I think he had the highest admiration for us because we had whipped the Spaniards who had been riding them down for three hundred years.
* * * * * "_Senator Patterson_ (continuing).

You sent this short dispatch to the Secretary of the Navy:-- "'Aguinaldo, the revolutionary leader, visited the _Olympia_ yesterday.

He expects to make general attack on May 31.

Doubt his ability to succeed.

Situation remains unchanged.' "Do you recall that visit?
"_Admiral Dewey_.