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SCHLEY SAYS
TINE To ACT I
Admiral Will Now
Move AZ ainst
Detractors.
SAMPSON WAS
RESPONSIBLE
Read Proofs on MacIay's History.
Evans Says Signals We're
Withheld at Cienfuegos.

NEW YORK, July 20.-3This is no
ton This was Rear Admiral Winfield
Scott Schley's answer tonight to a re-
quest for a statement of his intentions
in regard to the attack made on him in
the third volume of Edgar Stanton
Maclay's History of the Navy" It
foreshadowed Admiral Schley's pur-
pose of taking measures to call Maclay
to account for the accusation of cow
ardice and falsehood imputed to him in
the volume which has just been issued
from the press.
Admiral Schley was found at the
summer home of his son-in-law, r. M.
S. Wortley. at Great Neck, L. I. Have
you anything to say he was asked,
'in regard to the points at issue in the
Cuban campaign
THE Brooklyn inflicted So per cent of
the damage done to the Spanish fleet,
/ ed "a per cent of the damage sustained
by the American fleet. These facts
speak for themselves, and 1 have moth
ing to add to them"
Admiral Schley spoke like man who
has endured to the limit of his capac-
ity the taunts of his opponents.
BOSTON, July 22.-Referring to Mac
lays naval history, which has beer
criticized by Secretary Long on account
of the statements considered objection
able, Rear Admiral Sampson said to-
day:
Il was Commander in Chief of the
SQUADRON, and was responsible, so fal
as reading the proofs goes. If the his
torian has taken facts from my officia
reports to the Navy Department, that's
all well and good.
ST stand by first reports and ofticia
communications.
81 would welcome an investigation by
Congress or by the Navy Department
but l see no hope Of its being taken up
i "Schley's first statements regarding
the battle of Santiago were moderately
4 correct. The interviews given som'
time afterward were not correct. They
were entirely different from his frs
accounts and were written in a differ
ent spirit, / think. An interview pur
porting to have come from Admira
Schley, published, / believe, on Janu
4 airy 6, was entirely incorrect.
soon after this statement appeared
in print he came aboard my ship ant
told me that he had been incorrect,
quoted The reporter to whom the in
terview was granted was a friend o
mine and he afterward told me that h
had published Schley's words practi
lcally as they had been spoken"
WASHINGTON, July 20.-Optimisti
Iofficers who desire an official investiga
ton of the charges against Schley ar
basing some hope on the statements il
the Schley newspapers that Schley i
being urged to demand an investigation
by Congress or to seek redress in tn
courts through the medium of a libe
suit against. Maclay. The Navy De
Ipartment feels powerless to take tn
initiative, it is understood, in view o
Its recommendation that Admire
tSchley be advanced for his services il
the West Indies.
Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, i
an interview completely vindicate
Rear Admiral Schley from the charg
that he was dilatory in his movemen
from CienfuegQs to Santiago, whic
has been the basis Of the allegation
that he disobeyed orders and shout
have been court-martialed.
Thus Secretary Long and Admira
Evans exonerate Schley from all tn
charges against him. According t
Evans statement, Schley was not i
possession of the code of signals whicl
had been arranged with the insurgent
by Commander McCalla, whereby tn
Cubans were to inform the America
ships whether or not Cervera's squad
ron entered Cienfuegos Thus two days
at least, were lost by the blunder o
design of some naval officer who ha
not given Sch1ey the signal code.