
utensils they stewed their canned beef.
Before that they ate it from the can.
Either way of serving it was bad
enough, and though none of it that
witness remembered was actually
spoiled, it was unpalatable, and the
ground of constant complaint Wit
ness did not recollect that the large
SICK list of this regiment in Cuba had
been laid at the time 10 the canned
neat. sThe men were very debilitated
out he could not say whether the meat
ought to be blamed or not When the
exaggerated beef arrived a large part
If 1t was spoiled. and the men contin-
led to use the canned meat. The
spoiled refrigerated beef was laid out
IN the hill for the buzzar1s Several
ssues were lost in this way. Witness
lad eaten some of the refrigerated beef
which arrived in camp untainted. and
ound that good. The men ate it
Without complaint, and he had no rea-
on TO believe it was any different from
he beef he had gotten at army posts
n the states.
CANNED BEEF WAS BAD.
Lieutenant Colonel Charles Minor of
he Seventh infantry was the next Wit
less HIS regiment was among the first
o leave Camp Thomas and to camp at
-ampa. They reached Cuba and disem-
'arked on June %. Canned roast beef
vas issued as a travel ration when they
EFT Tampa and until the end of the
lege. 1t was replaced with refrigerated
eef after the surrender. Meantime, he
and, absolutely no other fresh meat
ould nave been furnished during the
iege.
Complaints against the canned beef
HpanR 4 i -.
He said he was using it, and when 1
peneh it was apparently fresh. but 1
lrlnSy and absolutely without nourish- !
lent, and when cut it fell to pieces. (
ne men could not and did not eat it,
l believed then, and believe now"
e said. that that beef had been used
1r making beef extract and the nutri- /
lent taken cut. 1t appeared to have
cen boiled to pieces.
Colonel Minor said he knew nothing
the method of canned beef prepara-
on His regiment was in-good condi-
on until about July 8, after which it
eteriorated suddenly and generally.
hen they became weak and sick the
en did not want meat.
Asked if during the siege he had made
4 effort To get ether meat he said he
ld not; that there was not a piece of
iper in the command, and they merely
aited for what was brought up from
shind, a distance of about eleven
lies. They had no discretion or choice
the matter of rations
Examined as to refrigerated beef. he
1t was excellent and satisfac-
ny. and no complaint about it were
ard. Only one quarter was spoiled.
e was unable. he said. to detect any
ference between the refrigerated beef
sued in Cuba and that which had
en- issued at the posts in this country
which he had been stationed
MAJOR Henry jackson, Third cavalry,
no was with his regiment throughout
e Santiago campaign, was called. His
perlence with the canned roast beef :
gan aboard the transport en- route for
lba and continued until his return to ;
ontauk. Complaints commenced on
e way down and continued without
remission The men complained of
e meat being Stringy, tastelesg and ,
palatable. The officers had re-
lrkod the same thing 10 him and he
reed with them fully.
Colcnei Davis asked if witness had !
lde any effort to get anything for his .
IN. He said there was nothing to do !
/ take what was given them There :
Is no requisition or other formalitv. [
the ratiOns that could be sent to !
2 front with the limited transporta- !
n facilities We're sent. The men SIM :
7 took what was sent them, and Off I
s and men Jared alike When the
.sh, or refrigerated beef, began to S
rive after the capture OF Santiago, it a
g issued to his men
Piles Are Easily Cured. +
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es. 1t is the active principle of the :