The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-12
SCHLEY-SAMPSONs
COURT OF INQUIRY WILL CON
 vENE ON THURSDAY.
Members to Be saluted with Cannon, Drums and Bugies-ofhcials ae the Navy Yard to Be Array
 ed in Full Dress.
Washington Special to N. o. Times-Dem

Washington Special to N. O. IimeS-Dehi-
 ocrat. ..,,oss the Next Thursday at noon' ,,aH uniesJ Should I caS,se a postponement, three men, so ue usa advanced on the downward slope ot nre that they may justly be ,,cn caiiof of the the con. duct of another man, also so heai .,t sn biblical limit of three score ana iSn, ,,as a,,as he may count the intervenihg ,alil f. " they can. whether he bore himself accorolns so ds .,e traditions of his class. In olner ,,ors woauS, the Schley court of inquiry VIII copFe"" al the time mentioned. az rbere 5ng 'iW1 WiI be cannon firing, rufiing of drums and fourishinS or pngIes, "Hen the members of the court appearff tbe court. there will be seventeen guns, four ruffies of the drum ana four honrlshies 1lsiies of the bugles. The marines will IkeWise be paraded, and altogether there VIII pc such a demonstration as the rules of the navy say shall be made when an Admlrai of the navy makes an official visit 10 Honors of similar kind will be shown Rear Admiral Berham GetiredD and Rear Admiral Howison if they come to 'ne wth naHy Dewey Bera s'nf thc salute ey guns, four ruff1es and four fiourisnes VII WI. be the only one given. It Is certaln.t hV two ses sser that far tRsFe Resr S admras mf ssne nerson M expects Rear Admirals Sampson and Schley to appear ae 'e navy WSem yara admir,l a n schiey enters the DOT tals the marine guard will preseno a, r,',.o mro and the cannon used TOT sdlu.inS .s Ptha 6ps gpses will be be rned fse twice and bsges will send forth an equal nuinJIt nnI,,te. will be ishes. The same sort or saiuiIe sIsS ner. accorded Admiral nd enter SampHSe the yard just hind Schley and before the Inam ih.o hao whose conduct the court is to inquire, at mae pgpeeaGs oes Tssn aPs TSe reguatons very strict on this point. that only the senior shall be saluted. A sehlor , nom- IVY cnrded to his junior while he Is pres Schley has been so diplomatic and cour- teous in all matters pertaining 10 .-...-
 The Bitter Controversy.
 that there is no question but that he would direct a salute to be fired in honor of the man whose friends are accused or having done. for three years past their Ali the officers stationed at the yard will be arrayed in their special fuil-dTess uniforms-which are more elaborate tndI full l-dre sand drawn up behind the gates of the yard to receive the Admirals. in- asmuch as the marine barracks are lo- cated at the yard, General Haywood commanding the corps, and large nun Ter of Colonels, Heutenants and junior officers of the marine corps will also nave to turn out to help receive the high or flrarS fice1s at tho yard, whether naval or ma rine are junior to even the Rear Ad, rnirals associated with Dewey. none VIII be excused from the duty. AS Rear, Rear A1s t6e witnesses, and as they must go in unl- form, powder must be. burnt for them the drums rufied , and tn. the pug Pugles n noure srs not entitled to salute, nor are nag. of ficers not in uniform. It would be bed- lam let loose should the forty, or fifty retired who live fin this city. take notion to don their uniforms and go to the yard. par ticnary if they should Ss d arrre oe5ore Ag could stop all saIuting by having his four-starred blue flag raised on the staf This spectacular part of the sessions of ths court .EiIf probably be discontinued after the first day. either because orders the Adlnlrais will go to the yard in civ ilian garb, doning their uniforms In the retiring room provided in the building in which the court Is to sit
 The history of the navy affords no in 'N~s stance of4.a court of inquiry or a.court- martial in which the questions to be set terest. Judging from the tens of thous- ands of letters received by Admiral Schey, there Is not a hamlet in the United States, nc. matter how remote from the capital. in which the essential points of the controversy have not been discussed. Of course. in Washington,
 
 cers live. it has been a topic of conversa- ton more interesting even than politics. The capital has no local politics, there fore, the nearest substitutes. the quarrels of army and navy officers. are seized upon The American must discuss some sort of contest all the time, and, if he has no politics. an army or navy feud is a very good substitute.
 There have been two controversies among naval officers while the navy was still a part of the War Department that approximate the bitterness of this dis pute between the friends of Sampson and Schley. The first grew out of the strange conduct of the captain of the Alliance during the fight between the Bon Homme Richard and the Serapis, during which time the Alliance circled around the ships bound together in
 A Death Struggle and poured her fire, it was alleged, into his sister ship. the Richard, instead of into the Serdpis. The insanely jealous feeling shown by the commander of the AlliarCe toward Jones explains that atro- cious conduct That dispute did not last long. because Jones entered the Russian naval service and American interest in him declined.
 The other controversy grew out of the battle of Lake Erie. the anniversary of which. by the way. occurs two days be fore the court cOnVeneS The failure of the Niagara to follow Perrys flagship Into the thick of the fight caused row which died only with the generation in which it was be gun.
 The Schley-Sampson controversy will not come to an end as the result of the Inquiry which is to begin on Thursday. No matter what the finding of the court. the side which lcses, if the court should decide all the points in favor of either Admiral, will not he satisfied It is too much to expect that the conclusions of even such an eminent tribunal will he accepted as a final disposition. The only result will be an official determination the way from Cienfuegos to Santiago; whether he was guilty of reprehensible