Show REVISIN OF LAGAN Commissary General I Expunging His Indecent Language INCIDENT IS NOT ENDED I 4 I TH HANDS OF MKU AND AGE 4 But the President and His Secretary Are I Their Usual State of Indecision Inde-cision General Hiles Waiting For the Department t Take Action Ac-tion jlTore Testimony Washington Jan 14The key to the solution o the difference between General oral Eagan and General Miles was today to-day in the hands of the former The war commission having called upon him to modify his stotonient nothing can be done until he either has revised his first declaration or has notified the commission of his refusal to do ro I is confidently expected by the best informed in-formed officials that the commissary general will modify his statement to meet the criticisms of the commission He himself will make no statement touching his purpose limiting his answer an-swer to the statement that he has so far taken no action Unofficially word has reached the war investigation com mission that General Eagan is carefully care-fully expunging the vituperative and objectionable portions and will shortly send it back to the commission When received it will be carefully scrutinized by the commission and if it be found that all the objectionable language is eliminated will be voted upon In executive exe-cutive session and probably accepted Opinions still vary as to whether the withdrawal of the offensive statements will end this incident The weight of opinion seems to be that the president and Secretary Alger in whose hands the cabinet rested the whole matter after af-ter Us consideration yesterday have I not yet made up their minds as to what j I course they shall pursue General Miles came early to his office but he had nothing to contribute to the controversy His position is that the matter is one for the department to treat and that it is not incumbent treat nC upon him to make any statement at this stage Major H H Carlton inspector general gen-eral of the staff of General Wilson and Captain Frederick A Smith now chief commissary of the department of the lakes Chicago and who inspected the first cargo of beef landed at Santiago were the only witnesses before the war investigating commission today Both painted the food conditions the former a to Puerto Rico and the latter a to Cuba in roseate colors and said there had been no material complaint Gee Humphreys chief quartermaster quarter-master with the Shelter expedition i who has come on from Havana at the urgent summons of the commission appeared ap-peared but will not take the witness stand until Monday when there will also be present representatives of the NelsonMorris Packing company |