Show ROTTEN MEAT FOR SOLDIERS general miles says the contractors 1 A had prestige which is a diplomatic way of stating that someone high in authority is responsible for the unwholesome food 1 furnished far P shed the soldiers cincinnati 0 dec 23 ce general nilles returned to washington today affer being the guest of honor here last night at the new england banquet the comin commercial erceal tribune today has the following lo 10 interview with him when asked as to the investigation into the beef ration scandal he la Is now making to which he be referred in his testimony wednesday gen miles said sly my suspicions were aroused several months ago and I 1 at once instituted an investigation into the matter of sending beet beef to the army in the the item in my testimony ot of wednesday relating to tons of refrigerator r beef and pounds of canned fresh beef which waa was unfit unlit for food Is only one item this was sent to puerto principe how much more was sent to puerto rico I 1 do not know how illow about the beet supply tor for the army in cuba it was just as bad the conditions there were no better than they were in puerto rico as I 1 indicated in my testimony how about rations before the army embarked was the supply no better before the transports sailed than after the army was established in cuba it was the same at tampa and the same at jacksonville will you give a little more light in what you meant by the assertion in bour testimony before the war commission I 1 yesterday general miles nilles suggested that the food was sent to his large army under pi pretense etense of an experiment J think continued gen miles that that sentence Is sufficiently plain prestige Is the precise term to be used it Is absurd to pretend that these amo ot beef w were re sen sent n ra amy simply as an expert ex r ment to expect that beet can beek be exposed to the tropical sun for sixty hours without mortifying is out of the qu question tion how about the chemicals used in pre preparing naring this beef AB As I 1 elated stated in my testimony I 1 believe that the action of those chemicals was largely responsible for the sickness in fix the army I 1 have medical aTit taut bority herity for this statement and I 1 believe it to be true how far along has your own investigation ti into this subject progressed it began several months ago I 1 have the testimony of a large number ot of and men upon this matter some come of which I 1 gave in my testimony before the commission yesterday sly my inquiry Is batill in progress and some ot of the most important information I 1 have received has been acquired in the last few days what channel will this investigation take upon its conclusion 1 I will not discuss that it Is my autv to investigate any wrong oil existing sting in the army and that I 1 am now doing dol g in the regular military manner the work Is not completed yet and until it Is done I 1 have nothing to add to the statement I 1 made before the war com mis aann yester yesterday dav what was the matter with the ten to tot there were not enough of them chev were not suited to stand the wear and some of them were poor ll 11 |