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Roosevelt Finds Neither Samp
son Nor Schley Actually in
Command at Santiago.
Much of (he Credit for the
'vv-f tory Should Go to the
A. Captains.
Vic-
Declares the Famous Loop Was
Not a Good Strategical
*v, Movement. ,,
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Schley Should Have Taken the
Jt' Risk-Wants the Whole
Matter Dropped.
Washington, Feb. 20—The president
last night made the following: statement
public:
White House, Feb. 19. 1901.—I have
received the appeal of Admiral Schley
and the answer thereto from the navy
department. I have examined both
with the utmost care, as well as the
preceding: appeal to the secretary of the
navy. I have rend thru all the testi
mony taken before the court and the
statements of the counsel for Admirals
Sampson and Schley have examined
ail the official reports of every Kind in
reference to the Santiagrt naval cam
paign, copies of the log: books and sig
nal books, and the testimony before the
court of claims, and have also personal
ly had before me the four surviving
captains of the Ave ships, aside from
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 in its expressions of
opinion on most of its findings of fact.
No appeul Is made to me from the ver
dict of the court on these points where
it was unanimous. I have, however,
gone carefully over the evidence on
these points also. I am satisfied that
on the whol3 the court did .substantial
justice.
It should have specifically condemned
the failure to lnforce an efficient block
ade at Santiago while Admiral Schley
•was in command. On the other hand
I felt that there is a reasonable doubt
whether he did not move his squadron
with sufficient expedition from port to
port. The court is a unit in condemn
ing Admiral Schley's action on the point
where it seems to me he most gravely
erred his "retrograde movement" when
he abandoned the blockade and his dis
obedience of orders and misstatements
of facts In relation thereto. It should
be remembered, however, that the ma
jority of these actions which the court
censures occurred five weeks or more
before the fight Itself, and it certainly
seems that if Admiral Schley's actions
were censurable he should not have
ben left as second in commjy).c?„under
•Admiral Sampson. .^Kis offenses were
'In effect condbned when he was not
,called to acoourit. for them. Admiral
'Sampson, after the fight, in an official
letter.to the department, alluded for the
'first time to Admiral Schley's "repre
•hensihle conduct" nix weeks previously.
IT Admiral Schley Was guilty of repre
hensible conduct of a kind which called
for stich notice from Admiral iSampson,
ttien Admiral Sampson ought not to
have left him as senior officer of the
blockading .squadron on the 3d of July
when he (Sampson) Bteanied uway on
his proper errand of communication
with General Bhafter.
Deals Only With Battle.
We can, therefore, for our -present
purposes, dismiss consideration of ao
much of the appeal as relates to any
thing except th« battle. Ah regards
this, the point raised in the appeal Is
between Ajlmtrol Sampson and Admiral
Schley as to which was in command,
as to which was entitled to the credit,
if either of them was really entitled to
'any unsuual and pre-eminent credit by
•any special exhibition pf genius, skill
'and courage. The court could have
considered both of these questions, but
as a matter of fact It unanimously ex
cluded evidence offered upon them and
thru Its president announced Its refusal
to hear Admiral Sampson's side at all
and In view of such exclusion the ma
jority of the court acted with entire
propriety in not expressing any opin
ion on these points. The matter has,
however, been raised by the president
of the court. Moreover, it is the main
point upon which Admiral Schley in his
appeal lays most stress and which he
especially asks me to consider. I have,
therefore, carefully investigated thiB
matter also and havo informed myself
upon It from the best sources of infor
mation at my command.
The appeal of Admiral Schley to me
is not, as to this, the chief point he
raised, really an appeal from the de
cision of the court of Inquiry. Five
sixths of the appeal Is devoted to this
question of command and credit, that
is, to matters which the court of in
quiry did not consider. It is, in effect,
an appeal from the action of President
McKinley three years ago when he sent
In the recommendations for promotion
for the various officers connected with
the Santiago squadron, basing' these
recommendations upon his estimates of
the credit to which the officers were re
spectively entitled.
What I have to decide, therefore, is
whether or not President McKinley did
injustice in this matter. This necessar
ily involves a comparison of the actions
of the different commanders enguged.
The exhaustive official reports of the
action leave little to be brought out
anew but as the question of Admiral
Sampson's right to be considered in
chief command, which was determined
in his factor by President McKinle* and
later by the court of claims, has never
hitherto been officially rnised, I deemed
it best to secure statements of the
commanders of the five ships (other
than the Brooklyn and New York, the
flagships of the two admirals) which
were actively engaged in the fight. Ad
miral Phillip is dead. I quote extracts
from the magazine article on the fight,
written Immediately after it occurred,
closing with an extract from his letter
to the secretary of the navy of Feb. 27,
J*98:
What Phillip Said,'
'It was the blockade that made the
battle possible. The battle was a di
rect consequence of the blockade and
upon, the method and effectiveness of
the blockade was very largely depend
ent the result of the battle.
"Under the orders'of Admiral Samp
son the blockade was conducted with
a success exemplified by the result.
"When th.? Spanish admiral at last
made his dash to escape we were ready
—ready with our men, with our guns
and with our engines.
"It was only a few minutes after we
had seen the leader of the advancing
squadron that it became apparent that
Cervera's plan was to run his ships in
column westward in an effort to es
cape.
"Before he had fairly found himself
outside the Morro the entire blockad
ing squadron—Indiana, Oregon, Iowa,
Brooklyn and Texas—was pumping
shells into him at such a rate as vir
tually to decide the issue of the bat
tle In the first few moments. All our
ships had closed in simultaneously—
then occurred the incident which
caused me for a moment more alarm
than anything Cervera did that day.
"Suddenly a whiff of breeze and a lull
in the firing lifted the pall and there,
bearing towards us and across our
bows, turning on her port helm, with
big waves curling over her and great
clouds of blac ksmoke pouring from her
funnels, was the Brooklyn. She looked
as big as half a dozen Great Easterns
and seemed so near that it took our
breath away. 'Back both engines hard'
went down the tube to the astonished
engineers and in a twinkling the old
ship was racing against herself. The
collision which seemed imminent, even
If It was not. was averted and as the
big cruiser glided past all of us on the
bridge gave a sigh of relief. Had the
Brooklyn struck us then it would prob
ably have been the end of the Texas
and her half thousand men.
"At 10 minutes to 10 (the Spanish
ships had appeared at about 9:30) the
Iowa. Oregon and Texas were pretty
well bunched, holding a parallel courst
westward with the Spaniards. The
Indiana was also coming up well in
side of all the others of our squadrdn,
but a little in the rear, owing to her
far eastward position at starting.
About a quarter past 10 the Teresa.
which had been In difficulties from the
moment she left the shelter of the
Morro, turned to seek a beaching
place. She was on fire and we knew
that she was a quantity no longer to
be reckoned with.
"Five minutes later our special en
emy, the Oquendo, also turned in
shore. The VIscaya kept blazing
away viciously, but the pounding she
got from our four ships, more particu
lary from the Oregon, was too much
for her, and in half an hour she, too,
headed for the beach. I determ
ined to puBh on with the Texas.
It giveB me pleasure to be able to write
that, old ship as she is and not built
for speed, the Texas held her own and
even gained on the Colon in that chase.
Admiral Sampson was comman
der-in-chief before, during and after
the action."
Captain Clark's Statement.
Captain Clark's statement is as fol
lows:
"The credit for the blockade whicn
led up to the fight is, of course. Admir
al Sampson's. The position of the
ships on the morning of the fight in
a semi-circle at the head of the har
bor. in consequence of which we were
able to close In at once, was his.
In closing In. that is, in making the
first movements, we were doing his In
structions tho, as a matter of fact,
we would have all closed In anwway,
instructions or no instructions. When
the Spanish ships came out of the har
bor tho navigator of my ship saw the
New York to the eastward, but I re
ceived no signal of any kind from the
New York during the action, nor was
she near enough to signal directly to
me until after the Colon surrendered.
"The engagement may have been
said to be divided Into three parts:
First, the fight proper, while the Span
ish squadron was coming out of the
harbor and until it was clear of the
diamond shoals and definitely headed
westward second, the running fight
with the already damaged vessels as
tlvy fled westward, until the Teresa,
Oquendo and Viscaya ran ashore, and
third, the chase of the Colon, during
which there was pracitcally no light
ing. During tho first stage I did not
see the Brooklyn or receive any sig
nals from her. At the close of this
stngc the Oregon had passed the Iowa
and Texas, and when we burst out of
the smoke I saw the four Spanish
ships going west, apparently uninjur
ed, and followed hard after, at the
same time observing the Brooklyn a
little ahead and off shore. She was
broadside to the Spanish vessels and
was receiving the weight of their fire
and was returning it. The Brooklyn
and the Oregon thereafter occupied
substantially these positions as re
gards each other, being about equi
distant from the Spanish ships as we
successfully overtook them, except
when the Oregon attempted to close
with the Oquendo. The heaviest
fighting was at the harbor mouth and
while the enemy was breaking thru or
passing our line. Not long after the
running fight began the Teresa and
then the Oquendo turned and went
ashore, the Viscaya continuing for
some distance farther before she, also,
was beached. Thruout the running
fight the Brooklyn and Oregon ships
were both hotly engaged, being ahead
of any of our other ships, and we then
constituted the western and what I
regard as the then fighting division
of our fleet. I consedered Commodore
Schley in responsible command during
this running fight and chase sp far as
I was concerned, and "acknowledged
and repeated a signal he had flying
for close action, or something of the
kind. As, however, the problem was
perfectly simple, namely, to pursue
the Spanish ships, as I had been doing
before I saw the Brooklyn, he did not.
ns a matter of fact, exercise any con
trol over any movement or action of
the Oregon, nor did I perform any ac
tion of any kind whatever in obed
ience to any order from the Brooklyn,
neither as to my course nor as to my
speed«nor ns to my gun fire during the
light or -hase.
"The Oregon always had fires under
all boilers. In spite of the speed
shown by the Oregon in this fight, she
had not been and is not classed as the
l'actest ship but during all her service,
in order that no p.cales should form in
them, not one of our boilers was cased
for condensing, tlio the resulting dis
comfort for all hands was an addi
tional hardship for her commanding
officer."
Admiral Evans' Statement.
The following Is Admiral Rvans
statement:
"The credit for the blockade, for the
arrangement of tho 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,
gmming Thnes-llejiuMtam, IMaraliallfanwu, town, Thursday, FBbrmrrj 20, 1902
whose orders we were putting into ex
ecution. When the fight began Ad
miral Sampson's ship, the New York,
was in plain sight. I saw her turning
to overtake us. Thruout the fight I
considered myself as under his com
mand, but I received no orders from
him until the Viscaya was aground,
Nor did I receive any orders whatever
from the Brooklyn, nor should I have
•heeded them if I had received them,
'inasmuch as I considered Admiral
Sampson to be present and in com
mand.
"The heavy fighting was during the
time when the Spanish vessels were
coming out of the harbor, and there
fore they had stretched fairly to the
westward. When they thus stretched
to the westward we all went after
them without orders, of course we
could do nothing else. Until the Te
resa and Oquendo ran ashore the Iowa
was close behind the Oregon and ahead
of the Texas, and all of us were firing
steadily at the Spanish ships. The
Texas then recovered her speed—for
she was dead In the water after having
backed to avoid the Brooklyn, when
the Brooklyn turned—and she went
ahead of the Iowa. Both of us con
tinued to fire at the Viscaya until she
went ashore. Then I stopped, but the
Texas followed the Brooklyn and the
Oregon after the Colon.
"When the battle began the New
York was not much farther to the
eastward of me than the Brooklyn was
to the westward. After the Viscaya
had grounded the New York overtook
me and signaled me to return to the
mouth of the harbor to prevent any
other Spanish ship from coming out
and attacking the transports. I re
ceived no signals of any kind from the
Brooklyn. All we had to do was to
close in on the Spanish squadron as
it came out of the harbor, in obedience
to the orders of Admiral Sampson,
and then, when the heaviest fighting
was on and the Spanish ships were
trying to escape to the westward, to
follow them—and, of course, there was
no signal necessary to tell us to follow
a fleeing enemy.
"The machinery of the Iowa was not
in condition to get the best speed, tho
every effort had been made to make it
so. Her cylinder heads had not been
off for more than six months, owing to
the service she was performing. Her
bottom was very foul, as she had not
been docked for a period of seventeen
months. The Indiana was even in
worse shape.
"The New York had left the blockad
ing line flying the signal 'disregard the
movements of the commander-in
chief,' a signal frequently made and
well understood by the enelre fleet. It
did not transfer the cominapd. No
signal was made for the second in
command to assume command of the
Ueet, which was usually done by the
commander-in-chief before reaching
the limit of signal distance when he
proposed for any reason temporarily
to relinquish his command to the next
ranking officer."
Admiral Taylor's Statement.
The following is Admiral Taylor's
statement:
"At the beginning of the fight the
New York was about as far to the east
ward of me as the Brooklyn was to the
westward. The only signal I received
from the New York wns at the very
close of the fight when she signaled to
me to return and guard the mouth of
the harbor so that nothing should come
out to attack our transports. I recqjjred
no signal whatever from the Brooklyn,
and should not have needed any if one
had been made, as I considered Admiral
fcampson present and in command.
From her position the^Indiana took full
part in the fight as the Spanish ships
cnnie out of the harbor.
"When they ran to the Westward the
Indiana fell b4hind, but continued fir
ing at them and at the torpedo boats
until all but the Colon were sunk and
beached. I saw the Brooklyn turn and
run out seaward, seemingly over a
mile, about the time the rear one of the
Spanish ships turned to the west if ln
steud of making this loop the Brooklyn
bad stood straight in towards the
Spaniards, as the other American ships
did, it seemed to me that the fight
would have been settled then without
need of the long chase."
The following Is Commander Waln
wright's statement:
"At the outset of the fight the New
York was not much farther away from
me in one direction than the Brooklyn
was in the other and was plainly In
night. A signal from Admiral Taylor
in connection with my moving forward
tn attack the torpedo boats was the on
ly signal I received. I made one to the
New York just before the last torpedo
boat sank. The New York at that time
was coming up under the fire of the
batteries and herself fired a couple of
shots at the torpedo boats. Of course
Admiral Sampson was present and in
command. I received no signals from
the Brooklyn nnd would not have no
ticed her at all had it not been for the
fact that when the other vessels closed
in she made what has since been called
the 'loop,' bo that my attention was at
tracted by not seeing the Texas be
cause she stopped, and by not seeing
the Brooklyn because she went to sea
ward away from the Spanish vessels.
In other words, the left or westward
part of our line was confused, and thlB
attracted my attention because it
seemed to me from where I was that
this permitted the Spanish vessels to
try to escape to westward."
Damage to Spanish Ships.
The survey of the damages of the
four Spanish war vessels shows that In
addition to several score hits by six
pounder and one-pounder guns of the
American fleet, they were struck forty
three times by the larger guns of four
inch caliber and over. The Colon,
which came out Inside the others and
did comparatively little fighting, re
ceived but three of these hits. The oth
er three shipB, which bore the brunt of
the action, received forty among them.
Of these forty eleven, according to the
report of the board which examined
into them, were by four-inch guns, ten
by five-Inch guns, four by either four
or five-Inch guns (the board could not
determine which), while one was by
either a five or six-Inch, twelve were
by eight-inch and two by twelve-inch.
All of our big ships, except the Texas,
had elglit-lnch guns. The Oregon and
Indiana had thirteen-inch guns, and
they and the Texas had six-inch guns.
The only four-Inch guns were on the
Iowa the only five-inch guns on the
Brooklyn. Therefore, on the three
Spanish ships which did the bulk of the
lighting out of the forty large caliber
shots that struck them eleven certainly
came from the Iowa, ten certainly came
from tho Brooklyn, four from either the
Iowa or the Brooklyn, and two from
either the Iowa or the Texas. Of the
three which struck the Colon two were
five-inch and must have come from the
Brooklyn one was either a live-Inch or
a six-inch. It must be remembered that
the four and five-inch guns were the
only quick-firers above six-pounders in
our fleet, and that they were not only
much more rapidly but much more
surely handled than were the larger
and slower tiring guns. The damage
and loss of the American vessela' were
trivial. The only loss suffered was
aboard the Brooklyn, where one man
was killed and one wounded. In dam
age the cost of the repairs shows that
the Iowa suffered most and the Oregon
least. The American ships engaged
possessed a more than two-fold ma
terial superiority over the Spanish
ships, and the difference in the hand
ling of their guns and their engines
was even greater. We have Just cause
to be proud of the vigilance nnd the in
stant readiness our ships displayed and
the workmanlike efficiency with which
they wore handled. The most striking
act was that of the Gloucester, a con
verted yacht, which her commander,
Wainwright, pushed into the fight thru
a hall of projectiles, any one of which
would have sunk her, in order that he
might do his part in destroying the two
torpedo boats, each possessing far more
than his own offensive power.
From the statements of the captains
above, from the official reports and
from the testimony before the court of
inquiry, the fight can be plotted with
absolute certainty In its important out
lines, tho there is a conflict as to minor
points. When the four Spanish crui
sers came out of the harbor the New
York had left her position in the block
ading lines forty or forty-five minutes
before. She had hoisted the signal
"disregard the movements of the com
mander-in-chief," but had not hoisted
the signal for the second in command
to take charge, which, as appears by
the signal book, was sometimes but not
always used when the command was
transferred. As soon as the engage
ment began the New York turned and
steamed back, hoisting a signal to close
In, which, however, none of the squad
ron saw. She was In plain sight, and
not very much farther from the east
ernmost blockading ships than the lat
ter were from the Brooklyn, which wns
the westernmost of the line. As soon
as the Spanish ships appeared the five
big American blockaders started
toward them in accordance with the
standing orders of Admiral Sampson.
Aoted Independently.
After this first move each acted
purely on his own initiative. For some
minutes the Spanish and American
vessels steadily approached one anoth
er and the fighting was at its hottest.
Then the already damaged Spanish
ships turned to tho westwnrd, while at
the same time the westernmost vessel,
the Brooklyn, which was nearest the
Spanish line, turned to the eastward,
making a loop of a three-quarter cir
cle. at the end of which she again head
ed westward, farther off from and far
ther behind the Spanish vessels than
before the loop had begun, but still
ahead of any of the American vessels,
nltho farther outside.
The Texas, the next ship to the
Brooklyn, either was or conceived her
self to be put In such Jeopardy by the
Brooklyn's turn toward her that she
backed her engines, coming almost to a
standstill so that both the Oregon and
the Iowa, which were originally to the
eastward of her. passed her, nnd It wns
some time nfter she again started be
fore she regained her former postlon
relatively to the Spanish vessels. The
Spanish vessels had straightened out In
a column for the west, the Colon going
inside of the others, nnd gradually
forging ahead of them, without suffer
ing much dnmage. The two torpedo
boats, which had followed them out of
the harbor, were now destroyed by the
fire of the Gloucester, which headed
straight in for them, paying no moro
heed to their quick-fire guns than to
the heavy artillery of the forts, to
which she was also exposed.
In the running fight which followed.
until the Teresa, Oquendo and Viscaya
were destroyed, the Indiana gradually
dropped behind, altho she continued to
fire until the last of the three vessels
went ashore. The Brooklyn was ahead
of any of the other American vessels on
a course outside theirs it was nearly
broadside onto the Spaniards. The Ore
gon, Iowa and Texas were all close to
gether, and actively engaged thruout
this running fight. The Brooklyn and
Oregon, followed at some distance by
the Texas, then continued on chase of
the Colon, which went nearly thirty
miles farther before she also went
ashore. During this chase of the Colon
there was practically no fighting.
These are the facts as set forth above
in the statements of the captains and
elsewhere in their official reports and
testimony. They leave no room for
doubt on any point.
Question of Command Technical.
The question of command is in this
case nominal and technical. Admiral
Sampson'B ship, the New York, was
seen at the outset of the fight from all
the ships except the Brooklyn. Four
of these five ship captains have testi
fied that they regarded him present
nnd in command. He signalled "close
in" to the fleet as soon as the first
Spanish ship uppeared, but his signal
not not Been by any American vessel.
He was actually under fire from the
forts and himself fired a couple of shots
at the close of action with the torpedo
boatB, in addition to signaling the In
diana just at the close of the action.
But during the action not a single or
der from him was received by any of
the ships that were actively engaged.
A
G. F. P.
Admiral Schley at the outset of the
action hoisted the two signals of "clear
ship" and "close in," which was sim
ply carrying out tho standing ordtrs of
Admiral Sampson as to what ahould
be done if the enemy's ships attempted
to break out of the harbor. Until after
the close of the first portion of the tight
at the mouth of the harbor and until
after he had made his loop and the
Spanish ships were flering to the west
ward, not another American ship no
ticed a signal from him. When the
western pursuit had begun the Oregon,
and the Oregon only, noticed and re
peated one of his signals of command.
The captain of the iregon then re
garded him as In command, but not in
any shape or way execute any move
ment or action of any kind whatsoever
in accordance with any order from
him.
In short, the question as to which of
the two men, Admiral Sampson or Ad
miral Schley. was at the time in com
mand is of merely nominal character.
Technically Sampson commanded the
l^eet, and Schley, as usual, the Western
division. The actual fact, the import
ant- fact, is that after the battle was
joined, not a helm was shifted, not a
gun was fired, not a pound of steam
was put on in the engine room aboard
any ship actively engaged, in obedience
to the order of either Sampson or
Schley, save on their own two vessels.
It was a captain's fight.
Therefore the credit to which each is
entitled rests on matters apart from
the claim of .nominal command over the
stjuadron therefore, so far as the act
ual ^flght' was concerned, neither one
nor the other in fact exercised any
command. Sampson was hardly more
than technically In the fight. His real
claim for credit rests upon his work as
commander-in-chief upon the ar
rangement of the ships head-on in a
semi-circle around the hnrbor.nnd the
standing orders in accordance with
which they Instantly moved to the at
tack of the Spaniards when the latter
appeared. For all these things the cred
it is his.
Admiral Schley Is rightly entitled, as
Is Captain Cook, to the credit of what
the Brooklyn did in the fight. On the
whole she did well but I agree with the
unanimous finding of the three admir
als who composed the court of inquiry
as to the "loop." It seriously marred
the Brooklyn's otherwise excellent rec
ord, being In fact the one grave mis
take made by any American ship that
day. Had the Brooklyn turned to the
westward that Is, in the same direction
that the Spanish ships were going, in
stead of in the contrary direction, she
would undoubtedly have been In more
"dangerous proximity" to them. But
it would have been more dangerous for
them as well as for her. This kind of
danger must not be too nicely weighed
by those whose trade it is to dare
greatly for the honor of the flag. More
over, the danger was certainly not as
great as that which is the self-same
moment menaced Wainwright's fragile
craft as he drove forward against the
foe. It was not in my judgment, as
great as the danger to which the Texas
was exposed by the turn as actually
made. It certainly caused both the
Brooklyn and Texas materially to lose
position, compared to the fleeing ships.
But after the loop had once been taken
Admiral Schley handled the Brooklyn
manfully and well. She and the Oregon
w^re thenceforth the headmost of the
American vessels, tho thei Iowa certain
ly and seemingly the Texas also, did as
much in hammering to a standstill the
Viscaya, Oquendo and Teresa while
the Indiana aid all her eastward posi
tion and crippled machinery permitted.
In the chase of the Colon the Brooklyn
and Oregon share the credit between
them.
McKinlsy's Deoision Sustained.
Under such circumstances it seems to
me that the recommendations of Presi
dent McKinley were eminently proper
and that so far as Admiral Sampson
and Admiral Schley were concerned it
would have been unjust for him to have
made other recommendations. Per
sonally I feel that in view of Captain
Clark's long voyage in the Oregon and
the condition In which he brought her
to the scene of service as well as the
way he actually managed her before
and during the fight, it would have been
well to have given him the same ad
vancement that was given Wainrlght.
But Wainrlght wns entitled to receive
more than any of the other comman
ders, and that it was just to Admiral
Sampson that ho should receive a
greater advance In numbers than Ad
miral Schley—there was nothing done
in the battle that warranted any un
usual reward for'either. In short, as
regards Admirals Sampson and Schley,
I find that President McKinley did
substantial justice and that there would
be no warrant for reversing his action.
Both Admiral Sampson and Admiral
Schley are now on the retired list. In
concluding their report the members of
the court of inquiry. Admirals Dewey,
Eenham and Ramsay, unite in stating
that they recommend no rurther action
be had in the matter. With this rec
ommendation I most heartily concur.
There is no excuse whatever from either
side for any further agitation of this
unhappy controversy. To keep It alive
would merely do damuge to the navy
and to the country.
(Signed.)
•S
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Will Stelner, aged 24, living near
Bluffton, Ind., has been arrested for
counterfeiting nickels and small silver
coin.
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