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m .. . . ... - - - . - . . - : ' ' r- : - : 1 '1 11 11 'i 1 1 Si if i 0i V. -f "ASjaBVILlEi' C IHUESDAy: aUEMNG, EEBEDAitY :20, 1S02K; ; . 1T1VB CENTS FEU OQPT.I j?. i JTUUU DOLLASa YEAR . j ADVOCATES OF SCUTTLE POLICY HELD THE FLOOR SOME HOURS 7 - Li1! , I- - t f 1 i& 1 J ICourt.Right. inrCondenining Schley's RetrogradeJVI Acted With Propriety in Withholding: Opinion on I Question of Command--RefusestOvReve;se 1 : v v "of the G'rtainPloop" Condemned--1 artglrtb Proxlmfty'-Wholly "a Batttle of the Captains Jv J r - , - IN THE SENATE YES- : : TERDAY. , L4steri! We have just in New Turnoyers, . Best, 50?; I New Stocks, 25c Hew Windsors, 25c New Neck Ribbons, 10c W- New Belts, 25c New Ginghams ' New Percales New New Applipes i HwrwoTOltf FeT: 19. Presi- has, ftawever, ioenMraasea ny ine prw dent ; Ileyelt's'menaoitaaicluiir ideot of the court". Moreover lit is, the 7 upon the appeal I of r Admiral ' point upon which Admiral Schley in hds l.ahiAv mmHhefiadtogs ol the appeal lays most stress, ana wracn ne .Anvf irwinirv was ariven ouit estecially asks me 'to consider., I ha-ve for puttlicUon today. It' is as follows: therefore carefully investigated this ' .' "' t . ! matter aftao. and have informed myself (White House, February 1, io. ;upon it,from !the hest sources of'infor- .owing - to' her far eastward position at T have received the appeal of Admiral mation at my commeocl. ' ; starting , Ahout a quarter past SchWkncl the answer thereto-from ttte , atilDeal of Admiral Sshley to me ten th Teresa, which had been to dim to io -(the Spanish ships had appeared at about 9:30) the Iowa, Oregon, andJTejxas were pretty well - buoched, holding a' panallel course westward with the Spaniarde. The Indiana iwas also comlLng iip, well inside of all the others of our squadron "but a Mttle in the rear, tiavy aepanmenx with the.utmdst TfnAflinfir a,Dteail to ine,secret.:uj I have' exanUnod is not, 4o this, the chief point he cultiefrom the. moment she left the a mrith -thie!:utmdst care, as well , as tri:,aem.. nnM.i-fmm h deds- shelteSr'pf the Morro, turned to seek W -T-l-- ; , .UUWf HVn f "J -7 1J' . J, ion tlii& court of inauiry. of the mavy. I have reaa wiruugu " sixths of-the appeal is devoted to this w dbw mai sne. wa. uw tuue the testimony , taken by the court and 0' . command and . credit; that quantify to le- reckoned with. Five the statements of (the counsel for Ad- is to maitter . which the court of in-y mimites later our special enemy, the mirals Sampson, and Schley; have ex- quiry dilnot T consider. It is to effect Oquendo also turned in shore. oWitTiArl nil the official reports of every -n f frm VTip- action of President The Vfecaya kept Waving got cicious- tind in-reference o the Santiago naval McKinleys three .yeare ago when he ly; but the poumding she got from our campaigni copies or tne l-ogiooos Bent ' to the recommendations for pro- touijuijvftwe "vum-jt t signal books, and' the tespmony vkx. motion for the various officers connect- gon .was too mucn ua, uU ,ix ed with the Santiago squadron, oasmg u o nount of claimst. and -hove also per- sonally had (before me the -four surviv ing, captains of the five Bhips, aside, rom those of the two admirals, which were Actively engaged at Santiago. -It appears that the court of inquiry was unanimous in its findings of fact and unanimous to. ite expressions of thAaa rarOTYiTnAndfltlons noon his es timate of the credit to which the offl teers" were respectively entitled. What I have to decide, therefore, is whether or not President MeKtoley did lnjus tice in the matter. This necessarily .tva1vpw . comnarison of the actions ? T t lrti-prmined to nush on with the Texiae". It gives me pleas ure to be able to write thaf, old ship as she is swifl not .built for speed, the Texasi'held her own and even gained ot thereof on in that chase. " Admiral Sampson was commander-ln- 1 Zephyrs -I I New Laces i 1 Al I I Onntromhor 7?f fin I II 51 Patton Avenue. III ma vQTO i ll is the BEST.' I 1 " 1 I Kafchefs li opinion on most of Its findings of fact. of the different commanders engaged. No appeal is made to me irom me v--dict of ; the Court on these points w-here it was unanimous. I have, however, gone carefully over the evidence on these points also. I am satisfied that cn the whole the court did substantial Jus tice. It should have specifically con demned the failure to enforce an effl uent night blockade at Santiago while Admiral Schley was m comuum. the other hand. I feel that there is a reasonable doubt whether he did rot move his squadron with sufficient ex- LAitr, nort to port. The courx l"'"" " - A JUol is,, a unit to conaemnms ui Schley's ' action, on the point where it seeps to me he most gravely erred; his 'Yetrogwide movement" when h i.JA the- blockade1, and his nlsp- . movement or action of the, Oregon, nor (did I perform any action of any. kind whatever,, in obedience to any : order from the Brooklyn neither as to -my course nor as to, my, speed, tnor. as te-jny gum fire, during the fight or chase. "The Oregon .always Wad fires' under all boilers. In spite of tthe speed shown by the Oregon in this fight, she had rft been aod is not classed as the fastest ship; tout during all her service, in or der that no scale should .form in them, not one' of our boilers was used for con-. densing, though the resulting discom fort for all hands iwas an additional hardship for. her commanding officer." The following is Admiral Evans' state ment. "The credit for the blockade, for the arrangement of the ships at . the open ing of the fight, and for the first move ments forward into the fight must of course belong to Admiral Sampson, whose orders we were putting into ef fect. When thte fight ibegan Admiral Sampson's shjp, the New York, was in plain slight. 1 saw her turning to over take us. Throughout the fight I con sidered myself as under his . command. Money Says it is as Easy to Pull,1 Down the Flag as to Drop a Red Hot Iron. 1 -, ANOTHER DEMOCRAT ENDORSES WHEEER.: BQUTBLiLOE, OF IUIilNOIS' SHOWS v THAT TH& FIRST AND LAST DEMOCRATIC PRBSIDiElNT HAD INTOU'IjGD-' IN "TRXJCUatUENCE AND jSTCOPHANKJY . ' -. ? 1 . - .' ... Washington, Feb. 19. The Philip pines tariff ' Will absorbed - most ot to day's session 6f the senate . Messrs . Burrow. Tillman, Money, and Foraxer were the most prominent partlipants in the debate. Burrows defended the government's policy in regard to the Philippines and declared that tne'.aioan donimenlt of the islands would be the master crime of the century. , Tillman contrasted the condition of affairs in Louisiana as to its acquirement wiltn (Continued on fourth page.) The exhaustive official reports ol w action leave little to be hrought out anew; but as the question of Admiral Sampson's iright to toe considered in chief command, which was determined in his favor by President McKinley, and later ibv the court of claims, has never hitherto .been officially raised, I deemed it best to secure statements of the com manders of the five ships (other than the Brooklyn and New York, the flag ships of the two admirals) which were actively engaged in the fight. Admiral Philip is dead. I quote extracts from his magazine article on the flight, writ ten Immediately after 4t occurred; clos inir with an extract from his letter to the secretary of the navy of Feibruary 27, 1899:, rhief i before, during and af ter the ac- ? wy. t received no orders .from him un til the Viscaya was aground. Nor am I receive any orders whatever from the tion.'t- -Captain lower Clark's statement is as f ol- "Th credit for the tflockade which bedience of orders, and misstatement K frt .was the blockade Hharmadethe wisitiftttl.t!bei5etot sslhle.. The-battle was a direct, 9 5-v.tL-i. "fhat fhft TWaiOrl--!-.-" . Miwlna and UDOn iremenTipereu, c , ----- - -im these actions wnicn me " censured occurred' nve weejis w .before the fight atself ; and 4t oertaw seems that tt Admiral Schley's actions (were .censurable he should not have been left as second in command- nder Samnson. His offienses were do.ned when he was lu soiicw?i n account for them. not Admiral 'niflnpnv of the hlockade, and upon the method and effectiveness of the jhi'ockade was very largely dependent fa tesii0 of tho (battle. Under tliV. ikJU -w the orders, of Admiral Sampson the blockade was etomdu'eted with a success exemplified toy the result. When the Spanish admiral at last made his dash to escape, we were ready T-.artv with our men, iwun our guu I Sampson, af ter the fight, in an Official h olir engimes. t,-iA v, TMarTTVAnt alluded for the . m.a a minvktes after we had ipi 1 hi iii 111c . w as uuij For suiting kindling, For spliting kindling, nails a mighty handy have about the house, afford to have one for cents. driving drawing tool to You can 15 to 75 LOcks Now is a good time to put a lock on that chicken yard .or, barn-. "We have a good stock of all kinds and sizes of locks at 10 cents and t UTP. ' , , Hafrdvirarci Co. P ON THE SQUARE- ... A. i imwi rifv's "repre nrsx. lime w " - 1 hensible conduct" six weeks previously.' If Admiral Schley was guilty or rep rehensible conduct of a kind wnicn corn ed for such notice from Admiral Samp son, then admiral ought not to have leu mm ior officei- of the biocaaaing- ""-" on the 3d of July, wnen ne voui- I steamed away on his proper errand of Communication .with General bnaruei . We can therefore for our prefer purposes dismiss consideration or su much of the appeal as relates to any-; thing except the battle. As regards this; the point raised in the appeal is be tween Admiral Sampson and Admiral Schley, as to wnicn was mu wuuu. ' to which was entitled to 1 the1 Do Yon Need a seen the leader of the advancing squad ron that it became apparent that Cer vera's plan was to run hie -ships in col umn to westward in an effort to escape. Before he had fairly found him self outside the Morro the entire block- ndime- so uadron Indiana, uregon, 10 w a, Brooklyn, and Texas was ' pumping shell into him at such a rae' as vir tually to decide the issue of the battle in the first few moments. .All our 'ships had closed in. simultaneously. -m . 1 f 1 i. nTl1.l Thsn occurred itne incweuii. wim-" 'caused me for ax moment more, alarm than anything Cervera did that day. sudd'enly a Whiff of breezy , lull to the firing lifted the pall. u v- J and there bearing' toward us and across her port neim, our .bows, turning on rrpditt if either .of them was ifeally en-; I .th big rwtaves curling- oyer her bows titled to any unusual and preeminent ftnd great clouds of Wack smoke pour t yv aiw soecial exhibition of gen-f , f.m her (funnels, was the Brooklyn. iv.i - - . ta.l " ... . atiii and, couna&e. The-court wuw I She i looked as bag as nan av, -w. - - 1XT . - Jl havei considered both or tneseuui 1 Geat Easterns,, ana seemw but as a matter 01 iaev av u-that, it tooK.our :u - - rQ w fr some distance far xetade videne, offered W - bothengines hard!', went. aowutu rv- a iso was beached and through its presi fight the led up ia the fight 4s of course Admiral Sampsonys. The position .of the ships on the morning of the fight to a semi circle head-on to the naroor, in conse quence of which we were able to close in at once, was his. In closing an, that is, lnl making the fiist movements, we - . mm' r . . J .it . . iit.MA wereobeying nis instructions; 'uiyusu as a matter of fact we would all have closed in any way, instructions or no Instructions. (When the Spanish snips camet out of the harbor the navigator f mr- shiD saw the New York to the eastward, but I received no signal or anvmd-fromthe New York.durto thetloW,;wthe to signal directly'' to me until after the Colon surrendered "The engagement may be said to have been divided into three parts: First, the fieht proper, while he Spanish squadron rwas coming out of the harbor and until it was clear of the Diamond Shoals and definitely headed westward second, the running fight with the al ready damaged' vessels as tney nea westward, until the Teresa. Oquemdo, and Viscaya ran ashore; and, third, the chase of the Colon, during which there was practically no fighting. During the first stage I did not see the Brooklyn or receive any signals from her. At the Mnco f this staere the Oregon had. cassed the Iowa and Texas, and when we burst out of the smoke we saw . the four Spanish ships going west appar ently uninjured, and followed hard al ter, at the same time observing tne Brooklyn a little ahead and ortsnore. She was broadside to the Spamneh ves-. sels and was receiving the weight of their fire, and was returning it. The Brooklyn and Oregon thereafter occu pied substantially these positions as regards each other, being about equidis tant from the Spanish sips as, we suC- ptssivelv overtook them, ..except wnen the Oregon attempted to close with the Oquendo. The heavist fighting was at the 'harbor, mouth and while the enemy was breaking through or passing our line. Not long after the running fight began the Teresa and, then ,.the Oquen-. T?nrmHv7i mnr Should. 1 nave neeueu M- . them if I had received them, inasmuch as I considered Admiral Sampson to be present and im command. "The heaviest fighting w"as during tne time when the Spanish vessels were comflng out of the harbor and before thev had stretched fairly to the west ward. When they thus stretcneu to the westward we aH went after them without orders of course we could do nothing else. Until the Teresa and Onuendo ran ashore the Iowa was close behind the Oregon and ahead of the Tex as, and all of us were firing steadily at tWo snanteh shins. The Texas then re- cfovwed her speedV-for she . was dead .In the water after having backed to avoid the Brooklyn when the Brooklyn turn edand she went ahead ox tne iowd. Both of us continued to fire at the vas- (Contlnued on fifth page.) The Simple Story par.v Mn turned and went asnore, me Vis- Cook Stove ? THE 6 K. Queen is the BEST. mi. L. A JOHNSON'S j S PATTON AVE. rifofli to hear Admiral Sampson s sioe twihkltog ths , old ship, iwas .tf. tri view of, such 'exclusion aEfainst herself. The collision I. ITL 1 X. " . . f , th majority of the court acted w?th en tire" propriety to not expressing W Linton on these pointe. The. matter both HE HOTTENTOT BLTJEFIAME aUAMP STOVE FOR .$2.90. wntaUlv new. The most pleasing Ht- tle e$ov . e ver xriade ' and the hottest.. Value Makesihe Bargain Tho w!a ia ' only an indocement. We offer the iudacement, but never without the value. - , ; f The I X. U. Department Store Phone 107. ;22 Patton Ave.x H. PBTRIBt a racing '.fehhtH -Rrooklvn and the Oregon were - . seemed Imminent, even 11 it was b4 ;"8" j t. .. - . , s. ni r -.,,. lnr other shins: and we then con, WS averted, anoi a nst uj . . " , mV,- T isard .uiii-: '. .' k bridge tuted the western and what I regard Kiiuw -" ri 41, T,Ho. rlfvfHian' of our cave a sigh of reHef. Had the urooK- a c "7U -- , . r gare a wju vi . . , . , U x t mCnoiiar rvttrmidon"e Schley ly struck us then it; would prooao y u. V7urlnar thJg have been the end of the Texas, and ner --v r7rt I" "T wa9 half thousand mea. 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