The age-herald., 1901-09-29
SCHLEY COURT WRANGLES OYER
 DISPATCHES SENT BY ADMIRAL
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municated to him the secret signal to which you have referredY
 q would have given him the cooe' or course" answered the witness.
 Captain McCalla was also asked by MT 9a,1na why he had withdrawn the Eagle from off Cienfuegos before the arrival there of the flying squadron, and he re- piled:
 ssBeing on the spot and knowing the conditions at Cienfuegos l considered that 1t might be a useless sacrifice Of the Eagle, a small ship. She would have made no escape from the funnel in which she would have been obliged to remain. In ad- ditlon, I felt that she would have been overpowered by two Spanish gunboats which I knew to be in the harbor from Cuban intelligence"
 In reply to questions by Mir Hanna, Captain McCalla said that the memoran- dunn prepared by himself and quoted by Admiral Sampson in his report of August 3, 1898, as having been placed In posses sion of Admiral Schley contained all the information except the secret code which he possessed concerning the insurgents when he arrived at Key West on May 19.
 MT. Hanna stated that his purpose in asking this question was to develop the fact that the memorandum was in the hands of Commodore Schley in time for him to have acted upon 1t before leaving Cienfeugos for Santiago.
 The court asked the following ques- tions of the witness:
 What was the state of the sea between May "A and May 26 when the squadron was steaming to Santiago from Cienfue- gos?"
 A Rough Sea.
 "To the best of my recollection it grew rough during the night of the 24th. We had, so far IS I remember, rain and thick weather. Next day we had thick and rough weather and moderately heavy sea. The weather was clear on the 26th So far as l remember, by noon of the 2Gth 1t was fair weather. the sea moder- ate from the 18th right on until it be- came quite calm on the night of the 26th''
 Was the Marblehead in condition for any service that might be required of her on May 21?'
 "She was in such condition beyond the fact that she had not been in dock for nearly a year"
 What was the direction of the prevail ing wind between the 23d and the 26th of May, inclusive?'
 Prom the 24th to the 18th it was east erly. We had good weather on the 23d."
 "I cannot remember exactly how it was on the 23d. My recollection Is that we had a slight head wind, but that is only III BOlI1B rom Oan AnIOn1O to Slen- fuegos. We had good weather on sthe 23d."
 Did Commodore Schley at any time prior to May 27 consult with you about the possibility of coaling large ships at Cape Cruz?'
 Ships Could Coal.
 q do not remember that he consulted with me. I told him I thought the ships could coal under Cape Cruz from the 24th, the morning I reported"
 Captain McCalla was then excused.
 Lieutenant Commander W. H. Souther- land who commanded the converted yacht Eagle during the Spanish war, fol- lowed Captain McCalla on the witness stand.
 He said that he had first fallen in with the flying squadron on May 19 when the squadron was steaming toward Cienfue- gos and Captain McCalla's squadron was on It's way from Cienfuegos to Key West. He had then. under Captain Me- Calla's orders, undertaken to communi- cate to Commodore Schley his informa- tion concerning the situation at Cienfue- gos, and had given this information to the Scorpion for the Commodore, his message being as follows:
 We left Cienfuegos on the night of the 18th, at which time, as we learned from insurgents, that the only vessels inside 'hS hdiooi "eie tWo BuHpodtS ana SeV- eral cannonieros." ., .s,sz
 Cervera Not Inside. :
 Commander Southerland also told of his return to Cienfuegos May "A and of accompanying the Marblehead to shore for the purpose. of communicating with the insurgents. He also related that in returning Captain McCalla sent him at full speed in advance of the Marblehead to notify the commander of the squadron that Cervera's fleet was not inside the harbor at that point and had not been there. He had, he said,. delivered this in- formation about o'clock
 At this point the court took a recess for luncheon.
 When the court reconvened for the af- ternoon session Captain Lemley read the agreement between himself and counsel for Admiral Schley as to the portions of certain logs of the vessels to be printed,
 Cipher Expert Barnes.
 The judge advocate then brought in Lieutenant c. B. Barnes, cipher expert of the Navy Department, for the purpose of explaining the discrepancies between the dispatch of Admiral Schley in which he said he could not, much to his regret, the dispatch prepared by the admiral and printed by the department.
 MT. Rayner objected to the calling of the witness while Commander Souther- lands testimony was incomplete He also said that he did not consider the variations in the dispatch as important. Captain Lemley and MT. Hanna contend