Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-10-25
9CHLEY DRAWS CROWD
Court Room Crowded to Utmost
Limit to Hear Admiral
Again Today.
A Continuation of His Review Of
the Campaign Against
Santiago.
Hodgson's Story About schley's
Remarks Regarding the
Texas Denied.

Washington, Oct. 25.-schley this
afternoon denied he had ever used the
words on the bridge OF the Brooklyn at
tributed to him by Commander Hodgson.
Washington, d. c. Oct. 25.-1n the
Schley court of inquiry today Schley
i continued the recital of his narrative
! Regarding his conduct in the Spanish
4 war When the court adjourned yes
4 lterday, he had covered most of the
points of the campaign previous to the
beginning of the Santiago blockade,
! leaving OF that blockade. reconnaissance
4 of May 81. the battle off Santiago. and
the famous loop of the Brooklyn being
1 yet to be told of. The court room was
crowded as 1t never had been before.
/ Tickets for all reserved seats had been
n issued before the court was called
to order and an hour before that time
There was not an unreserved seat un-
occupied. Previous to Schley's ap-
lpearance on the stand witnesses of
yesterday We're recalled for the purpose
sIof correction of testimony. The first
of these was Lieut.. Commander Har-
4 How, of whom the court asked: Did
the Vixen carry a verbal report from
Schley to the commander-in chief
4 July 9, that there was unusual activity
shown by the enemy in the harbor?'
ITO the bests of my recollection the
Vixen received by megaphone from an
officer on the quarter deck of the
Brooklyn on the night of July 2. such
a message as that and to the best of
4 my belief did carry such a message to
\ the flagship and to the other vessels
of the squadron, but have no recol-
lection of it's having been delivered
to the commander-in-chief."
Schley then took the stand and re-
sumed his story. Regarding the Nc
i Gala memorandum he said he received
but one copy. IL there had been an
4 other, it should be in the papers which
4 were returned to the navy department
in January or February. 80. He said he
had not bombasded the earth-works at
i Cienfuegcs, because he was convinced
4 such bombardment would be unavatl-
ling. The subsequent experience IN the
i war, he thought, bore out this opinion.
4 Schley said dispatch No. 10, concerning
which Lieut. Marsh had testified, (the
dispatch containing positive informa-
\ tion that the Spanish fleet was in San
Itiago) was not received by him until
June 10. He testified he believed Cap
tain Cotten's statement regarding the
offer of Lieut.. Field to go ashore at
4 Santiago was somewhat faulty and de-
tailed some facts relating to Fields Of
fer which fixed his own impression Of
4 1t in his mind. On May 81, after the
i bombardment of the Colon and after
i Cotton had gone for Mole, st. Nicholas,
4 with the report to the department upon
that subject, Schley testified he sent
Nunez, the pilot, westward to commun-
icate with the insurgents. Nunez land
ed near Asceredeos, fifteen or sixteen
miles west of Santiago and joining some
! Cuban insurgents went into the Interior
1 He returned June 1 or with detailed
/ information of the location of the Span
/ ish ships in the harbor II sent him"
/ added Schley, ito the commander-in-
chief with that information
Touching the question of the retro
grade movement afprthe Merrimac had
broken ,t yn, the fnovement was not
made to westward until toward
{. O'Clock, ale having had considera-
BILE difficuI,y getting a hawser to her.
4 That hawser lrted about III o'clock that
4 night, when / was signalled by Captain
4 Wise. of the Yale, that 1t would take
4 some four hours to break out steer
hawser The ship at that time was abb
solutely unmanageable. She was not
4 capable of turning her propeller. ! do
not think we got under way again until
4 a o'clock in the afternoon of the 9th,
! and not long after she was taken In tow,
steaming to westward. We went little
farther than l had intended on account
4 of the difficulty in getting the Yale to
i read our Ardois signals. We We're
4 obliged to go four or five miles farther
on that account AS soon as the sea
calmed down, and in my judgment it
4. was not possible to have coaled, sig
nailed Phillips, asking him if he could
i coal. think his signal indicates pre-
| c;sely that he was uneasy about 1t, for
he sienaled back to me: i can try The
/ impression left upon my mind was at
tLat even he was uncertain He said
4 even as late as the following morning
Phillips had signalled that both the Tex
as and the Merrimac had sprung a leak.
The admiral also referred to the ex-
1 treme heat, saying is was so great that
/ the men were exhausted and the doctors
had recommended on this account that
coaling. operations be suspended.
/ Here Admiral Schley brought his mar
rative up to Santiago and said in that
connection he had regarded the orders
of the department concerning the prob
ale presence of the Spanish fleet a. San
tiago as more of a suggestion than a
mandatory order. He considered it
would take only little while TO get
back in any event. Also he repeated
that the proper military vancouver
would be to proceed westward toward
the bases al Havana and Key West. He
1 had arrived with the squadron off San
tiago at about p. m. on May IS and
had then taken up his position five or
six miles out. afterwards holding the
fleet in formation day and night Next
4 day he discovered the presence Of the
Spanish vessels there He said when he
Ishad thus secured the irrefutable proof
of the fact that the vessels We're there
|and told Sigsbee Of the fact, that officer
depressed surprise that such was really
4 "a fact. 1t was at this period he sent
his dispatch to the department giving