Department of State,
Washington, June 17,
1895.
No. 349.]
In this connection, I inclose also for your information a copy of a note
of the 14th instant, from the minister of Spain at this capital,
expressing, by direction of his Government, its gratification at the
measures taken by the United States for the enforcement of the
neutrality laws.
[Inclosure 1 in No.
349.]
[neutrality—cuba.]
By the President of the United States.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas the Island of Cuba is now the seat of serious civil
disturbances, accompanied by armed resistance to the authority of
the established Government of Spain, a power with which the United
States are and desire to remain on terms of peace and amity;
and,
Whereas the laws of the United States prohibit their citizens, as
well as all others being within and subject to their jurisdiction,
from taking part in such disturbances adversely to such established
Government, by accepting or exercising commissions for warlike
service against it, by enlistment or procuring others to enlist for
such service, by fitting out or arming or procuring to be fitted out
and armed ships of war for such service, by augmenting the force of
any ship of war engaged in such service and arriving in a port of
the United States, and by setting on foot or providing or preparing
the means for military enterprises to be carried on from the United
States against the territory of such Government;
Now, therefore, in recognition of the laws aforesaid, and in
discharge of the obligations of the United States towards a friendly
power, and as a measure of precaution, and to the end that citizens
of the United States and all others within their jurisdiction may be
deterred from subjecting themselves to legal forfeitures and
penalties,
I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States of America, do
hereby admonish all such citizens and other persons to abstain from
every violation of the laws hereinbefore referred to, and do hereby
warn them that all violations of such laws will be rigorously
prosecuted; and I do hereby enjoin upon all officers of the United
States charged with the execution of said laws the utmost diligence
in preventing violations thereof and in bringing to trial and
punishment any offenders against the same.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal
of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of
Washington
this
twelfth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and ninety-five, and of the Independence of
the United States of America the one hundred and
nineteenth.
[
seal.]
Grover Cleveland.
By the President:
Richard
Olney,
Secretary of
State.
[Inclosure 2 in No.
349.—Translation.]
Mr. Dupuy de Lôme
to Mr. Olney.
Legation of Spain,
Washington, June 14,
1895.
Mr. Secretary: The minister of state of Her
Majesty the Queen Regent of Spain, to whom I hastened to give
account by telegraph of the measures adopted by the Government of
the United States to prevent infringements of the law and attempts
against the peace and security of a friendly nation, directs me by
cable to express to your excellency the profound gratitude of the
Spanish Government and its confidence in the effectiveness of the
steps taken, which it appreciates as a proof of loyal
friendship.
I improve, etc.,
