The San Francisco call., 1897-08-29
Each Shows an Inclination to Have
the Other on Committees to
Preserve the Peace.

ing himself as a very Daniel come to
Judgment or else the king or emperor
who turns over the papers connected with
the matter to some obscure and ire
sponsiple underling, OF whose identity
and qualifications the parties to the dis
pute are entirely ignorant.
This question is all the more worthy of
consideration, as the United States bids
fair to become involved ere long in a con-
troversy with Spain of the same character
as the Alabama difficulty, and which like
the latter will have to be submitted to ar
bitration. Through private advices re-
ceived from Madrid, learn that M. Calde-
ron Carlisle, the legal adviser of the
Spanish legation a. Washington, while
spending his holidays with his cousin at
ZaranE, was summoned to San Sebastian
by the now murdered Premier Canovas,
for the purpose of submitting to the latter
and discussing with him ver- elaborate
memorandum drawn up by NJ. Carlisle in
accordance with the instructions of Minis
ter Dupuy de LONE, and which is destined
to constitute the basis of just the same
sort of demand by Spain upon the United
States as that which the latter made upon
Great Britain in connection with the dam-
age done by the Alabama and other Con-
federate privateers and filibusters dur
ing the trouble with the South. The
point made by Spain is identi-
cally the same as that put forward
by this country in connection with the
Alabama claims, namely: that if
the laws against filIbustering had
been vigorously enforced incalculable
injury to the state, as we'll as to pri-
vate property would have been avoided.
The me NJ orandum contains long list of
tilibustering expeditions-of vessels laden
with arms and ammunition for the in
surgents-frst arrested by the United
States authorities and then released, of
verdic of local tribunals in the United
| States favoring the rebels and of instances
whore the good intentions OF the United
! States Government itself have been en-
| tirely paralyZed and set at naught by the
| sym pathy of its officials with the Cuban
cause. Then, too, the memorandum gives
! an exposition of the opinions expressed
by every President of the United States
from George Washington TO Major Nc.
Kinley concerning the duty of the United
States Government in dealing with fiji.
busters and ir fulfilling the stipulations
| of international law, and likewise cites
numerous cases bearing upon the
subject. decided by the Supreme
Court of this country, in order
TO show that the United States off cials
have been remiss in their duties and
have been guilty of Intentional neglect in
the execution of the laws of the land az
| interpreted by the highest tribunals
and the most eminent jurists and execu-
tive officers of this Nation. 1t cannot be
denied that the memorandum in question
presents very plausible and cleverly put
case, and that inasmuch as the Spaniards
propose to base thereon their argument
that this country is responsible for the
undue prolongation of the insurrectlon
as well as for the immense amount of in.
jury done TO Spanish life and property in
Cuba they will have a claim for damages
against the United States, at least as
large as the latter's demand upon England
in connection with the Ala bama con.
troversy. and calculated to more than
offset any claim which the State Depart.
ment at Washington may have to present
at Madrid for damage done to American
life and property in the Antilles.