Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-12-26
COURT WAS UNANIMOUS
Is Claim of Departments Attorneys
Evidence Fully Sustains the Find
ines OF the Court-No Su1nclenO
Reasons For Reopening the
Case SIMPSONS Objection.

miral Schloy, through his counsel To inc
finding of the Sthloy court ol inquiry. II
substance this report is an argument s"p-
Elementary to the argument made 10y me
writers before the court OF inquiry. me
principal points are ana mNiotcn'c ul""
their contention that the iltst report Is
the unanimous report OF tn court iL liz
uuirN: that the court was JUSTIFIED M re-
i,ctiny Admiral Slhl,V's cNidcnc" 10y the
number of witnesses who took iSsu, with
him and that there is not sufficient r'a-
son for a roopening Of the case '5 re-
uucstcd by Admiral SchloN.
Secretary Long has not yet acted upon
the report but is expected to do So to-
morrow. If adopted the report Will DC
forwarded to admiral SchcN.
Tho report opens by saying;
lit is someW hat difficult to Coal with
Admiral Schlcy's hill of exceptions "n "c
count of its general aud homeopathic char
actcr and sweeping though unsupported
assertion of opinion by the applicant ana
his counsel. that in their judgment, the
adverse finding Ct the court il not lusu-
tied hy the rVi fence. tn" paper lnlEht he
dismissed as simply a. not III expected tN-
preston of dissatisfaction with ah ad
verse Judgment but for tie fact that it
contains a number of miscellaneous and
particularly, has woven thrJuGhout its en-
tire structure an inaccurate Hud miSlcad.
ING use of The words majority of the
court
.'rhe findings Of fact and the opinion Of
tho court Of inquiry i'm the ,aSc 80 Adj
mna Schlcy, upon the more important
and material points before it, were not
reached by "a majority of the members
only. but the entire court
Tho report then Disclose that tho owl
dcnce adduccd before the court conciu-
sIHclY shows:
"That ON the 2Gth Of Nay 1,lS whom
within II few miles Of Santiago, to Whith
point he was under orders to proceed with
the Utmost dies patch ard where Do WAS
advised that Tho .ICmy's feet was To-
ported to be. and where i'll fact il actually
was, Commodore SchlcY turned abuul
tho fleet under his command ana headed
for a home port more tran 7UU miles ans
taut, without sufficient reason on excuse
for such action, and leaving lie port of
Santiago, with the ,ncmy's ivet inside,
Unguarded. Ipon tins point the court
says in its opinion: ~" should not have
made tho rotrOgTadC turn westward with
his squadron In the face OF the fact:
the court could not have found otherwise.
THAT while thus abandoning the field OF
action VITA his fleet Commodore SChcy
was oVcrtakan by dispatch vessel bear
ING IN urgent order, from the department
in substance ir,cting him to proceed T.
Santiago that nevertheless he continued
to retreat with his squadron, telcgraphiu4
to the secretary of the navy
1t is to bee regretted that the depart
rlC4tS orders cannot h, UicNcd.
"
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showing thHl inc lrAdS was stopped a1'
nt'hru 10 dN"id possible 'oIliSiun Wit
i' bIoohI! II i I"ISNutape, tnat dan
p'r 'Nd "'IaN 10 thr IcNaS ana loss o
instance ana Io@llloh bE Inc BrooNlN
were U' nHltdldIo results OF the loo
execute" hN lue la't'l vessel
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