The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-12-31
Government Grants Permission
TO the Dauntless.
BUT SHE rs ALREADY FAR AWAY.
Loaded with Arms for the In.ar-
gents. She Vessel Efu6es the Rev
Ruling & Victory for the Caase--
senator 6alifnGer Advocates Inn
Def7es Ccngress-WexIer stands
In the Way OF Peace.

WASHINGTON. Dec sa.--For the first
tine since the present struggle IN Cuba
began the government has given pergnls-
sscn 70 the customs officials TO clear for
cuba vessel loaded according 10 the
manifest With munitions of wAr. presama-
by for the insurgents army. Yesterday
me secretary Of the treasury received r
telegram from the attorney Of the owners
OF the DAuntless at jacksonville. stating
tnat they would apply 10 the collector OF
customs At Jacksonville for clearance TO
n Cuban port with a cargo OF arms. hut
the oaths required by the statutes would
net De taken. The question Was asked
whether under these circumstances papers
would be issued. A later telegram Was
received from the collector AT Jacksonvile
stating that an application 10 clear the
Daunuess for Neuyitas, Cuba. with car
20 had been made. aD1 asking for In
sguetions. This morning the secretary re-
piled substantially * follows:
If the master OF the vessel and the own
ers. shippers and consieBors Of the cargo
comply fully with the laws and regulations
concerning the manifest. and take tae
oaths required you may grant the clear
Gmce to Neuvitas. Cuba The oaths must
be taken and subscribed in writing. as re-
CURED by sections i.lsl, 4,iss ana t2e'.
Revised Statutes.
The port named as the destination Is on
the northern coast OF cuba, and IS occu-
pied BY the Spanish forces. The treasury
officials. therefore, are OF the opinion that
tne oaths required WIN not be taken
Late this afternoon ths collector Of GUS
tens at jacksonville wired the secretary
of the treasury that the steamer Comnio-
aore had applied for clearance upon prac-
ticaIly the same statement Of facts as IN
the case Of the pauntless. In response the
secretary wired permission to issue pa
pers to the Commodore in Substantially
the same terms as were named In the for
nner case. Up to the hour or closing the
department 10 Information had been re-
ceIved As TO the movements OF either ves-
esl. or whether the conditions imposed
had been accepted
Dauntiess safely Away.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Dec, @.-The
steamer Dauntless, which the government
has granted permission to clear Tor Ca-
ban port with cargo OK munitions OF
war, IS not In port at present. Tae own
ers say she has gone on wrecAlns
trip and may not return for Week Ihe
Dauntless gave the revenue cutters the
slip Yesterday. going out OF the river from
one of the shallow places. and this has
aroused the suspicion that the vessel mas
gons, on a fiIlbustering trip. The owners
saw the vessel viii be formally cleared for
Cuba As aooH as 1t shall return.
The Commodore has also been granted
permission 10 clear with arms. and VIII 90
SO N the morning. Several ear loads OF
arms and ammunition are IN the city
awaiting shipment. Another anomalous
fact n presented. Ia that X esther boat
shall clear for Cuba the spanish consul
or vice consul will have 10 sign fhe clear
ance rapers. this being required wnen
vessel clears for a foreign port. In fhls
instance Il would be a case OF a spanish
officer afflx.ng his signature 10 document
grr4s Kxga a
10 a people lighting against his govern
nIert.
consul Soils was asked II he would re-
s,sse 10 sign the clearance papers o. the
pauntIess lie said that ne could not re-
fuse. as Il was his duty 10 sign tho papers
The cargo on board fhe boats VII oe
shipped 70 Salvador Cisaeros. president OF
The C4at,an republic. the Dauntiess cargo
consigned to Noavitas and tnat OF ths
Commodore to Santiago.
Palma welcomes the Ruiing.
~rvv YORK. Dec. so-Tomas Estrada
Palma. president of the Cuban tuntn. SAID
tnsJav after reading fhe order OF the sec
rntarv of she treasury relating 20 the
Dauntless' clearing:
This Is a victory for US. 80 far ss II
allows the boat 10 leave p0N+ We haNS
usied the authorities AT Washlhsto u, ~
give us clearance papers. atpnoush some
fiuae ago they declared that no stch boat
as the Dauntless could set fhsm tNctPt
under stringent restrictions ihis Is
step forward. -.
"If a vessel clears for certain port
she has 10 give "a reasonable excuse y
she does not deliver her cargo AT INT
rort put stress OF weather YOU know,
or some other accident might coInpei her
10 throw the cargo overheard or deilEef "
somewhere else. We IN New YORK Know
nothing Of the Danntless case.
we hope IL VIII resalt IN proper corr
e,t,,,s.ffcr ~ the law which IS row vague
go dfYt~uIs 10 understand. Even the
arthorfrIes at washington are At sea re-
Rarsifng H. and II will be good tnlng
that We have got ruling.
Steamer Bermuda. known IN connection
wien the alleged filihnstering expedition
70 cuba. was searched by United States
revenue officers today. as she lay or Lib
ertv island Last night the Barmnda took
coal and provisions. and today sae snip
ped a crew Of twenty-five men. The rev
enua cutter Manhattan - prepared 70 ac-
sonpany the steamer 20 the three mile