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

...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." Both by the rules of public law that apply to foreign territory seized and held as a conquest and by...

...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." 30 Stat. at L. 738. The adoption of this joint resolution wa» followed by the art. of April 2r>th,...

...governed, and we remind the country that congress, in the resolutions which declared war, resolved: ' That the United States hereby disclaims any disposition...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...

...disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over paid island except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its...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...

...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. The day following the passage of these resolutions, the President signed them at the White House, and...

...out these resolutions. (4) That the United States disclaims any intention of control over said island except for the pacification thereof and asserts its...government and control of the island to its people." These resolutions were cabled to the American Minister in Madrid, who was directed to inform the Spanish...

...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." A disposition has been exhibited in a portion of the United States Press to assume that the disavowal...

...disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its...the island to its people. Approved, April 20, 1898. EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, April 2j, 1898. To the Congress: I transmit herewith a report from the...

...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. This resolution was approved by the Executive on the next day, April 20. A copy was at once communicated...