Show EAGANS MEMORY BAD HE FORGOT WHAT BEEF COX CON TRACTS STATED commissary of 0 subsistence davis tells the beet beef inquiry court what he knew about contract washington 23 S capt george B divis davia commissary of 0 subsistence was ins tile the first witness to appear before tie I 1 heft beef inquiry court today lie ile was on oil duty duly in tile tho office of oc tile tho coromis bary gendral and assisted in ili preparing the santiago beet beef contract with co dealing especially tho the pie life par atlon 0 of tile clause coveting tile the time the beet beef as to bo be kept lit in refrigerators on oil ellore ile he halt hail talked gen lagan on oil tills subject when the contract was wa in course of oc preparation and had understood from rom liim that the beet beef was waa to be kept lit in refrigerators acors two houri hour after arrival and twenty four houis after Us its lemoal from them capt dails detailed some instances in which board of survey had examined beet beef which had been complained ot of vi hile in the refrigerator one instance occurred at it manzanillo lans anillo and another at santiago lit in the first the beet beef was conden condemned nied and in the latter a pal pai I 1 of 0 it wash was in berly to maj lee capt davis said the understanding in the commissary generals office was as that the beet beef was to be kept send gond tor for seventy wo two hours by the contractors after leaving the ship providing good care tins nas taken of it this im is the extreme limit lie is said aid but it was mas not supposed obed that the th bicet boull a 14 lf be kept lor for more than twenty enty four hours cart capt davis said raid he had heard beard something of the he rowell process tor for preserving beef that a proposition was made before the beginning of the war and after gen ge n weston had brought the proceeding to the attention of the department part ment as the result of experiments made with it at tampa about tile the time 0 of the salling balling 0 of the santiago expedition I 1 maj lee pointed out the apparent discrepancy in capt daviss and gen lagando testimony as to the conditions under which beef was to be kept tor for seventy two hours after tile the arrival of the beet at ili destination lie ir read gen gell Eal kahans tans s 1933 maln ing it wis itis his intention that the boe beeb should be good lor for seventy two twe hours no difference n here taken from and saying that the twenty four alinur clause must be a clcil cleil caL eaL error ile he asked capt davis to reconcile the two statements to n which I 1 bequest the captain responded by saying ginn gen eagan had simply forgotten probably lie he had not seen the act for six months it li not customary in ili such c cases ases to depend upon tile the memory the contracts being on lie file and reference to them convenient and USUAL a I 1 |