The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-04


Admiral Dewey lost no time today il
| bringing the Schley court of inqufr!
to order, and as usual the counsel OF
both sides of the case were in thei
seats and prepared to proceed prompt
ly with the business before the court
Captain Lemly, estimates that he will BIZ
able to conclude the presentation Of the
Government side of the case by the
close of next week He says he will
have about fifteen or twenty more wit
nesses to introduce.
One of the most regular attendants
upon the court is Mr.. William H. Stan
ton, the attorney who is understood to
be prepared to represent other naval Of
ficers than Admiral Schley. He sits
outside the rail and does not in any
way participate in the proceedings. He
said yesterday that so long as Admiral
Sampson was kept out of the case he
would have nothing to say.
Today's session began with the recall
of Captain Wise to make verbal
changes In the official copy of his testi-
mony. He altered his previous state
ment concerning the order of the Navy
Department of May 20, 1898, in which he
was directed to inform every vessel
off Santiago that the flying squadron is
off Cienfuegos," saying that he desired
to correct his response to the courts
inquiry as to why this order was not
carried out, by stating that it had been
carried out. THE flying squadron was
ordered to proceed with all possible
dispatch" he said, and added
Il did not desire to inform the Com
modore of the flying squadron of his
own movements. The order was to in
form commanders of the movements of
The flying squadron"
The court then asked: Did you di-
rect Captain Sigsbee to give Commo-
lore Schley the information contained
n the dispatch from the Navy Depart
nent regarding the whereabouts of the
spanish squadron?"
I did not"
Lieutenant Spencer S. Wood, who
.
urtng the Spanish war, was then call
d and continued his testimony, begun
esterday. Mr.. Eayner resumed his
The witness said
hat while off Cienfugos he had been
n picket duty two miles from shore
n the night of May 22d and had been
lstructed to signal the squadron with /
NO red lights in case the enemy's tor
edo boats came out of the harbor.
Mr.. Rayner then read from the testi-
ony OF Captain Harber of the Texas, i,
lying that there had been no picket !
essels within the line of the fleet off q
enfuegos. The witness said that the f
atement was wrong.
Captain Lemly said Captain HARDER j
I'd testified that there were no pickets a
o far as he could recall to which Mr..
ayner responded, eve are not i'm G
aching Captain Harber's veracity. ii
e are impeaching his recollection, not Y
S integrity a
The witness continued: LAS I have el
IN since, the commander-in-ch chief also 'c
ported that the Dupont was not there. .;
have written the department that I HI
IS there. Other people forgot about M
too" or
You are trying now to justify Cap to
n Harbers want of recollection by
ting that the commander-in-chief IF
ote a letter that there were no picket ~ -
ats there"
He did not mention their presence sh
/ corrected it." ac
Do you recollect any statement made re
the commander-in-chie when he ne
/ picket boat within the picket ca
that he had arranged a signal from &c s
picket boat to the flagship" or
de did not mention any, and 1 have res
tier on file in the department calling T
ention to the omission in that re-. ;
t.. the
can your attention to the report of ing ing
commander-in-chief in which he qu'
-es the line of blockade" ID,
wish to bring it out that the the
'ont was inside the line and that is hat
report 1 made to the department. mil
I'LL stand on the point that he is SOU
bringing out where the torpedo boat sd sd
lou are perfectly right about that, and
you are not asked in reference to Adj
criticism you may have upon the Sar
'rt of the commanders chief The
'tion is this: Captain HARDER has MIR
1itely stated that there was no ~
ct boat inside the line at Cienfue- No,
You say there was and that the Spa
ont was one of those boats" "
was inside the line inside the cou
inc reat
the court-"Could you see the ed
as from the Dupont during the "a "a,
>. -'A0' %oo the