The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-06
SCHLEY STRONGLY UPHELD
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 had in its wisdom prevented compari-
 sons with other officers engaged in the
 Santiago campaign.
 There is no accuser here" he said;
 nobody is on trial, and yet the case has
 been conducted as though Commodore
 Schley were on trial We get it." he went on, lin the order of the argument
 now being made here. So that we are compelled to consider the inquiry as a trial"
 Taking up the events of the campaign Tn their sequence, Captain Parker spoke of the interview between Admiral Sampson and Commodore Schey at Key West, saying that he would not give Admiral Schleys testimony on this point. He pointed out however, that Schley was not then informed that the Spanish fleet had left Curacoa, not withstanding Sampson had been in pos session of this information for three or four days. He then quoted Simpsons s orders to Schley to proceed to Cienfue- EOS and there establish a. blockade, and quoted Schley's testimony to the effect that Sampson told him he had at that time no advices as to the whereabouts of the Spaniards.
 Speaking of the cruise to Cienfuegos, Captain Parker said 1t was inconsistent to criticise Admiral Schley for stopping to take Captain Chester on board while at the same time criticising him for not calling Captain McCalla aboard. we cannot" he said, "blow hot and cold in the same breath. The truth Is there was no real delay in the voyage"
 Captain Parker said that any one who condemned Admiral Schley for this voy- age from Key West to Cienfuegos must be pretty hard up for an issue. It was a charge unworthy of anybody's con- sideration.
 Speaking of the claim that dispatch No. had been carried by the Iowa. to Commodore Schley at Cienfuegos, Cap tain Parker said there was no evidence that the Iowa had brought any dis patches. Reverting to the claim that Commodore Schley had not made prop CT efforts to locate the enemy at Cien- fuegos, Captain Parker said that the task of landing boat on the coast was an exceedingly dangerous one. "There is no evidence" he said, Ito show that Captain McCalla made any attempt to 
 his cable cutting expedition, when the results were disastrous He assumed and rightfully assumed, that the peo- pie there were enemies, and he acted accordingly"
 Dispatches Mo- 6 and Mo- ' had, he said, been brought out here for the first time, and MT. Hanna had treated these dispatches very gingerly, as if fearful that he would burn his fingers. As for the Cienfuegos blockade, he held | that it was sufficient that no vessel had | gone in or come out without permission. Moreover the admiral had taken all the steps possible to ascertain whether the l enemy was there.
 ITO send ashore in an enemys coun- try to find out whether the enemy was there" he said, would have been fool hardy, and had the commodore sent boat ashore and lost it he would have been justly censured for so doing"
 The members of the court would un- derstand that, he said, as they had all commanded in the countries of enemies.
 The question of signal lights on the shore at Cienfuegos was also reverted to, and the speaker said 1t was certain that Commodore Schley had not known anything of their significance until Captain McCalla arrived. As for the McCalla memorandum 1t contained no reference to the signals What earthly reason Captain Chadwick had for not communicating the signals to Schley, Captain Parker said, was beyond his So far as seen Chad wick was the only person to whom Me Calla had communicated his code. Hence, if Chadwick had prepared the McCalla memorandum, it could very well be inferred, as he had information that no one else had, that he would