The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-07-31
NO AID FOR WRITING CUBA
PRESIDENTcLEYE DSAYSsPAIN
 MUST NOT BE OFFENDED.

solemnly Warns All Citizens Against yio-
 Iations of the Neutrality Laws-Invokes
 Cooperation in Enforcement of Said
 Laws-Epjoins Upon Executive Officers
 the Utmost Diligence in Preventing,
 Prosecuting and Furnishing Any Infrac-
 tions Thereof.
 l Washington, July 30.-The following proclamation was issued from the state department this afternoon:
 By the President of the United States of America:
 | A Proclamatoin:
 Whereas, By proclamation dated the twelfth day of June. A. D., 1895, at- | tention was called to the serious civil disturbances accompanied by armed resistance to the established govern ment of Spain then prevailing in the island of Cuba,an citizens of the Unit ed States and all other persons were ad- monished to abstain from taking part in such disturbances in contravention of the neutrality laws of the United States, and
 Whereas, said civil disturbances and armed resistance to the authority of | Spain, power with which the United States are on terms of peace and amity continue to previal in said island of Cuba, and,
 | Whereas, since the date of said proc | lamation said neutrality laws of the United States have been the subject of authoritative exposition by the judicial tribunal Of the last resort, and it has been declared that any combination of persons organized In the United States | for the purpose of proceeding to and making war upon a foreign country with which the United States are at peace and provided with arms to be used for such purpose, constitutes a military expedition or enterprise" within the meaning of said neutrality laws, and that the providing or prepar- ing of the means for such military ex- petition or enterprise,' which is ex- pressly prohibited by said laws, in- cludes furnishing or aiding in transpor- l tation for such military expedition or enterprise" and
 1 Whereas, by express enactment, if two or more persons conspire to com init an offence against the United l States any act of one conspirator to ef- l feet the object of such conspiracy ren- deTs all the conspirators liable to fine and Imprisonment, and
 I Whereas, There is reason to believe that citizens of the United States and others within their Jurisdiction fail to i apprehend the meaning and operation 1 of the neutrality laws of the United States as authoritatively interpreted as aforesaid. and may be misled into par I tfcipation into transactions which are violations of said laws and win render l them liable to the severe penalties pro- vided for such violations.
 Now, therefore, that the laws above referred to as judicially construed may be duly executed, that the irternation- l al obligations of the United States may be fully satisfied, and that their citi- I zens and all others within their Juris- 1 diction, being reasonably apprised of l their legal duty in the premises, may | abstain from disobedience to the laws of the United States and thereby es- cape the forfeitures and penalties le l gally consequent thereon;
 I, Grover Cleveland, president of the United States, do hereby solemnly warn l all ClllZtilS Ol lilc ODltCd oAntCo eAiN eAii others within their jurisdictions against violations of the said laws interpreted as hereinbefore explained, and give mo- tice that all such violations will be wig orously prosecuted. And do hereby invoke the cooperation of all good cit izens in the enforcement of said laws and in the detection and apprehension of any offenders against the same, and do hereby enjoin upon all the executive officers of the United States the utmost diligence in preventing, prosecuting and punishing any infractions therof
 In testimony whereof have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed
 l (SeaD Done at the city of Washing ton. this twenty-seventh day of July, | in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-sx, and of l the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-frst.
 GROVER CLEVELAND
 By the President:
 RICHARD OLNEY,
 Secretary of State.
 The presidents warning proclama- tion as to Cuban filibusterers is under stood to be one of the results of Sec retary Olney's recent visit to Gray Gables, and is thought to be in some measure, at least, the answer of the administration to the petitions and ecomplaint against Spain's' treatment of Americans in Cuba, which continually pour in upon the state department. Many of these have contained pleas of ignorance of the laws under which the suspects were arrested and imprisoned, and it has apparently been deemed ad visable to leave Americans no longer in doubt as to the protection they may expect if they go so far in their sym pathies as to violate the statutes.
 Senor Deputy de Lome has persistent ly tried to secure some such statement of the administrations attitude ever since the belligerency resolutions were adopted by congress. While the au- thorities have invariably displayed the activity required of them in enforcing the neutrality laws it has been found almost impossible to secure any con- viction for violations of the neutrality statutes until recently.
 | AMERICAN SPORTING LEAGUE.