The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-10-25

of steam in order to be of effective
use as unit and that determined the
westward movement
Now the telegram sent to the hon
Orable secretary of the navy did not
refer only to the battleships. as in
terpreted, buE it referred to the entire
feet. We had at that time ten ships
in the squadron. seven of which were
short OF coal. There were the auxil-
iaries and the Texas. The auXiliaries
and the Marblehead and the Vixen, 1
think. We're moderately well filed The
amount of coal which we transmitted,
should have, think. called 'atten-
ton to that fact
What Enemy Would Do.
''Now, as has been testified to and
shown, I think almost everyone Who
has had any command during a war
wherein large responsibilities were IN
vOlVed would have been unwise not to
have considered his own accomplish
ments. We could not assume that the
enemy were going to chase toward our
base; il was probably he would chase
toward his own. He would have been
there pretty regularly or among his
more intimate friends at Martinique.
I do not think he would have been
liable to have gone to our base, and
therefore, any calculation which took
into consideration the efficiency of the
squadron had to assume that it would
and most favorable to the enemy"
Admiral Schley again referred to the
unmanageabie condition of the collier
Merrimac, saying that no prudent COM
mander would have sent a ship along
side of her.
Discussing his dispatch to the de-
partment concerning the departments
orders. the admiral said:
II my reply to the telegram of the
secretary of the navy is not on the
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the terms ] sent it. because I wrote it
in English, gave it to Captain Cotton,
asked him TO turn it into cipher. and
confirmed it afterward in letter to
the department. which was received.
THE dispatch is here, and has been
in the department for nearly three
years. I do not believe for one mo-
ment that in the translation of it there
was any intention TO mutila5e it, but
l think in the choice Of words which
| the dispatch did not get to the depart
ment entirely as l intended IL should.
Did Not Obey Orders.
upon this dispatch is based the
charge of disobedience of orders L
contend that there was no disobedience
| oe orders. There would have been dis
/ obedience of orders if had abandoned
my station. but. having returned to
the station without other direction, and
I lldNAAi6 lOuIlu LtldL lflt III
formation was correct, 1 hold that
did not disobey orders, and 1 think
/ that this dispatch read and interpreted
as sent will relieve that charge"
Again referring to his own dispatch,
/ Admiral Schley said that II had been
delivered in English, but, he added,
read in the light of this order, and in
view of the fact that the squadron did
not return to Key West, whatever may
5ave been our intention or purpose. I
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/ order, and there is no order there to
go back. 1t was simply that the de-
partment looked to me TO establish a
/ fact of which it was not certain"
! In response to a request from Mr..
Raynor for the exact wording of the
/ sentence in the dispatch in dispute,
Admiral Schley gave it as follows:
1T is to be regretted that the depart
/ ment's orders cannot be obeyed, ear
nestly as we have all striven to that
end
This. he said. was the authentic
version of the sentence. and was as he
sent 1T
Before Admiral Schley went upon the
stand two new witnesses had been
J heard. The first of these was Lieu
/ second Captain Clark, formerly of the
! Oregon.
! Schley's Compassion for Vanquished
/ Major Murphy corrected his testi-
/ mony of yesterday so as TO say that
/ the vessels of the flying squadron in
1 steaming back and forth at night in
/ front of the mouth of the harbor at
/ Santiago had gone only about 500
I yards to either side of the harbor in
stead Of 1,500 yards, as stated yester-
! day.
! In response to a question by Mr.
Raynor. Major Murphy detailed an in
cident in which Commodore Schle.-
! figured at the close of the battle of
July 3. Major Murphy said:
/ 'I remember the incident distinctly
/ because it made a very great impress
sion on me at the time. 1t was when
I they were preparing a cutter to take
| Captain Cook to the Colon to receive
{ the surrender of that ship. She had
hauled down her flag and was ashore.
The officers and many Of the men were
gathered forward in the neighborhOod
of the forecastle. and Commodore
/ Schley addressed the men. cautionin9
/ them not to cheer when the Spanish
/ captain &c ne on board. He spoke of
! their gallantry, that they had made a
/ good fight and that they should not be
/ Inundated; that we should treat them
| chivalrously and not humiliate them
! by cheers.
1T was a gallant speech. and we all
/ felt it very deeply. The commodore
made the same speech about midnight
] OI the same udN. when we were RAM
uS alongside the Iowa, and we had
! learned that Admiral Cervera and his
/ officers were on board that ship. II
afterward developed that Admiral
{ CerVera heard Commodore Schley
make the remark. and he appreciated
it very much, so were were told"
Said Schley Looked Badly.
Major Murphy was then excused and
/ Commander Harlow called. In reply
to a question from Captain Lemly, the
/ witness said that he remembered the
incident of Commodore Schley's trans
ferring his flag from the Brooklyn to
! the Massachusetts for the purpose OF
making a reconnaissance. the Vixen
having been used for that purpose
He had seen the commodore both go
ing and coming and had spoken to him
on his return.
What, if anything, was said when
| returning about the guns that were
, discovered or DEVELOPER
| "A remark was made, I think BY
myself. that at any rate we had de-
veloped the batteries. The commodore
replied that that was what we went
for A remark was also made by
, Commodore Schley about a ten-inch
gun on a disappearing carriage we did
not believe We found afterward the
disappearing carriage was there"
What was the manner and bearine
of Commodore Schley upon this oc-
casion2''
| ..Connnodore SchIev 1oot-ad ho5t,-