Waterbury Democrat., 1901-09-30
BOB EVANS TO-DAY
MI Tell What He Knows About
 the Santiago Affair.
DEWEY OPENS COURT ON TIME.

days Evidence Was Given to show
 That Admiral Schley Was Aware of
 the Secret Code.
 Washington. Sept 3O.-All the mem oers of the Schley court of inquiry were at the court building rather ear Her than usual this morning Ad- miraI Dewey was one of the first TO put in an appearance. but early as was his arrival. he found there Judge Lem ly and his assistant, Mir Hanna, at work preparing the program Of the day.
 Capt Lemly's program provides Tor the calling as witnesses of Commander Miller. who commanded the collier Merrimac in the early part of the cam paign; Captain Jewell. who command ed the scOutship Minneapolis; Lieut. Commander Sharp. who had charge of the much-taIked of Vixen: and Lieut. J. G. Doyle of the Brooklyn It was also contemplated to call at very early period Rear Admiral Evans, who was captain of the Iowa.
 The proceedings were begun with the customary recall of the witnesses of the previous day. While Commander Sutherland was on the stand he was asked whether if the fleet of CerverI had been in the harbor of CienfuegO jt could have been seen by the vessels blOckading that port. He replied that he could not definitely say unless they were anchored in the lower harbor. just inside the entrance in the deep water. Witness said that each day from May 23 to the S1st. except on days when en route from Cienfue9Os to Santiago and when disabled that the Merrimac had had vessels alongside of her for the purpose of cOaling and they had been cOaled from the collier. On crOss-examinatiOn MT Rayner qucs- toned Commander Miller concerning the cOa1ing from the Merrimac on the 24th. He said that the Merrimac cOaled at 7;30 on that morning. He was then examined concerning the sig nals as to cOaIing the Texas Captain Miller laughingly replied: ''Go ahead; you got me there"
 Captain Miller was succeeded on the stand by Captain Theodore F. Jewell, commander of the cruiser Minneapolis. Captain Lemly quoted from Admiral Schley's letter to the senate commit tee on naval affairs. dated February IS. 1899. That letter stated that the admiral had been informed by the scouts commanded by such officers as Sigsbee, Jewell and Wise, that all though they had been off Santiago more than a week they had seen nOth- ing of Cervera'S fleet since it left CuracOa The witness was asked whether he had given such informa- ton to Admiral Schley. The witness replied that he had given him no in formation with reference to the sub ject whatever At dinner after the court had adjourned Captain Lemly said that the next witness would be Rear Admiral Evans.
 At Saturday afternoons hearing Lieutenant Commander W. T. H. SOutherland, who commanded the Eagle at Santiago, and Lieutenant c. E. Barnes of the bureau of navigation were called. the latter for the purpose of refuting MT Rayner's intimation that Schley's dispatch saying that he "could not obey orders" had been changed by someone else after Schley wrote it.
 Lieutenant Barnes testified that the dispatch as given by the navy depart ment is exactly as it was received in cipher. On crOss-examinatiOn, MT Rayner elicited from the witness that he had no way of knowing whether or not the dispatch was changed on board the Harvard, after Schley had written it in English, and while it was being put into cipher.
 Much of the testimony Saturday was concerned with the question as to whether Schley was informed of the code arranged for communication with the Cubans. Admiral SchIey has claimed that he did not know of any such means of communication, and was therefore delayed at Cienfuegos as he was unable to ascertain if the Spanish fleet was there. Captain Me Gala testified Saturday that on falling in with Admiral Schley's squadron on May 19, 1898. he had told Lieutenant Commander. Southerland of the Eagle to convey to Admiral Sehley informa- ton obtained by the witness from in- surgents near CienfuegOS-
 Lieutenant Commander SOutherland testified that when told to deliver this message. Captain McCalIa's ship, the Marblehead. and his own. were pro- CttQluL 10 NeN W c>t- stuI .4ntI lnt ing squadron going to Cienfuegos, and that the Scorpion. one of Schley's ves- sels. had intercepted the Eagle. The witness then told the Scorpion by neg aphone to inform SchIey. for McCGila, that insurgents at a camp whose loca- fi0n he gave went into Cienfuegos ev- cry night and had reported to McCalla that Cervera's fleet was not there. This testimony was produced to show that. despite the fact that Schley did not know of the secret code of signals arranged by McCalla with Cubans. he did know. if the Scorpions com mander delivered SOutherland's mes- sage. where to find insurgents who could tell him whether Cervera was in Cienfuegos Harbor-
 On cross-examination Mir Rayner read the log of the Scorpion. in which the message given by SoutherIand was set down in quotation marks. and there was nothing in it about either the in- surgents or a landing place.
 As to Schley's blockade at Santiago, which &ofnr,cou onva rrau ft1rfhor- from