Arizona republican., 1901-11-05
ADMIRAL ON THESTAND
After That the Arguments Were Be gun and the Assistant Advocate on the Part of the Government Had Half Concluded at the Hour of Adjournment-New Testimony Was Crowned Upon.

Washington, Nov. 4.-The SChley court of inquiry reached the argument stage at the beginning of the afternoon session. The morning sitting was 5e- voted to listening to Schley and Sigs- bee making corrections of their testi- mony given previously and the intro duction .y the judge advocate of num- erous documents bearing upon different phases of the inquiry. Schley did not make any material additions to his previous statements, but devoted him. self largely to clearing up ambiguous points in the evidence.
 An effort was made to introduce two new witnesses. who were expected to give testimony in Schley's behalf con- cerning the controversy as to what Sigsbee communicated to Schley when the latter arrived off Santiago. The court decided not to hear them. The opening speech of the argument in the case was made in behalf of the govern ment by F. P Hanna, assistant to the judge advocate He began his presenta- tion of the case a few minutes after o'clock. When the court adjourned at four o'clock he had covered about half the ground in the controversy.
 Admiral Schley was suffering from d severe cold and his vo:ce was quite hoarse. He began his corrections at the very first of his testimony. The most or these corrections were typo graphical errors or the changing of words to make sentences read more completely In referring to the testi- mony regarding the arrival of the Har- ward on May 27 with !. dispatch from the secretary of the navy informin. him that "All the departments infor- nation indicated the presence of the spanish squadron at Santiago" which dispatch he declared had never reached him and, therefore, he had never seen it or heard of it until recently Admiral Schley corrected this portion of his testimony by stating that neither his flag lieutenant nor his secretary had ever seen the dispatch or remer,- bered it. He previously included lis first lieutenant in this statement. To ferring to his testimony regarding the reconnaissance of May 31. the admiral changed his statement that Fifty, If not more, shots passed over the fleet" to read, "A number of shells passed over the fleet.
 Coming to his answer to the question with reference to the order sent be low during the early part of the battle
 To stand by to ram," Schley empha- sized his former testimony by saying that There was a distinct intention to ram on the part of the Marie Teresa Cervera's flagship. and the Viscaya"
 Schley also corrected his statement regarding his visit to the flagship, New York, when he made his prelirni- nary report of the battle of July 8 to Sampson. The record, he said, did not make the matter quite clear. The admiral" said he, said to me that I had omitted very important detail which was to state that the New Yorl, was present"
 At this point Schley announced that When Captain Parker called his at Sigsbee in which he said that when he went on board the Brooklyn the whole question, so far as he could remember was coal and nothing but coal,'' and that Schley had already made up his mind to go to Key West.
 That was not the first question Sigsbee asked me. at all." replied Schley. "I did not say to Sigsbee that we were going to Key West, as the sig nal will show
 Sigsbee was talking on the subject of coal, and since he mentions it I re- call the fact that his statement WAS that he was commanding a vessel that was one-tenth of a mile long and that she could not turn her engines over unless unless 15O tons of coal a day were used ana that he would have 10 go to Key Vest
 Had you. as q matter of fact. made up your mind at that time to go to Key West?"
 II had not''