THE QUARRELLING AMERICAN OFFICERS.

Evening Post, Volume LVII, Issue 33, 9 February 1899, Page 5

THE QUARRELLING AMERICAN OFFICERS.

* COL. EAGAN'S PUNISHMENT REDUCED. [PEESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received February 9, 9.20 a.m.) Washington, Bth February. In accordance with the recommendation to mercy of the court-martial which lately sat in judgment on the conduct of Colonel Eagan, Chief of the American Commissariat Department, in publicly calling General Miles, the Commander-in-Chief, a malicious liar — for having made a charge that could not be proved as to a particular feature in the commissariat arrangements in Cuba — President M'Kinley has considered the merits of the case. As a result the President has decided to commute the court-martial's sentence of dismissal from the service to suspension from service for six years. [Eagan's calumniation of the Commander-in-Chief took place at a sitting of the War Investigation Committee last month, and related to certain beef in the military stores which had been described as embalmed beef. Whoever, said he, called the meat in question embalmed beef "was'a liar who lied iv his throat, lied in his heart, lied in every part of his body, a man who perpetrated a gross scandal, and should be drummed out of the army." General Mile 3. he continued, " was a man who perpetrated a gross scandal and who should be drummed out of the service and imprisoned, and should be avoided by every honest man and barred by every club."]