New-York tribune., 1901-09-29

matter, and the government ought to account for
IT. and instead of permitting il to go on, as he
as he has done many times In regard to this trial.
questions than the matter itself would have re-
qnired;
Mr.. Hanna- am really tired Of making it I
hope the occasion will not occur again.
The court decided that on account of the Oh
lection Mr. tarnes should Withdraw. He did So
and Commander Switzerland continued.
HE WANTED TO COAL. AT SEA
Describing the cruise from Cienfuegos to santi-
ago. Commander Switzerland said that from mid
night Of May "A to the afternoon of the 18th the
Eagle had made very bad weather This was due
to the fact that the had a long roll" which
very trying TO the yacht as the vessel was
then one-third fun of water.
"A little after l o'clock OF the 26th, when about
thrty-hve miles from Santiago he said Il was
called alongside the flagship and the Commodore
directed me to go to Port Antonio for coal and to
report rougn weather south of Cuba. Nv answer
substantially that I already had three days
coal. as much as the Marbehead meaning as much
in proportion. The Commodore told that l had
to carry out his orders l then asked him again
fleet coal from the collier He very corrteousIc
replied to me that he either very much regretted
or else was very sorry he could not let me do
the Eagle had not coal enough for his purpose and
ag3m 6ireGeG NTH mf 10 nj pr9Geed which did after
How much coal did the Eagle have?''
cor course the Merrmac with the squad
ron. she not?"
We're the wind and weather. practicable for the
Eagle to go alongside the Merrimsc to take coa?''
why did not you do this?'
thority"
ing sugSt g6 od to 6e be of the Fly
ut i did not rot, requested him earnestly to let me
Was ANYTHING else said between and the
No. was so disappointed did not care TO
Mr.. Rayner questioned Commander soutberIand
concerning his meGaphone message o he
on May 10. and displayed the Iogbook of that YES
SCI TO show that, while other facts were men
uoned EId as having been megaphoned by the Eagle.
& snere I was no mention of the fact that Commander
tons al Cienfuegos. The witness said in reply to
his message 1T Vas eVdeg @o he no ssid %eneom OF
ton lion Of whether the young officer deck that
time put down exact words"
commander Switzerland was then excused. and
cernng the two versions Of the chley dSpach f0 Of
translation OF this dispatch but also the transa-
lo4 baH bn OF Ha1yy Department dispatch of May 81
ms ms especial attention to the Schey message say
cor heTe a is t no important paper before the
feet, there have been introduced the record
the government is not correct. Now we propose
nend9 o show 70 that hat that dispatch as printed in the
Navgnton for 1888 is precisely word for word
ment from the wires and conarmed by the tee
graph company We propose to show, further. that
ment was cipher word for cipher word as il left
the West Indies. As 1t was placed the wires
In Kingston. SO 1t is printed in the appendix
~ do not wish to lay any further stress upon
this matter except to say that in all my experience
in Washington in connection with the management
OF executive departments by high officers of the
that great departments of the government garble
their official documents. did believe that this
was true We did not accept Ii a suggestion
which was worth any consideration except for the
cation we have found the facts be as stated and
propose TO prove them by witness whom we
desire to call We are not trying this upon
the appendix. but upon original documents. We
have never relied upon these copies. They are
subject to infrmities. of course"
EXPERT TESTIMONY ON CIPHER
Lieutenant Barnes then identified the cipher copy
book of the auxiliary cruiser Harvard, which yes
sci during the under command of Cap
tain (now Rear AdmraD Cotton This was the
vessel which carried Rear Admiral Schey's dis
patch to Kingston to be there transmitted by cable
to Washington.
Lieutenant Barnes said he familiar with the
departments cipher code and that last night and
this morning he had made translation of the dis
patch as presented He then read his translation
and was questioned concerning IT by Mr.. Hanna
who asked:
Have you examined the duplicate of the cipher
received at the department and compared il with |
the cipher 1t appears in that press copybook?"
''I have"
Was this cipher message received by the de- |
partment confirmed by the telegraph company"
'It was"
81 will ask you whether those words. they
appear in that press copybook identicaIly the
same In cipher those received by the department