The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-05
STENCIL WAS STIRLING
DIR. DAILY SAYS ARMY BEEF
SMELLED LIKE CADAVER
EMBALMED
HIS ASSERTION coRRoBoRATED.

| Dissecting ROOm-Gen. Miles
Proposese,to supply Court with
Names of Witmesses-MatterW VIII
He Considered.
WASHINGTON, April 4.-The court of
! inquiry today Intercepted DIR. DAILY in
regard to the character of beef furnish
| ed to the army during the late war He
adhered to his former statement paid
| his respects to the war investigating
commission, and reiterated that the beef
! sn:elled like a cadaver that had been
embalmed. Dr. Nicodemus of Philadel-
| phia, who saw service in Porto Rico. cor
roborated this testimony, comparing the
smell Of the beef to the odor about a dis
secting room
In a cross-examination by Col Davis
| DrDaly said he had heard nothing when
! ne had made his first observation in re
| Spouse to- Col. Weston's remark to the
| effect that any chemical had been used
| Oh the beef which the colonel had hung
IN the sun. He said he had preserved
| the specimen Of the beef from the Pan
anna In an aerated bottle, locking 1t in
portmanteau. He had given the speci-
men no treatment, except to remove the
fat by filtering through raw cotton Ask
| ed II he was still as much convinced
| as When he made his report Of the quality
| of the beef, he said:
am stronger In my convictions than
L ever was, from the unsolicited evidence
| That has come to since the report
| was made"
| mo matter what authority saws tbesa
chemicals are safe, they are not safe"
said DIR. Daily emphatfcally
| Inc day brought out proposition from
Gen. Miles to supply the court with
names OF a large number of witnesses
and stating that in February he had
| oHered the names of lat officers as will
| ing to testify, but the court had not an
nounced its acceptance of them
| After Dr. DAILY had completed his testi-
| mony, Maj. Lee submitted written re-
l Guest from Gen. Miles for the adnis
I sion OF the official reports of III men
representing twenty-six regiments. as
| test lmony. 1T was stated that these ra
| ports all bore upon the question of the
character of beef supplied to the army.
| ana were pertinent to the inquiry. 1t was
also stated by Maj. Lee that Gen Miles
had at Yesterdays session of the court
submitted the names of 173 officers and
eniisted men whom he desired to nave
| the court summon as witness
DIR. Edwin l Nicodemus, of PbiIada,-
phla, a surgeon in the Porto Rican cam
| palgn' testified that both the canned
! roast beef and refrigerator beef we're
very unsatisfactory The latter beef on
tne transport Mississippi was suggestive
| o. d1ssecting room, the odor being
characteristic of an embalmed body.
manifested symptoms of ptomaine nois-
onlng. He inferred that the beef had
| Undergone chemical treatment because
me taste and smell were different from
tne normal taste and smell of meat.
Lieut.. Dixon. Tenth cavalry. commits
sals at Lakeland, Fla, last summer tes-
tlheo that the refrigerator beef was al
ways good, but the canned beef was
very unsatisfactory
" w. .. Devoe, of Chicago. an in
spector OF the agricultural department
VINO III isS6 made an inspection of the
packing houses of Chicago on complaints,
was caiied to testify concerning his re-
port which could not be found. He
proved very unwilling witness. saving
that he saw no reason Whv statements
concerning facts of four or five wears AGO
siould De brought out here to the detrf
nent or the business of a firm, which
hdo since, so far as he knew, obeyed the
law me court insisted, however, and
ne SAID the firm of Nelson Morris s.
Co. was the one which had been esnn-
ciaiy investigated The testimony had
eeen given mostly by discharged and
olsgruntied employees, and was to the
erect that the carcases of cattle had
oeen taken from the tanks and placed on
the local market. The findings had not
been conclusive There had heen no az;
cence that the firm had connived at tb;s
disposition OF the carca sses of animals
ana there was denial of the complaint
ny the nrm. DR.. Devoe said he had ar
the tlme been reasonably we'll satisfied
tiia' the law mad not been complied with.
| ha hoI
ineht that there was foundation for the
complaint.
during the afternoon the board sent a
reply TO Gen. Miles saying it would TAX
me matler OF his proposition to supply
more witnesses under consideration. but
t r1 tnat the board did not REQUIRE
further testimony relating to the canned
, ! roast beef
zen. Miles sent another letter in an
swer to this In which he called attention
10 the letter he wrote, early in the nro-
ceedings of the board saying that the
inquiry was not only of great Importance
Involving the health and life of 49,
, army. but that the honor of the service
was at stake. He added that 900 men
ana no doubt many more could give
evidence substantiating the assertion
tnat the meat was unfit to eat. and he
expressed the hope that out of this mum.
Der III whose names he had submitted
V.
Gen. Miles suggested that men who h,
evidence to give might answer a set ot
; lnterrogatories prepared by the boa
1t 1t was found impracticable to hea
! them orally.
RUNG IN A COLD DECK.
NEW YORK, April 4.-Inspector Gen.
, eral j. c. Breckenridge, who has lust re-
turned from Porto Rico. Is quoted in g
World interview as saying:
= IL IS my opinion that the government
intended to furnish the American troons
with food the like of which had beer
never seen by the army of any country
link tnat the contractors to use 8
vulgar term, srung in cold deck
Inc canned roast beef was argal1 ,,,,
, MT Tor use. 1t had no nutrition. Tb,
cofheo peer was not bad at all. T M
some OF the canned roast beef in m,
saddle bags and carried IT over to c.
Lawton's headquarters. I gave II r.
one OF the staff officers and remarked :,
him: Here Is a treat for you, He ~
once opened one of the cans and +h,
appearance of the food and tho -
emitted nauseated him." O'
Soldier Dead From Cuba.
WASHINGTON, April 4-Tba f,,
train carrying the remains of ITS soldier
and civilians who died in Cuba and Port,
Rico, which left Jersey City this morn
ing arrived at Roslyn, Va the sta IL,
near Arlington cemetery this afternoon
These remains will be transferred tn ~
| cemetery, as were the others and nI.ca,
In tents to await the funeral ceremonie
n q