The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-10-06
STILL WRANGLING OVER
DEAR SCHLEY LETTER
But Little Progress Was Made by the Court of In
quiry at Yesterdays Session.
Admiral Dewey Objects the Waste Of Time and Suggests That
Only Facts be Presented

copy. ain which," he said, ''you will
see there was no correction. 1t ap-
peared originally as Santiago"
All Papers Wanted.
The court examined the original pa
pers of the press copies with care and
1t was agreed that the papers should
again be printed in the record. Cap
tain Lemly then requested that all pa
perS IN Admiral Schley'S possession
bearing upon the case, be supplied. and
Mr. Raynor replied for the admiral
that he (Schley) had no more papers.
Lieutenant Commander Hodgson was
then called to correct his testimony
OF yesterday. He was asked by Cap
tain Lemly about his correspondence
with Admiral Schley concerning what
the judge advocate denominated a
newspaper 'cOllOquy" The witness
took exception to the use of the word
'collOquy' and Captain I.enlv replied
that this was the witness own charac-
terizatiOn
The letters were then read by the
Judge advocate, Commander HOdgson
ldehJlIying the various documents as
they were separately presented. Mr.
RaynOr desired the letters would be ac-
cepted as evidence and they could be
printed without being read. Captain
Lemly replied, however, that he con-
sidered that the letters have an i'm
portant bearing upon the precept and
that therefore he preferred TO read
them.
While the reading of the letters be-
tween Schley and HOdgson and news
paper articles bearing upon the cor
respondence was in progress Mr.. Ray
nor objected to the reading of one of
the newspaper statements as irrele-
want.
Dewey Wants Only Facts.
Admiral Dewey-Those things could
a "a hGaa HnH L.
ing valuable time here. We want facts
facts. We do not want newspaper
articles. We have ruled these out.
Cannot these matters be printed
Captain Lemly-Then they would be
in evidence. Do you mean You don't
want them at all?
Admiral Dewey--We want them.
papers?
Mr. RaynOr-Want everything that
passed between Lieutenant Hodgson
and Commodore Schley that apDertains
TO this controversy. but we would not
Ike this record TO contain editorials
against Commodore SchIey. I do not
think there ought to be printed in the
records an editorial against Admiral
Schley or any other admiral or in IA
vor of him which was never seen by
Admiral Schley at all That article
was not sent in any letter TO Admiral
Schley- He says not
captain LemiN-lt Is really part of
the correspondence and referred to- We
do not contend for one moment that
any allegations that may be made in
that editorial against Admiral SchIev
are proof Of what these allegations are.
but this is a part of the correspond
ence and necessary in determining as
to what was the propriety of Commo-
dore Schley's conduct in the premises.
Schley Never Said.
Mr. RaynOr-WOuld YOU take a
statement from me now that Admiral
Schley says he never saw it and never
received it?
Judge Advocate-You have made
that statement.
Mr.. Raynor-1I do not think this rec
ord ought to ~ stained with these cal
umnies against Admiral Schley.
The court then retired for cOnsuita-
ton, and after a few minutes returned.
making the following announcement
through Admiral Dewey:
The court decides that any clippings
from newspapers which form q part of
the correspondence between Admiral
Schley and Lieutenant Commander
HodgsOn should be properly read"
Mr. RaynOr-May it please the court
there is no evidence to show that this
particular editorial forms part of the
or that it was ever re-
ceived by Admiral Schley.
Admiral Dewey-Under that ruling
it ought not to be read.
After the further reading of letters
and before the entire correspondence
had been exhibited, the court, at 1
o clock, adjourned until Monday.