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favor of him which was never seen by ADJ
miral Schley at ALL That article was not
sent in any letter to Admiral Schley. He.

favor of him which was never seen by ADJ
miral Schley at ALL That article was not
sent in any letter to Admiral Schley. He
rays not.
Capt. Lemly-It is really part Of the
correspondence and referred to. We do
not contend for one moment that any al
legations that may be made in that editor
| lal against Admiral Schley are proof of
| what these allegations are. but this is a,
part OF the correspondence and necessary
| In determining as to what was the pro-.
priety of Commodore Schley's conduct
In the premises
Mr. Rayner-Would you take state
| ment from me now that Admiral Schley
says he never saw 1t and never received 1t?
Judge Advocate-You have made that
statement.
Mr. Rayner-I do not think this record
| ought to be stained with these calumnIes
against Admiral Schley.
Ruling of the Court.
The court then retired for consultation
and after few minutes returned. making
| the following announcement through Ad-
miral Dewey: 1.-THE court decides that any
part of the correspondence between Adj
miral Schley and Lieutepant Hodgson,
should properly be made" :
Mr. Rayner-May it please the court
there is no evidence to show that this par
| ticular editorial forms a part of the CORE.
| spondence or that 1t was ever received by
| Admiral Schley.
Admiral Dewey-Under that ruling Il
ought not to be read. .
After the further reading of letters and
before the entire correspondence had been
exhibited the court at one o'clock ad-
| journed until Monday.
The Dear schley" Letter Again.
! During the early part of Saturdays sit
| ting Capt. Lemly again brought up the
| question of the difference of construction
Of the last paragraph of the dear schley"
letter. He produced the original copy.
reading q part of the paragraph as fol-
| lows:
"I therefore am of the opinion that on.
best chance OF success in capturing their
| ships Will be to hold the two points, Cieu-
| fuegos and Havana, with all the force we
can muster. If later 1t should develop that
these vessels are at Santiago we could then
assemble off that port the ships best suit
| IT. Until we, then, receive more positiye In.
formation, we. shall continue to hold He.
yana and Santiago"
| Capt Lemly then said: ''If the court
please. l was yesterday requested by
counsel for the applicant to produce the
original OF the letter from Admiral Samp-
son to Commodore Schley, dated May 20,
| 1888. the question being as to the final name
at the end of the first paragraph, whether
1t should be 'Cienfuegos' or Santiago.
hay have the original and the name appeari
| Santiago and appears over an erasurs.
invite attention to the fact that in the
press copy book 1t is Santiago, which
shows that the change was made before the
letter was press copied and sent / will
add that the punctuation ID as stated
| yesterday In the press copy.
Healse at the request of Admiral Schley's
counsel INTRODUCED another copy "in
which" he said, "you will see there was no
correction. It appeared originally ~
Santiago"
and the press copies with care. and 1t was
agreed that the papers should again b
printed in the record. =
Capt. Lemly then requested that all the
papers in Admiral schley's POSSESSION,
bearing upon the case, be supplied, and Mf.
Rayner replied for the admiral that he (Ad-
| Miral Schley) had no more papers. -