The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-08-16
THE LARGEST CIRCULATION OF AMY NORTH GAR0AIA DAILY

MT. Carlisle report CoHGhduIS "AS AoA
lows:
"To tolerate this state of affairs and
these acts is a violation of the treaties
of neutrality under the Laws of Ma
tions 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 be-
lieved that the Federal government
has all the attributes of sovereignty
with respect to the subject under dis
cussion and has for their exercise the
appropriate agencies which are recog-
nized among civilized nations. Nor is
ID perceived what distinction or diff
ferenc in principle can excuse the exer-
else of the diligence commensurate
with the existing emergency, which,
in the sight of the world, was required
and enforced against Great Britain at
Geneva
In summing up what has taken place
in the United State during the present
Cuban insurrection, Mr.. Carlisle says
large sums of money for the insur-
rectionists have been collected; insur-
gents have active agents in various
parts Of the United States; the revolu-
tionary party of Cuba in the United
States has communication with the
insurgents in Cuba; it has acquired the
ownership or control of various vessels;
it has purchased large quantities of
arms and ammunition and successfully
set off number of military eXpedi
tions and enterprises from the terri
tory of the United States. He says
the insurgents have no fort ON the
seacoast and that he Cuban sympa-
thizers in the United State must begin
to set on foot, prepare and provide the
means for military expedition or en-
terprise. These Cuban sympathizers
in the United States must become the
owners of arms and ammunition before
they start; control the vessel which
takes them; the vessel must be ac-
companied by men to carry and land
munitions of war; the men must be
armed in order to safely reach the
insurgent forces; the vessel must be
provided with pilot who knows the
Cuban waters and the whereabouts
and signals of the insurgents, and
must be especially adapted for this
warlike use by being provided with
boats to effect the landing of men and
arms and without these conditions not
a single shipment of arms and ammu-
nitions has been made from the United
States or landed in Cuba.
He calls attention to the fact that,
prior to May /, 1895, three vessels
took arms to Cuba and there was some
attempted proceedings which produced
no result. After that date, he men
tions that five vessels were engaged
in the service of the insurgents but no
proceedings were begun against them.
Beginning with September, 1895, down
to the present time he instances the
number of attempts, some of which
have been successful, to ship muni-
tions, and points to the fact that in
scarcely any of the cases named have
proceedings been taken against the
vessel and only in two instances against
the crew of the vessel.
In concluding a review of the pro-
carnations 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 state of public war, it is
nevertheless bound to take notice of
such condition to the extent of Civ
ing warning to the citizens in the dis
charge of obligations which one friend
ly nation owes another, and, as a
measure Of precaution, must prevent
the violation of this obligation. He
declares that the proc1amations cited
in the appendices fully illustrate the
recognition of this principle by the
United States and is especially accen-
tuated by the proclamation of Presi-
dent Cleveland June IL, 1895. This
proclamation, it must be assumed, he
says, was not issued until the Presi-
dent was officially satisfied of armed
resistance to Spanish authority in
Cuba, and the international obligations
Of the United States made it expedient
to issue it and give warning. The
proclamation is declared to be suffi-
cient evidence in every court of the
United States of the existence of an
insurrection i'm Cuba and a distinct re-
cognition of the obligations of special
vigilance imposed by the United
States in discharge of it's international
duties toward Spain.
The different officials to whom
copies of this pamphlet were presented
did not care to discuss the matter
for publication or to be quoted re-
garding it, but all privately expressed
the opinion that the only object of its
prepartion was the basis of a claim to
be presented against the United States
government by the government of
Spain on account of the filibustering
Expeditions.
RAILROAD INJUNCTION CASE.