...declaration of war against Spain, Congress passed the following resolution respecting Cuba: That the United States hereby disclaims any disposition or...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...

...Cuba txcept for the pacification thereof, and has asserted its determination, when that pacification is accomplished, to leave the government and control of the island to its people. It has done and said nothing inconsistent with that resolution in either Cuba or the Philippines. In...

...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...

...pursuance of the joint resolution of Congress passed April 20, 1898. This resolution declared "that the United States hereby disclaims any disposition or...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...

...» may be necessary to carry these resolutions * into effect. 4. That the*United States here- • by disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise...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, 1898, by...

...and we remind the country that congress, in the resolutions which declared war, resolved: ' That the United States hereby disclaims any disposition or...exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said islands except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination when that is accomplished...

...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...

...pursuance of the joint resolution of Congress passed April 20, 1898. This resolution declared "that the United States hereby disclaims any disposition or...exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over paid island except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination, when that is accomplished,...