The Abridgment ... Containing the Annual Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress ... with Reports of Departments and Selections from Accompanying Papers |
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... naval board of inquiry established that the origin of the explosion was external by a submarine mine , and only halted , through lack of positive testimony , to fix the responsibility of its authorship . All these things carried ...
... naval board of inquiry established that the origin of the explosion was external by a submarine mine , and only halted , through lack of positive testimony , to fix the responsibility of its authorship . All these things carried ...
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... naval forces of the United States as might be necessary ; with added authority to continue generous relief to the starving people of Cuba . The response of the Congress , after nine days of earnest delibera- tion , during which the ...
... naval forces of the United States as might be necessary ; with added authority to continue generous relief to the starving people of Cuba . The response of the Congress , after nine days of earnest delibera- tion , during which the ...
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... naval forces from Cuba and Cuban waters . Third . That the President of the United States be , and he hereby is , directed and empowered to use the entire land and naval forces of the United States , and to call into the actual service ...
... naval forces from Cuba and Cuban waters . Third . That the President of the United States be , and he hereby is , directed and empowered to use the entire land and naval forces of the United States , and to call into the actual service ...
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... Naval Militia of the several States . This organization patrolled the coast , and performed the duty of a second line of defense . Under the direction of the Chief of Engineers submarine mines were placed at the most exposed points ...
... Naval Militia of the several States . This organization patrolled the coast , and performed the duty of a second line of defense . Under the direction of the Chief of Engineers submarine mines were placed at the most exposed points ...
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... naval station and forts at Cavite , thus annihilating the Spanish naval power in the Pacific Ocean and completely controlling the Bay of Manila , with the ability to take the city at will . Not a life was lost on our ships , the wounded ...
... naval station and forts at Cavite , thus annihilating the Spanish naval power in the Pacific Ocean and completely controlling the Bay of Manila , with the ability to take the city at will . Not a life was lost on our ships , the wounded ...
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Página 10 - Second. That it is the duty of the United States to demand, and the Government of the United States does hereby demand, that the Government of Spain at once relinquish its authority and government in the Island of Cuba and withdraw its land and naval forces from Cuba and Cuban waters.
Página 10 - That the United States hereby disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said Island except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination when that is accomplished to leave the government and control of the Island to its people.
Página 339 - States as to the conduct which he is to observe during the military occupation. '•The first effect of the military occupation of the enemy's territory is the severance of the former political relations of the inhabitants and the establishment of a new political power.
Página 340 - ... become payable to the military occupant, unless he sees fit to substitute for them other rates or modes of contribution to the expenses of the government. The moneys so collected are to be used for the purpose of paying the expenses of government under the military occupation, such as the salaries of the judges and the police, and for the payment of the expenses of the Army.
Página 20 - Porto Rico and other islands now under Spanish sovereignty in the West Indies, and also an island in the Ladrones to be selected by the United States.
Página 5 - Of the untried measures there remain only: Recognition of the insurgents as belligerents; recognition of the independence of Cuba; neutral intervention to end the war by imposing a rational compromise between the contestants, and intervention in favor of one or the other party. I speak not of forcible annexation, for that can not be thought of. That, by our code of morality, would be criminal aggression.
Página 275 - Though the powers of the military occupant are absolute and supreme and immediately operate upon the political condition of the inhabitants...
Página 340 - ... order. He will then possess the power to replace or expel the native officials in part or altogether, to substitute new courts of his own constitution for those that now exist, or to create such new or supplementary tribunals as may be necessary. In the exercise of these high powers the commander must be guided by his judgment and his experience and a high sense of justice.
Página 9 - In the name of humanity, in the name of civilization, in behalf of endangered American interests which give us the right and the duty to speak and to act, the war in Cuba must stop. In view of these facts and of these considerations I ask the Congress to authorize and empower the President to take measures to secure a full and final termination of hostilities between the Government of Spain and the people of Cuba, and to secure in the island the establishment of a stable government, capable...
Página 9 - ... hostilities between the Government of Spain and the people of Cuba, and to secure in the island the establishment of a stable government, capable of maintaining order and observing its international obligations, insuring peace and tranquillity and the security of its citizens as well as our own, and to use the military and naval forces of the United States as may be necessary for these purposes.