The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-11
Message for Schley Said to Have
Been Negaphoned From
the Eagle.
Scorpions Log Fails to Note Infor-
nation That Cervera Was
Not at Cienfuegos.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10-Just before
the Schley court of inquiry adjourned
today Judge Advocate Lemly introduced
Lieut.. j. H Holden, formerly watch Off
Ger on the Scorpion as a witness. Lieut..
Holden signed the entry in the Scorpions
log giving the particulars of the receipt
of a message for Commodore Schley from
the Eagle which that vessel had brought
from Capt. McCana en- May 10, 1893, when
the flying squadron, then bound for Glen.
fuegos, fell in with Capt. McCalla's sub
squadron, which had just left that port.
The government had sought to show that
by this message Commodore Schley had
been notified that the Spanish fleet was
not in the harbor at Cienfuegos. and
Lieutenant Commander Switzerland, of
the Eagle, had testified that he had mega
'phoned the Scorpion that there were only
torpedo boat and several canonieros in
that harbor. Capt. Lemly told the court
today that the log of the Scorpion did
not show the receipt Of the message in
this form, and that he was prepared to
admit that the evidence did not carry
that message to Commodore Schey
Other witnesses of the day were Lieu
tenant Commander w. H. Schuetz, who
served on the Iowa, and Lieut.. A W.
Grant, who was on the Massachusetts,,
who testified concerning the general cam
paign of the flying squadron. Lieut. Ed
wards F. Leiper concluded his testimony,
begun yesterday.
Lieut. Holden was called. Capt Lemly
asked him concerning the Scorpions mis-
sion as a dispatch bearer from Commo-
dore Schley to the Harvard off Santiago
on May p. He then stated that Lieut..
Holden was the writer of the log of the
Scorpion, in which an entry was made
concerning the message conveyed to Com
modore Schley through the Eagle and
the Scorpion and Capt. McCalia when the
flying squadron was en- route to Glen
fuegos.
Mr.. Rayner then addressed the court,
quoting the message which Lieutenant
Commander Southerland, in command OF
the Eagle testified he had megaphoned
to the Scorpion on May 19 from the Eagle.
This message, as the lieutenant COM
maHder gave it, read:
| STORIES DON'T AGREE.
1--WE left Cienfuegos on the night of
the 18th, at which time we learned from
an insurgent camp about thirteen miles
to the westward of Cienfugoes some of
the people from which were inside the
town every night, that the only vessels
in that harbor We're a torpedo boat and
nine canonieroS."
Mr. Rayner then inquired of Capt
Lemly whether Commander Mark, who
commanded the Scorpion. was not now
at Manila.
Without Immediately replying to this
inquiry, Capt. Lemly said:
q believe that Lieutenant Commander
Switzerland is right in his statement
as to the message he communicated to
the Scorpion; but it is like any other
case of communicating through persons
there is disagreement between the log
OF the Scorpion, which I have before me-
and Mr.. Southerland's statement, and
we are not able to carry that message,
which was delivered to the Scorpion, to
Commodore Schley on board the Brook
1yn, in our evidence. Mark is at Cavite
l have every reason to believe there
would be disagreement between Mark
and Southerland if Mark We're summon
ed from this great distance and we are
prepared to admit that if he were sum
moned he would not say that communi-
cation had been made to the Brooklyn as
to the presence of the insurgents with
whom communication had been had near
Cienfugos.''
Reading from the log Capt. Lemly
quoted the entries from a. M to noon
for May 49, showing that the
Brooklyn had instructed the Scorpion to
Speak the Eagle and obtain news and
the names of the vessels off Cienfuegos -
The entry then proceeds to tell of the
carrying out of the order, and reports the
following being the message signaled to