The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-09-28
SAMPSONNOTAPARTY
Court Refused His Request to Be Represented by
Counsel in the Schley Inquiry.

Harbers want of recollection by stating
that the commander in chief wrote a letter
That there were no picket boats thereY"
He did not mention their presence and
DO you rceolIect any statement made
ny the commander In chief when he had
picket boat within the picket hne that he
had arranged signal from the picket bont
TO the nagshipW
He did not mention any. ana | have
letter on 0le In the department calling at-
tention 10 the omission In that report.
] call your attention TO the report OF the
aoommandcr In chief In which he states that
the line Of the blockade. etc. ! wish to
bring 1t out that the Dupont was inside the
line and that is the report ] made to the
department still stand on the point that
he Is not bringing out where the torpedo
you are perfectly right about that, but
you are not asked In reference to any
criticism you may have made upon the re-
port Of the commander in chief The ques,
tion is this Captain Harber has definite.
ly stated that theTe was no picket boat in.
was and that the Dupont was one Of thcsc
boats
By the court. could Won see the Tcxns
from the Dupont during the nights of May
- and May 23T'
ono, sir.
Mr. Hanna objected to Mr. Raynors
method Of questioning and decidedly to bis
wrong, when Captain Harder had said dis
tinclly that, he only spoke from HIS best
This he said, '1s an indirect impcach-
ment OF the witness"
Mr. Raynor again insisted that he had
only intended to bring out the facts.
Mr. Hanna asked what steps mad been
! Cienfuegns to ascertain n the Spanish feet
was inside the harbor there
None that know d, " was the response
was there any effort to destroy the
| shore battpricSln
The witness replied that he knew OF
none.
Mr.. Raynor. that vessels inside the harbor
could not have heen discerned from the
outside.
Lieutenant Wood Was then dismissed and
rs he was leaving the court room Mr. Han
ma took occasion to say; 'T VIII make an
announcement while we are waiting. There
has been introduced by the court a ques-
ton Of the correctness or the identity Of a
certuin very important dispatch sent by the
Howard May %. from OF Santiago by the
commanding officer OF the flying squadron.
It appears that In the process Of transla'
ton from the commander In chief 10 the
department some changes In the language
OF that dispatch occurred. I do not desire
at this moment to interrupt the proceed
Ings by any discussion Of that point, but
shall merely make the announcement here
that we do Intend to enter Into that mat
ter fully and completely, that Is TO say, as
fully and as completely as the court may
desire before we leave It,"
Lieutensnt John Hood, who during tbs
war commanded the Hawk. was the next
witness He said that on May % he hat
delivered dispatches from Admiral samp
son to Admiral schey when the latte
was on cienfuegos. lie related that he has
been called aboard the New York, Admire
Simpsons flagship on May 81, when th'
officers on board were preparing dispatches
lie spoke Of tue presence OF Admiral samp
son.
Mr.. Raynor objected 20 the introduction
OF conversation or verbal orders, sayipl
/ that the orders would speak for thernseiye