People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1895 — CALLS SPAIN TO TIME. [ARTICLE]

CALLS SPAIN TO TIME.

United States Demands the Settlement of the Mora Difficulty. Washington. June 19.—The state department has taken steps according to the forms of diplomatic Intercourse to exact from Spain the payment of the long-standing Mora claim, a claim admitted by Spain in 1888 to be entitled to payment, and which Spain promised to pay in December of that year $1,500,000. Minister Taylor has been informed by telegraph of the insistence of the United States upon prompt payment of the indemnity and has been decided to press for settlement and Immediate payment. This dispatch went to Minister Taylor on June 11. The full letter of instruction, which left here on June 8, will be in his hands in a day or two at the furthest. The expectation is that there will be a prompt and satisfactory settlement and payment at once. Extreme measures will follow delay. Should the Spanish government neglect to properly impress upon the cortes the importance of granting the necessary funds, or should the cortes refuse to allow an appropriation for Mora, the United States government, in self-re-spect, will be constrained to try other means to secure payment. It may become necessary to occupy Havana and to retain control of the custom-houses there until an amount equal to the Mora indemnity has been couected. This could be done without offense to international law, if the United States were not opposed by a superior fleet and military force at Havana.