Show SAYS UNITED STATES OWNS CUBA Congressman John James Jenkins of Wisconsin Wiscon-sin chairman of tho judiciary committee of the house Insists that wo have absolute sovereignty over Cuba Ho says Cuba IB domestic and not foreign territory Under International law Independent of all treaty obligations Cuba became domestic territory at eardR tho close of the war with Spain But after the ratification of tho treaty with Spain Cuba became domestic territory by virtue of thu treaty and p subsequent action of the United States Tho United States can only divest Its sovereignty sov-ereignty over Cuba by an act of congress That has not been done Tho supreme court of the fi United States In Neoly vs Henkel sustains my n position by holding that In June 1900 tho Island r n1r of Cuba was occupied by and was under control of the United States nnd that It Is still so occupied occu-pied ant control cannot be disputed Congressman Jenkins has represented tho Tenth Wisconsin district at Washington since 1895 Ho served during the civil war with a Wisconsin regiment Ho was born In Weymouth England In 1843 and came to America at the ago of nine years At the tlmo of the Insurance scandals last spring Mr Jenkins as chairman chair-man of the Judiciary committee reported that after an exhaustive study they found that congress had the power to regulate insurance companies Mr Jenkins has spent most of his life In Chlppowa WIs where ho has held tho offices of city clerk city attorney and county judge In 1870 he went to Wyoming for several years having been appointed United Slates attorney for the territory by President Grant r |