The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-14
OFFICIAL scALEY
 INQUIRY REPORTS
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Apartments, where Mrs. Schley had < been anxiously awaiting to hear the s courts decision. Later the official copy
 was brought to the hotel by messen-
 ger from the navy department.
 The reports are as follows: The Majority Report. Court of Inquiry, Mclean Build Ing, 1617 H street. Washington, D. C., x $December IS, 1901: The court having, by authority of the z navy department, occupied rooms Nos. < g and 10 Mclean building, No. 1517 H
 street, N. w., Washington, D. C., while ' deliberating upon it's proceedings. the
 members thereof having assembled daily since Monday, November ii. with \ the exception of Sundays and holidays, and having concluded the investiga- stipns. reports its proceedings and the X Testimony taken, with a full and detail- |$ed abatement of all the pertinent facts x which 1t deems to be established, to- gether with it's opinion and recommen-
 dation in the premises.
 FActs--The flying squadron, consist { Ing of the Brooklyn, Massachusetts,
 Texas, and Scorpion, under the com-
 MAnd of Commodore w. s. Schley, U. $. : NJ, sailed from Key West about 8 a. M. of May 19 1898, with orders from the < navy department and from the com { aiander- -in- chief of the North Atlantic < S4tAtion to proceed with despatch Gut 7l0st) off Cienfuegos to capture the ene- 1siy off that port, if possible, or to < hlx3cka1e him and to maintain the |2 2blockade as close as possible. x The flying squadron arrived off Cien- { B3uegos on the morning of May P, and $ Established a blockade. During the day satlie ships lay off the port at various N ssSistances in no particular order. At might they formed in column of vessels, k2eaded off shore and moved at only suf- x 6cient speed for keeping positions. The 4SnRll vessels performed picket duty in shore of the large ships.
 sS Eonmodore Schley did not proceed with utmost dispatch off Cienfuegos : Ind blockade that port as close as pos
 NlEle.
 # #ss At 10 o'clock 10 a. m. May P the Du- SJont arrived at Cienfuegos with dis 9UH&ch from the commander in chief, < Kted Key West, May 20, 1898, which in < zxOrfned Commodore Schley of the prob- abiIfty of the Spanish squadron being < lii Santiago de Cuba. and ordered him x M hold Cienfuegos until the receipt Of more positive information. Es Ats1:30 D. n., May P, the Iowa arriv VIII at Cienfuegos and at D. m. of the SSi&ifae date the Scorpion left Cienfuegos 50r Santiago.
 X At 8.15 of May 23, Commodore Schley A AT3Eeived by dispatch vessel Hawk the s30ll0Wing dispatch and memorandums
 SfAoin the commander-in-c chief: "Dis < Sfch {S) dated Key West, May 21, 1898, (Which states that the Spanish squadron
 sgsIe probably at Santiago and ordered
 E36inf1iodore Schley, if he was satisfied
 that the Spanish squadron was not at < Sf8iifuegos to proceed with all dispatch st5iit Cautiously. to Santiago de Cuba 6iid. If the enemy is there, blockade him 8 III that port"
 X Fl Ailfern0randum dated off Havana, S3day 21. 1898, which directed Commodore zfICliIey to mark his movements in leav- x 2 jae Cienfuegos.
 A Memorandum which stated that a sxUod landing place had been found by !AC3olnnlander McCalla. 13 1-2 miles west MT Savanilla Point: that the Cubans !3Std perfect knowledge of what was IEofiig on within Cienfuegos: that the S<ya1ban forces in the San Juan noun # {4tns controlled the railway between F{5fSnf1egos and Trinidad, and that asfIfere were fair roads from the landing
 spiAce to Cienfuegos
 At 8:30 a. m, May 23, the Castine and
 Efl1e collier Merrimac arrived at Glen S41egos.
 At noon on the same date the British |#1gteamer Adua was permitted to go into #Clenfuegos.
 Nit ' a. m. May 24 the Marblehead 5 and Eagle arrived at Cienfuegos- At 10 a. m the Marblehead and Eagle
 I3roceeded to the landing place 13 1-2 s miles west os Savanilla Point. commit
 Micated with the insurgents, landed a$Stores for them, learned that the Span 4aSh squadron was not in the harbor of < &Gfenfuegos, rejoined the squadron at
 8:30 D. nj. nd repored to Commodore #Schley the information obtained. M After the receipt of this information sCommodore Schley wrote dispatch to HtIie commander-in-chie in which he #Atated, T shall move eastward to-mor- Arow.'' He also wrote a dispatch to
 line commandant of the naval base at
 Key West, in which he stated, 'as it is not found practicable to coal the Texas ffOfn the collier here, where there is so 8Sihuch swell, I shall proceed tomorrow #off Santiago de Cuba, being embarrass- sSd, however, by the Texas short coal
 nupply and her inability to coal in the @open sea. I shall not be able to coal off That port on account of general coal |s&upply of squadron, so will proceed to stfse vicinity of Nicholas Mole, where the
 water is smooth and ! can coal Texas
 and other ships with what may remain in collier"
 No work was apparently in progress s45tl the Notifications of Cienfuegos while SEommodore Schley was off that port.
 No effort was made by Commodore sSchley to communicate with the insur Egents to discover whether the Spanish
 squadron was in the harbor of Cienfue-
 EOS, prior to the morning of May "A.
 Signal lights were displayed on shore < at night, May 22, and May 23, but Com- Sfflodore Schley had no information which enabled him to interpret them.