The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-11-05

il or heard Of it until recently, Admi-
raj Schley corrected this portion Of his
testimony by stating that neither his
tag lieutenant nor his secretary had
/ ever seen the dispatch nor remembered
il. He had previously included his first
lieutenant in this statement.
Referring to his testimony regarding
the reconnaissance Of May 81, the ad-
miTal changed his statement that eff
ty, II not more, shells passed over the
feet" to read that a number of shells
passed over the fleet. He also changed
his evidence concerning suspicious
movements In the haTbOr Of San
tiago July ?, to read that before
dark I noticed in the harbOr good
deal Of smoke coming up The Off
cial record, he said, made him say that
he saw the smoke after dark.
Coming to his answer to a question
in reference to an order sent below
during the early part of the battle TO
stand by to RAM" Admiral SChley en-
phasized his former testimony by stat
ing that there was a distinct inten-
tor to ram on the part of the Maria
| Teresa, Admiral Cervera's flagship,
and the Viscaya."
Speed of the Brooklyn.
He also reiterated his confidence in
the BTOOklyn's speed by stating that
with one engine and all the boiler
| power, she could have gotten up all
the speed that was needed" AS to the
| passage of the flying squadron by the
Eagle on May -, and the latter's con-
| Veying the information that there was
no news" Admiral Schley corrected his
/ testimony wherein he said he was not
| mistaken as to this, by stating that he
might have been mistaken.
Admiral Schley also corrected his
| statement regarding his visit to the
| flagship New York when he made his
! preliminary report of the battle of July
/ to Admiral Sampson. The record, he
said, did not make the matter quite
/ clear. The admiral said to me-" con-
/ tiDued the witness. that I had omit
/ tea a very important detail which was
/ to state that the New York was pres
emit"
/ The witness corrected but one Of his
| answers to the question of the court.
J This question was to the effect that as
/ he was ordered to go to CienfuegOs to
/ establish a blockade, was it not his
/ duty under the circumstances to COM
municate direct, either by signal or
/ otherwise, with the senior officers of
/ the vessels returning from Cienfuegos
and obtain from them full information
regarding the situation at or near that
port. The answer, as corrected, reads:
/ 1.-THE communication which he made to
me through the Eagle indicated that
| Captain McCalla knew 1 was bound
| for Cienfuegos and I, of course, took it
/ for granted if he had anything i'm
portant he would have notified me of
/ the fact without my inquiry
Question of Coal.
At this point Admiral Schley an
nCunced that he had no more correc-
/ tons to make. Captain Parker called
/ the admiraPs attention to the evidence
/ of Captain Sigsbee in which he had
1 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 Commodore
/ Schley already had made up his mind
/ to go to Key West.
THAT was not the first question Sigs-
/ bee asked me at all" replied Admiral
! SChley. Il did not say to Captain
/ Sigsbee that we were going to Key
| West, as the signal book will show
/ Sigsbee was talking on the subject of
= coal and since he mentions il recall
/ the fact that his statement was that
/ ne was commanding a vessel that was
/ one-tenth of mile, long and that she
i could not turn her engines over under
/ $50 tons Of coal day; also that ne
/ could not remain there very long: that
/ he would have to go to Key West"
/ Had you, as a matter of fact
made up your mind. at that time to "a
/ to Key West?''
Il had not"
Admiral Schley then referred to his
! conversation with Admiral Sampson re-
garding his instructions about not bonn.
harding Notifications as follows:
+ II ought to mention in connection
with the talk I had with the admiral
in relation to his instructions about
not bombarding fortifications that I re-
cali the fact that he and I were talk
ing about the guns that were probably
there. and I asked him whether he
knew if they were HOnturia or KrupT
guns. He said: Probably both. and
/ that recalls the circumstance to me
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