Show The treaty for the cession of the Isle of Pines to Cuba has been favorably acted on by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations so that the uncertainty uncer-tainty about the sovereignty of that spot in the sea will soon be ended And If the Senate agrees to the report as It probably will Americans from the Northwest who settled there will be In hard luck They have already made vigorous protests against oppressive and unjust taxation and the failure to I apply > any of the revenue to local pur j I poses the tax money being all taken to I Havana and used for Cubas general i purposes They have heretofore protested pro-tested to the United States and demanded de-manded relief for the reason that when they settled there the Isle of Pines was under the Jurisdiction of the United States and they claim assurances that It was to remain so But t l will be peace and contentment when Senator Newlandss Invitation to Cuba to come in as a Stale in the Union is formally I I extended and accepted |