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| thought that Wood had not made that
statement.
| Admiral Schley replied that he might have
| made that mistake that the names were
| quite similar and that the two officers ar
| rived at about the same time. After 1t
was looked up Admiral Schley said he
! thought it was mistake to have said that
that was said by Lieutenant Wood.
The McCaIIa Memorandum.
| @. Are you sure you received but one
| copy of the MeCalla memorandum? A. I
| have not the slightest recollection of hav-
( ing received any other and my flag lieu
| tenant and secretary is unable to remember
| but one. I am quite sure that 1 never re-
ceived a second one.
O. Do you think You can state with re-
gard to any paper, as for example, the Nc
Gala memorandum, that IL you had it in
your papers it must have been transmitted
through the department when your papers
accompanied by letter of transmittal were
| sent there? A. Yes, all my papers were put
| up in box and did not, so far as 1 know,
retain a single paper on the ship except
perhaps some blue prints which the flag
| lieutenant has told me were possibly left
| there. Another exception would be the
| paper which have since given to the judge
| advocate and which was put In storage.
| .. Did you overlook the regulation re-
| quiring papers to be sent to the department
| at the expiration of your service until the
| department called your attention to it?
A explained the other day that had my
| papers sent to Porto Rico with me by mis-
| take. did not know of it until November
| when the box was returned from the New
ark and delivered to the department. 1
| knew perfectly well that that was the reg
| ulation.
Q. In your testimony in chief you said
| you had a copy of the memorandum ac-
companying dispatch No. delivered by the
Hawk and that was the first one you re-
| ceived. and that you recognized by mar
| ginal note on it that you received two
| copies of it. (The memorandum referred to
| was the order from Admiral Sampson to
the witness to proceed to Santiago). A.
| Yes, think there were two copies of that
memorandum. This is one (as the counsel
handed Admiral Schley a copy of the paper
referred to- But there was another some
where. Have you not got it somewhere?
The judge advocate: I'VE have no other
| copy. We have No. g. but not a second
copy of that memorandum
The Wind While OF Cienfuegos.
| O. Admiral. you referred in your testi-
mony in chief to the wind being fresh while
you were before Cienfuegos? A That is
my recollection.
| @. Please look at the log book Of your
flagship. My question will be to. you. how
many hours was the force of the wind re-
garded as four? A. l do not see there
path
Q. There was no record of a greater force
than -four on May 26th? A. No.
@. What was the greatest force on May
%? A. Three"
Q. Why did you ON the day the Iowa
| coaled from the Merrimac inform Admiral
Sampson that coaling was dangerous? A.
| Because that was the condition.
| Q. But you did coal one battle ship? a.
Yes. ..s--e -e-.-
| Q. Did you inform Admiral Sampson that
| you had coaled one of the battle ships on
| that day? A. My recollection is that did.
| II will give you the report that you may
| see."
| The admiral, after looking over the ap-
pendix, said that it was the condition OF
| the sea rather than the wind that made
| coaling dangerous.
| @. think you have gone back to ques-
| tion you have already answered. Now, the
next question had asked was if you had
| informed Admiral Sampson that one of the
battle ships had been coaled on that day.
Admiral Schley found the dispatch he had
| sent to Admiral Sampson, and remarked
patch. He said, however, that he was
| quite sure that he sent such a message
| either in letter or by telegraph. He re-
ferred later to letter dated the 3Oth
The Coal supply.
The Judge advocate then spoke of the
dispatch of the oath from Commodore
Schley to Admiral Sampson, in which he
stated that on account of the short coal
supply he would be unable to blockade
| Santiago. ''Why did you say this?" he
asked. A. Simply because we could not
have remained of the harbor Of Santiago
| on account of the condition of the coal sup
| ply"
q. Did you state these conditions in your
| dispatch? A No.
Q. What did you mean by saying 81
| cannot remain of that port on account of
| general short coal supply?'' What did you
mo a N hx-o a ipI o. n
| of the vessels were generally short, not
having more than one-half Of their coal
| capacity filled.
| The Judge advocate then asked questions
! about the coal supply Of the Brooklyn and
| the Massachusetts,, to which the admiral
| said he could not remember the exact con-
dition. ~ had number Of signals. in
which all of these captains were always
| anxious about their coal"
Q. l am going to ask you to point out
| the signals and have in mind the Iowa at
the same time. A. The Iowa came down to
Cienfuegos with a little more than half her
| coal supply, and almost the first request
| that was made from her was to get coal
! from the collier which was coming.
Q. The collier had three or four thousand
| tons? A. Yes.
| Q. The Iowa did get coal from the collier
there? A Yes. think she took in $50 tons
| perhaps, more.
The admiral then began to read from the
| signal book signals from the ships to the
flagship on the question of coaling. These
| signals mad been introduced In his direct
testimony, and after he had read quite a
number he was interrupted by the judge
advocate. who said: "You testified to all
| these In your examination in chief" The
admiral answered that he did.
| Capt Parker here interrupted and said:
| You asked him (meaning Admiral Schley)
| to point out the signals, and he is doing it.
| Why do you interrupt him before he is half
| flushed"
The judge advocate: These were all in
his examina tion in chief and do not think
| they ought to be repeated. What we want
| ed to ascertain was whether the vessels
were solicitous about their coal supplies.
| The signal from the Texas, May we coal
f1rst? seems to indicate it,"
Capt. Parker: He asked the admiral to
| point out those signals and when he pro-
| ceeds to point them out he Is stopped when
he gets half way through"
The judge advocate: ''Will you proceed
admiral? have not gone into anything
else: Point out any other signals You wish
in this connection"
Admiral Schley then continued reading
the signals. and then concluded that he
had read quite enough.
The judge advocate-"Does Capt. Parker
| want any more%
Capt. RArker--"t the admiral doesn't