The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-30
SCHIEY COOL UNDER
 FIRE FROM LEMLY
The Admiral Maintains His COmpOS- ure Under Searching CrOSS-eXam-
 nation of Judge Advocate.

I West, but he c, uld not recall certainly that he had done so. | Where could you have coaled if you had gone to Key west?" asked Captain Lemly.
 My purpose was to coal at the first | opportunity, whenever 1t was possible to do so. If I had gone to Key West, should have coaled on the outside-just outside the lighthouse"
 1 Asked about the condition Of the coal
 supply at 3:55 D. m., May A. when dis
 patch was sent from him saying that half
 the squadron was out of coal. he said
 that evidently there was an error in that | dispatch; that while the original as writ
 ten read that way, he could not have
 dictated 1t, because he said, that was
 not true"
 Captain Lemly asked: What was the
 condition of the MerrimacT'
 "She had 1000 tons of coal, but she was disabled"
 When you started on the retrograde | movement, did you not take with you all I the United States vessels there and leave
 the port of Santiago unguarded?' | No: we did not leave the immediate | vicinity on the 26th We were south of
 the harbor fifteen or eighteen miles"
 "But when you did start to the vest
 ward. did you not take all the ships with
 you?
 'I don't recollect exactly. The St. Paul l must have been with us" The Admiral said he had sent the St. Paul back May 2. He had not withdrawn the scouts further than he found them. He was closely questioned as to why, on May 27, he reported that he was "abso- lutely unable to coal the Brooklyn. He | said 1t was on account of the motion of | the ship. He also added that she did not | need coal and he did not try to coal her, | but had in view the contingency of need | ing coal Nearly All Needed Coal. The Brooklyn was the only vessel with more than sufficient coal to reach Key West. taking into consideration all the circumstances of service likely on suchs& trip. with the exception of the Iowa. Admiral Schley's dispatch of May N, | in which he said the Brooklyn alone had more than enough coal to carry her to | Key West, was again introduced. Admiral Schley said he had cabled the department that it was impossible to coal to the leeward of Cape Cruz. because 1t | was a perfectly open port and there were | occasional southwest winds. The wit l ness differed from Captain Cotton, who
 testified that he was not concerned about his coal supply, and that he could get
 coal at Kingston or Port Royal, Jamaica. He said Captain Cotton had been very. | greatly concerned about coal Those | great vessels" he added, burned 150 tons l a day almost in turning their engines l over, anu am HOI SuTpFiseu that tnelF commanders were anxious about the coal supply
 Why did you suggest, on May g, that Admiral Sampson's squadron be sent to relieve yours in connection with your plan to go to Gonaives for coal?' Simply because I thought it would be a very wise measure not to leave the port unblockaded." Captain Lemly then called the witness's attention to the fact that 1t was on May 29 that he had seen the Colon in the harbor of Santiago and also the bows and masts of other vessels, and added: Then two days before the Cuban pilot. Nunez, landed, you knew that at least some Of the fleet was tlrere," to which Admiral Schley replied in the affirmative.
 Why did you not wh:n Nunez came on board the Brooklyn, May 26, land him and obtain the information from the in- surgents?"
 Nunez's Information Positive.
 Simply because the information which he gave me at that time was so positive in its character that the enemy could not get into the port, that I did not feel 1t was necessary to send him ashore" re- piled the Admiral.
 Subsequent experience. however. de- veloped the fact that they were in there at that time?"
 "Yes, of course it did" l Therefore. Nunez was wrong?
 Undoubtedly. If I had known that at 1 that time I might have taken different | action; that is if I had been as well pre- | pared beforehand as l was afterward | The witness said when he returned to- ward Santiago on the afternoon of May l 2S it was because he intended to decide whether the Spanish squadron was there. | He had signllled that he would keep or l Santiago until further orders. because he l would have done if he had not found the Spaniards there. Admiral Schley said he considered that his blockade of Santiago had begun on May 2S. and then Captain Lemly asked: Do you consider that in commencing your blockade then you compiled with the order received on the 23rd and acted with all dispatch as required by that or der?''
 "In view of the information had when I arrived off the port, yes"
 Disorder Was Feigned.
 The witness said he had pursued the same plan as to feigning disorder at San tiago as Cienfuegos. He thought he had informed Captain Cook of his plan, but he did not recall whether he had spoken about it to the commanders of other ves- sels.
 Captain Lemly then asked: What were the orders to the deck officers of the Brooklyn and the other ships of the squadron as to the distance on each side of the Morro they were to steam during the night of the Santiago blockade?'
 II think that was outlined in the fact that the Brooklyn led"
 Were you more than four miles from the Morro at night?' We may have been perhaps four and half or five miles. We were always near CT at night than in the day time" Did you discuss with any of your cap tains your plan of battle outlined in your evidence in chief and the manner of changing from column to line of battle?" .'I do not really remember the full eX- tent of the discussion, but it was gen- eral explanation of the plan. Why I say is that Captain Evans said to mo, Then you propose to charge into the entrance?' and that would lead me to infer there must have been some explanation. be- cause that was the purpose. If we were in column or line of battle before the harbor in line, directly for them, another wheel would bring us east or west if they turned east or west. That occurred to me as a very facile and mobile move ment. My squadron was small and had to keep il together as unit
 At this point Admiral Schley complain ed of sensitveness of his throat and the court adjourned. ten minutes in advance of the usual time, until Il o'clock tomor-