...known as the Philippine Islands, that the United States should pay to Spain the sum of $20,000,000, and that the civil rights and political status of...congress. "The treaty was ratified by the senate on the 6th of Febuary, 1899. and by the government of Spain on the 1gih of March following. The ratifications...

...Philippine Islands, that the United States should pay to Spain the sum of twenty millions of dollars, and that the civil rights and political status of...Congress. The treaty was ratified by the Senate on the 6th of February, 1899, and by the Government of Spain ou the igth of March following. The ratifications...

...provisions of the treaty do not stipulate for incorporation, but on the contrary expressly provide that the " civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded," shall be determined by Congress. When the rights to which this careful provision refers...

...all and the general rule ol nationality applied to him. It is true that the same clause (IX) provides that the civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories ceded to the United States shall be determined by Congress. But this determination belonged to Congress...

...agreemcnt of March 29, 1900, extended the time for making declaration for six months after April 11, 1900.] The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress. ARTICLE X The inhabitants of...

...States the island of Porto Rico " and other islands under Spanish sovereignty. Article IX provides that "the civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territory hereby ceded shall be determined by Congress." The question presented is whether the cession...

...treaty of Paris (1898) asserted, and had adopted at the end of the ninth article the following clause, "The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories (islands) hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by Congress" : of the United States."...

...the ports of the Philippine Islands on the same terms as ships and merchandise of the United States." "The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by Congress." ACTS OF CONGRESS. The Dingley Tariff...

...to have renounced it and to have adopted the nationality of the territory in which they may reside. The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress. ARTICLE X. The inhabitants of...

...within three months after the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty." It also states : $ "The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress." Thus the treaty, when it should...