PROPOSED INVESTIGATION As to the Organization and Equipment OF ALL BRANCHES OF THE ARMY, etc.
Congressional Record & War Dept., 1898, 1898. First Thus. Soft cover. Very Good+. Item #0401124
Printed wraps. (8pp.). Several short documents in a unified printing. Title continues: "Mr. Simpson, of Kansas, Objects / SOLDIERS' RATIONS by Hon. John Allen, of Mississippi / "Slander you Government if you Must" / Supply of Quartermaster and Commissary Stores During THE SANTIAGO CAMPAIGN was abundant / From the Congressional Record and Official Reports of the War Department." Document is headed "(No. 18)". Mr. Simpson objected to a bill authorizing civilians (the House Military Committee) to investigate the army. In the SLANDER document, Mr. Cummings (D-NY) speaks to funding the government in wartime (sounds familiar) & reacts to charges by Mr. Lewis of Washington. "Mr. Lewis has seen fit to embalm me in the honey of his intellectuality." Regarding the rations, a table of rationed foods & quantities is printed. Scarce, interesting pamphlet.
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