The morning news., 1899-04-05
FOUND ALL KINDS OF 0DORS.
DAILY INSISTS THAT MEAT WAS
CHEMICALLY TREATED.

From an EmbaI lined CadnVer Was
Not Circumstance-Made Him
| Sick and the Men. TOO-NiIes
Wants 13I More witnesses Called.
Board Has Enough Evidence as to
Canned Meat.
Washington. April 4.-The army court of
inquiry to-day heard DIR. William H. DAILY
in regard to the character of beef furnish
ed for the army during the late war.
DR.. Daly's testimony dealt on this oc-
casion as on his first appearance, especial
ly with the beef supplied to the army.
His first observations had been made on
a transport at Tampa before the sailing
of the expedition to Santiago. where Col
Weston invited his attention to a quarter
of beef hanging on the deck. Col. West
ons only remark was;
Here's a quarter of a beef which has
been hanging here for sixty hours in the
sun; We are going to see what it will do"
No reference was made to preserva-
tives
He Dr. Daly), cut off piece of the beef
and cooked and ate it next day. After that
he became sick at the stomach. but he
had not felt convinced that the meat had
| caused sickness.
After some reference to his stay in Porto
Rico DR.. DAILY detailed the particulars of
the trip North on the transport Panama
last September, which was in has charge.
The vessel had been provided on setting
out with the best obtainable refrigerat tor
beef, but the vessel had not gone far be-
fore 1t became evident that it was not
good.
Complaints Were Numerous.
He did all that he could to quiet the
complaints, but they increased, and the
stencil soon grew so strong that it per-
vaded the who.e ship. The odor was in
describable. He as last suggested a
board of survey. and one being ordered,
| it had condemned the meat left, about
1900 pounds, and he had had it thrown
overheard
Here DIR. Daily took occasion to pay his
respects to the war commission, before
which he had appeared. He said the COM
mission had given out the impression that
the deterioration of the beef on the Pana-
ma was due to want of ice. This was
| contrary to his testimony and the truth
could easily have been ascertained. As a
| matter of fact, the Panama had an ex-
|
| tons of ice to one of beef
DR.. DAILY said he had since made ex-
periments upon beef subjected to treat
ment by boric acid and had found it to
give forth about as foul smell as could
be well imagined
OdOr. Was Something Awful.
Maj. Lee then read various reports made
by DR.. Daily concerning official nspec-
tions of the beef at the camps at Jack
sonville, Lexington and Chickamauga All
these stated that the meat used generally
looked well, but that there was a univer-
sal complaint of it's smelling badly. He
| had found the fresh beef to be apparentlv
! preserved by the injection of some chemi-
! cal which destroyed its natural flavor and
| which must, of necessity. have been inju-
rious to the health of those eating ii. 1t
was to his mind impossible to preserve
| meat without the use of acids, and appar-
entity the meat had been preserved ''by
the injection of chemicals to aid the work
of defective cold storage"
In one case he had found the odor SINH
lar to that of a dead human body, and IN
another, speaking of the odor, he said:
1T was unnatural mawkish, sicklv.
like that of a human cadaver after an
undertaken had injected his embalming
| preservative"
Sure 1t Had Been EmbaImed.
He was satisfied that the beef had been
! chemically prepared-that it had been en-
! balmed in fact After his reports had
gone in, he had in order to satisfy his own
mind, made a chemical ANALYSIS of a resi-
dunn from the beef used on the transport
! Panama, and had found distinct evidence
of the presence of boric and salicylic acid.
He then referred again to the report of
| the war commission, in which reference
had been made to the use of these drugs,
| the intimation being that a trace of them
would not be injurious.
Replying, DR.. Daily asserted that the
chemicals were detrimental to health. and
| they could only be used at the peril of
! those taking them.
| Here DIR. Daily introduced a Joint report
! made by DR.. Clark, chief chemist, and Dr.
| Hildebrandt, chemist of the geological sur
vey, on an analysis made by them of the
resduum Of the beef used on the Panama
In this report they said they had examined
! the powder furnished by DR.. Daily.
Found Both the Acids.
Both the flame test and the turmeric
| paper test give the destinct evidence of
| the presence of boric acid" they said
1--WE also obtained good reactions with fer
| ric chloride, showing the presence of sali-
| cylic acid"
| In response to general question, DIR.
DAILY said he had come into much infor-
| nation confrmatory of what he had tes-
tilted to, but which had come to him in
| confidential way, rendering IL improper
for him to give the names of those sup
| nl1,ne IT, In truth a ban had been placed
uron the information. He thought that
| some forty or fifty persons had spoken to
him in corroboration of what he had said
These were the proprietors of slaughtering
| bouses and the manufacturers of chemi-
Gals. He said, after some questioning.
mat he would ascertain whether he could
give the names of these people to the
court.
Miles Requests Not Acted on.
After DR.. DAILY had completed his test-
,,oonv Mai. Lee submitted a written re-
onest from Gen Miles for the admission
| of the official reports of 147 men represent
ing twenty-six regiments, as testimony 1t
was stated that these reports all bore
| upon the question of the character of beef
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