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Whatever may be the public opinion as to the respective merits of Sampson and Schley, nothing is more certain than that the public is getting very tired of this squabbling among men who are supposed to be models of dignity and courtliness." The charges against the admiral and the replies by his friends are so voluminous and involved that it is expected that the court will consume weeks in hearing them. The main charges, however, and the replies to them, are given as follows by the Philadelphia Ledger: "The charges against Schley are these: "That instead of going on to Santiago he lingered for several days at Cienfuegos without ascertaining that Cervera was not there, until the arrival of Captain McCalla. But the reason for this delay has just been disclosed by Rear-Admiral Evans, who says that all the captains had been given a code of signals with which to communicate with the rebels on shore except the captain of the Brooklyn and Commodore Schley. Why Schley was kept in ignorance of the signals and code is one of the points of inquiry to come before the court. "That, having almost reached Santiago, he turned back, disobeying an order to coal at sea, but afterward coaled and returned. To this Schley makes answer by producing a letter from Sampson, omitted from the correspondence officially published, in which Sampson expressed the opinion that if Cervera had gone WHOLE NUMBER, 589 to Santiago he would have to come out and make for Cienfuegos or Havana, and directing Schley to guard Cienfuegos. "That in the battle the Brooklyn ran away from the Spanish vessels. This charge is based upon the handling of the vessel. Under the direction of Schley the Brooklyn described a circle, temporarily turning away from the foe to avoid blanketing the fire of other vessels and to get a commanding position from which to head off the escaping vessels. Cervera and other Spanish officers admit that the maneuvers of the Brooklyn frustrated their plans." Captain Cook of the Brooklyn says in an interview published in the New York Herald that he gave the order for the "loop," and he tells the reason for it by saying: "The Brooklyn made a beautiful turn, and we were able to fire directly into the bows of the leading ship of the enemy. Our helm was put aport to head off the Spanish fleet, and the Brooklyn turned rapidly and beautifully. "I remember distinctly giving the order to the quartermaster. 'You see clearly the head of the leading ship,' I said to him. 'The idea is to get directly ahead of her.' "I thought we might sacrifice our ship, but I believed we would hold the fleet for our battle-ships." Other charges against Admiral Schley are that he might have destroyed the Colon, which lay at anchor at the mouth of the harbor with her engines uncoupled from May 27 to 31, inclusive. but that he did not do so; and that he used a letter written to him by Lieutenant Hodgson of the Brooklyn improperly. The lieutenant was reported in an interview as saying that during the famous "loop," when Commodore Schley's attention was called to the fact that the Brooklyn was in danger of ramming the Texas, he said: "D- the Texas! Let the Texas look out for herself." Soon after this appeared, the admiral made public a letter from the lieutenant denying the correctness of the interview. The charge is that when the admiral made public that letter, he had in his possession another letter from the lieutenant explaining that it was the literal, not the substantial, correctness of the interview that he denied. The present renewal of the storm of controversy began with the publication, in The Army and Navy Journal, of extracts from the third volume of "The History of the United States Navy," by Edgar Stanton Maclay, an employee in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, who is on the rolls as a laborer, and who performs the duties of a clerk. The first two volumes of this history are used as a text-book in the Naval Academy at Annapolis, and The Army and Navy Journal, upon the supposition that the third volume (covering our war with Spain) might also be adopted, published some extracts from it in which Mr. Maclay more than hints that Admiral Schley is a liar, a coward, and a "caitiff." Here are several passages: "In his report about the coal supply of the vessels under his command, Schley exhibited either a timidity amounting to absolute cowardice or a prevarication of facts that was intrinsically falsehood." (Vol. III., p. 296.) "Schley on May 28, 1898. . . . turned in caitiff flight from the danger spot toward which duty, honor, and the whole American people were most earnestly urging him. Viewed in whatever light it may be, the foregoing despatch can not be characterized otherwise than as being without exception the most humiliating, cowardly, and lamentable report ever penned by an American naval officer." (Vol. III., p. 298.) "Let the Texas take care of herself,' was the heartless reply, |