Show BEEF CA8Ea ILLES8 War Bbard Hears 1ore Testimony of the Same Kind 4 ONE WiTNESS EXAMINED BOARD WILL NOW VISIT TKE PACKING PLANTS + Lieutenant Munson Testifies That the Canned Bnast Beef Made All o His Command Sick and They Finally Refused to Eat ItRd frigerated Beef Spoiled 4 Washington March 6The war do pantment court of inquiry held a very brief session today the Iaat before their start fort the west where they will Inspect the packing plants of Cht cago Omalurt and Kansas City There was but one witness examined Lieutenant FrederIck L Munson Ninth infantry Ho said that during his servIce serv-Ice in Cuba up to the surrender of Santiago his command had as a meat component of the ration bacon and canned roast beef in the proportion of about ten days of the former to fifteen days of tile latter Until the surrender h received no complaints of the canned roast beef but after theaurren ler his colnmissary sergeant reported to him that something was making the men very sick They did not know what it was but thought it was something they had eaten After eliminating every other thing that they could think of they concluded it must be the canned roast beef He ordered the cooks to try fixing up the meat in stews with hardtack and tomatces but it seemed to make no difference The men continued sick The men then discontinued the laze of the beef On the voyage home they still had canned roast beef but the men did not eat it He tried to turn it into the commissary at Montauk but the commissary would not receive it Did you make any report on this asked Colonel Davis No sir Did it not occur to you that it was your iuty to your command to report this state of things continued Cob aol Davis rathei severely As it appears to me now said the witness very frankly it may havq a h + 5 55 r complaint was so general and there being absolutely no chance of bettering the situation I did not make any formal for-mal report on it Of the refrigerator beef witness said the principal objection to it was that it spoiled before the men received it lie was obligeS to condemn his whole consignment of refrigerator beef three times The health of the men remained good until about two weeks before leaving when the command broke down all In a bunch His command was the headquarters head-quarters provest guard made up of aid and picked men They were not the sortI to complain of anything until they had reached the very limit of endurance en-durance Their sickness was almost entirely bowel and stomach trouble This wound up the taking of testl mony In Washington and the court adpourned to meet in Chicago on Thursday |