The herald., 1896-08-16
F|UbDSIER|NG
''''''''''''''i EXPEDITIONS
The Basis of Claims for
Damages
SPAIN WILL CLAIM PREPARATION
Under Precedent Established at
Geneva
RUMoRs BECOME REALITY
With Receipt Of Reports to tie Spanish
Legation
Powers Vested In the President Have Not
Been Used
Tho Filibuster Commodore Sails Prom
| Charleston With a Cargo Of Arms
and Q Slow Revenue Cute
ter In Pursuit.
With Receipt of Reports to tie Spanish
Legation
Powers Vested In the President Have Not
Been Used
Tho PiIibuster Commodore Sails Prom
Charleston With a Cargo Of Arms
and . Slow Revenue Gut.
ter In Pursuit.
Associated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.--The Span
1sh government is preparing 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 insur-
gents. In support of its claim to repara.
tion it intends to invoke the precedent
established against Great Britain in the
celebrated Alabama claims awards
made by the Geneva arbitration tri-
bunal. There have been reports hereto
fore that Spain at the proper time would
present a series of claims on account of
the use the insurgents have made of the
United States as base of supplies for
hostile operations in Cuba. These were
nothing more than rumors today when
the government officials received copies
| of the report of the, Spanish legation,
made by it's legal adviser, Mr.. Calderon
Carlisle.
The attorney says 1t is thought proper
to show from the case of the severe
award against Great Britain what the
United States expected of neutral ma
Spain toward 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 report says, to be clear
ly applicable to the duties and Iegisla-
tion of the United States toward Spain
in the present instance. 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
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 military
expeditions forbidden by the statutes.
The United States, he says, contended
at Geneva that no nation can, under
cover of the deficiencies of its own laws,
disregard duties toward another power.
| Whatever preteXtS and attempts may
be made to carry on these expeditions as
peaceful and lawful voyages, the fact
remains, says the attorney, that the be-
ginning of the insurrection, the base of
supplies for war material, has been in
the United Statess This branch of Mr..
Carlisle's report concludes as follows:
ITO tolerate this state of affairs and
these acts is a violation of treaties of
neutrality under the law of nations as
they have been proclaimed to the rest Of
the world by the United States. To pre-
,;s.t, sol,
in violation of the statute laws of this
country, it is believed that the federal
government has all the attributes OF
sovereignty with respect to the subject
under discussion, and has for their exer-
else the appropriate eXigencies which
are recognized among civilized nations.
Nor is it perceived what distinction or
difference in principle can excuse the
exercise of the diligence commensurate
with the existing emergency, which in
the sight of the world they required and
enforced against Great Britain at Ge-
neva."
In concluding a review g: ~'qe various
proclamations 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, or give warning to the
citizens and inhabitants in the discharge
of obligations which one friendly nation
owes another, and as a measure of pre-
caution must prevent the violation of
this obligation. He declares that tho
proclamations cited in the appendices
fully illustrate the recognition of this
principle by the United States. and is es-
pecially accentuated by the proclamation
of President Cleveland, June 12, 1895
He concludes this portion of his report
by saying:
'"rhe laws themselves of the admins
tration made by the municipal authori-
ties of the United States cannot meas
ure or limit the International RESPONSE
bility of the United States"
CHASINB A FILIBUSTER
CHARLESTON, S. c., Aug. 15.-An
alleged fiilibustering steamer, the Com
modore, has been lying off East Battery
here for months. AT noon today it steam
ed out of the harhor, followed by the
revenue cutter ColfaX The Commodore
loaded ninety bundles of rifles and 200
, cases of ammunition. Owing to the close
watch kept by the ColfaX, no men We're
able to embark. When last seen the
Commodore was rapidly gaining on the
! Co'fav. The Commodore is much the
faster boat ~ ~stky<