The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-12

| Santiago when the latter reached thereof
Yes, sir; he came aboard in the
! Vixen"
will you please state to the court
what occurred during that interview.
Was there anything said with regard to
tne 1easlolllty OF conducting blockade
of Santiago?"
| Yes remember Commodore Schley
spoke In my presence, and, 1 think, to
mysel1, as he was leaving the Snip saw
| ing: You
CANNOT BLOCKADE
! those ships in there if they want to come
| out I remember that
Judge Advocate-Did you have any in
formation whatever from any source
tnat CerVeras fleet was going to make
sort1e from the harbor of Santiago on
| July 8?
''None whatever within NV reco11ec.
| tion''
Taking the witness for cross-examina-
ton, Mr.. Rayner asked:
DO you recollect the dispatch which
Will be found in the official report of
Admiral Sampson, dated May 29, in which
ne congratulates Commodore SchIev upon
ms success? 1 will read the dispatch. Fob
lowing telegram was sent to Commodore
Schley to both Port Antonio and Mole
st. Nicholas:
Congratqiate you on success. Main
tam close blockade at all hazards esne
tdany at night; very little to fear from
sea when conditions permit Send \.
snip to examine Guantanamo with view
70 To- occupying 1t as base. coaling one heavy
sup sup at q time. Appraise captured coaf;
use II II desired, and afterwards send
ship in as prize -
CHADWICK PROTESTED.
IL remember that very well, because I
! protested against his congratulations. i
asked him why he persisted. and he caid
want to encourage him. -
You recollect that because Won, nro-
tested against putting that in the dis
patch?' nc 0'S
= said that, under the circumstances
L thought it was improper"
D1d you meet Admiral Watson at anv
tlIne ana nave conversation with him 2is
Aomlral Dewey-I don't think that has
anything to do with it. You know what
we want. We want all facts relating IN.
these specifications, and we don't want
awning about conversations with Ad-
nllral watson, with commodores or with
ANYBODY else on any subjects.
Mr.. Rayner-This testimony has OH
gene in. 1t ought not to have gone in.
ADMIRAL Dewey-Of course it ought nor.
You ought to have been watching.
oio OBJECT to 1t twice, and then.
wnen 1t was stated that 1t was some
thlng IN reference to something that oc-
CURED before, did not want to disagree
with the COURT
Judge Advocate-No objection was
made to conversation after June I re-
latlng to the blockade as maintained
prior thereto.
OPINIONS RULED OUT.
Mr.. Rayner-Did YOU at anv tine o,-
prove of the blockade which Commodore
Schley maintained before June /? What
was your opinion?
Judge Advocate object
Admiral Dewey-The court doesn't want
that opinion.
Mr.. Hanna-we have not asked opin-
ions of officers commanding ships regard
ing that. We have carefully abstaine5
from so doing
Mr.. Rayner-Then I will ask you in ref
erence to the leaving of these vessels.
You have stated, and it has been in tes-
timony here that this signal code with
the Cuban insurgents was not made
known to Commodore Schley. Have Won
not fallen into slight error in point Of
time? Did not the flying squadron
leave Key West before Capt McCalla
got to Key West, and have you not in
advertently fallen into error in point Of
time! You could not have given Commo-
core Schley the information because You
did not have it until Capt McCana got
there. Is not that the reason?
Ihe witness admitted that this was so.
y. capt Evans has testified here that
he knew it. Could you give me the source
from which he received his information?' 90
"A. do not remember speaking of it
to Capt. Evans nor that told him to
communicate it to Schley When Nc
Gala came In it was expected that his
snip would reach Cienfuegos about the
same time as the Iowa and the Dupont,
and McCalla said he would carry the sig
nal agreement back with him. That sig
nal was really for the benefit of the Gu
bans and the McCalla memorandum was
for Commodore Schley. That memoran-
DUN was full and explicit in that regard.
IT may explain 1t a little farther by
the afternoon of the next day or the aft
ernoon of the day after McCalla came in,
information was received Of the
ARRIVAL OF THE SPANISH
squadron in Santiago. So that any ques-
tion of the insurgent Cubans about Cfen-
fuegos dropped out of sight,
You say that after the arrival OF
Capt McCalla information was received
Of the arrival of the Spanish squadron at
Santiago VIII you kindly give us the
information and from whom it cameo''
The first information we had was by
telegram from the navy department,
mentioning that The information may
we'll be correct Next day Lieutenant
Commander Staunton was in Key West,
and he saw Capt. Allen, who said that
the evening before he had received con-
f1rmation from Havana that the Spanish
squadron had gone into Santiago, and he
was only waiting until the evening of the
Goth to have that corroborated, as the
operator who sent the information only
put himself in communication with our
Office in Key West once a day, about
o'clock in the evening. Staunton came
with the information, and then went up
in the evening to await second tele-
gram, which corroborated the fact and
which caused Admiral Sampson to believe
that the Spanish feet was at Santiago,
and also caused him to write the second
dispatch, directing the movement towards
Santiago
Mr.. Rayner-Is this the telegram you
refer to:
The report of the Spanish fleet being
at Santiago de Cuba might very well be
correct, so that department STRONGLY adj
vises that you send word Immediately by
the Iowa to Schley to proceed off San
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