The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-20
AS TO FINANCIAL HELP.
Acting as Depository of
Funds for Cubans Would
Cause Trouble.
DILEMMA OF A TEXAS BANK.
Uncle Sam Sends a Cruisar ua.L
Off the FHlibusterlng
Expeditions.

WASHINGTON, d. c., June 19.-Secre-
tary Olney has laid down the duty OF the
citizens of the United States in the observ-
ance of strict neutrality between the Span
ish Government and the Cuban insurgents.
not only touching armed assistance, but
also as to rendering aid and encourage
ment in a financial way
The occasion for this exposition came in
a letter from John P. Casey OF the Farm
ers' and Mechanics National Bank of
Waco, Tex, asking if it would be a viola
ton of the neutrality laws for his bank to
act as depository for funds for the Cuban
revolutionists. Mr.. Olney's reply stated:
whether the bank or its officers could
be criminally prosecuted is question as to
which opinions may differ, and which can
be satisfactorily settled only by the adjudi-
cation of the proper court. Should bank
engage in such transaction and, as you
suggest, publish its acceptance of such
trust to the world, it would be my duty to
call upon the Department of Justice to
test the question whether or not the pro-
ceeding was a crime against the United
States.
''It might also be my duty to suggest
whether bank holding a United States
furnish ground for it's forfeiture by acts in
aid of hostilities against a nation with
which the United States is at peace.
you ask me not merely as to your tech
nical legal liability, but also as to your
moral obligation adding. For we are all
too loyal to our own country TO seek to
overthrow in any sense her laws heart
lily commend the sentiment of the ques-
ton, and am in a position to say your
moral duty in the premises does not admit
OF the least question. 1t has been ex-
pounded by no less an authority than the
Supreme Court of the United States in the
following language: The intercourse of
this country with foreign nations and its
policy in regard to them are placed by the
constitution of the United States in the
hands of the Government, and it's decisions
upon their subjects are obligatory upon
every citizen of the Union. He is bound
to be at war with the nation against which
the war-making power has declared war,
and equally bound to commit no act of
hostility against a nation with which the
Government is on amity and friendship.
This principle is universally Acknowledged
by the laws of nations. 1t lies at the ,fchn-
dations of all Governments. as there could
be no social order or peaceful relations be-
tween the citizens of different countries
without it,"
The Raleigh which was ordered from
New York to the Florida coast to prevent
the departure OF the filibustering expe-
ditions against Cuba, arrived to-day at
Key West, which she will make her base of
operations.
NEW YORK, n. Y, June 19.-General
Rafael Quezada, just from Florida and
New Orleans. says the prospects for free
Cuba were never so bright. Despite the
proclamation of President Cleveland, SYM
pathizers will continue to receive arms
and enlistmeuts, and try to find means for
getting them out of the country, shipping
them first probably to Mexico.