Show mm MA JOR SEAMAN ANGRY promised sensation failed to pan out i SAYS HE WAS MISQUOTED MI D surgeon of the first volunteer engineers and who was in charge 0 I 1 convalescents on the obdam Ob damP returning from ponce appeals B before eom the war investigating C commission se he becomes Ila irascible under 1 d questioning tio n in g find finally refuses esca ques f u to A answer n sw e r I 1 washington ac oct H 14 dr louis L seaman major and surgeon of 0 t the he alist volunteer engineers was th the e forenoon witness before the war in I 1 n s commission today lie siw v service in porto rico anil and had been quoted its ia milking making aeilous se ilous charges against the manner of conducting the war ile he asked that ho he be permitted to 10 have in the room 03 a a friend sir MI E D F 1 i Ay an attorney of 0 new york tho the request being granted lie ho said he would affat acim in rather than bo be sworn lie ile declined to stid stand up for this ceremony saling 1 I will voll sit I 1 dont have to 8 tand stand up no objection was mas made on the part dart of the commission and testimony mony dr seaman said geld ho he had never seen any military service before the beginning or of the present war but he hod had studied at princeton ond find afterward in london berlin and paris after joining the service and before going coin ig to porto rico he was stationed with mith his regiment at camp townsend there thare his were promptly filled anti and no regiment went to the I 1 front cronl better prepared to copo cope with disease or cali casualty alty the commard salad south in ii the lie chester and titer was mas th no 0 serious sein seii sickness going had lei I 1 porto rico on the ath silt of september the regiment had enjoyed better health in porto rico than had been anticipated find and there were mere only two deaths in the command during t the lie time they wre were there A regiment hospital was established and there was neer at any time a delle deficiency tency in medical supplies the samo same was as al also so if us of the and the abbu ambulance ianco fill supplies furnished by the quartermasters department NOT INOT SUITED FOR TROPICS the commissary department had a also ISO furnished sufficient army rations but lie he complained of a them as being unsuitable for an army in the Iro tropics and also that the men at first m were ere refused the privilege of commuting their rations ile he said the sick were fed only with the aimy rations ile he tailed failed to secure any change chancre of diet for his patients notwithstanding he made frequent demands upon tile the quartermaster of tile the regiment and upon the surgeon of the corps corpa he was told it would mould be of 0 no use to make a forms formal I 1 requisition in writing however the men in the hospitals did not surfer suffer because the red cross society furnished the desired assistance SUPPLIES FROM RED CROSS dr seaman SAM bald that he had boon been in C harge charge of convalescents on the ob darn dam returning from ponce the slit ship 1 was mas supplied with army travel rations which chile w allo plentiful and good of the kind were not suitable to invalids and on appeal R red ed cross and national aid society he was supplied by them with what he desired As a consequence be queries till all the patients except one gained weight and strength during tile the voyage ile ho made no boimal requisition to the government authorities for daffe different ten t rations because lie he was told he c could get only the regular rations and because of 0 the willingness of 0 tile the red cross to furnish hat he considered bettor better food th thlu 19 statement La lie he reiterated in response to several questions why by lie he had not secured other rations rat loni returning to ills his stay in palto poi to rico dr seaman baid there had been universal complaint at tile the hospitals of a det of suitable supply ile ho he had d been told repeatedly that the sixt sixty y cent a day ration tor for tile the sick could not be furnished in pot boito to rico it was not no t even to the general ithary military hospital HOSPITALS overcrowded ile he said in reply to a question that ho he did not know that tine the commissary at ponce had on hand a quarter of 0 a million of dollars or any other sun sum f for or supplying delicacies sick he only kneib they were not supplied while lie he was in porto rico the hospitals were overcrowded the beds being within six inches of each other when lie he left there were betheen 1000 sick out of an army of dr seaman grew somewhat irascible u under n der dr connors questioning and finally refused to answer the questions put to me aie at C of it character calculated to me in the false position of ae accusing cusing the medical debalt ment of the army 0 such la Is not the cast case I 1 regard tile conduct of tills this department by dr steinberg cinberg St as above reproach and whatever fault there was was waa in another depal derailment den ament ailment alter after some borne pretty scarp sh arp cross firing dr connor declared lie he would ask no more questions of the witness MUST ANSWER QUESTIONS gov beaver told the witness that no question would mould be put to him that watt was not proper but lit thu thal lie he gov bearer be aver would insist upon nil ills it answering g and it he did not do so he mus must take the consequences gen paver P aver then as to tile the conduct of tile quartermasters serving with him or in his vicinity dr seaman declined to answer aner saying that lie understood 10 was waa expected to appear before the war department after getting through N with ith tills this boat blaid ill and an 1 I ll 11 lie he said 1 I to do not want to criticism criticise critic critt ise else my iny gullet sup eilor lot off loerA while I 1 wear tile the shoulder straps of an army of fier ile he continued by saying that ho to hod had been so go much misrepresented by the press within tho the past twenty four hours that he h did not wish to further commit himself lie he said eald he had authorized zed no interview since he landed lande 1 I and that the article inn in a new yoi yet k paper grew out of a conversation between him and hla his superior an in now new york vi h I 1 ch a 0 reporter of that paper palter overheard t ic hill an officer of the warship loul iov u is lien hen ulm army landed roar santiago a tand in n charbo of tho the debarkation of tho the troops tit at ul ra paid tho the navy gup idled nil all munches and fill filly Y two small boats for tho the landing land lna the army was waa entirely unprepared to land and L allcut I 1 cut that its 03 he viewed t alio 0 gylat matter t or the a troy army would hive have bet betit been it unable to land an and unable to sub subsist 11 tat atter after tho the landing 1 without tho the old aid of the navy A great deal of trouble mas qa experienced with the captains of the transports who mild had refused to go nearer tile the shore bhore until he secured fin an order to them aiom gen shatter liecht hill said raid that there was no wharf but that he understood that they wore were talking 0 of on one on in which ich t to I 1 and go gen shatter personally ask asked e d 0 a member of the com commission inis sion y yes es K they no yes yea but they w ere no not t strong enough na athla personal rs al allusion lug ton to the avoirdupois goh is ot of the commander of the cupol ago e i g created abed a general laugh continuing n aing hill expressed the opinion that in cas e ot of transportation or troops at sea ho he thought the vessels should be under the command of navy officers lentil the troops are arc landed |