The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-10-05

WASHINGTON. Oct. An the
w SchIey naval court of inquiry to-
day Mr.. Raynor. chief counsel
for Admiral Schley, asked Judge Ad-
vocate Lemly to summon Admiral
Sampson as a witness in the case The
request grew out Of a difference In
the construction of a sentence in Ad-
nniral Sampson's letter to Commodore
Schley, written from Key est, Nay a.,
90. while Commodore Schley. with the
hvine squadron lay off Cientuegos-
This is known as the Dear Schley
letter. $500.
ment documents supplied TO the senate,
the admiral saids after expressing MS
opinion that Notwithstanding the span
isb squadron was in Santiago. II was
better 70 continue to blockade Clen-
tuegos and Havana. we shall continue
TO hold Havana and Santiago untll We
receive more positive Information
During the examination of Comman-
der RAYMOND P. Rodgers this dispatch
was under consideration when MI
Ravnor EXPRESSED the opinion that the
word Santiago has been mao ertelil-
" used by the COmmander-ln-chleL aS
suming that he meant to use the WORD
CienfuegCs as better corresponding
with the text. AS the document was
urinted there was a parenthetcal note
to which Admiral Sampsons lnluals
were attached that evidently the wrong
city had been mentioned.
Mr. Ravnor asked Judge Advocate
I,enly to make this concession. but the
latter declined to do so. saying that ne
would produce the original OF AdnlIaI
SIMPSONS dispatch to prove that ne
had said Santiago Ihen MI Ray lloI
7 cannot take that word Santiago
10 mean ANYTHING but CienfuegoS. II
is an imputation on Commodore Schley
and I cannot permit IT TO rest WlIhOu1
summoning the author OF tnat as
patch" to which Captain Lemly re-
! sponded:
I have told you once before you can
summon anyone you wish
Will Summon Sampson
| ..,Tben." retorted Mr.. Raynor, ''sum-
mon Admiral Sampson
! This occurred only a short time pc
! fore the adjournment OF the court IoI
/ Tho Gav. and was the subject or more
or less conversation OF an aniIiis +'l osu
| character as the days work was CON
! Guided Mr.. RaynOr would only say Jnal
| he would insist on the admiral being
summoned unless tie correction was
/ conceded
tenant c. w. Dyson of the bureau OF
steam engineering. concerning the Goa
supply of the flying squadron Com
mander r. P Rodgers. who was sec
ond in command of the battleshlp Iowa
during the Spanish war and carried
| Admiral SIMPSONS dispatches OF May
20 to Commodore Schley, and Comnan
der AIben G. HOdgson, who was tht
navigator of the flagship Brooklyn
While Commander Rodgers was or
the stand Mr2aynor submitted com
putation of shells from the America
feet which had struck the wrecked YES
! of (Tnr~y-n7.9 SQUADRON. SlONlllt
that at least 81 per cent or them were
fired nv the Brooklyn. This compute
ton. Mr.. Raynor said. had been pre-
pared by Admiral Schley on the basis
of a report made by board OF survey
of which the witness was the senlo
Commodore Hodgson gave a graphs
c description of the battle off Santiago
Dicturing the part taken in it by tn
Brooklyn and explaining the change il
the entry of that VeSSeIS log
Coal in the Ships.
Lieutenant Dyson. who was on TIT
witness stand yesterday when the cour
adjourned. was recalled. He had adde'
! to his coal history of the fleet lntor
. nation as to how long the supply o
! coal on hand May IS would have hell
/ | out under forced draught- This infor
) nation was contained in a chart whicl
! / was read by Judge Advocate Lemly
70 The witness also read the same lnLOI
5 nation from a tabulated statement
! The chart covered the period from Ma
IS to June /. 1t showed that on Ma
, rs the BroOklyns supply of coal wa
: | 952 tons: Iowa. 1S4 tons. the Texas, AZ
[ tons. and the Marblehead, 122 tons.
e He said that on May "A the BroOkly
: had coal enough aboard 10 have re
r manned on blockade duty Off Santiag
V for twenty-five days and then to haN
h returned to Key West; the MassachU
e sets enough TO remain seventeen DAY
and then go to Key West; the low
p enough for eleven days. the TeXa
5 seven days and the Marblehead or
n day This was assuming that The
e would have gone by the Yucaton -
- nal
l He also gave an estimate Of T.
is length of time they could have r
NAMED and gone to GOnaves channe
Cape Cruz. Mole St. Nicholas. King
% ton, Port Antonio. Jamaica, Guanta1
" amo bay. the time of remaining
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