The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-27
CAPTAIN WlSE'S ADMISSION

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 tions were. He had not concluded his testimony when the court adjourned 1 for the day.
 Testimony in Detail. l Counsel for the navy department to- 1 day continued their efforts to show 1 that Commodore Schley had informa- l tion of the presence of Admiral Ger vera and his fleet in the harbor at Santiago. and introduced for this pur pose additional officers of the auxiliary cruisers which were at the time doing duty as scout boats in West Indian waters.
 Captain Wise, who commanded the scoutship Yale during the Spanish war, continued his narration of the re- trograde movement of the flying squad ron towards Key West on May 27.
 He first told of how the Yale had taken the Merrimac in tow under di- rection of Commodore Schley. He said that the commodore had signalled upon starting to ask if there was coal enough to carry him to Key West, to which he had responded In the affirmative. On the next day he had reported in re- sponse to an inquiry that he had coal sufficient for two days of full steaming, and for four days of moderate steam ing. He was then dispatched to New port News, reporting to Admiral Samp- son on the way. He had told Admiral Sampson, he said, that the flying squadron was about thirty miles west of Santiago. In response to a question from the admiral he said he did not know what it was doing there. In de- tailing the trip westward towards Key West, the witness told of the breaking of the Yale's hawser on the Merrinac He said this had caused delay.
 What was the difflculty?" asked Captain Lemly.
 Improper securing of hawser on the Merrimac."
 Was it due to tempestuous weather or not?"
 Mot at all"
 MT. Hanna read the following ex- tract from Admiral Schley's report of February IS to the committee on naval affairs in reference to the letter from the secretary of the navy of February 6, 1899, beginning: After having been informed by the scouts commanded by such officers as Sigsbee, Jewell, and Wise that, although they had all been off Santiago de Cuba for a week, they had seen nothing of it Cthe Spanish feeD, and knew nothing of it's move ments or its whereabouts, etc." He then asked Captain Wise if he had do ioo to bo oI miral
 q did not" was the response.
 Did you give Admiral Schley any information respecting the Spanish squadron?"
 'Only through Captain Sigebee. I did not go aboard the Brooklyn at all. I gave Captain Sigsbee all the informa- tion I had'
 Had you been off Santiago for a week?"
 1T was there from the morning of the 22d until the evening of the 26th, when | the flying squadron arrived"
 Captain Wise was examined on | this point by MT. Rayner. He asked: From the morning of the 22d until the | arrival of the flying squadron on the l evening Ol lle Gotli, yOo "ciC eiSiAS to | get in touch with the enemy and the harbor?"
 Yes
 You saw nothing in there?"
 T could not see any harbor at all"
 You could see around the corner of Gay Smith?"
 ''We saw the masts of small vessel. Could not distinguish what it was"
 You sent no one on shore to try to esta ablish communication"
 Is not the natural condition of the harbor such that it is impossible to see up the harbor?"
 You can only see a short distance up the harbor.'
 And there was nothing in sight was there?"
 Nothing at all"
 The witness had said that Captain 5igsbee had taken the dispatch begin hing Get in touch with the enemy"
 The court, through Admiral Dewey asked: Was it your duty or that of Captain Sigebee to convey the informa- ion in the dispatch referred to to Com nodore Schley?"
 T think it was Captain Sigsbees, as ne went immediately on duty and I vas intercepted by orders from the to take the Merrimac in .ow."
 MT. Hanna-"Did you receive any in 1uiry, or did the commanding officer of the flying squadron ask you for any