The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-29
LEMLY GETS AFTER SCHLEY
ADMIRAL SUST4INS 4 SEARCHING
 CROSS ELIMINATION.
Judge Advocate Unab to Ruffle Him for the Applicant-The Line of Ex- aminatiom-Attempt to Critic'se Schley for Not Forming Plan of Battle Be- fore Santia~o.
fore Santiago.

fore Santiago.
 Washington, Oct. 28.-The cross-ex- animation of Admiral Schley began to-
 day before the court of inquiry, and
 hardly more than a third of the ground
 was covered when the court adjourned
 at o'clock. After Admiral Schley con-
 cludes two other witnesses will be call
 ed in his behalf, Admiral Barker and
 Captain Thomas Borden. The latter
 was an officer of the marine corps
 aboard the Brooklyn. The judge advo-
 cate then will call his witnesses in re-
 buttal of whom there are understood
 to be more than fifteen, and it Is proba-
 ble that Admiral Schley's counsel will
 call witnesses in surrebuttal.
 The crowd present to-day, while
 hardly as large as on Friday last, when
 battle of Santiago, showed unabated interest in the proceedings Nothing sensational developed and the only out burst in the court occurred when Mr. Rayner, Admiral Schley's counsel, ob- jected to the line of inquiry of the judge advocate designed to criticise Ad- miral Schley's alleged failure to formu late a plan of battle, with the declara- tion that as Admiral Sampson was in command his junior had no right to plan an order of battle.
 Admiral Schley concluded his direct examination, which continued only about ten minutes after the court con- vened this morning, with a statement about the effect of the fire of the respec- tive fleets at Santiago, showing that 36 per cent. of the hits suffered by the en- emy were scored by the Brooklyn's five inch guns while his ship received 70 per cent. of the hits from the Spanish ships.
 Captain Lemly's examination was very searching. Admiral Schley. however, appeared to be unruffied throughout the examination, frankly admitting on several occasions that he could not remember little details after the lapse of three years. One line of inquiry which the judge advocate tried to press, to show that Admiral Schley did not proceed with dispatch from Key WGSL tO SlGIllueSOS, Wdo dii tAl- tempt to contrast the speed made be- tween Charleston and Key West with the time between Key West and Cien fuegos This attempt, however, was curt tailed by decision of the court which confined the questions to the time subsequent to May 10, the day on which the flying squadron left Key West The judge advocate in his cross examination dwelt upon the interview between Admiral Sampson and Commo- dore Schley at Key West before the de- parture of the flying squadron, during which, the latter testified, Admiral Sampson instructed him not to expose his ships to shore batteries until the Spanish fleet had been destroyed; on the fact that Admiral Schley issued no written order of battle; on the ques- ton of coaling off Cienfuegos, and the steps Admiral Schley took at that place to ascertain the presence of the Span ish fleet He was cross examining the upon matters connected with the cruise of the squadron from Cien- fuegos to Santiago when the court ad- journed.
 The retrograde movement the firing upon the Colon and the battle of San tiago, which constitute the main feat ures of the precept. were not touched upon to-day.