The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-10-09
HoDGSON DEFENDS ScHLEY.


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whicn had originally printed the al
legged colioquy between. himself and
Commodore schley. He said he desired
To alter the reply that he had yester-
day given to this interrogatory. He
then sale:
Il of course am very sorry that
ever so Tar forgot myself as 20 write
a letter containing such Incorporate
language. 1t was not written exactly
for publication Tut under great provo
Catioa al the time. In that letter I
nd not accuse this newspaper OF lying
Tor printing that statement. In fact il
was 20 absOIve il from lying that I
gave the paper authority 70 use my
name Tor The correctness Of the gist
or that stat@znent I he lying was on
the matter Of the fact that the commo-
dOre displayed such trepidation and
cowardlce on the Brooklyn the day OF
that battle that he ran from the Span
lards and took the Brooklyn to the
southwark and away from the fight. in
order to detract from the credit of the
fame Of the commodore in that battle:
s-sat they Wished also to detract from
the credit Of all the officers of the
brooklyn on account of the glorious
part she took in that days fight. II
was the words to that extent that 1
characterized as lying. There was no
lying IN thai coiloguy unless a man
stuck to the verbal correctness Of the
words. So I did not characterize the
paper as a liar for printing that col
lOquy."
Lieutenant Commander Hodgson be-
ing excused, Commander Wainwright
was called. Captain Bemly began his
examination by drawing from the wit
ness the fact that he had been a men,
Der and latteriy senior member of the
board which had officially acted in
making the charts showing the posi-
lions Of the American and Spanish
shtfs at Santiago. The witness told
now conclusions were reached by the
board. Hle said
Commander Wainwright Testifes.
When L reported as senior member
of the board. the board Of navigators
had sketched chart before them with
the hunter Of the position sketcfed
on Il, which had been determined by
them. starting at different periods,
hrst when the ships came out and af-
tefWard when they went ashore. Each
navigator, as near as possible would
put he position of his ship at that
time Then there was a great deal of
discussion as to the relative positions
OF course it was impossible to get any
position by hearings and there was
rothing known about the relative DO
sltIons- We also knew that the dis
tances in the chart were somewhat in
correct and the final decision Of the
board vas to reconcile each one as near
as possible, but none of the positions
were considered exact positions. The
lnposslbllIty of getting bearings even
II we had had a correct chart, was
apparent. but IL gave a general idea
o. the positions Of the vessels during
the different periods of the battle"
MI Raynor asked If it was true
as had 1een officially stated in the re-
port, that the positions We're assigned
from known bearings"
The witness replied that that state
ment was Incorrect: that they were es-
"a blished by estimated bearings. Most
o. the positions were. he said. fixed by
discussions among the navfgators con-
stituting the board. although Captain
CHADWICK was before the board The
navigators had done the best they could
IN plating the vessels and had made
it as nearly correct as possible so long
after the engagement, as had been
stated by the board.
Assignment Of Ships.
Asked by Mr. Raynor about the
places assigned to the Brooklyn and
the Texas while the former vessel was
making her loop, Commander Vain
wright said he did not consider them
correct.
For myself" he said. ct was never
satisfied with the places assigned"
He said further that while the board
had done the best that they could at
the time. as board. it had not done
the best It could to satisfy any mem
Der of the board. 1T was the best we
could do to get all the members Of
the board TO sign the report" he said.
Who in addition to yourself was not
satisfied" asked Mr.. Raynor
I would not like to say" responded
the witness. Il know that the navi-
gator of the Texas was not. for one. I
think none were satisfied except the
I ngNfp1 fOr of the 1x~, I
l know that he was"
But notwithstanding you were all.
including the navigator of the Brook