The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 1, 1901, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCU CALL, P FIGHTI G BOB” BEFORE THE SCHLEY COURT Noted Officer Who Commanded the Iowa Tells of the Bombardment Famous Battle Off Santiago. Special Dispatch to The Call. L BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, W., WASHINGTON, Sept. 30. New life was given to the Schley court of inquiry to-day by the prominence of the witnesses he important charac- tes of nce. Rear Admiral Evans captain, command- ed the Iowa during the Santiago x was the most prominent w ess before the court to-day. His timony covered the pe- riod from the the Jowa left the port of Key We the 20th of May, 1898, until ily, when Admiral Evans testif he h a conversation with Ad- miral Schiey concerning the battle of the 3d. He described 1 the -principal battle of e particulars concerni 1t of the Colon ' on M of the day were Cap- Jewell, who was com- ser Minneapolis during Commander James | command ef th that_vessel was tenant Hbbson to be of the harbor of San- »s had mot concluded court adjourned orrow ——— NEW EVIDENCE IS HEARD. Rear Admiral Evans the Most Im- portant Witness of the Day. WASHINGTON, pt. 30.—The bright shine and fresh s had the effect of I all the members of the Schley court of inqui and the sttendants upon the court to the bui ing rather esriier than usual this mOrning. Admiral Dewes. as is his custom, the first members to put but as early as was his Advocate and there in advance of usual, wore o he was soon transformed into a his service umif na were engaged from bega: tom by days. rovided & pros ilowed ended the collier Merrin of the Santiago campaif anded the scout Mir ear Admiral Eva Much intere: bable appearance of the the prospect of see- it will be remem reluctance the atenant Hob- lier in the the if n in the harbor at been seen by the He replied y Not unless they lower harbor, just inside the deep water where the 1 referred before was an- believe they would have an- of the Merrimac. witness of the day was Com- Milier, who was iIn command mac while that vessel was Schley's flying squadron. said that he had assumed Merrimac on April 11 at Nor- aken on board at Lambert's about 5000 tons of 2 al 1d, been capable af first and ten knots, but le with his machirery, and 2 he would have hesi- 1o seeure a filler ollier's log to v ves- me_consumed o Bantiago h was nasty, a heavy ves. if 1 had had naller vessel I should have felt it very nasty. § fe slso said that the weather for that day L s bad. The witness said that late in the L ternoon of May 26 the intermediate vaive of ke collier wes broken, but previous to the frrival off Santiago she had not been “broken Sown, disabled or delayed.’ As to the condition Of the 26th the witness y 1 could have coaled, as I find g the 10g) we were making ten At one time we got up to twelve knots. oy the weather could not have been very TOUE. read here from the log at 1 seven knots, then six and so on. We got up to ten. There is one entry that we t up to eleven knote. that date I find 9 h find by the entry between § ©'clock in the morning nd the meridian of that ate we made from ten to twelve knots.” ‘What was the condition of the sea? wea had emoothed, 1 should judge, from he way we were going. We raised our speed seven tojten knots.” v f\p coaled vessels on the after- north h? je 1 had cpntrol of the ship I could have p coaled” i “What time fiid you break down?" We stoppeifat 5:30 that afternoon Concerging Coaling at Sea. Asked 1If velels could have been coaled while the Mefimac was in tow of the Yale, lied that that was a supposi- and that he would not like to tter of fact, she did not coal ile in tow. 'On all days from 31, except on the days when ‘iefuegos to Santiago and when errimac_had had veseels along- rpose of coaling and they had m_the collier. questioned the witness amination Raynor ler concerning coaling from the e 24th. He said the Massachu- eced coaled at 7:30 in the morning cay. He was then examined concern- naie ef to coaling the Texas. While these questions were being put Captain Miller ) ugn ly: e Fouve g0t me there”. B4 then Eignaled over, I object to having two eships slongside #f me,’ and Cuptain of the Texas mignaled, I think to Captain ut T do mot know whether it was wl or him, ‘K and M will crush 4 were mot G, you were X. G sachuscits? I think What I objected to was attieships beside me. They have otior, ana when two battleships 7Y hey ‘wouid have & tendemcy to -4 ier between them. It was mot o pres,.. 8cOUDt of the weather as it was e nce of a battleship on each side.” Hom was the sea at that time?” 1 dia x sea very much becas was peoullarly & weady SBID. o 75 1t a8 far as we other ships are nearly alwaye y Hos ave % X uld hate comled. s bow about the other vesgels?” t is Mot for me to judge.r “n when You spoke - . ou upoke about. Yeur oo mcaPClty to ar own ehip?’ for delivery. other ships Always Roll. witness said that he ‘- alongside the battleships he Wwent on, was battleships Were continually Iam Eattleships the - nung the st iglly in & rough sea,” Susgested Ray- in sny bea.’ responded the wit 1s Tt that especially true w e e gie hes grotru Sponsors @& had the Captain Miller closely con- of the weather and of the , Guoting from Admiral Cervera's that subject, but the witness his log was silent as to at that time. aptain Miller referred to ommand of the Merri. to turn the vessel over to Lieu. He said on that point: aken summarily from the everything 1 had was lost, ing 1 can remember now with tew 1, have here ig s this Jos.” 785 there gny point near Cienfuegos where @le couig have found protection from the do not e iably 2 Diee. %0 far there wpuld 1, > | hundred miles. of more than | the squadron east to quarter | always | EVANS of the Colon and the than we found off Cienfuegos unless going very far to the eastward.” “‘Could you have coaled any of the vessels on May 25 had you been ordered to do 807" “I should judge so, to the best of my knowl- edge and belief. I say I could coal, yes, I could coal at any time, but then I could not have coaled comiortably. For the other ehips it was what we call a nasty sea and squally, reiny weather, and if I had my choice I would not have coaled on that day; that is, the 25th.” | As he left the stand Captain Miller asked that he might be excused if he had shown any temper. “1 feel a little bit touchy about the Merri- mac,” he said. Admiral Dewey assured him that he had aisplayed no temper. Captain Jewell a Witness. Captain Miller was succeeded on the witnese- stand by Captain Theodore J. Jewell, who com- | manded the cruiser Minneapolis during the Spanish wa Captain Jewell said that he had first fallen in | with the fiving squadron under command of | Commodore Schiey on the evening of May 26. | Captain Lemly quoted from Admiral Schley's leiter to the ate Co nittee on Naval Af- fairs, dated February 1S, 1899, saying: “‘After having been informed by the scouts | commanded by such officers as Sigsbee, Jew- | €1l and Wise that, although they had been off | Santiago for a week, they had seen nothing of ‘ Cervera’'s fleet since it left Curacao,’ nd asked | whether he had given to Admiral Schiey this | information or any other information concern- fleet, the witness replied: information with reference to | the subject whatever.” At the time you were within signaling dis- tance of the flagship of the flying squadron off | Santiago, were you at any time asked any | questions by Commodore Schley as to the pres- | ence of the Spanish squadron in Santiago?’ ot to my recollection.’ “Do you recollect whether you went on board the flagship Brookiyn at this time? T did not go on board that day.” tain Jewell said that when he had first seen Admiral Schiley’ ement as to the in- formation he might have given concerning Cer- | vera's fieet, he had written a letter to the de- | partment denving that he had done so. Objec- tion was made to this I testimony, and it was not persisted i i 5 tness said in reply | = a question from Raynor that he had mo krowledge that Captain Sigsbee, speaking for | himself and Captains Jewell and Wise, stated | to Commodore Schley on the 26th at Santiago that neither he (the witness) nor Wise nor | himself (Sigsbee) had seen anything or knew | anything of the movements or whereabouts of | the Spanish fleet. Nor did he know whether | Captain Sigebee wrote a letter to Commodore ley stating that that was a fact Mixed as to Distances. The court 'here asked a question which opened up the coaling question. The question was: | ‘How far couid the Minneapolis have gone with her 400 coal at the time you state?”’ | | “If I bad burged 400 tons of coal I would { bave made something like twelve or thirteen That would have left the bunk- ers empty. I was burning about ninety-five tons a day, and an that making fourteen or fif- | teen knots | . Drawing from Captain Jewell the fact that the distance from Santiago to Key West is 850 miles, Mr. Raynor sald: | “In view of what you sald just now, will you explain the signals I read: °8:30 p. m., May 26, flagship to the Minneapolis: Have you enough togs of coal to go to Key West? ‘Minneapolis to flag- snip: Just enough’ How do you explain that? “1 am giving my recoliection at the time. As I said, my coa' supply was reduced, and I was concerned. There were s great many signals being made, and I replied to the signal without consulting the coal amount particularly, and I considered that three days’' steaming was about the limit I could safely go." ““There is an error here of about five to six hundred miles, Eight hundred 1300 or 1400 are | very different ' | “‘I estimated the distance I could steam. I id not usually provide for burning every ounce | | of coal in the bunmkers, and, furthermore, we | have got to alow for contingencies. 1 was | hauling the fises from the boilers very often | on account of {he leaks, starting fresh fires in | other boilers. DMy coal expenditure was vari- | T could 3ot depend udon ' | Then at thi{ time you just had enough, ac- | ing to thesi signals, to go to Key West?” | “1 arrived iy Key West with less than 100 tons of coal onlboard.” Captain Jewell was then excused and Captain McCalla was repailed for the purpose of correct- | ing his testimcpy. While he was on the su.nd’ | the court askef him two questions, which, to- gether with thq replies, were as follows: | By the court+Was there any place in the vi- | cinity of Cape Cruz where large vessels could | have found pratection from westerly or south- | westerly wi 3 “There Was 1o place where the larger ships could take protection from westerly and south- | | westerly winds. The prev: winds were | from the east end a south short duration in that vicinity and means | change of direction to the north very quickly.” | By the court—Had the fleet of Cervera been | | in the harbor of Clenfuegos, could it have been | eeq by the veseels blockading that port? should say-.not. The upper part of the | ts might have been seen if they had been | the stretch of the river where it turns to the st, but I should not expect to have found hem there. If they were behind the hill they could not have been seen, in my opinion.’” “aptain McCalla was then excused finaily and the court adjourned for luncheon. Admiral Evans Talks. When the court convened for the afternoon session Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, who | tain commanded the battleship Iowa | ring the batile off Santiago, was called to | e witness stand. He stated that he had first joined the fiying squadron off Cienfuegos on Jay 22 at 1 p. m., when he took the dispatches from Admiral Sampson to Commodore Schley by his executive officer, Commander Rogers, he not seeing the commidore himself. As the | dispatehes wWere sealed he did mot keow their | contents, { Judge Advocate—Please state what, if any- | 2g. was done while this squadron was off | nfuegos toward developing the fact as to | whether the Spanish squadron under Admiral | Cervera was or was not in the harbor of Clen- | fuegos. here was nothing done 5o far as I “What, If anything, within your Knowieas was done toward destroying or preventing the further completion of the enemy's batteries in the sicinity of Clenfuegos?” “'@n Sunday afternoon I am quite sure Com- modore Schiey formed his squadron in columns and stood in to a rangs of about a mile and | a half from shore, made a turn and atood out again. That is the only thing I know of -+ | ““Was any attack made upon the enemy or by the enemy at that time?" ““No. sir; they all got up and stood on the breastworks and looked at us. We steamed out again. There was no firing on either side.” | ““Were you then within range of the bat- teries in the vicinity of Cienfuegos with the | heavisr guns of your ship?” T did not see any batteries. There was a work they were completing there.’ ‘Were you within range of this?"* '‘Quite eacy range; yes.' “Ths battery of the Jowa consisted of what?"’ | “Four twelve-inch, eight eight-inch and twelva four-inch guns. “Were those embryo batteries within range of your eight-inch guns when you steamed f; ‘“They were within easy range.” “Were they within range of the four-inch guns? should think so; yes.” Did the Iowa coal ship while in Clenfuegos, and if so, how much did she take?" ““We took In 250 tons of coal on the 23d. We began about T in the morning and stopped at 6 in the afterncon. We took coal from a colller alonsside. the Merrimac. I think.” Admiral Evaps sald that he had coaled the Jowe from the Merrimac on May 23, while oft Clenfuegos, and that he had had no difficulty in_doing so. Speaking of the report of the condition of the weather made by the Iowa on May 24 and | %, the witness sald that on the evening of the th it was squally; that on the morning of the th the sky was overcast. and that the eath>r was again squally; in the afternoon 1¢ wns worse, there belng considerable rain with a long sea. Bombardment of the Colon. | He sald that after leaving Cienfuegos the vessel had stéamed to & point about thirty | miles south of“Santlago. arriving there on the | evening of the 26th, and at that time the squadron was heading to the east. The weather at that time, he sald, was not such as to prevent the coaling of ships at that date, | The Towa at that time hed about 835 tons of coal aboard or sufficient for steaming 3000 miles. On blockade th tons of coal a d “Why was the retrograde movement made?" asked Judge Advoeate Lemly I do not know,” was the reply. The witness =aid he could h8Ve coaled at sen on the Zith as the sea was Smooth. as any effort made by the flying squ: on May 28 35 or 30 to cpmimanicats. with ton insurgents-on shore near Santiago?’ None to my knowledge.’ ship used thirty or forty Testifying that he had first seen the on May 28, Admiral Evans said that \E:eollaoe,} was not inside the harbor at all, but was about 1500 ¥ards inside the Morro: e then detailed the particulars of the bom- bardment of the Colon on May 31, uylnxb&':t pon the forenoon of that dny Commodore Schley had signaled to transfer the flag to the Masso. :"‘."""'i that he was golng In to engage the scribing thpt emgagement, the wite De: ive minutes to 1 T saw the first m the Massschusetts fali short & long 'a"xffl | and Gough | limit to accommodate the delegates to the UESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1901. EPISCOPAL CONVENTION TO OPEN WITH A PROCESSION OF BISHOPS Hundreds of Clerical and Lay Delegates Will Atrive To-Day and Great Council of the Church Will Convene To-Motrow. VERYTHING is in readiness for the commencement of the gen- eral convention of the EpiscBpal church and to-day will witness the arrival in this city of hun- dreds of delegates, including Bishops of the church, distinguished clericals and laymen. Prominent among those who will ar- rive this morning are Bishop Potter of New York City, J. Pierpont Morgan, the millionaire, and the party of Eastern Bishops and laymen who will be the guests of the wealthy financier at the Crocker residence. The special train of Mr. Morgan is due to arrive at Oakland at 7:5 o’clock this morning and the trav- elers will proceed at once in carriages to the Crocker residence. An excursion under the direction of ’\\'hltcomb and Raymond will bring 300 delegates to the convention and will ar- rive to-day. Other delegations from all parts of the United States are scheduled to reach San Francisco before 7 o’clock this evening, while the ieports of the raiiroad officials show that nearly 2000 people are journeying westward, having taken advantage of the special rallroad convention rates. The delegation from the State of Wash- ington arrived yesterday. Right Rev. Lemuel H: Wells, Bishop o- Washington, came with this delegation. Other promi- nent divines who reached the city yester- day were Rev. J. H. Eichbaum of Brook- Iyn, Mich., Rev. J. Eccleston of Baltimore and Re Henry Lewis Morris of New York City. The capacity of Trinity Church, Bush streets, will be taxed to its convention. The House of Bishops will sit in executive session in the Sunday school room of the church, while the House of Deputies will transact business in the church proper. An extra gallery has been built in the sacred edifice in or- der to prevent undue crowding. The local committees having charge of the conven- tion are bending every energy to make the gathering a complete success. Headquarters for delegates have been opened in the ferry building and at lws Bush street. Committees will be in at- tendance at the ferry to welcome visitors and Rev. Mardon D. Wilson is in charge of the headquarters at 1703 Bush street. The convention will open to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock. Bishop Nichols of California will call,the gathering to order. The services will be most impressive. All the Bishops will appear in procession, wearing their vestments of office, at wue opening of the convention. Aged Prelate Comes Here. Right Rev. Frederick Dan Hunting- ton, D. D., Bishop of Central New York, comes as a guest of J. Plerpont Morgan, and one of the travelers in the financial magnate's special train. Few Bishops in the church have enjoyed so great papu- larity, or had a more successful career TWO PROMINENT PRELATES OF BE HELD IN THIS CITY. ol Right Rev. Daniel Sylvester Tuttle, D. D., Bishop of Missouri, will preside over the higher house during the conven- tion by right of seniority of consecration and the inability of the primate to be present in person. Since the general convention of 1898, held in Washington, D. C., the following blshops_whose date of consecration pre- ceded Bishop Tuttle have dled: Bishop Williams preaidhfi Bishop, Connecticut; Bishop Whipple, Minnesota: Bishop Wil- mer, Alabama; Bishop Willlams, Japan, and Bishop Necly, Maine. There remains but the aged Bishop Thomas March Clark, Bishop of Rhode Island, and now primate of the American church, whose consecration dates prior to Bishop Tut- tle’s. The primate is the one who has been longest in the episcopate. His pow- ers are closely defined by canon, and in no respect exceed those of any other bishop. A bishop is supreme in his own diocese. For convenience sake a primate, who is the mouthpiece of the House of Bishops, is required. His work is light and largely pro forma. Bishop Tuttle is a New Yorker by.birth, and was a protege of the late Bishop Alonzo Potter of New York, who was uncle of the present Bishop, and.is a graduate of Columbia and the General Theological Seminary. Advanced to the priesthood in 1863, he served as rector in the little town of Morris, Otsego County, New York, and from this humble coun- try pulpit he was raised to become first Bishop of Utah and Montana before he was thirty years of age. Here he was engaged in an_active controversy with Mormonism and its peculiar institutions, but succeeded in gathering about him a strong force of Gentile supporters and founding his church on an enduring basis. In 1868 he was elected Bishop of Mis- souri, but declined the office. Again, in 1886, he was elected to this see and ac- cepted. RT Rew: \F & HuUNTINGTON - THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH WHO WILL TAKE LEADING PARTS IN THE COMING CONVENTION TO 3 either as clergyman or Bishop. His father was a follower of Chan- ning, the founder of a school of Unitarl- anism in New England. The Bishop was early in life a minister of South Congre- ational Church in Boston, where he soon ecame noted as an exceptional preacher. Appointed Plummer professor of Chris- tian morals in Harvard, he became closely identified with the usual exercises, but his views underwent a change, and to the amazement of his friends he surren- dered the faith-of his fathers to embrace Episcopalianismi His first and only min- isterial charge was Emmanuel Church, Boston. During the War.of the Rebellion, Dr. Huntington advocated the cause of the North with pen and all the might of his great eloquence. As a lecturer he was al- ways In demand. In 1869, Dr. Huntington was elected Bishop of Central New York, and after thirty-two years’' service in the episco- pates is strong and vigorous. The appearance of the aged Bishop will be one of the events of the convention. —_— Bishop Tuttle is regarded as one of the strongest in his order. An orator of the first rank, he is equally eminent as an administrator, and has brought his diocese to a point of strength and influ- ence that it never before possessed. The western half of the State has been set off as a separate jurisdiction, and each diocese is now stronger than the first was before the division. A number of delegates arrived in the city last evening on the overland train and secured apartments at the downtown | otels. Among the prominent clericals who reached the city were Rev. George F. Nelson and Rev. T. J. Packard of Balti- more, Md., assistant secretaries to the House of Bishops: Rev. Cameron Mann of Kansas City, Rev. J. Lewis Parks of Calvary Church, New York City, and Rev. M. Donald of Trinity Church, Bos- ton, Mass. The ministers mentioned are all promi- nent in the Episcopalian church and will be leaders in the debates of the forthcom- ing convention. L i e e i L R S Y ) tance, and supposing she was firing at 7000 yards I gave the range to my guns 8000 yards. 1 saw these shots fall short and increased -the range to 9000 yards. After the Massachusetts had passed the entrance to the harbor she turned with port helm and steamed back, the New Orleans and Iowa following. On the run back across the harbor I again fired at 10,000 ards. The shots still fell short, and ‘the assachusetts and New Orleans showed down | and stopped after they got across I slowed my engines, then increased the range to 11,000 vards and fired two shots from the forward i2-inch turret. The first one was fired by Lieu- tenant Van Deuser at 11,000 yards. I saw that it fell ehort. Lieutenant Hill had the other gun in that turret. I gave him the range at Fiifto varde and he fired, and that shot struck very near the stern of the Colon. Both 12- inch guns were disabled by the fire from that extreme elevation. After that we stood a mile and & half, possibly two miles to our blockad- ing station again. That was all I saw done to injure the Colon.” Blockade Under Schley. The witness was then asked about the block- de under Commodore Schley. He sald the squadron stood seven or elght miles out during the daytime and a little farther out at night, with the Vixen and the Marblehead on the in- side at night. The judge advocate asked the witness concerning a statement by a lieutenant of the Spanish navy, printed by the Navy De- partment, to the effect that at dark the Ameri- can ships withdrew to the southward, disap- pearing. The introduction of this book was objected to, and Admiral Dewey said: ““The witness has already told what distance was_maintalned by the fleet. We don’t care for that kind of information. Admiral Evans was_there and can answer for himself. We want facts, not newspaper articles.’” Describing the battle off Santiago Admiral Evans said: “When Cervera's fleet came out of Santiago harbor the lowa Was at the center, with thy Brooklyn to the left and the Texas betwee: Captain Lemly—Do you remember what ves- sels were between them? ‘“The only vessel betw Brooklyn was the Texas. ‘Did you have an opportunity of observing the movements of the Brooklyn on this occa- sion 2" - ““You mean during the battle?’ “I 'mean the beginning of the battle.” “Look Out for the Texas.” “I saw the Brooklyn when the fighting be- gan. When I reached the bridge of the Iowa the Brookiyn was still off to the westward, headed, I should say, northwest. That was just as the fight began. I saw her again, pos- sibly, five minutes afterward, when she was steaming westward very fast, firing her port battery, headed northwest toward the head of the Spanish eolumn. I did not see the Brook- lyn again until my attention was directed to This Tuesday Morning Make Up Your Mind To join that Southern Pacific special day- light train excursion to Lake Tahoe next en the Iowa and the Saturday. Only $8 50 round trip and ticket good eight days. Did you ter yester- day? It not, to-day at 613 et street. her by the navigator calling to me: ‘Look out, captain, for the Texas.’ 1 went on the port bridge, ‘where the navigator was standing, and I sald: ‘Where the devil is the Texas? The navigator said: ‘Here she s, sir, in the smoke.” T gaid to myself: ‘Captain Philip will look after the Texas' and went below. In a few minutes the navigator called out again: Look out, captain; you will run into the Texas’ T walked over to‘the port side of the bridge and saw the Brooklyn's smokestack and military masts. She was lying directly across the bows of the Texas. The Texas was appar- ently backing and dangerously close to the fowa. The Brooklyn seemed to be 500 yards directly in front of the Texas. I the helm of the Iowa a little, ported her helm @ little, and just at that moment the Oregon came through my lee and passed between me and the Texas and the three boats bunched together. “‘At the time the Brooklyn was shut out in smoke and I saw no more of her until the Colon had passed well to the westward of me, when some one on the bridge sal i “The Brooklyn is knocked out.” “I went on the bridge to see what had hap- gened and she was then about a mile and a alf forward of the port beam of the Xowlli with the Colon seven orsight miles ahead an: on her starboard bow. From that time on the firing was light and I could see the Brooklyn occasfonally. The Brooklyn was on our star- board bow on the port quarter of the Colon. Well astern of her was the Oregon, with the Vixen off shore of the Brooklyn. The Iowa at that time was directly in the wake of the bC:lon. Wwith the Vixen a little on her starboard L “H?ew was the Towa headed by the com- pass?” v “To the westward, heading for the enemy’s ships. I do not know whether we were headed west by south or west by north.” Under Cross-Examination. On his cross-examination by Raynor, Admiral Evans said that he had left Key West with the Iowa for Clenfuegos on May 20 and that were he knew before leaving that port that a secret. code had been arranged with the insurgents on shore at Cienfuegos, as Captain Chadwick had siven him this information, “‘He came on board the Iowa,” sald the wit- ness, ‘‘to deliver dispatches to me before we got under way. To my best knowledge and belief he gave me a written memorandum con- taining the secret code, but motwithstanding I made dillgent search among @y papers Tor this document, I have fafled to find it." Raynor—Can you refresh your memory about this memorandum? There Is: one thing,'and that is that tl dispatches. ¥ "None whatever.”" ‘“When were these dispatches delivered to Commodore Schley?"” y ““They were delivered between half past 12 and 1 o'clock on the afternoon of the 22d.” Dl ou read the memorandur sbout signals giyen to you by Captain Chadwick? “Certainly I did, but not the dispatches to Commodore Schley."” J Raynor here exhibited to the witness two memoranda from the official but Ad- miral Evans said that nelther was the document to which he had reference. That, he said, was the code of signals with the insur- gent. ; “‘What became of that m,m‘.ndnmf" Towa carried 0 doubt about' ‘‘As I told you, I lost it. I searched every paper and everywhere and tried to find it. In fact, I am not sure it was a memorandum.”* duPhen aid you' search for this memoran- um?” “I searched within the last month for it, ever since the question has been raised in the newspapers about my not having given Com- modore Schley this informatio ““Then did you inform Commodore Schley that this system of signals had been ai ed 7 “I did not. It never entered my mind that he did not know it.’’ ““The Marblehead being the vessel that es- tablished this code and Commodore Schiey’s squadron having arrived at Key West before the Marblehead got there, did it-not enter your mind that Commodore Schley must have known of the signal code?” “You make the mistake of supposing that I knew this was done by the Marblehead. I had no knowledge that the Marblehead had ar- these signals. They were simply give to me by the chiet of staff as a system of sig- n als. “Upon what :nd_did_you suppose that Commodore Schiey knew {t77 “He was the commanding officer of the O or sWhist souross ia n om ou suppose this information?"" = o e I did not suppose anything about it. It never entered my head. If it had I should have said, of course, that the commanding of- ficer of & naval force would mot expect one of his junior captains to give him information about his signals. It was given to me as a piece of information which I thought every captaln of the fleet had. I never thought of Commodore Schley in connection with it. It I had supposed for a moment that Commodors Schley did not have it I would have given it to him the first thing on my arrival there. ‘I did not intend to say that Commodore Schiey T R et Ravmorprag t this Inf or _ D1 luced Evans’ books A Sallors Toge ead baomiral quote a passage from it on.the subject of the code, when the judge advccate interrupted with an objectlon, which was sustained by the court, Admiral Dewey remarking: *“I would rather ;uu ‘would get the statement from the witness o Raynor then, while reading from the book, put the question: ‘‘Have you stated (quoting from Admiral Evans’ book), ‘I, of course, took it for granted that the commodore understood those signals as well as I did. Otherwise T should have Informed him of thelr signif- cance?" ‘“That Is absolutely a fact,”” replied the wit- ness. ““Therefore you did take it for granted that Christmas Holidays in Mexico, “Southern Pacific special train leaves San Francisco, December 1Sth, Los An- seles December 19th; reaching Mexico in time for the Holiday Celebrations. Round trip, San Francisco, $80. Los Angeles, §70. Personally conducted. Dining car. Pullman sleepers. Limit 60 days. Low side trip rates. Optional itineraries. Make reservations 613 Market street, Francisco, 21 South Spring street, Angeles.’ . NEW SHIP SUBSIDY BILL IS NOW BEING PREPARED Congressmen Who Have the Interests of the Mer- chant Marine at Heart Are Trying to Overcome Former Objections. Special Dispatch to The Call. ALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, Sept." 30.— A new ship subsidy bill will be introduced in the Senate early in the next session «f Congress It will differ from the measure which Sen- ators Frye and Hanna made such a strenuous effort to have passed last win- ter. What the modifications will be are to be determined between this time and December, but it is intended they shall not alter the old bill in any radical man- ner. Some efforts will be made, however, to make the new measure acceptable to those who opposed the old one. Advocates of ship subsidy purpose be- ginning early in bringing the issue to the front at the coming session. A confer- encé is scheduled to be held in. B to-morrow or on Wednesday, at a draft of the new bill will be considered. | There will be present Senators Hanna and | Frye, Representative Littlefield of Maine, President Griscom of the International Navigation Company and a few others who are’ interested in building up the measure. Senator Hanna was due to ar- rive in_Boston to-day. He has been at Bath, Me., where the United States cruiser Cleveland and a_large ocean sail- ing vessel named in honor of Senator Frye have been launched. Subsidy Features. One of the most important questions pertaining to the new bill which will come before this conference centers the commodore understood the signals?” “1-did. “He could never have understood the signal unless he knew something about it, could he? “ took it for granted he understood it.”" ~ “Well, you found out that he did not under- stand it, id ycu not o Signals at Cienfuegos. Raynor questioned Admiral Evans at some length concerning the signals as displayed on the coast_near Cientuegos, which the admiral said the officer of the deck had told him had been seen on May 22 and 23, but ‘the witness said that he had had no conversation with Admiral Schley about these lights and had made no re- port to him of their appearance or significance. Raynor then changed his base of his exam- ination from Clenfuegos to Santlago, and began by asking Admiral Evans if he had seen the officfal chart showing the positions of the Brooklyn and other battleships on the day of the battle of Santiago, July 3, 18%. The ad- miral replied that he had seen the chart, but that it was Wrong. ““When did you first know about the turn of the Brooklyn, as you say, a short distance from the Texas?' ““When 1 saw her Texas."” “Do_you recollect the conversation you had with Commodore Schley the 5th of July, the second day after the battle, regarding the loop of the Brooklyn?" *No, sir; 1 do not. I do not remember men- tioning the subject at all.” ““You do not recollect that Commodore Schley first told vou on July 5 that it was the Brook- Iyn, and not the Texas, that made the turn?" “I never imagined anything of the sort.”” ““Give briefly the purport of your conversation on that date with Commodore Schley. “Briefly, as 1 recollect the conversation, he was talking to a person named Graham. He was sitting at his desk, writing. I walked into his cabin to make a report. He put his hand on my shoulder and said: ‘Bobby, I am just Writing my report of the battle of the 3d of July.” Yo satd: ‘T have said of you that you handled your ship with consummate skill.” He then introduced me to Mr. Graham. Captain Cook came in and asked me if I would tell bim whether the position of certain Spanish ships was correct, which came out first, ete., and that he had been a little confused in his mind. We talked a few minutes and I then ‘went into Captain Cook’s cabil “You @0 not recollest the conversation, going over the particulars of the turn the Brooklyn made and the remark Commodore Schley made at that time about Captain Philip when you said _you thought it was Captain Phillp of the Texas who made the turn?" Dangerously Near the Texas. “I never said that; absolutely I never said such a thing because the Texas was right under my eye all the time. She did not turn at_all” Concerning the position of the Brooklyn and Texas on the day of the battle, the witness sai ““The Brooklyn was dangerously near the Texas. 1 should say within 100 yards of her.'” “What was your position, just at that time when she crossed the course of the Texas, relative to the Brooklyn and Texas?’ “The Iowa was heading straight i Spanish_fleet to_intercept the Viz cross the bow of the for the at that time. She was heading more to the northward than the Texas. The Texas was headed off more to the west. When I eaw the Brooklyn the third time she was across the bow of the Texas, heading south.’” “When did you see her mext, if at all?” *““After the Oquendo went shore my atten- tion was called to the Brooklyn by some one on the bridge, who remarked: ‘The Brooklyn is knocked out.’ She was then hotly engaged with her starboard battery. She was headed parallel with the course of the Colon, I should say.” Raynor questioned the witness again with ref- erence to statements made in his (Admiral Bvans') book, asking him whether he had ever sald he felt reasonably sure that the Spanish fleet was in the harbor at Santiago. The wit- ness said that he had made that statement, but that it was a conclusion based on the fact that the Spaniards were not at Clenfuegos: that they had not gone westward and that from a military point of view Santiago was the place where they were most apt to be. “That was simply your opinion then and not a matter of Information?’ suggested Raynor, to which the witness replied in the affirmative. Raynor then remarked that he had never be- fore understood upon what the admiral had based his statements. “I think you did,” sald the admiral. “I assure you I had never read it before,” responded Raynor. ““You have read it three times to me, so that you cannot say that you never read the state- ment_before.” Admiral Dewey—Remarks will be confined to questions and answers. Admiral Evans, in response to a question from Raynor, said he had been called to the deck of the Towa on the evening of July 2 by Lieutenant Hill, who was the deck officer and Who had called his attention to columns of smoke arising from the entrance to the harbor. The lieutenant had remarked that it was his opinion that the Spaniards were preparing to come out, but he (Admiral Evans) expressed the opinion that they were only shifting their berths, as they had done on previous occa- slons. ~ However, the signal at that time had been prepared and was kept in readiness all night, saying that the enemy was escaping. Lemly Asks Questions. Raynor then surrendered the witness tempo- rarily, saying that he would have further ques- tions to ask, but that he desired time to pre- them. It was arranged that these ques- tions could be deferred until to-morrow, and in the meantime Captain Lemly made some interrogations before the redirect examination. He : nder what instructions, verbal, written or by signal from the flagship Brooklyn, did you maneuver the lowa during the naval batle off_Santiago harbor on July 3, 18987 “I never saw any signal from her. T did not maneuver in obedience to any signal from the Brooklyn. I did not see any signals aboard vt r any written or verbal instructions?’ “None whatever."" “What instruction, verbal or written, aid you have from Commodore Schley relative to the order ~¢ blockade or order of battle while a part of the flying squadron?” “The order of blockade was to form column double distance and cruise in that formation.’ “‘Was there any prescribed order of battle by which you would have been guided if the enemy’s ships had come out of Santiago harbor prior to June 1, 15382 Returaing o fhe_ departure of the ; Returning o squadron from Clenfuegos Hanna asked: e ““What steps were taken, if any, to mark the movements of that 2quadron in accordance with orders ““There were no lights shown on the fiyfng squadron on blockade except, I believe, we did have a light in the stern of each ship. By the court—Was any further effort made by, the fiying squadron to destroy the Colon? ¢ Nome. I£, by ‘further’ you mean the action of : u;-w;s the fire olhthp enemy’-l batteries on the t heavy enot to seriously endanger the attacking shipa?t ‘No, sir, it was not heavy at all. The pro- ectiles mostly fell a long ways short of us. 'wo, I think, passed over my ship.” “In the attack on the Colon on May 31 did any of the enemy's shells fall near the squad- ron?"* “Two, I think, fell near the Towa."" Coaling Question Again. “Would it have been possible for the Towa to coal from the Merrimac on the afternocon’of May 267" around the proposition to pay subsiéies to foreign-built ships now owned wholly or_in major part by Americans. i It will be recalled that it was against this provision of the old bill that the greatest hostility was shown at the last session of Congress, and it is understood the aim of the conference at Boston will be to so frame this clause as not to ex- cite the same dangerous opposition. To accomplish this purpose and at the same time to carry out the idea embodied in the foreign tonnage feature of the bill will be a difficult matter, especially in view of the fact that since the adjournmen of Congress_last March J. Pierpont Mor gan and the transportation companies with which.he is allled have purchased forelgn ships having a combined capaeity of 275,000 tons. The question of shortening the perfod of operation of the subsidy law from twenty years, as was propcsed in the old bill, to about twelve or fifteen years will also be considered. Another matter that will come up befcre the conference, 1t is understood, will be to fix a uniform rate of subsidy of 1 cent per gross fon for each one hundred nautical miles covered by ships enjoying a Government bounty. In the old bill it was proposed to pay one and a half cents for each one hun- dred miles not exceeding fifteen humcre | miles, and one cent per ton for each ditional hundred miles sailed. An effort will be made also to simp all the provisions in the new meas so as to render it more intelligible members of Congress and the gen: public. - S '@ chorage under the lee of Jardinallas b where large vessels would be sheltered w?terly winds ?"* 1 do not.” ‘*Ar you famillar with the southern coas Cuba between Clenfuegos and Santiago? “Fairly familiar with it, yes, sir.” “‘Are there any positions between Clenfuegos and the neighborhood of Santiago where ves- sels can coal in rough weather?" ““Between Clenfuegos and Santiago I kmaw of no place where they could coal in rough weather."" ““Was'there any period between May 24 and May 26 when the Iowa could not have coaled from the collfer Merrimae?” » “She could not have coaled from 8 o'clock in the morning of the 25th until 8 or 9 ocloclk on the mornfng of the 26th, when it moder- ated.” PASTORS APPOINTED FOR FRESNO DISTRICT Methodist Conference of Southern California Completes Its Work. LOS ANGELES, Sept. 30.—The general Methodist Episeopal Conference of South- ern California closed to-day and the ap- pointments were announced. K But faw changes were made in the Los Angeles district.' A resolution deplering the as- sassination of President McKinley and strongly denouncing anarchistic teachings was adopted and a copy ordered forward- ed to President Roosevelt. The appoint- ments for the Fresno district were as fol- lows: Presiding elder, J. B. Green; Arroyo Grande, F. A. Ziegler: Bakersfleld, George E. Foster: Bardsdale, Stephen Gascoigne: Easton, Martin Judy; Epworth, F. W. Davis; Estrella and Shandon, A. J.' McKenzie: Fresno, G. A. Mil- ler; Goleta, M. A. Meagher; Grangeville, O. W.' Reinius; Hanford, W. A. Beils; Huenems and Saticoy, George S. Madden, supply: Kern. C. H. Wooliey; Kernville, William Dinwoodie: Lompoc and Stewart, J. C..Elliott; Oxnard and Somis, J. H. Avery: Paso Robles, G. B. (iff; Piru, Alexander Hardie: Porterville, M. S. McGee; Reedley, W. H. Fulford; San Luis Obispo, Willlam Clague: San Miguel, }._Bie Husted; Sanger. J. M. Richmond; Santa Sase bara, S. J. Carroil; Santa Maria, S. S. Samp- son; Santa Paula. L. G. Spring: Selma and Traver, J. M. Taylor; Spanish Mission, D. A. Mata; ‘Tehachapl, W. S. German; Tulare, A. B Morrison: Ventura, J. M. Rich: Visahia: ¥ V. Fisher; Wauken: C. Elkins. Chile Buys Fruit Trees. SANTA ROSA, Sept. 30.—Theodore Schneider, a representative of the Chilean Government, now making a tour of tne Pacific Coast to familiarize himself with the fruit industry, has placed a large or- der with Luther Burbank, the well-known horticulturist, for new trees for the Gov- ernment experiment grounds. Those espe- clally designated by Mr. Schneider are ths sugar prune plum, Wickson plum, Sultan plum, China plum, the “opulent™ peach and the Santa Rosa soft shell wainut. The other varieties are to pe selected by Burbank. — Cruiser’s Launch Blows Up. VICTORIA, B. C., Sept. 30.—Advices re- ceived from Fuchow by the steamer Athenian tell of the narrow escape from death of five officers and several seamen of the United States cruiser Wilmington when that vessel arrived at the Chinese port early in September. The officers wers going ashore in the cruiser's launch, when the boiler exploded and the top flew high into the air. Fortunately cvery one om board escaped uainjured. Mason Must Keep the Peace. SAN RAFAEL, Sept. 30.—Adolph Sylva, Mayor of Sausalito, to-day had Clinton Mason arrested for threatening his life. Mizson was bound over by Jugge Roddem to keep the peace for three pionths on a $5.0 bond. Mason is an employe of the poolroom operators in Sausalito. ADVERTISFMENTS. BAD BLOOD, BAD COMPLEXION. The skin is the seat of an almost end- less variety of diseases. They are kncwn by various names, but are due to the same cause, acid and other poisons in the blood that irritate and interfere with the proper action of the skin. 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