Annual Reports of the War Department, Volume 1, Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1901 |
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... Congress to make such contracts in case opportunities for such an arrangement should be afforded in the future . Most of our transports were bought from foreign owners , and upon being sold , would necessarily come again under a foreign ...
... Congress to make such contracts in case opportunities for such an arrangement should be afforded in the future . Most of our transports were bought from foreign owners , and upon being sold , would necessarily come again under a foreign ...
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... Congress shall authorize it , to supply the national guards of the States with the pres- ent service rifle with which the Regular Army , Navy , and Marine Corps are now armed alike . I strongly urge that this authority be given ...
... Congress shall authorize it , to supply the national guards of the States with the pres- ent service rifle with which the Regular Army , Navy , and Marine Corps are now armed alike . I strongly urge that this authority be given ...
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... Congress . Every effort is being made to place these two establishments upon a proper footing to carry out the scheme of instruction which existed prior to the war with Spain , and to carry forward the designs of those great soldiers to ...
... Congress . Every effort is being made to place these two establishments upon a proper footing to carry out the scheme of instruction which existed prior to the war with Spain , and to carry forward the designs of those great soldiers to ...
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... Congress . GENERAL STAFF . The creation of the War College Board , and the duties which will be imposed upon it , as indicated in my report for 1899 , is probably as near an approach to the establishment of a general staff as is prac ...
... Congress . GENERAL STAFF . The creation of the War College Board , and the duties which will be imposed upon it , as indicated in my report for 1899 , is probably as near an approach to the establishment of a general staff as is prac ...
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... Congress , should be made the same as those provided by Congress for the regular and volunteer forces . The relations of the national - guard organizations to the national forces , and the obligations and duties of those organi- zations ...
... Congress , should be made the same as those provided by Congress for the regular and volunteer forces . The relations of the national - guard organizations to the national forces , and the obligations and duties of those organi- zations ...
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Page 45 - Resolution for the recognition of the independence of the people of Cuba, demanding that the Government of Spain relinquish its authority and government in the Island of Cuba, and to withdraw its land and naval forces from Cuba and Cuban waters and directing the President of the United States to use the land and naval forces of the United States to carry these resolutions into effect.
Page 45 - Cuba, nor in any manner authorize or permit any foreign power or powers to obtain by colonization or for military or naval purposes or otherwise, lodgment in or control over any portion of said island.
Page 43 - In the name of humanity, in the name of civilization, in behalf of endangered American interests which give us the right and the duty to speak and to act, the war in Cuba must stop.
Page 42 - Spain relinquishes all claim of sovereignty over and title to Cuba. And as the island is, upon its evacuation by Spain, to be occupied by the United States, the United States will, so long as such occupation shall last, assume and discharge the obligations that may under international law result from the fact of its occupation, for the protection of life and property.
Page 172 - Coke («), to consider, 1. What was the law before the Act was passed ; 2. What was the mischief or defect for which the law had not provided ; 3. What remedy the Legislature has appointed ; and 4. The reason of the remedy.
Page 56 - ... to devote their attention in the first instance to the establishment of municipal governments in which the natives of the islands, both in the cities and in the rural communities, shall be afforded the opportunity to manage their own local affairs to the fullest extent of which they are capable...
Page 125 - VII. That to enable the United States to maintain the independence of Cuba, and to protect the people thereof, as well as for its own defense, the government of Cuba will sell or lease to the United States lands necessary for coaling or naval stations at certain specified points to be agreed upon with the President of the United States.
Page 330 - February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for the necessary traveling expenses of said member when traveling on duty as contemplated in said act; for the payment of the necessary expenses of the Board, including a per diem allowance to each officer detailed to serve thereon when employed on duty away from his permanent station, of two dollars and fifty cents a day; and for the test of experimental guns, carriages, and other devices procured in accordance with the recommendation...
Page 45 - President is hereby authorized to leave the government and control of the island of Cuba to its people so soon as a government shall have been established in said island under a constitution, which, either as a part thereof or in an ordinance appended thereto, shall define the future relations of the United States with Cuba substantially as follows: "1.
Page 44 - That the government of Cuba consents that the United States may exercise the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuban independence, the maintenance of a government adequate for the protection of life, property, and individual liberty, and for discharging the obligations with respect to Cuba imposed by the treaty of Paris on the United States, now to be assumed and undertaken by the government of Cuba.