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Show CO FOR MILES. Finding of the Beef Court of Inquiry Is Made Public. Washington, May 9. By direction of the president, who approves the findings, find-ings, Acting Secretary of War Meikle-john Meikle-john has made public the report and findings of the military court appointed to investigate charges made by Major-General Major-General Miles, commanding the army, that the beef supplied to the army duriug the war with Spain was unfit for the use of the troops. The most important features of the report are: Finding that the general's charges that the refrigerated beef was treated with chemicals were not sustained; that his allegations concerning the canned fresh or canned roast beef were sustained as to its unsuitability for food as used on the transports and as a long-continued field ration; censure of General Miles for "error'' in failing to promptly notify the secretary of war when he first formed the opinion that the food was unfit: censure of the commissary-general (then General Ea-gan) Ea-gan) for the too expensive purchase of the canned beef as an untried ration; cen sure of Colonel Maus of General Mile's staff: the finding that the packers pack-ers were not at fault and that the meats supplied to the army were of the same quality as those supplied to the trade generally, and that the recommendation recom-mendation that no further proceedings will be taken in the premises. |