Show REPORT ON MAINE the first explosion was external which discharged one of alie the small smail magazines submarine mine do destroyed the battleship formality of presenting the report to tho the president washington march 25 the report of the maine court ot of inquiry is now in the hands of president mckinley the formal transmission of this momentous document was accomplished at this mornine morn inc it was delivered by lieutenant commander marix judge advocate of the court ot of inquiry to secretary lone long and by the latter taken to the white house and handed to the president lieutenant commander manx marix and lieutenant carl dungon left tho the E ebbitt louse house where they had kept the report through the night a few minutes before 9 they were in civilian dress and attracted little attention lon along the street as they proceeded toward the navy department lieutenant dungon carried a large canvass bag or portfolio enclosed by straps containing contain int the report they arrived at the department at exactly 9 secretary long was already at his desk deskin 10 anticipation of their coming the two officers ficere of proceeded to the office of judge advocate general captain lemley in accordance with tho the naval regulations requiring the transmission to be made to that office captain lemley greeted the of ficere and together they went direct to the secre office a colored messenger going ahead with the report they were ush ered into lato the office whore where the formal delivery was made by lieutenant commander manx marix captain lemey then retired and far for twenty min utes long and marir marix were together the secretary did not however open the report at secretary long came from hie his office with mr marix and proceeded to the white house the report was wait still carried by the lieutenant com corn mander maDder while mr long had in hia his hand band a ions long theet sheet of transparent paper such as maps are made on ou wound on a wooden roller the secretary also carried a large black bag mr long cordially c greeted the group of newa newspaper paper correspondent correspondents and iid remarked that be lie bad not opened the report and knew no more than they did of its contents then they stepped into the navy department brong brougham bam and ade were driven around to the main entrance of the white house it was as the secretary and air arr mariz marix entered the white house doors did not go direct to the presidents office but passed through to the private coc corridor on the first floor ana and thence to the blue room to await the president he lie bad had been in hia big office before their arrival but at that moment was in the residence portion of the bonse honse two minutes later the secretary and lieutenant command ermarie er marix joined the pres president dent in hia his library and the report oi of the maine court was formally delivered to the chief executive the arrival of the report hardly created a ripple of excitement at the white house except amone among the ve newspaper correspondent correspondents gathered there assistant secretary day had called about 9 but as the president was at breakfast be lie retired and returned at 10 secretary alger also came about half an hour later and was followed by the postmaster general and secretary bliss the other members of tb the a cabinet did not arrive until about the usual hour for meeting I 1 11 I 1 secretary long remained with the president continuously up to the as dembling Bem sem bling of the cabinet secretary long and commander marix it is un understood did not exchange a ward regarding the contents of the report op up t to the lime time they met the president 5 after formally receiving the report the secretary ignited commander marix to await until be bad gone through the important dispatches and reports aiming during the night bight and early morving ug this doce done mr long asked commander Cumma oder meriz marix to accompany him to the white house rouse and the report was formally delivered to the president in the manner manuet already stated there were no callers at the white house hoase this morning either from the senate or house and other visitors were told that the president was engaged and not be seen secretary long returned to his department at I 1 about the cabinet took a recess until 3 in answer to inquiries it was stated that after the report had been carefully read over in the vie presence of all the members of ithe the cabinet a general discussion followed of its principal features commander mariz marix was called jn and in answer to queries explained some matters not fully frilly covered by the report further than this no statement would be made or intimation civen given by any cabinet officers as to the contents of the report until it A was transmitted to con grees nat next monday HOW low THE MAINE WAS DESTROYED later the board of inquiry into the loss of the maine finds that the explosion which destroyed the maine was from the outside and does not fix the responsibility for the disaster it does not ex press an opinion as an to the character of the explosive but the testimony goes to show that it was a powerful submarine mine the exact character of which ie is not determined by the testimony though the belief was expressed that it was imbat bat is known as a floating submarine mine there were two explosions the board finds the birot was from the outside and that set off ono one of the smaller magazines |