Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 2, 1913

File No. 837.13/20.

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American Legation,
Habana, May 1, 1913—10 a.m.

Amended amnesty bill passed House. It grants amnesty not only to those implicated in the negro uprising but also to citizens, including officials, guilty of electoral frauds; of newspaper attacks and libels previous to January 1; of violations of the law in connection with questions of honor (a provision intended to absolve former Speaker Ferrara and others concerned in recent killing in a duel of the American citizen Rudolph Warren); and grants amnesty for the attempt on the life of Congressman Andre by the President’s son.

Beaupré.