, 1896-08-17
BIG BILL FOR DAMAGES.
SPAIN Is NOW PREPARING ONE
AGAINST THE UNITED
STATES.
General Award Reviewed and the Ala
bama Case Cited by the Reviser-
Spain Bases Her Claim on the Fact
That This Country Is a Base Of
Supplies for the Cubans.

Washington Aug. l5.-The Spanish
government is preparing a big bill OF
damages to be presented to the United
States on account of the numerous ex-
petitions alleged to have gone from
our shores to the relief OF the Cuban
insurgents.
In support of its claim to r%eparation,
it intends to invoke the precedent es-
tablished against Great Britain in the
celebrated Alabama claims awards
made by the Geneva arbitration tri-
bunal. There have been reports here
tofore that Spain. at the proper time,
would present a series Of claims on ac-
count of the use the insurgents had
made of the United States as a base for
supplies for hostile operations in Cuba.
These were nothing more than rumors
until today when the government Off.
GERS received copies Of a report of the
Spanish legation, made by its legal ad-
visers. MI. Calderon Carlisle. The re-
port is handsomely printed in pamph.
let form and with 1t Ave appendices,
makes a book Of over 800 pages. The
Wiberg case recently decided by the
United States supreme court, is cited
and referred to as the one solitary con-
vfction obtained in the United States
since the beginning Of THE present Gu
ban i~nsurrection. The attorney says It
Is Thought proper to show from the
case Of the severe award against Great
Britain that the United States expected
Of a neutral nation and also to recall
the attitude OF Spain toward the Uni
ted States during the civil war. The
principles Indicated and enforced by
the United States government against
Great Britain as those which should
have governed her conduct would seem,
the report says. to be clearly applicable
to the duties and iegislatfons Of the
United States toward Spain in the re-
cent instance.
CITES THE GENEVA AWARD.
In reviewing the Geneva award the
report says that 1t vas clear that the
United States made its complaint main,
ly upon the fitting out and shipping
from England Of vessels and supplies.
In concluding the first section OF his
report Mr.. Carlisle says the powers in
vested In the president Of the United
States have not been effectively used
for preventing the carrying on Of mill
tary expeditions forbidden by the stat
utes. The United States, he says, con-
tended at Geneva that no nation can,
under cover of the deficiencies Of It's
MI laws, disregard duties toward an
other power. Whatever pretedt and at
'tempts may be made to carry on these
expeditions as peaceful and lawful voy-
ages, the fact remains. says the attor-
ney, that from the beginning Of the in
surrection. the base Of supplies for war
material has been in THE United States.
This branch Of Mr.. CarfiSle's concludes
:as follows:
ITO tolerate this state of affairs and
these acts Is a violation OF the treaties
of neutrality under the raw 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 violation OF the statute
laws Of this country, It Is believed that
the federal government has all the at
tributes Of sovereignty with respect to