Waather To-Dayi FAIR; WARMER. VOL. XLV. NO. 152. Beef Wormu And Putrid WALTERS ATE IT AND BECAME VIOLENTLY ILL, The Most Sensational Story of the Beef Yet Heard —Other Volunteers Corroborate it, Washington, March 2.—There were several interesting developments in the beef court of inquiry to-day. It was a field day for the volunteer men of the service, the waiting room being filled all day with members of the various volunteer regiments which served in Cuba and Porto ltieo. The first of these. Clarence Walters, of the First A olun teer Engineers, told a sensational story of hardship and inhumanity suffered during his service describing tlia canned roast beef in harsher terms llfan have ever before be n applied to that much discussed article. Later in the day Lieutenant Sewell, United States Ar my, who was Major of the volunteer battalion in which Walters served, con tradicted his story completely. An important development was the denial of the story by one .Tames Far nan and also attributed to Dr. Maxwell Christine, of Philadelphia, that they had seen beef injected with chemicals in an Omaha packing house. Dr. Chris tine explained that what lie had seen was the pickling of corned meats, the brine being injected into the meat to save several weeks’ time in the picking vat. The question of counsel for Gen rnl Miles before the court is still in abey ance, some correspondence having pass ed between the General and the court, but both sides decline to give out the letters till a settlement is reached. Gen eral Mil s has not asked to be repre sented by counsel presumably because that would put him in the position of ad mitting himself on trial by the court, which up to date he has declined to admit. On the other hand the court does not feel able under the articles of war to permit Major Lee or . anyone else to cross question witnesses unless In* can be recognized officially as counsel for the defence. It was stated that this matter probably will be settled To-morrow. The court expects to start West Tuesday or Wednesday of next week. Walters, in his testimony, said that the first can of be f he saw opened on the transport going to 'Porto Rico had worms in it. and a few minutes after being opened developed such a putrid odor that it was impossible to have it about. He ate some of it and was violently sick. He said he had been on sea trips before and was never seasick. The men of his com pany complained of the meat and nearly all the men of his battalion were sick throughout most of the voyage as a result of eating this meat. After reaching Porto Rico ho was sick for a week as a result .of the voy age. At least two-thirds of his company were fully as sick as lie and from the same cause. Captain Herbert Hicks, of Company M, Second Massachusetts, followed with an account of the canned be f used by his command in Cuba. His description of the meat did not make it quite so repulsive as that served to Walters in Porto Rico, but he said it ■was a slimy, stringy mass, nauseating to the taste, without nutriment and without form that could he r cognized as meat except by the melted fat with which it was soaked.” Witness was shown several of the cans oa hand with the commission but said that they wore not the same that he had si*, n in service. Walters made the same state ment on being shown the same cans. Lieutenant George Taylor, late of the Sixth Massachusetts, who said he was a groceryman before entering the ser vice, said his regiment served in Porto Rico. They had very little that they could cat on the trips down. They some times had bacon, but no chance to cook it and had to throw it. overboard. They had canned roast beef which they could not cat and had frequently only canned tomatoes, hard tack and coffee. Asked if he thought any sickness in his command was caused by the food tlie men had to eat, he replied: 'T think it was more due to what we did not have to eat. When we got to Porto Rico there were 30 of our men so sick that they were never landed. “He had been a grocer ten years and handled canned roast beef, but it was a better article than lie had seen in the army. Ilis trade in canned beef, Jiow ever, was very small.” M. O. Dwyer, of the Ninth Massa chusetts volunteers, said on the trip to < ul,a they had been served a fairly g« la* a G**d send to the mess, sir,” said he feelingly, “and I put it in my shirt. I was smok ing a cigar at the time but when the The News and Observer. mm ill mm Carolina dailies i news and circulation. i cigar went out l smelled something aw ful, and when I found out what was the matter, it was the can of bee? m my shirt. I found the can was cracked in one corner —and oil, sir, it was awful!’ I His first experience with the refrigera tor beef was on the Sait Juan Hill. July 21st. The beef was nearly all of it mouldy and most of i! tainted so that the men were sickened by eating ! r. On the voyage home the men could eat little but hard tack and co h e. "Then we started homo, sir,” said Dwyer in cnoclnsion, “and when we jfbt to Montauk Point the Massachusetts Aid Society rescued us from the Com missary Department.” Lieutenant Newton Putney, another Sixth Massachusetts man followed. His story df the voyage of the Yale to Porto Rico agreed substantially with that of Lieutenant Taylor, the tomatoes being bad, the canned meat worse and bacon being issued without any facilites to cook it. So far as he knew the iim* offi cers complained to their Colonel, but nothing came of it. On short* the men complained of the canned roast beef, but they were in the habit of kicking and witness paid little attention to it. till going into the interior with six men on detached duty they took two-tliirds of their m<*at ration in can ned roast beef and had to throw it ah away. Quartermaster Sergeant M. \Y. Leth bridge, of the Second New York, whose Service had all been in the United States, said bis experience with the refrigerated beef bad been quite satisfactory. Os the canned beef, be had handled about 1,200 - pounds for his company. Only about 40 pounds of this was ever used. A large amount was condemned by a board of survey, and of a large nuut'oer of apparently perfect etuis he had persorfijtly opened one in fit-e was absolutely putrid, while none of it was wholesome and fit to use. Lieutenant John S. Sewell of the reg ular army, who served as Major of the First volunteer engineers, and who was aboard the transport that carried Clar ence Walters to Porto ltieo. testified that there was no canned beef aboard this transport to his knowledge. T here was canned corn beef in cans such as were described by Walters as containing can ned roast beef. ll** recollected Walters, but the latter never had complained to him of the ration or of his treatment while in rite service. On tin* contrary. Walters said he had been very we'i treated. Private Stubblebine, of the Seventy first New York, said be had been made sick three times by eating roast beef and thereafter avoided it as much as he could. lie was shown some of the fresh ly opened cans of beef on the table and said it was in a general way like what he had seen in Cuba, but was some what better meat. Os the refrigerator beef nearly all that he saw was tainted. Guy P. Yistinski, of tin* First volun teer engineers, had been three months in Porto Rico and had only ate canned roast beef once. It. made him sick. There was one brand of canned corn beef that also made tin* men ill. but another brand they could cat. They only got a little of this sort. R. C. Miller, of Rochester, a machin ist by trade, and a private of the Eighth Ohio, bad had large experience with canned roast beef while camped in Cuba. His testimony was dearer and more assured than that of most of the enlisted men. About one-third of the | canned beef \v:is tit for use and tin* rest condemned. One half the refrigerator beef had to be buried and of the rest very little could be* said to be good. The men were hungry and ate it. Dr. Maxwell Christine, of Philadel phia, the witness who was supisssed to have seen iho chemical preparation of meat in the packing house of Swift A Company, in Omaha, testified that while in Omaha last year ho had been through the slaughter house of the Swift firm and had seen a man with a canula on the end of a flexible tube shoving it in , to sections of meat and injecting them | with fluid. He did not know at tin* : time what the fluid was or whether the | meat being treated was corned beef, | pork, or refrigerator beef He paid little attention to the matter at the time, but when the discussion over “embalmed beef” arose he deemed it his duty to write to General Miles, telling him what he had seen. He did not say in his letter that it was "beef” V’hieh was being injected, but said inero ; ly fnat it was “meat.” lie had regard ; ed this communication as confidential. but if had gotten out and brought him , a great many letters. Among others was a letter from a man in New York sign ing himself Wentz and asking if Dr. Christine knew that the injection pro cess lie had witnessed was thi* regular way of corning beef and hams, ns the injection with pickling fluid reduced" the period of pickling the meat by several weeks. I*lll NOE IIKNRY IN COMMAND. Wilhelmshavcn, March 2.—Emperor William has promoted his brother. | Prince Henry, of Prussia, to command the cruiser squadron. BALEietH, N. 0., FRIDAY MOHNIN&, MARCH tS. 1899. KIPLING READS THE PAPERS. Ilis Children's Illness Said to bo Not Serious. New York, March 2.—That, Rmlyard Kipling’s condition has improved very greatly during the past twenty-four hours is evinced by the fact that but mu* bulletin was posted during the day. That was of a very satisfactory nature and it was announced that no further bulletins would be forthcoming until To-morrow afternoon. The bulletin is sued at the Hotel Grenoble at 2 o’clock this afternoon was: “Mr. Kipling has made satisfactory progress. Hi* has but a slight fever, but is comfortable though weak, and res olution is taking place in tin* affected portions of the longs. (Signed) "E. G. JANEWAY. ‘THEODORE DUNHAM.” Another indication that the patient is getting along well is that to-night Ik* ask, d to be shown the newspapers, and he seemed to lu> greatly pleased and affected at tin* interest in his illness shown by tin* American people. Mr. Kipling sjK*nt a comfortable night. Ho slept for some hours and rested well, and again this morning In* enjoyed an hour or two of sleep. In this way he lias in a great measure re cuperated his strength, and the promises are very bright for his spe: dy recov ery. According to the* latest reports Kip ling's two little daughters arc not so seriously ill as was at first thought. The elder. Josephine, a child of six, is being cared for at tin* home of Miss DeForest, a friend of Mrs. Kipling, and to-night Miss DeForest said that tin* little one was doing “very nicely in deed.” She is suffering from pneumonia, and it is not known yet whether she is absolutely out of danger. The* younger of Mr. Kipling’s daughters, Elsie, a child of three, was said to-night by Dr. Doubleday to be suffering from nothing more serious titan severe bronchitis, and, he said, it is hoped that the physicialJ will la* able to save her from pneu monia. She is isolated at the hotel Grenoble. REGULARS FOR MANILA. Six Regiments Ordered There to Re inforce Otis. Washington, March 2. -«ii * '•Veretary of War has ordered the reinforcement of General Otis by six regimen's JTusc are the Sixth artillery, scattered along the Atlantic coast States; the Sixth in f.-intry at San Antonio; the Ninth in fantry at Madison Barracks, Thirteenth infantry in New York State, Twenty first infantry at Fort Crook and neigh boring posts in the middle West. These regiments have been ordered to make ready to proceed to San Fran cisco and then to Manila. In answer to the direct question as to whether or not regular troops are in tended to relieve a corresponding num ber of volunteer soldiers at Manila, it was said at the War Department that white this probably would be the ease, it was not possible yet to make a posi tive statement. This means that if when the reinforce ments arrive at Manila the conditions are satisfactory the volunteers will be brought home; but if Otis shall have need formal! of the combined force then they must wait. The reinforcements are made up of troops who are not only regulars in the full sense of the term, but who have been through the Cuban or Porto Rican campaigns. They know what if is to be under fire; how to hunt Indians and also how to fight in the tropical jungles. With them replacing the same number of volunteers General Otis will have a majority of regulars in his command, something the War Department hits earnestly desired to bring about at the earliest possible moment. The position of the American commander at Manila also will Im> safe-guarded against the ef fect of a sudden and forced discharge of volunteers by the ratification of the peace treaty. REIN A MERCEDES RAISED. Trouble l ,v ari d to Ik* Brewing at Santiago. Santiago de Cuba, March 2.—After considerable delay the former Spanish cruisevßeina Mercedes, which was sunk in tin* channel of Santiago harbor dur ing the bombardment by Admiral Samp son's fleet on June titli, has been raised and pumped out, the Government tugs assisting the wrecking company. She was (brought up to tin* citv this afternoon. Such repairs as can he readily effected will he made here, after which she will probably ;,•>■ towel to Havana, though final orders as o her movements have not yet been :ceived. A climax lias been reached in the af lairs of Santiago. The estimates for February have been reduced from s7<>,- 000 to $30,000, and amounts aggregatin'' $80,(100 expended last month have been disallowed by the authorities at Havana. For the month of March all expenditure tor tin* entire province must la* kept within SIO,OOO. Even those* Cubans wlm are friendly to the United States authorities ay that this amount is less than was allowed at any time umder flu* Spanish regime. To-morrow more than seven hundred men will be out of work, a circumstance generally recognized as a dangerous menace to public safety at this juncture and involving a large additional police force. Many Cuban politicians who have not yet received appointments, will, it is toured, use the occurrence to inflame the minds of the unemployed. Ine result is difficult to forecast. As a straw showing tin* way tlu* wind is blowing, a company of the Ninth immune regiment has been ordered into tie* city. 'Lids move is probably connected with the ex pected trouble. FOR FAVORITE BILLS Congressmen Clamor to be Recognized, FUNDS FOR EXPOSITIONS SENATE BASSES WINSTON PUB LIC building bill. WOULDN’T CCNSID R WHEELER’S CASE The Puritan is Out of Commission. A Large Part of the North Atlantic Squadron May Very Soon be Out as We!!. Washington, March 2.—No conference reports on appropriation l iils were pressing at six o’clock tins evening end tin* House therefor paid I‘s last tribute of respect to the memory of the late Representative Hurley, o p New A ork, by adjourning until to-morrow at 11 o’clock. An attempt was made today to consider the resolutions reported by the Judiciary committee declaring that General Wheeler and the three other members who accepted commissions in the army had tlier by vacated their seats, but the House in* an overwhelm ing vote refused to consider them. The political division upon this vote was sig nificant. The vote stood 77 ayes cast, by 21 Republicans, 43 Democrats and 13 Populists and 146 nays, cast by 101 Republicans, 44 Democrats and 1 Popu list. A half million dollars each was appro priated under suspension of the rales for the Pan-American Eximsition at Buffalo and the Ohio Centennial at To ledo. The Senate bill carrying $1,000,000 for a new building for the Department of Justice was passed. A number of conference reports on minor bills were adopted. There was a great scramble for unani mous consent legislation when the House met at 11 o’clock. With the end of the Congress only 4$ hours off almost every rmxmlWr had some local measure he was trying to rescue from death on the calendar, and they stood in the area in front of the Speaker’s rostrum ten deep clamoring for recogni tion. .V numb rof bills were passed, among the series authorizing various of ficers of the Government to accept dec orations from foreign Governments. Mr. Payne (Rep., N. Y.). the floor leader of the majority moved tin* pass age, iiml. r suspension of the rules, of tin* bill appropriating $500,000 for the Pan-American Exposition to be held at Buffalo, N. A’., in 1901. Air. Simms (Deni,, Tenn.), opposed the Buffalo Ex'iKtskion bill. Ho thought the appropriation of money for this class of expositions should cease. The line must he drawn somewhere and Buffalo was as good a place to draw it as any other city. Mr. Maddox Dent.. Ga.), opposed tin* bill. lie described the peregri nations of the Government exhibit over the coun try and facetiously cautioned the Buf falo member to take good care of it, as it would be needed later at St. Louis, Toledo, Detroit and other places. “Didn’t you see it last at Atlanta?” asked Air. Clark (Deni., ATo). “Oh! The gentlem n is behind the times,” replied Air. Aladdox. "The ex hibition lias been to Nashville and Omaha since then.” (Laughter). Air. Richardson (Dent., Tenn.), sup ported the bill. Air. Bailey, tin* Demo cratic leader said lie had steadily resist ed these appropriations for expositions. Front tin* first he regarded the principle as far more important than the actual appropriation. While he did not think this bill was right or should pass he would vote for it because other cities had had such ap propriations, and in* did not think there should he an invidious distinction against Buffalo. Tlie good feature of this bill was that, like its predecessors, it did not establish the principle that the Government could authorize these expositions. The appropriation it con tained was simply for a Government ex hibit. The bill was then passed 141 to 16. A demand for the ayes and noes re ceived tlie support of only five mem bers. Mr. Southard followed this motion with n motion to suspend tin* rules and pass a bill to appropriate $600,000 for the Ohio Centennial Exposition to be hold at Toledo. “When is this show business to stop?” asked Afr. Cox (I)cm., Tonn). "It ought not to stop until after this exposition is held,” replied Air. South ard amid laughter. Proceeding he explained that the To ledo ■( xposil ion was to commemorate ilk* one hundredth anniversary of Ohio’s admission into the Fnion. It was also to be a Northwest Territory Exposition. Air. Simms also opposed this bill. He said the Smith would pay dearly the interest on the appropriations for Nash ville and Atlanta. Together they re ceived $350,(100. Here within eigtliy minutes the House would vote $1,000,- 000. Air. Burke, (Dcm. Texas), called at tention to the fact that the House earlier in tin* session had refused to grant to the Dallas Exposition for which the people of his State had raised $1,200,000 the poor privilege of importing exhibits from Mexico. The Dill was passed, 120 to 19. Air. Henderson, (Rep. Iowa), chair-1 man of the Judiciary Committee, then I called tip the resolution reported from bis committee, declaring that General Wheeler, of Alabama; Colonel Colson, of Kentucky, and Colonel Campbell, of Illinois, and Alajor Robbins, of Pennsyl vania, in accepting commissions in the army had vacated their scats in the 1 louse. Mr. Lacey, (Rep. Iowa), raised the question t*f consideration against the resolution. On: a rising vote the division stood 43 to n the public works or work done for the United States or any territory or the District of Columbia. The motion prevailed, 30 to 20. . A conference was agreed to on the Naval Appropriation Bill, and Senators Hale, Perkins and Gorman were named as conferees. Air. Perkins (Calif.), then moved tiv take tip the Fortifications Appropriation Bill, and if was agreed to, 39 to 14. The vote upon the Fortifications Bill displaced the labor bill. Pending con sideration of the Fortifications Bill a number of measures were passed, among them one authorizing the Commissioner of the Freedman's Saving and Trust Company to pay s, Stevens, Stuhhs. Trotman, Willard. Williams, of Dare; Winston, Yarborough.—-o. t From 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon to 3 o’clock this morning the joint session of the General Assembly heard argument on the eases of J. AY. AA ilson and S. Otho Wilson, suspended from the Rail road Commission September 23d, 1897, by Governor Russell. -At the close of argument a vote was taken as above. Great interest was manifested in the trial and the ball of the House was crowded from the beginning of the hear ing until .the door-keeper unlocked the door to let out the fagged mid- sleepy spectators and members at half past three this morning. After J. AA'. AA'ilson and S. Otho AA'il son had been reinstated as Railroad Commissioners the resignation of S. Otho AA'ilson, which was handed in to Speaker Connor the first part of the session, was laid before the joint ses sion and accepted. Alajor AA'ilson would j have a month yet to serve had not. the office of Railroad Commissioner been ; abolished. Each will draw salary in full | from the time of his suspension, about $li,0()0 for tlu* two. Counsel for the Governor and the Wil sons occupied the time of the afternoon I session. Judge Mcßae spoke first for tlu* Governor, Air. R. O. Burton next for J. AA'. AA'ilson. Air. R. 11. Battle fnl- 1 lowed for S. Otho Wilson and Air. AY. C. Douglas closed for the Governor.; Each spoke 45 minutes. Judge Macßae began by staking off his claim. "I desire to state in the outset that I the Governor of North Carolina is not the prosecutor in this ease as was made to appear yesterday. The Governor of North Carolina is today present here by counsel, hut it is not of Bis seeking. IB* 1 has in the discharge of the duties of his! position suspended certain officers, and 1 ho has presented to this General -As- i scmbly his reasons for so doing. ’There his duty ended. “But a committee lias invited him to send counsel here to represent him. He is willing to take up the burden and justify his acts. He is willing to la* rep resented here by attorneys if ihis body so desires.” Having staked his claim the Judge proceeded to build thereon by calling attention to the laws under which tin* AYilsous were suspended. He read Article 111, section 4 of the State Con stitution. which prescribes the oath the Governor shall take before entering . upon the duties of his office: also section 3.320 of the Code prescribing his du ties as chief executive, and provisions of the Railroad Commission Act (chapter I THIRD EDITION! PRICE FIVE CEE TS. TO RE-INSTATE S. OTHO AA'ILSON Senators. Black, Brown, Bryan, (’hook, Cocke, Cowper, Dav s. Eaves, Glenn. Janies, Jerome, Justice, Lambert, Lowe. Mason, Osborne, Satterfield, Skinn r, Speight, St.inbaok, Wilson.— 21. AGAINST S. OTIIO WILSON. Senators.—Butler, Campbell, Collie, Coo ley, Crisp, Daniels. Fuller, Goodwin. Hairston, Harris, Hicks, Hill, .Tones of Johnston, Lindsay, Miller, Alclu tyre, N'.wsom, Smith. Travis, AVhita ker, Williams—2l. TO REINSTATE S. OTIIO WILSON. Representatives.-Connor, Allen, of Wayne: Austin. Burrow, Boushall. Brown, of Johnston; Brown, of Stanly; Bryan, of Aladison; Bunch, Carr. Coates, Council. Craig, Currie, of Bladen; Davis, of Franklin; Ellen, Gattis, Giles, Gilliam. Hart sell, Hauser. Hoey, Holman, James. John son. of Johnston: Justice, of Alc- Dowell; Justus, Ivennett, Leak, Leath erwood, Leigh, Lowery, Alclutosh. Alauney. MeFarland. McLean, of Har nett; McLean, of Richmond; Aloore, Nicholson, of Perquimans; Overman, Patterson, of Caldwell; Pritchard, Ransom, Ray, of Cumlterland; Ray, of Macon: Robinson, Rountree, Smith, Sugg, .Wall, White, of Halifax, AVil liams, of Iredell; Wilson.—s 3. AGAINST S. OTHO AA’ILSON. Representatives—Abbott, Allen of Co lumbus. Barnhill, Boggs, Bryan Os Granville, Carraway, Carroll. Clark son. Crumpler, Currie of Aloore. Cur tis, Davis of Haywood, Eaton, Flem ing, Fousliee, Gambill, Hampton, Hoffman, Holland, Johnson of Samp son, Julian, Lane. Alaitiand, Patterson, of Robeson, Powell, Redding, Rein hardt, Tarkentou. Thompson of Dav- Thompson of Onslow. Welch, AA'hitfield. Williams of Graham, Wood. AA'renn, AA r right—37. Total for Otho Wilson 74- Total against Otho AA’ilson 58 320, Laws 1891) prescribing qualifica tions for a Commissioher were read and discussed. Constitution: “The Governor . . . shall . . . take an oath . . . that he will faithfully perform the duties appertain ing to the’ office of Governor . . . .” The Code, section 3,320: "He (the Gov ernor) is to see tßn 1 all offices an* tilled and the duties thereof per form* *< I, or in default thereof, appl.v such remedy as the law allows, and if the remedy is im perfect acquaint ihe General Assem bly therewith.” „ Railroad Commission .Act: “Said (Railroad) Commissioner shall not . . . be tin* holder of any stock be the agent . . . or have any interest in any way in such company, and shall so continue during the term of his office, . . . and in case any Commissioner shall fail in this, or in case any one of them shall become disqualified to act, then it shall be tlu* duty of the Governor h* suspend him from office and report the fact of his suspension, together with the reason therefor to the next General Assembly, and the question of his re moval from office shall be determined By a majority of the General Assembly in joint session.” “And this,” added Judge Alacßae, “is what brings this assemblage together this afternoon. Anil let it right here* be understood that the Governor has never undertaken to remove these men from office. He has, in compliance with the law and Constitution, suspended them and has reported the case to you. “I beg also to call your attention to the fact that this suspension was not made in a corner. It was not done without deliberation—anxious consideration and careful inquiry. Nor was it taken without legal advice. The first notch* in the ease was issued on August 24th and the suspension was not made till Sep tember 23d. Do the facts brought in the •testimony disqualify the Wilsons from acting as Commissioner? If so you will say so and no more. “The main interest In this case clusters! around the Round Knob Hotel, at the foot of the mountains. Historic spot! Here it was a great engineer one** gath ered up tin* water with which to sluice out. Mud Cut. So this is not the first, time the waters of Round Knob have been muddied. Notwithstanding the high-shooting fountain of pellucid waters uear the hotel, the bistorv of Round Knob is a history of mud.” This history Judge Alacßae review ed, touching especially upon the tips and (Continued on Second rage.)