| Show f t NKUT1IALS AMI IlHLIUEIItNTS b All diplomatic relations having been broken oft between the United States nn1 SpaiD the two notla or now h a Itles I It Is to be presumed thsl the m handing over of tr passports to Minister 1 1 Min-ister Woodford Is I Spains final rei > l > to the Presidents ultimatum If so 1 Ih ward 01 commnnd 10 mav to Ihe l scene of action may be expected any > d moment Formerly It 1 was considered a rule I ° f civilized warfare to make a formal declaration of w ar before entering enter-ing upon actual hostilities but lately It 1 has been the custom merely to Isnuo a proclamation statlnic tint n condition of war exists and the President has been advised It 1 seems to follow this aure Thc Iua nt slIch a Iroclamallan ISo I is usually followed by a declaration by other powers stating whether they Intend In-tend to remain neutral and this Imposes Im-poses upon them certain obligations and restrictions A neutral power by the law of nation may not furnish cither of the belllAcrents armi troops t1 pittance for the prosecution of hostilities hostili-ties nor may It refuse one belligerent favors granted to another A neutral state Is further entitled to i > rfect In vIolablMt of Its terrltorj I Mnce the Ii congress of Paris ISM It has even been established that goods belonging In the fJ enemy but carried in neutral 1 ships cannot be seized and that the property Iltf II of pcutrals If not contraband of war found In an enemys vessel I U free A rn neutral power may not Bend its strips i to blockaded ports provided due notice i of the blockade has been Bit en and the 11 blocladlng belligerent has at the port n squadron strong enough to mak the blockade an actml fact The neutral I must also be ready to prove that he Is I n neutral and allow tho belligerents to > I search hu vessels The proclamation by the President that a state cf war exists between the United tales and Spain subjects the neutral powers to I theD < rulD allntrnallonal low I I When war lus been declaied to ex I 1 1st all the pniperlj ot the enemy U I I tJ liable 1 to confiscation Debts due from one state to the other may be sequestered sequest-ered but as a rule this Is I not enforced Commerce between the subjects of belligerents ma be entirely Intcidlct ed although upeelnl licences may 13 grmted Partnerships between subjects sub-jects of hostile states nre dissolved by tho Ieeloratlan 01 war rry I col culted 10 brln tho ellm 10 t m conildered Justifiable but the wanton destruction of llfo nnl proierti Is I contrary to the rules ot m ulcrn warfare war-fare Pirsons merely engaged In the peaceful occupations of life may not bo attacked b > the enemy but veiueli and their cargo unlees Uie goods belong to subjects ot neutral powers un llablo to Iuro nnd ionllwatlo |
