The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-07
co TO HELP CUBA.
Spain Calls Attention to Bands
of Filibusterers.
Says Men Are Fitted With Arms
in United States.
HAS VERY FEW FACTS.
Spain Has Little Grounds to
Base Assertions On.

WASHINGTON, June 7.-Mr. De LONE,
the Spanish minister to the United
States, has called the attention of the
state department to allegations that
flibustering expeditions against Span
ish authorities in Cuba are being fitted
out in the bayous of the lower Missis-
sippi river. The communication also
states that armed citizens of
some of the southern states
often paraded with arms, with
view to joining some of these
outgoing expeditions, or at least to
give encouragement to the Cuban in
surrectionists. Some of the state
nents made covered facts of which the
United States government cannot take
official notice or were too meager for
present official action. 1t is believed
at the department that there is little
truth in the reports which reach
here from the south of the fit
ting out of war-lilze expedi-
tions against Cuba, but should
it be shown that expeditions are
being organized which come within the
prohibitions of international law and
our treaties with Spain, there will be
no delay in bringing the parties con-
cerned to justice. 1t is learned that
the Spanish officials are keeping a
close watch on several supposed ex-
peditionary movements, for the pur-
pose of furnishing information on
which to request action by the United
States government. One of the ex-
petitions is believed to have started
from Philadelphia. The suspected
ships, it is said at the Spanish
legation, are the George Childs and
the Bridgeport. The Spanish officials
connect the movement of these ships
with suspicious operations at Dauphin
and Cat island, off the mouth of the
Mississippi. 1t is said these move
ments are mainly the result of the
recent arrival in the United States of
Gen. Quesada from Venezuela, who
brought a considerable sum of money
to aid the Cubans, and another sympa-
thizer, who is said to have brought
$50. 900 from Paris.
The London Standard yesterday con-
tanned an intimation to the effect that
when the instruction in Cuba is ended
Spain will request the United States to
pay part of the costs of supp ressing it.
DECISION CONCERNING PENSIONS.
WASHINGTON, June 7.-Another de-
cision has been rendered by Assistant
Secretary Reynolds bearing on the
question of the date of the termination
of the civil war and the pensionable
rights of soldiers enlisting in 1865 and
1866. The conclusion reached by Mr..
Reynolds is that in all these cases the
question to be ascertained is whether
the enlistment of the soldiers was
for service in the war of the rebel Ii on.
or for the regular army. If the former
he is penSiona BILE, and if the latter he
is not. He cites the various orders
suspending enlistments for the war,
and these ordered the commencement
of enlistments for the regular army
He says: ''As to these volunteer enlist
ments in the regular army, after the
cessation of armed hostilities, it cam
not be truthfully said that their enlist
ment was for the war of the rebellion. "
In reference to the decision of the
supreme court assigning August 20,
1866, as the end of the war, he says:
1.-The reasons, however, which would
admit of this holding, where the right
of the parties in the cases involved
might be affected by the running of a
statute of limitations, cannot be ac-
cepted to esta blish the date of termina-
ton of the war of the rebellion where
the queSIlonS lnVoIVeo are WheChef an
enlistment was, in fact, for the war of
the rebellion, and the service per-
formed Hereunder, in furtherance of
its suppression.
The secretary, therefore, holds that
en1istments in the loyal states after
April 10, 1865, when recruiting in them
ceased, will not be deemed enlistments
in or for the war of the rebellion. In
the other states, territories and the
district of Columbia, June 1, 1865, will
be taken as the final date, as enlist
ments then ceased in those parts of
the country, and July 1, 1865, when the
| blockade of the southern ports was
raised, will be taken as the final date
| of war enlistments for the navy.
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