The Washington times., 1901-09-29

question for the newspapers but for the
court.
Mr. Hanna Ito Mr.. Rayner)-Do you ex-
pect to prevent us bringing out the truth
by these technical objections?
Mr.. Rayner-No, sir; / do not object to
the witness nor to his testimony, but l
object to your taking a witness OFF the
stand whom we wish to cross-examine to-
day If we can.
After further argument. in which con-
! siderable heat was shown by the judge
| advocate and Mr.. Hanna, wv hou. accused
Mr.. Rayner of constantly interrupt1ng
the proceedings. Lieutenant Commander
Southerland then resumed the stand. He
| said that May "a, when the Flying
! Squadron left Cienfuegos for Santiago
the Brooklyn had signaled as to. how
many days coal the Eagle had to carry
| her at ten knots speed, ard he replied:
| Five days, and can take coal sufficient
| from collier in six hours to last nine
/ days. 1t was practicable, he said, for
the Eagle to coal alongside the. collier at
sea on the 2ith.
Referring to the megaphone message
| which Lieutenant Commander Souther-
/ land said he had sent to the squadron.
! Mr.. Rayner exhibited the log book of the
! Eagle from which the message had been
| Sent and of the Scorpion, by which the
message had been received. to show that
| there was no mention of any such mes
| sages, but the witness explained, in reply
| to question from the judge advocate
!
megaphone messages in the log book.
! They were usually entered in the sigma!
! book.
/ Mr. Rayner-Does this megaphone ap-
pear the signal book?
Lieutenant Commander Southerland-It
does not.
| Mr.. Rayner exhibited the log book and
! showed that IL contained mention of some
! information about the Nashville and the
Cincinnati, which Lieutenant Commander
I Southerland mad said he megaphoned at
4 ha .are.a htIf hEr No ms
! of the insurgent camp.
BY the Court: Was there any period
between y. m. of May "A and May 26
/ when you could not have coaled from the
| Merr;mac, provided there had been no
water in the Eagle?
Ayes, from the forenoon of the 25th
until midnight of the same day, during
which time the wind increased to a speed
of thirty miles an hour.
Mr. Rayner. asked the witness If 1t was
not pretty. difficult to remember mega
phone message of three years and three
months. and the witness answered: 1T
is. indeed, unless one h2s a very good
| reason for remembering it Mr.. Rayner
pressed him to tel what the rasons Were.
and the witness spoke of having talked
with friends. and his. family about this
and other matters connected with the
war. but he could not say exactly when
or with what friends or members of his
| family he had discussed the megaphone
message.
And he had talked with Judge Advo-
ly The witness appeared to resent a
question of Mr.. Rayner as indicating
that he was at fault in. talking of the
message, but Mr.. Raynef dfsclaimed any
such intention. and said he sought only
to show that the memory of the witness
was at fault
Captain LemIy Persistent.
When Lieutenant Commander Souther-
land was excused, Mr.. Hanna rt sumed his
statement as TO why lieutenant Barnes
was to be exami=5d.. There were, he
said, two dispatches printed in the APP
pendix as to which there were some al
legged discrepancies. The most important
OF these was the cipher despatch of May
q from Commodore Sehley to the Navy
Department beginning. THE receipt of
telegram of May 18th is acknowledged,
and ending, Very difficult to tow collier,
to get cable to hold This latter, he said.
was very important despatch, He pro-
posed to show that as printed by the
Government II was correct; that II was
just il had been received over the wire
by the Navy Department ~