The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-16
Precedent Established i'm the Celebra-
ted Alabama Claims Award In
voked i'm the Dons' Behalf.
FAVH ALSO MAKING DEMANDS
SOMETHING MUST BE DONE FOR THE
FAMILIES OF LYNCHED ITALIANS.
Church at Washington Where Gar
field WOrshiped Now Used for
Second-Class Whisky Saloon.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15-The Spanish
government is preparing a big bill of
damages to be presented to the United
States on account of the numerous expe-
ditons alleged to have gone from our
shores to the relief of the Cuban insur-
gents. In support of it's claim to repara-
ton it intends to invoke the precedent
tablished by the United States against
Great Britain in the celebrated Alabama
claims awarded by the Geneva arbitration
tribunal. There have been reports here
tofore that Spain, at the proper time,
would present a series of claims
count of the use the insurgents had made
of the United States a base of supplies
for hostile operations in Cuba These were
nothing more than rumors until to-day.
when government officers received copies
Of report Of the Spanish legation made
by its legal adviser, Mr.. Chalderon Car
Isle. The report is handsomely printed in
pamphlet form, and with it's five appen-
dices makes a book of over three hundred
pages. The Wiborg case, recently decided
by the United States Supreme Court
is cited and referred to as the
one solitary conviction obtained by
the United States since the be-
ginning of the present Cuban insurrec-
ton. The attorney says it is thought
proper to show from the case of the Ge-
neva award against Great Britain what
the United States expected of a neutral
nation, and also TO recall the attitude of
Spain towards the United States during
the civil war. The principles indicated and
enforced by the United States against
Great Britain as those which should have
governed her conduct would seem. the
port says. TO be clearly applicable TO the
duties and obligations of the United
States towards Spain in the present in
stance. In reviewing the Geneva award,
the report says that it was clear that the
United States made it's complaint mainly
upon the fitting out and shipping from
England of vessels and supplies.
In concluding the first section of his re-
port Mr.. Carlisle says the powers invested
in the President of the United States have
rot been effectively used for preventing the
carrying on of military expeditions for
hidden by the statutes. The United States,
he says, contended at Geneva. that no ma
ton can, under cover of the deficiencies of
its own laws, disregard duties towards an
other power. Whatever pretext and at
tempts may be made to carry on these ex-
petitions as peaceful and lawful voyages,
the facts remain, says the attorney. that
from the beginning of the insurrection the
base of supplies for war material has been
in the United States. This branch of Mr..
Carlisles report concludes as follows:
ITO tolerate this state of affairs and
these acts is a violation of the treaties of
neutrality under the law of nations as they
have been proclaimed to the rest of the
world by the United States. To prevent
and punish these acts. which are in viola
ton of the statute laws of this country it
is believed that the federal government has
all the attributes of sovereignty with
spect TO the subject under discussion. and
has for their exercise the appropriate
agencies which are recognized among civ
ilized nations. Nor is it perceived what
distinction or difference in principle can
excuse the exercise of the diligence COM
mensurate with the existing emergency
which in the sight of the world they re-
qured and enforced against Great Britain
at Geneva
In concluding a review of the proclama-
tions of various presidents of the United
States, the attorney says that while it
could not be insisted that one nation is
bound to take notice of the existence of
an insurrection in another country as it is
bound TO recognize a state Of public war,
it is nevertheless bound to take notice of
such a condition to the extent of giving
warning TO the citizen inhabitants in the
discharge of obligations which one friendly
nation owes another, and as a measure of
precauton must prevent the violation of
this obligation. He declares that the proc
lamations cited in the appendices fully
illustrate the recognition of this principle
by the United States, and is especially ac-
centuated by the proclamation of President
Cleveland June u, 1895. He concludes this
portion of his report by saying: The laws
themselves and the administration Of them
by the municipal authorities of the United
States cannot measure or limit the inter-
national responsibility Of the United
States.
The officials to whom copies Of this
pamphlet presented did not to
discuss the matter for publication, but all
privately expressed the opinion that the
only object of its preparation was the basis
OF a claim to be presented against the
United States by Spain on account of fill
clustering expeditions
The Commodore Leaves Charleston.
CHARLESTON, s. c., Aug. 15--An al