The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-01

know whether it was to the admiral or
h1m' K and NJ will crush c.
Mr.. Rayner-You were not &C." YOU
| setts.
i was c. think What I objected
to was having two battleships beside me.
| Ihey nave peculiar motion, and when
Two pattIeshlps are rolling they would
| nave tendency to crush a collier be-
| tween them. 1t was not as much on tba
account of the weather as it was a bat
tleship on each side?''
| How was the sea at that time?"
did not mind the sea very much
because my ship was peculiarly a steady
| ship"
BATTLEsHIPs ALWAYS ROLLING.
+ How was it as far as the other ships
| are -concerned?''
Battleships nearly always have mo-
ton; that is my experience. AS tar
as am personally concerned 1 could
have coaled''
wen, now about the other vesseIs?''
mat is not for me to judge?''
hen when you spoke of your ca
paclty to coal you spoke about your own
ship?' -
Yes; that I was ready for delivery
l am giving no opinion regarding other
ships.''
Continuing, the witness said that he
always hated to go alongside the hat
tieships. The Merrimac,' he went or.
was always steady. but the battIeshins
We're continually rolling"
especially in a rough sea?'' suggested
Mr.. Rayner
IN any sea, responded the witness.
Is not that especially true when the
%afships have protruding sponsors, as
1co
Ihey were always nasty" the witness
responded
Mr. Rayner questioned Capt. Miller
closely concerning the state of the wealth
er ana OF the sea on May 26th. quoting
from Admiral Cervera's statement on
that subject but the witness would only
say that his log was silent as to the
cohdltlon of the sea at that time
In this connection. Capt. Miller referred
to his removal from the command of
the Merrimac in order to turn the vessel
over 10 Lieut. Hobson. He said on that
| point: -'
When I was
TAKEN OUT sUMMARILY
from the Merrimac. nearly everything
mad was lost and the only thing can re-
MEMBER now with the few notes 1 have
here is in this log
The court asked: WAS there any, ,oi,,.
near Cienfuegos where vessels could have
PAP" " oh may
The witness replied: 'T do not thing
that unless we had gone up probably to
the Isle of Pines there was any Mace
so far as can remember now. where we
could nave found smoother weather than
we Iouho on Clenfuegos, unless gong
very far to the eastward
The cOIIrt al
coaled any of the vessels on May -. had
you been ordered to do so?"
10 this the reply was: Il should Judge
so, to the best of my knowledge and be-
lief. AS to coal, yes, could have coaIed
at any time, but then 1 could not have
coaled comfortably. AS to the other
circumstances, it was what we womb
nave called a nasty sea, and rainy ana
foggy, and if 1 had my choice l would
not nave coaled on that day, the 9th"
AS he left the stand Capt Miller asked
that he might be excused if he had shown
any temper.
Il feel little bit touchy about the
Merrimac,' he said
Admiral Dewey assured him that he
had displayed no temper.
COMMANDED THE MINNEAPOLIS.
Capt. Miller was succeeded on the wit
ness stand by Capt. Theodore E. Jewell.
who commanded the cruiser MINNEAPOLIS
during the Spanish war Capt. Jewell
said that he first fell in with the flying
squadron, under command of Commodore
SchIey, on the evening of May 26. Capt.
Lemly quoted from Admiral Schley's let
ter to the senate committee on naval at
fairs, dated Feb. is, 1899, saying: After
having been informed by the scouts COM
manded by such officers as Sigsbee Jew
ell and Wise that, although they had been
off Santiago for a week they had seen
nothing of Cervera's fleet since it LETT
Curacao, and asked whether he had given
to Admiral Schley this information. or
any other information concerning the
Spanish feet, the witness replied:
L gave him no information with refer
ence to that subject whatever
The judge advocate asked: AT the time
you We're within signaling distance of the
flagship of the flying squadron off Santia-
go were you at any time asked any oues-
tion by Commodore Schley as to the
presence of the Spanish squadron in
Santiago?"
Not to my recollection"
DO you recolect whether you went on
board the flagship Brooklyn at this timer
Il did not go on board that day
capt. Jewell said that when he first
saw Admiral Schley's statement as to the
information he might have given con-
corning Cervera's fleet he had written a
letter to the department denying that he
had done so.
objection was made to this line of testt-
mony, and it was not persisted in -
The witness said in reply to a question
from Mr. Rayner that he had no knowl-
edge that Capt. Sigsbee, speaking for
himself and Captains Jewell and Wise,
stated to Commodore Schley on the 18th
at Santiago that neither he (the witness)
nor Wise nor himself (Sigsbee) had seen
anything of the movements or wherea-
bouts of the Spanish fleet Nor did he
know whether Capt. Sigsbee wrote d let
continaea on Third rage