The sun., 1901-10-23
IL SCHLEY inquiry.
1spaper Correspondent Gives In
teresting Testimony.
HEY WAS ALWAYS COOL.
IN of the Remarks Attributed to
r. Admiral. the Witness De-
1cIares, He Never Mnde-Lieu-
tenant Wells Recalled.

8Hj1ls resumed the witness stand soon
A3{er the Schley court of inquiry was
ofJIed to order and continued his mar
f&ftye of the events of the Cuban cam
]en of 1895 Lieutenant Wells was
bowed by A. V. Mason, the log writ
%pf the Brooklyn, who wrote the logs
an that vessel during the Cuban cam
p8ign.
Mr. G. Il. Graham, a correspondent,
who was ON board the Brooklyn with
4dmiral Schley during the entire cam
paIgn, was also on the list Of witnesses.
Captain Lemly began his examina-
ton of Lieutenant Wells by asking him
Whether there was kept book of rec
offls showing letters received on the
8Looklyn as Lieutenant Commander
'lHears had testified there was. The wit
fAiess replied that there was no such
bok kept, but that there was record
M letters sent to and received from
s&ssels of the squadron.
Lieutenant Wells also was question
&a about the department orders con-
ternng the risking of the American
&aips to bombardment from shore bat
4ries, the orders under consideration
being those of April 6, April 26 and
TWO of May ).
The first of the orders of this charac-
ter stated that ''the department does
not wish the vessels of your squadron
~ be exposed to the fire of the bat
taries at Havana, Santiago or other
wrongly fortified ports In Cuba" and
The others We're regarded as modiiica.
IONS of these. In the last of these,
sAnted May 6, the department said,
The department is perfectly willing
Hhat you should expose your ships to
che heaviest guns of land batteries IL,
,h your opinion, there are Spanish YES
S3els of sufficient military Importance
protected by these guns to make an at
Jack advisable, your chief aim for the
%present being the destruction of the
enemy's principal vessels"
# After having read these different dis
#patches the witness was asked by Cap
#fain Lemly, Can you separate your
knowledge with regard to the con-
yersation with Commodore Schley so
as to distinguish between either of the
I either two orders, or both of these
Drders, and as to whether or not any
*hing was said with regard to the re-
|&ept of information in relation to these
ax3etters here which You have before you
Ht the interview Of May Is in Key
Nest?'
Order Not TO Risk Ships.
No, sir. | cannot distinguish be-
Teen any of them. ! have given my
eneral remembrance. which is that
4Ae order was not to risk ships"
jim reply to questions by Captain
Aemly the witness said there had been
o written or printed order of battle,
mt that ON the day before Cienfuegos
was reached some special directions
Were sent to the ships by the Scorpion.
This was, he said, order No. 8, re.
lating to signals in case the enemy
should be sighted. This order was
then read.
# Questioned further on this point, the
Witness said:
# Il prepared no written orders and
Sid not know of the existence of any.
u remember, however, that the com,
manding officers We're called on board
M The witness answered several ques.
{ions put by the court. as follows:
III "At what period of the battle Of July
Hs$ did you use range of !, 100 yards?"
THAT was at about the beginning 0l
Ehat is known as the turn; not the be
xlnning, but after the turn had begun
Ishould say"
At what point of the chase did yol
cStimate the Colon to be 10000 yards
distant from the Brooklyn?'
rWhen the vizcaya went ashore"
BrooLIyn's Logwriter Called.
eII.ieutenant Wells was then excused
md Mr.. Albert v. Mason called II,
was questioned by Captain Parker ant
said that he had been yeoman o.
SECOND class on board the Brooklyn dur
Ing the Santiago campaign and hat
been the writer of that ships log. II,
h&d made the entry concerning the bat
tRoff Santiago, and he produced a cop.
of the rough log which he had made fo
u1S own use.
he witness said that as the log Civ
AnE an account of the Brooklyn's turn
M&H been at first prepared it read: Nv,
eAEaged with port battery at first, bu
3Mt as soon as the enemy stood t,
Stward we put our helm starboard Il
MI, then hard aport, SO as to bring ou
aboard battery to bear and, swing
7u& clear of the Texas fire, we stoot
Mnlcl with and to the enemy
Ihs entry had, he said, been change,
Mter at the instance of Lieutenan
kAQlgson so as to make it read as
uoes In the permanent copy, as follows
AS soon as the enemy stood to tn
Westward we put our helm aport
aWinging clear Of the Texas" etc.
MI. Mason then retired. and MI
Se9rge Edward Graham, correspond
enH was called. He was questioned b.
MrSRayner and said that he had bee
zp 1S9S.
Mrs Graham was then uuestione,
concernlng the conversation between
C0mmodore Schley and CAPTAIN Sies
bee on the occasion of the coptain'
visit TO the Brooklyn on May 26 as fol
leNe:
id you see Captain Sigsbee O.
n4sFd the Brooklyn on May 2G?"
es, SIR
Pid you hear him in conversation
s# Commodore Schley?'
3Ees, SIR"
sSS2an you give us what that conver
Aafion was?"