The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-25
SUBMITTED NO ARGUMENT.
.ooR0ER DAVIS OF BEEF COURT
HAD NOTHING TO SAY.

court Is Now Engaged Upon
preUaration of Its Final Re-
-.-carJingtOn's Report Made
r,.uo,rh Miles Was Not Admitted.
Ice Who Has Been Repre-
4,,o Gen. Miles Argued About
an Hour.
lexington, April 24.-The Wade court
,,,irv appointed to investigate the al
IONS made by Maj Gen. Miles in his
-,r,ony before the war investigating
MISSION concerning the meat furnish
tho army during the late war with
"a is now engaged upon the prepare
lion Of its report.
NJ. court has been in session almost
uselss and in addition to daily hear
Given in this city for several weeks,
IONS have been held in Chicago, ON
and Kansas City to afford the mem
Of the court an opportunity TO per-
/.,a-lv INSPECT the canning houses.
4 several hundred witnesses have been ex-
a,,ne5 most of whom have been Off
and enlisted men in the regular or
,.,n,ntaer service, and over 1850 pages of
testir,ony have been submitted.
This morning the court decided not to
o.,ant report made by Lieut.. Col. Car
,3rston of the inspector generals office.
This report had been transmitted TO Gen.
Mics through Inspector General Brock
irridge. The report Of Col Darlington
covers about eighty typewriter pages
and goes exclusively into the reports made
nv officers and men without drawing any
osreral conclusion. The board, in expla
4 nation Of their refusal 60 accept this re-
4 raoort in evidence, gave out the following
1 statement:
why 1t Was Not Received.
THE report of the investigation conduct
81 bv Lieut.. Col. Darlington, inspector
General Under the orders of the major
4 general commanding, contains the result
4 of an INQUIRY carried on, for the most
mart at the same time and in the same
n n3ces as that entrusted to this court by
n The President. During che progress of the
"a INVESTIGATION Col. Garlingto ton has submit
led the names of witnesses, and from time
10 time has suggested subjects of inquiry.
all of which have been fully considered
Inv the court The reports which were fur
rished him by officers of the army have
already been read and submitted in evil
#dence. In view of these facts, and it
does not appear that Col Darlington had
snv other or better means of information
than were accessible to the court at every
stage of its inquiry, il is ordered that the
report be not received in evidence"
"A
At the afternoon session before Maj. Lee
who has been Maj. Gen. Miles represen-
tarive before the board, summed up for
his side Of the case, Recorder Davis read
brief reports from Gen. Breckenridge, the
4 Inspector general, and also from two of
4 his subordinates, Maj. Philip Reade and
4 Lieut.. Col Darlington as to the result of
their individual observations.
Cen Breckenridge condemned the can
ned ration and, speaking generally, said
h that while the army ration fulfilled all the
d scientific requirements as to food values,
its component parts should be changed to
meet the new conditions of service. AS
the ration was fixed by law, this was
matter for Congress to remedy. He also
suggested that articles required by sick
and convalescent soldiers be added.
Maj Reades report was mainly devoted
to the lack of certain camp equipment
among certain regiments, and that of Col
Darlington TO the result of his personal
inspection Of the various camps of the
country.
The court then decided that IL any of
the depositons for which Gen. Miles has
II called should be received prior to the COM
pletion of the report of the board, they
should be admitted as evidence, subject
10 the boards limitations.
Not Acting for Gen. Miles.
Maj Lee then summed up the case, dis
claiming at the outset that he was acting
II as counsel for Maj. Gen. Miles in a techni-
cal sense, but had simply been there to
present and elicit evidence. He read his
N argument from carefully prepared manu-
script and was given careful attention by
the three members of the court and the
recorder, no one else being present except
'ne representatives Of the press His state
neht consumed about an hour, and he
concluded with the statement that the
members of the board must decide whether
,le great fraud and great crime which
ne oeheved had been committed should
&c carried before the courts. Recorder
laws arose and said simply:
submit the case to the board without
argument"