The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-15

did the Spanish ships head to the
westward of southwest before the Brook
ly nm made the turn with port helm?'
They did not
WAS the helm of the Brooklyn stead
1ed at any time during the turn, after
the order 'hard-a-port? y
No. not until she was around and
pa s.n4d with he Spanish feet
NO, not until she was around and
parallel with the Spanish feet
what ships would have had their fire
planketed had the Brooklyn turned with
starboard heinz?
1T is possible it might have blankatad
the flre of the Texas; it is possible it
might have interfered with the move
ments of the Oregon, as they were both
coming up IN that direction in the space
never considered for one moment any
other thing but turning that ship to
starboard.
SANTIAGO BLOCKADE.
How far We're the vessels of the fly
ing squadron off the entrance of the port
Day and secondly by night
ne blockade was closer and closer all
the time. The first night 1 should say
tnat 1t was between five and six miles
Ihey steamed in a circle from five 70
six miles from the entrance. and from
four to five miles each side, SO as to
cover the entrance
Capt Cook was then excused Mr.. Ray
ner dId not cross-examine saying that he
would desire to call the captain later for
examination in the case of Admiral
Schley. -
Lieutenant Commander W F. Fullam,
VINO was the senior watch officer on the
New Orleans during the Santiago cam
paign, was next called. He said the New
Orleans joined the flying squadron on
q lsT1rr q Il
seven miles out. He had heard of no or
ders except the order from the com
mander of the New Orleans to keep it
always ready for action.
Describing the engagement with the
Colon on May 81. he said that while the
orders We're to go in to within 1000 yards
of the Colon, the American ships did not
go nearer than 10000 yards: He testi-
fed also concerning the stadimeter, say
ing that he had found it was not relia-
BILE beyond zoos yards
Commander Fuliam was then excused,
and Mr.. Joseph Beate was called. He
but resigned in 1895, returning to the
service as volunteer during the war
with Spain. He had served as an officer
on the Harvard. He detailed the meet
squadron May 27, when that vessel car.
ried dispatches to Commodore Sehley
from Mole st. Nicholas. There were five
OF these dispatches, which had come in
C1E1het, anu he mad translated. One
was from Admiral Sampson and the other
from Secretary Long. The last one from
the secretary was received from Mole
st. Nicholas at a. m. on May &c, and
M MAS directing the commander of the
Harvard to proceed at once to inform
Sehley that the departments informa
ton is that the Spaniards are at San
tago. He read this, and also one from
Admiral Sampson, saying that the Span.
iards We're at Santiago Both of these
dispatches were, he said, delivered to the
commanding officer of the Harvard by
him.
TRANSLATION OF CIPHER.
Mr.. Beale also said he had translated
into cipher Commodore Schley's response
to the dispatch of May e. He explained
the verbal changes in this message, say
ing:
In the first place, in regard to the
verbal differences in putting the message
in cipher, 1t often occurs that a GER
tain word cannot be found in the code
book. In that case it was my practice
to get an equivalent word if 1 could
possibly do so and avoid the labor of
spelling. out word letter by letter For
example, bad, boisterous weather. If
could not find the word 'boisterous' I
would use bad SO that it would appear
bad weather. In the same way it is
sometimes possible to send a number of
words as phrase or to find in the code
book an equivalent phrase of very nearly
the same wording and the same meaning.
L AS
regards the difference in the amount of
coal ordered to be at Key West, 1 have
a very clear recollection of that. The
number 100000 was much easier and
it as 10000 believing that an excess Of
900 tons would do no harm. In the same
way, if twenty-five tons appeared in the
translation of my cipher in place of
tWenty-seven, I would explain it in the
same way. believe also there is diff
ference about the Harvard being ordered
in the original to Port Royal. instead of
Kingston, Jamaica. Explaining this, l.
would say that Port Royal Is the naval
station mile or two below Kingston.
and in all probability the code book con-
tanned only the name of Kingston, and
not that of Port Royal. Now, as regards
the added sentence. have a copy of that
message in my daily journal That copy
does not contain the added sentence. I
find further along in the journal note
referring to this message, which reads:
not get cables to hold From that I in
fer that after the typewriter sheet was
an addition to this message was
given to me-,
notes in your journal, was the tenor of
this message with regard to the obedi-
ence or disobedienee or difficulty In obey
ing the orders of the Department.
81 have here only the copy Of the mes
sage given me to translate into cipher.
I have not copy of the translation at
the Washington end. My copy reads:
81 1T is to be regretted that the depart
mentS order cannot be obeyed. Earnest
ly we have all striven to that end l am
forced to return to Kew West
LEMLEY CLOSES.
Mr.. Beale was the last of the govern
ment's witnesses and at $3.50 Eduardo
Nunez, the Cuban pilot, was called as the
first of Admiral Schley's witnesses.
An interpreter was introduced, as Nu-
nez cannot speak English. He said he
had been a pilot for twenty-one years in
all the Southern Cuban ports. The inter-
prefer used the word guide in inter-
preting his statement as above, and Adj
niral Dewey corrected him, saying the
word should be pilot
Nunez said that he first met Commo-
dore Schley on May 26, having been TAX
en- to him by the st. Paul. The commo-
dore, he said, had asked him if he knew
of the presence of the Spanish fleet at
Santiago. He replied that he doubted it,
as he did not think the water was deep
enough for vessels of such size.
On June he had gone on the Vixen
to the Cuban coast with a message for
Gen. Calixto Garcia, which he had de-
livered to Col. Cebereco. Commodore