...disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island, except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination,...government and control of the island to its people. It may have been a mistake, and in our judgment it was a mistake, for Congress to declare what the Nation...

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

...the said island, except for the pacification thereof, and asserted its determination when that was accomplished to leave the government and control of the island to its people. They also remembered that by the Treaty of Paris it was provided that the United States would assume...

...control over Cuba except for its pacification, and having asserted its determination when that was accomplished to leave the government and control of the island to its people, although as between the United States and all foreign nations Cuba was treated as if it were conquered...

...disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction. or control over said Island except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination,...government and control of the Island to its people." Both by the rules of public law that apply to foreign territory seized and held as a conquest and by...

...disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination,...government and control of the island to its people." 30 Stat. at L. 738. The adoption of this joint resolution wa» followed by the art. of April 2r>th,...

...disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said islands except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination...government and control of the island to its people.' " The resolutions favor the building of the Nicaragua canal, enlarging the militia of all states, and...

...pacification thereof." That pacification being accomplished, the United States, by its own declaration, was to leave the "government and control of the island to its people." Two years and more have passed, and a then friendly and cordial Cuba has become, in large measure,...

...the said Island, except for the pacification thereof, and asserted its determination when that was accomplished to leave the government and control of the Island to its people. They also remembered that by the Treaty of Paris it was provided that the United States would assume...

...disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination,...government and control of the island to its people. Approved April 20, 1898. (30th US Stats., pp. 738, 739.) Let us suppose that the Crown of Spain had...