The Pedro
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA. This was an appeal from a decree of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Florida condemning the steamer Pedro as lawful prize of war on a libel filed April 23, 1898; April 20, 1898, the President approved the following joint resolution: “ First. That the people of the Island of 'Cuba are, and of right ought to be, free and independent. “ Second.
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APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA. This was an appeal from a decree of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Florida condemning the steamer Pedro as lawful prize of war on a libel filed April 23, 1898; April 20, 1898, the President approved the following joint resolution: “ First. That the people of the Island of 'Cuba are, and of right ought to be, free and independent. “ Second. That it is the duty of the United States to demand, and the Government of the United States does hereby demand, that the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
When, on the twenty-second day of April, this Spanish steamer sailed from Havana, the United States and Spain were at war. Congress had adopted a resolution, April 20, demanding “ that the Government of Spain at once relinquish its authority and government in the Island of Cuba and withdraw its land and naval forces from. Cuba and Cuban waters,” and directing and empowering the President “to use the entire land and naval forces of the United States, and to call into the actual service of the U nited States the militia of the several States, to such extent as may be necessary to carry these…
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