The sun., 1901-10-01
bE SCHLEY INQUIRY.
'Oolmmander Of Collier Merrimac Tes-
titles.
NOT BAD ON MAY 26.
Ma Have CoaIed Warships on That
&y-Captain Jewell of the Cruis-
err Minneapolis ON the
CoaIinE Question.

a8nshine and fresh air had the effect
Tor bringing all the members of the
&chley court of inquiry and the Mt
tendants upon It to the court building
fnfher earlier than usual. The pro-
eeedings began, as usual with the re-
calling of witnesses of previous days
TO correct their testimony.
While Commander Sutherland was
on the stand he was asked by the court +
whether. If the fleet of Cerveia had |
been in the harbor at Cienfuegos, II |
could have been seen by the vessels
blockading the port. lie replied: Il
cannot definitely say. Not unless they |
had anchored in the lower harbor just |
Inside of the entrance in the deep
water where the schooner to which !
referred before was anchored. | do
not believe they would have anchored
In that spot"
W The first new witness of the day was
Commander James NJ. Miller. who was
4 In command of the collier Merrimac
while that vessel was part of Adj
miral Schley's lying squadron.
Commander Miller said that he had
assumed command Of the Merrmac
ON April. II ut Norfolk. He had taken
on board mt Lambcrt's Point soon
afterward about 5000 tons of coal
His vessel had, he said. been capable
at first of making between nine and
ten knots, but afterward he had trou-
BILE with his pressure machinery. SO
that by May 23 and 24 he would have
hestated iii trying to secure speed
3 of more than seven or eight knots. He
read from the collier's log to show
that the Iowa, Massachusetts and the
Castine had been coaled on the 23d
\ and oath. No record was found Of the
\ conling of any vessel on the 2ath or
the 2ith. the time consumed IN pro
ceetIing from Cienfuegus to Santiago.
"trhe sea- he said, ION the 25th was
nasty, quite nasty. The Merrimac be.
ing Il heavy vessel, its speed WAS af-
fected, hut If had had a smaller YES
sci should have felt il very much"
lie also said that the weather for that
day was bad.
&h The witness said that late in the aft
ernoOn of May 20 the intermediate
valve of the collier was broken, bnt
that previous 10 the arrival off Santia-
go She had not been "hroken down, dis.
abled or delayed"
s& Condition of the Sen ON 2Gth.
INA AS to the condition on the 2Gth Tho
s witness said: Il should say | could
have coaled. as find here consulting
the log) we were making ten knots n
one time. We got up to twelve knots
tI fabGi the weather could not hay,
been ytS.y bnstprous. | read here from
the log. At O'clock seven knots, thei
Xix, and so on. We got up to ten
There is one entry here that we go
Mup to eleven knots. On that date find
1Steamng with the squadron east t
quartet north and tind by the entr.
between O'Clock in the morning an,
metitlian Of that day that we mad
from ten TO twelve knots"
Mi. Hanna-What was the condition
Of the sea?
81 s'The sea had then smoothed, shoul
Judgc, from the way we We're golnG
e We raised our speed from seven to te
s knots"
% could you have coaled vessel on tn
b afternoon of the 26thy'
Il could mp to the time | was broke
down. Willie | had control coul
M have coalcd"
what tiIlc did you break downf'
I'VE stopped 1T $50 that afternoon.
Asked if vessels could have bee
coaled while tile MerTmac was in TO
of the Yale, the witness replied til;
that was Il suppoStiiious question m
Az. 4 II t., %
matter Of fact, she did not coal al
vessel while in tow. On days fro
May 23 to 81, except on the days vine
EN- route from Cicnfuegos to Santa.
and when disabled, the Merrlmac III
had vessels alongside for the purpo
OF coalng. and they had been coal,
from the collier.
Mr.. Rayner questioned Captain NJ
Ter closely concerning the state of u
weather and of the sea on May
quoting from Admiral Cervera's stat
ment on that subject. but the witne
would only say that his log was sile
us to the condition of the sea at til
time.
In this connection Captain Miller !
ferred to his removal from the col
mand Of the Mprrimac in order to til
the vessel over to Lieutenant iobst
He snd on that point: when | W
taken out summarily from the NIer
mac, nearly everything had was 10
and the only thing | can rememl
now with The few notes ! have here
In this log
Captain Jewell Takes the stand
& Captain Miller was succeeded on
witness stand by Captain Theodore
Jewell, who commanded the crui'
Minneapolis during the Spanish wal
Captain Jewell said that he had fl
fallen in with the flying squadr
under command of Commodore Schl
pm the evening of May 26. Capt
Lemly quoted from Admiral Schle
letter to the senate committee on ma
&Hairs, dated Feb. IS, 1899, sayi
after having been Informed by
scouts, commanded by such officers
N Sigsbee Jewell and Wise, that,
though they had been off Santiago
a week, they had seen nothing
Cervera's fleet since it left Curaca
Asked whether he had given to
r,ira' Schey this information
Aa aleaEy other infotalatiGn concerning
Spanish fleet, the witness replied,
gave him no information with re
ence to that subject whatever"
Captain Jewell said that when