...grounds of indemnity, and that " on similar grounds the United States is entitled to occupy and will hold the city, bay, and harbor of Manila, pending...control, disposition and government of the Philippines," no definition has as yet been given of the extent or precise effect of the cessions in that regard....

...grounds of indemnity, and that "on similar grounds the United States is entitled to occupy and will hold the city, bay, and harbor of Manila, pending...control, disposition and government of the Philippines," no defmition has as yet been given of the extent or precise effect of the cessions in that regard....

...an armistice agreement, called a protocol, one paragraph of which read as follows: "The United Stats will occupy and hold the city, bay, and harbor of...control, disposition, and government of the Philippines." United States, or, as a remote possibility, she might simply relinquish her sovereignty, as she did...

...an armistice agreement, called a protocol, one paragraph of which read as follows: "The United Stats will occupy and hold the city, bay, and harbor of...control, disposition, and government of the Philippines." United States, or, as a remote possibility, she might simply relinquish her sovereignty, as she did...

...control. Under the terms of the Peace Protocol of August 12,1898, the United States was authorized to "occupy and hold the city, bay, and harbor of Manila,...determine the control, disposition and government of the Ph ilippines ; " and under the terms of that Treaty, concluded on December 10,1898, Spain ceded to...

...control. II Under the terms of the Peace Protocol of August 12, 1898, the United States was authorized to "occupy and hold the city, bay, and harbor of Manila,...which shall determine the control, disposition and go vernment of the Philippines ; " and under the terms of that Treaty, concluded on December 10, 1898,...

...protocol of peace between the United States and Spain was signed, authorizing the United States to occupy and hold the City, bay, and harbor of Manila,...control, disposition, and government of the Philippines. August 26, 1898. — General Merritt assumed the duties of Military Governor and issued a proclamation...

...Indies, and also an island in the Ladrones to be selected by the United States. ARTICLE .III. . island». The United States will occupy and hold the city, bay...control, disposition and government of the Philippines. Eradiation nt'Cuba, •1C. ARTICLE IV. PROTOCOLE. William E. Day, Secretaire d'Etat des Etats Unis,...

...the Navy, Department, August 12, 1898, says : "The protocol, signed by the President to-day, provides that the United States will occupy and hold the city, bay, and harbor of Manila pending the conclusion '18 Wall., 319. of a treaty of peace, which shall determine the control, dispo'sition, and government...

...the possible terms of peace, President McKinley had declared that the US would require the right to occupy and hold "the city, bay and harbor of Manila...which shall determine the control, disposition, and the government of the Philippines." Subsequently a full-scale debate on US policy in the Far East developed....