Show SAY THE MEAt WAS ALL GOOD + Wade Court of Inquiry MaKes Its Report GENERAL lILES IS CENSURED Was Not the Beef That Caused Soldiers Sickness No Chemical We Used Say the I I vestgtrs ad the Canned Roast Beef and Rergeated Beef Was Delivered top the Government In Firstclas q dijonThe Only Trouble Was Thee Was Too Much of It 4 Washington April 29Te Wade court of inquiry today eonelude Its work in connection with the delegations of General lIe concerning the beef supplied to the army durIng the war wIth SpaIn The report was signed at 230 p m by ever member of the I board and son aftenvard the mem hers of the court left the Lemon building build-ing where all temetng In this city have been held Colonel Davis the recorder re-corder of the court carried the official copy of the findings to the wai department depart-ment and in the absence of Secretary Alger delivered It to Acting Secretary eUlejohn Mm 1eiklejohn Immediately I Immediate-ly sealed the document In an Envelope and forward it to the White house whence it was dispatched to the president presI-dent in New York I The report is of about 30000 words and goes fully into the questions which have been raised in connection wIth the army beef The text has not been made pubIc and will not until after the president shall have read it I will then rest with him to say when the report re-port shall be given to the public The verdIct however is known t be that the chare which General Miles I made before thc war investigation com mitee are not sustained In reference to i the refrigerated beef although Ws contention con-tention that the canned roast bee was I mited not a suitable continuous raton is ad Criticism For Miles There is fired crittclsm of General criuclsm Miles for failing to promptly bring to the attention of the war department the reports lade to him concernIng bad beef and several Individuals are cen cured for falling to Ob9e the pro pnietles of their positions ascommand ing oncers in this and other respect The forecast of the report as made by I the Associated Press on the 18th f was an accurate one As was r1 stated the court takes the position that the testimony Is conclusive and that both the refrigerated beef and the canned can-ned beef VCr in good condItion when delivered to the government and con tnued so until issued to the troops except ex-cept in especial instances when the deterioration was due to ccidental conditions In the transportation or to the Influences of the tQpicl climate The report admit the liability of refrigerated re-frigerated beef to taInt quIckly after removal of the ice chests I The court finds the charges of em baming the fresh beef to have been unsubstantiated by testimony and says no chemIcals were used to preserve i I I also finds that It would have been impracticable to secure beef on the hoof for the Cuban campaign The finding Is I likewise in opposItion to the assertion on thc part of General Miles that the use of beef was an experiment Met Wholesome and Nutritious Much attention Is given to the charge concering the canned roast beef and it Is stated that the testimony proves it to have been wholesome and nutritious where used in moderaton and under favorable circumstances The posItion Is taken that too much of this article of food was supple to the men and that under the circumstances it was unpalatable and found undesirable unde-sirable a a continuous raton The fact is set forth that the canned roast beef had 10t been used to any annrecable extent before the beginning of this war and it is therefore regarded as a pra tcaly untried ration In view of this fact time commissary general of subsistence Is i roundly emith csed for the purchase of the meat I I sch extensive Quantities As to t charathr of time meat for wholesomeness I wholesome-ness and nutrition the reports of Professors Pro-fessors Atwater and Chitenden ama I quoted at length sustaining the camls I in thIs respect The instructions of the I president are foloweC closely in order und all the points Indicated by him as being those upon which he desired that inquiry should be made are covered Accordingly the court finds that the meat was not doctored that it was the beef of commerce that there was no more neglect than was incidental to the hurried preparation for the war that the inspection while generally according ac-cording to regulations was not always up to the requirements and that the sIckness of the troops was 10t to amI great degree occasioned by the use of either the canned or the refrigerated beef On the other hand it is explained that General Miles himself did notre port during the war that the beef either refrigerated or canned was unfit as a ration Other ofcers who gave their testimony before the court were found also to have neglected what the court conceives to have been theIr duty In thIs respect and all are blamed for this failure But the court does loL think further proceedings necessary |