...disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction or control over the island, except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its...government and control of the island to its people." Approved äOth April. ./ДО,1?. Congress followed this step by the passage of the following Act, which...

...disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island, except for the pacification thereof; and asserts its...government and control of the island to its people. Why should not Congress at the present juncture pass a similar resolution respecting the Philippines?...

...hereby disclaims any disposition to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island, except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its...government and control of the island to its people." It was this solemn disclaimer by the American Congress that justified the war at the bar of our own...

...disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said Island except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its...government and control of the Island to its people. * Approved, April 20, 1898. DECLARATION OF WAR. An Act Declaring that war exists between the United...

...office in Madrid for several hours before it was delivered to the United States trol over said island except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its...leave the government and control of the island to the people. 63 Minister. Meanwhile the Spanish Cabinet had been informed of its contents. Before Minister...

...disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island exceptfor the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination,...government and control of the island to its people under such free and independent Government as they may establish". To this demand the United States...

...intention to exercise sovereignty. Jurisdiction, or control over said Island, except for the pacifica! on thereof, and asserts Its determination when that Is...government and control of the Island to its people,' and we believe that until the pcoplj of the island of Cuba and the Philippine* redeemed from Spanish...

...exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island except for the pacification thereot, and asserts its determination, when that is accomplished,...government and control of the island to its people under such free and independent Government as they may establish". To this demand the United States...

...sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island, except for the pacification thereof ***** and when that is accomplished to leave the government and control of the Island to its people. ' ' The pacification referred to in this declaration, it may be fairly held, was accomplished when...

...control over Cuba, except for its pacification, and declared a settled determination when tjiat was accomplished to leave the government and control of the island to its people. President McKinley, in his annual message of 1898, reaffirmed this doctrine, and indicated that the...