Evening star., 1895-06-12
Gu BAN FILIBUSTERS
The Position of the Administration Stated
by Mr.. McAdoo.
Instructions Issued by the Treasury
The Law Set Forth.

According to Acting Secretary McAdoo,
the position of the administration in the
matter of Cuban filibusters is that the
United States must make all honorable ef-
fort to prevent the abuse of its territory in
this way, and If the measures already
adopted are not sufficient to secure the en-
forcement of the neutrality laws to a de-
gree that we have ourselves insisted upon
when our own interests were concerned,
then active steps may be taken ashore to
move upon the people who have laid them
selves open to prosecution by organizing
hostile expeditions and aiding in Illegal
ways the warfare on a friendly nation.
Mr.. McAdoo says that the instructions sent
to the commander Of the cruiser Raleigh
for his guidance when on patrol duty off
the Florida coast were of the most compre-
henslve kind, and provided for full and
strict enforcement of the neutrality laws.
The Raleigh will go first to Key West. She
then will make thorough patrol of the
coast line, to render it mere difficult for a
filibustering party to get away.
Instructions to Customs Officers.
Acting Secretary Wike of the Treasury
instructions to customs officers on the At
lantic coast, from New York to the Rio
Grande:
ut is a matter of rumor that at various
points in the United States attempts are
making to enlist men to equip and arm ves-
sells and by other illegal measures to aid
the insurrection now in progress in the Is
land of Cuba. While this department has
not been furnished with tangible evidence
conflrmatory of such rumors, it deems 1t of
great Importance that no possible oppor-
tunity be given for complaints that the
government of the United States has in
any respect fallen short of it's full duty to
friendly nation. Collectors of customs for
the several districts between New York and
Brownsville are especially enjoined to see
to it that the neutrality laws of the United
States, particularly sections $3.50 and $3.50
of the Revised Statutes, are fully complied
with"
The Law Referred To.
The sections of the Revised Statutes re-
ferred to are as follows:
Section $3.50. The owners or consignees
of every armed vessel sailing out of the
ports of the United States, belonging who'll
ly or in part to citizens thereof, shall. be-
fore clearing out the same, give bond to the
United States, with sufficient sureties, in
double the amount of the value of the ves-
sci and cargo on board, including her ar
mament, conditioned that the vessel shall
not be employed by such owners to cruise
or commit hostihties against the subjects,
citizens, or property of any foreign prince
or state, or of any colony. district, or peo-
pie, with whom the United States are at
peace.
Section $500 The several collectors of
the customs shall detain any vessel mani
testify built for warlike purposes, and about
to depart the United States, the cargo of
which principally consists of arms and
munitions of war, when the number of men
shipped on board, or other circumstances,
render it probable that such vessel is in
tended to be employed by the owners to
cruise or commit hostilities upon the SUBJ
jects, citizens, or property of any foreign
prince or state, or of any colony, district,
at peace, until the decision of the President
is had thereon, until the owner gives
such bond and security as is required of
the owners of armed vessels by the preced-
ing section"