Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-06-12
NEUTRALITY TO SPAIN.
It Requires Us to Hunt Cuban
 Filibusters.
so THE NAVY DEPARTMENT SAYS.

so THE NAVY DEPARTMENT SAYS The Cruiser Raleigh Wm Patrol the Florida
 Coast Under Strict Orders to Stop Illegal
 Expeditions spanish Man-of-war Cruises
 on shore.
 WAsHINGToN. June I2. Acting Score tary McAdoo of the navy department says that the instructions sent to the command CT of the cruiser Raleigh for his guidance when on pa rol duty off the Florida coast were of the most comprehensive kind and provided for full and strict enforcement of the neutrality laws The Raleigh prob ably will go first to key West. This Is the only port on the Florida coast which yes sol of her draft can safely enter. She then will make a thorough patrol of the coast line, and to render it more difficult for n iilibusterng party to get away the cruisers steam launches and small boats will be manned whenever 1t is necessary to look into narrow inlots and passes for light draft schooners and yachts, which nTe the favorite means of transportation of the tilibusters.
 With Spanish men of war lying of the Florida coast outside of the three mile limit and the Raleigh and her boats sweep ing the inside waters the overenthusiastic Cubans and their American sympathi2ers who under take to involve tho United States in trouble by using Florida as a base of hostile operations against the gov ernment of Cuba arc likely to be repressed with a strong hand
 The position of the administration ia that the United States must mako all hon 1 orable efforts to prevent the abuse of its territory in this way, and if the measures l already adopted are not sufficient to secure 1 the enforcement of tho neutrality laws to n degree that We have ourselves insisted 1 upon when our own interests were con ! cerned, then active steps may Do taken 1 ashore to move upon the people who have 1 laid themselves open to prosecution by or ] ganizing hostile expeditions and aiding in | illegal ways the warfare on a friendly na- | tion.
 | Neutrality Laws Must Be Enforced. The following letter has been sent to all collectors of customs on the coast from i New York to Rio Grande by the acting secretary of tho treasury departments:
 Ut is a matter of rumor that at various points in the United States attempts are being made to enlist men, to equip and arm vessels and by other illegal measures to aid the instruction now in progress in the island of Cuba. While this department has not been furnished with tangible evi- denco conflrmatory of such rumors. 1t deems 1t of great importance that no pos sible opportunity bo given for complaints | that the government of the United States has in any respect fallen short of its full l duty to a 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 tho United States. particularly sections 5,2S9 and 5,2YO of the revised statutes, are fully complied with"
 Tho sections of the revised statutes TO- ferred to are as follows:
 Section ,, 5,3S9-Tho owners or corsgnees of every armed vessel sailing out of the ports of tho United States. belonging wholly or in part to citizens thereof, shall before clearing out the samo giVe bond to the United states with sufficient sure ties. in double the amount the Value oi the vessel and cargo on board, including her armament conditioned that tho vessel shall not be employed by such owners tC cruise or commit hostiliticS against the subjects Citizens or property of any for eign prince or state or of any colony, dis trict or people with whom the United States is at peace.
 Section D. 2gO-The several collectors oi the customs shall dstain any vessel mani festly built for warlike purposes and about to depart from the United States, the car go of which principally consists of arm: and munitions of war, when the number of men shipped on board or other circum stances render it probable that such vesse Is intended to be employed by the owner: to cruise commit hostilities upon tht subjects, citizens or property of any for eign prince or state or of any colony, dis trict or people with whom the United States is at peace until the decision of tht president is had thereon or until the own CT gives such bond and security as is re quired of the owners of armed vessels by the preceding section.