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Talks of the War Before the In-
vestigating Committee.
MEDICAL SUPPLIES SHORT
Quotes Gen. Shafts-r as Saying There “'ass
“a Chronic Scarcity,” Refrigerator and
Canned Beef Sent to Porto Rico Condeni-
ned. '
W'ashington, D. C... Dec. 22.—-Maj0r
General Nelson A. Miles was the prin-
cipal witness before the war investi-
gating commission concerning the
Santiago ano l’orio Rico campaigns.
Tuesday he addressed the following
note to that body:
Headquarters of the Ax‘my,
Washington, Dec. 20.
Major Steven C. Mills, Recorder:
In reply to your verbal invitation I
have the honor to inform you that, un-
der the circumstances, and for reasons
which I believe to be to the best inter-
ests of the army, 1 have no volunteer
zcstimony to offer.
Very respectfully,
NELSON A. MILES,
Major Gen. commanding U. S. A.
It may be noted that the general did
not decline to testify in answer to a
request, but that apparently he did not
wish to be put in the position of vol-
unteering testimony which might be
regarded as hearing against some
branch of the military establishment
of which he is the head.
Probably the commission noted this
peculiarity in the phraseology, for it
addressed to the general yesterday an-
other communication in writing, for-
mally requesting him to appear.
General Miles later took the stand
as a witness.
“Are you willing to be sworn?” he
was asked.
"I think,” was the reply, “that I can
say what I have to without being
sworn.” I
General Miles was fortified with :1
large package of papers and his sten—
ographer. He described the railroad
confusion in getting the war munitions
to Tampa pointed to the lack of gov-
ernment storehouse facilities there and
said the cars at one time were held
back as far as Columbia, S. C.
He said that when the transports
were loaded it was found impossible to
put more than fifteen thousand men
aboard, and they were equipped as
well as possible under the circumstan-
Des.
“It was most fortunate,” he. said.
“that the transports had good weath-
er. If they had encountered a severe
storm the loss of life, or the suffering,
lit least. must have been fearful.
As, it was, with fair weather. the men
below crowded in with the mules and
supplies could get on deck. which
would have been impossible otherwise.
The commissary stores taken, he
said. were sufficient, but the medical
supplies were inadequate. He had left
the loading. except for general direc—
ions. to the corps commander, Gen-
eral Shafter.
He found just before sailing that
there were. a number of pontoon boats
being taken which would be utterly
useless for the purpose, and he secur—
ed two barges from the owners there
and toook other steps, but the supply
of such boats was very inadequate.
“The expedition,” he continued,
“should have been furnished with
launches, naphtha or steam, or tugs
For tm'cirg barges from the ships to the
shore. “7e relied largely on the en-
_:E'.:< . r «.l’icm-s and the engineer depart-
ment for these. In the second expedi-
llfi 2 in Marin llico these were furnish—
cd. but they arrived too late to render
much assistance."
lie said before the first fleet sailed
in :2: 'i‘timlg-a estimates had been defi-
nitl-ly nir'dt‘ of the number of boats to
I‘m l‘uzulslwzl the transports and the
tulip-l" 1’ ill lw- furnished by the navy to
Tile most cordial assistanc-i, he ad—
r'd. litul bet :1 promiscd on the part of
UV- "ii-39y. At Santiago the supply of
lJ-l‘i'mfi'li‘ :zrll food was very limited.
“‘x"~.‘<}r«;~ the medical supplies at that
Linic sufficient for the needs of the com—
mand?” he was asked.
1,21 l‘cl'Vlff he read a dispatch from
(jicncrnl Shatter, on August 4. which
referred to a chronic scarcity of medi-
z-lnl 3:. and that four m'cn had just died
from lack of i'ncdicincs. There was at:
in: tiny; said General Miles, s=1.:‘licient
for the trocps. .
lfli l'r'lllt‘ll‘llnll'l‘d seeing one train for
the sick, in a drenching rain. with no
L'l'll'l'l‘lllfil' on“: the wagons.
He had taken measures personally to
correct matters, and on August 12
telegraph-id for a well equipped corps
of pier and bridge builders. and order-
ed places burned.
(Zlcneml Mile!) said the transporta-
lon facilities were used to carry sup-
plies to some fifteen thousand to
twenty thousand refugees from San—
tiago and about five thousand Cuban
troops.
“This,” he stated, in answer to a.
question. “was not expected because I
had cautioned General Shatter to keep
his men out of the Spanish buildings
of every nature and to keep them away
from the natives. Had he not done
as he did the army would have b(.l"h
much better supplied.”
His army in Porto Rico, he said. lizzd
been supplied in a way with quarter»
masters and commissary stores, but not:
In the best, way. At Porto Rico he had
asked that fixed rations be sent, but
instead they were sent down in bulk.
without invoices or bills of lading, and
in many instances stores were spoiled
in the hold and thrown away. This
caused great embarrassment and loss
of stores and deprived troops .of food
and, he asserted, the scarcity of food
largely caused the distress of the
troops.
He had advised against the shipping
of beef to Porto'Rico, because there
was abundance of it on the island, as
well as because of his belief that it
was defective. _
He characterized the refrigerator
beef, of which there were 327 tons sent,
as “embalmed beef," andsaid the can-
ned fresh beef, of which 198,000 pounds
had been shipped there, was condemn-
Pd by the officers whose commands had
it. ‘
“\Vho fixed- that beef as an army ra-
lion?”
“You’ll have to ask some one here
In ”Washington. You had better ,ask
the secretary of war or the commis-
sary general. It was sent as food. If
they hadn’t taken that they would
have had to go hungry. If they had
sent paymasters down there as I ask-
ed, We could have bought food. but
they did not do that.”
General Miles suggested that the
food was sent to his large army under
pretence of an :{periment
General Miles stated that the first
plans for sendi 1g troops to Cuba were
not his, as he was opposed to sending
troops there until Cervera’s fleet was
located. ' '
The question at the outset was a nu—
val problem; and the dispatch of the
trocu’ls. in his judgment, then, hinged
on which ficct should destroy the oth-
-r. l." the &'_"::'.nish hizd destroyed the
['ni'ied Statrs iieet the United States.
he thought. would have been blocked
for a number of years. .
“it we had had a force in Cuba then
we would have lost it, as it would
have been impossible to get it back
here.”
lie was opposed to sending a large
force to places like Havana or Man
lanzas because of the great percentage
of yellow fever deaths there.
He said the destruction of Cervcrzi's
llcct settled that problem. He wanted
to operate with a small force against
in.» Spanish forces by liarrassing then:
during" the sickly season aiding th-
Cubans and not endangering the lives
of his own men.
He also at first favored taking Porto
{ice to prevent the Spanish from us
ing that as a base of operations. I
General Miles gave details of thy:
PM“ "in” expedition organization
and obstacles.
(..‘o1';clt.l-...e,, with his opinion of camn
sites. he said the first he knew of the
selection of Camp Alger, Va., the most
objectionable camp in his mind, was
when the regiments began reaching
there.
As to Chyickamauga, he had recom—
mended mobilizing; the regulars there
and a portion of the volunteers after
some of the regulars left, but he never
anticipated that seventy-five thousand
men, would be sent there, and when
finding it overcrowded. had recommen—
ded a distribution of the forces among
other localities. '
GOV. ROOSEVELT’S AIDES.
(icn. Roe Announces the Appointmcn s
to She )Eilitary Stall".
New York, Dec. 2,—Maj0r General
Roe of the National Guard has an—
nounced in general orders the appoint-
‘ment of the military aides to Governor-
elect Roosevelt as follows:
Headquarters National Guard,
New York, '
Stewart Building, 280 Broadway.
New York City, Dec. 21, 1898.
General Orders No. 13:
The appointment of the following
aides by the governor~elcct, Theodore
Roosevelt, from the commissioned offi—
cers of the National (?‘xlizli‘(l. in compli-
ance with paragraph seven, Military
[‘m‘m. is ani'iounced:
From the First l3ri;:;;-n;le. First Lion‘-
tcnant David S. lglchart, 112th regia
mcni.
From the Second Brigade, Captain
George A. \Tingate, 23d regiment.
From the Third Brigade. Captain
James M. Andrews, Second regiment,
36:11 separate company.
First Lieutenant Adrian XV. Mather;
Tenth Battalion.
From the Fourth Brigade, Lieutcn«
ant: Colonel litilliam El. Chanin, J11.
fiith regiment, and First Lieutenant F.
J. Miller. llst separate company.
From the Fifth Brigade. Second
Lieutenant James W". Cleveland, 7th
regiment. '
From the cavalry, First Lieutenant
James K. Prentice, Squadron A.
From the artillery, First Lieutenant
Willi-c. n L. Flanagan. Second Battery.
The above officers are hereby detail-
cd for duty as aides. commencing on
January 1, 1899, and will wear the
Aiguillette with the uniform of their
respective organizations.
By command of Major General Roe.
STEPHEN H. OLIN,
Assistant Adjutant General.
CONSULS lN CUBA AND SPAIN.
United Males Offices. on he island 1:) he
Closed Temporarily.
‘\\‘ashington, D. Dec. 22.—The state
department has instructed Vice Con—
sul Central Springer to proceed to‘
Havana and close up the affairs of thc
United States consulate general in the";
city.
The consular offices throughout Cuba
will not be abandoned just now, but
will be closed temporarily until such
time as. through the recognition of the
independence of the Cubans, Jit may
become :u-ccssal‘y to resume business
through them.
The cit-Imminent has as yet taken no
steps towards reopening the American
consulates in Spain, and this will
probably be allowed to await the e):—
change of ratifications of the peace
treaty. ,
In the absence of the usual treaties
of amity and commerce, the status of
the United States consuls who will in»
sent to Spain will be somewhat indelh
nite, but it is not doubted that the):
will be afforded proper facilities for
the discharge of their duties.
Curiously enough, one at least. and
perhaps more, of the United States
consular oilicers remained at his post
throughout the entire war, undisturb-
ed.
, Hum: Once, Now Free.
Jackson, Miss, Dec. 22.—Governor
McLaurin has pardoned Will Purvis,
the famous Marion county white cap—
per, who was once unsuccessfully
hanged in this state for the murder of
a fellow white capper.
Purvis’s neck was not broken in his
fall from the scaffold and owing to the
threatened attitude of the crowd about
the jail, the sheriff did not make a.
second attempt to execute his pris—
oner.
Purvis was later rescued by the mob
and hidden away for some time, but
finally gave himself up to the authori—
ties and his sentence was commuted to
life imprisonment. '
Cincinnati Goes to Havana.
Washington, D. 0., Dec. 22.4The na—
vy department has been informed by
telegraph of the departure of the crui—
ser Cincinnati from Santiago for Ha-
vana, where, with the Texas. the
Brooklyn, the-Topeka and the Castine,
she will assist in guarding American
interests during the present critical
state of affairs there.
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