Show TREATY IS ISRA ISU U RA RATIFIED Senate Adopts Resolution on Danish Agreement ement Without Division Washington Feb 17 Today Today in a little littlemore littlemore more than an hours hour's time the Senate disposed of the treaty with Denmark ceding to th the tM United d States St tes for a con- con consideration of ot the islan islands s of StThomas St St. Thomas St. St Jphn and St. St Croix composing composing com corn posing the sToup group of of Antilles e known as th the Danish West Indies and lying just east of Porto Rico and thus so far as this this' country is is concerned consummated a atran tran transaction a t on which has been under under consideration consideration consideration con con- intermittently since the administration administration administration ad ad- ministration of ot P President Lincoln The treaty and the report on it were read a at length and more ole or less Discussion Discus Discus- discus discus- si sion n pr n wa a indulged In Jn Senator Cu l lom m as Chairman h irman of the CoPt Con mUtee on Foreign Relations made a speech U explaining the advantages o of the acquisition of the islands and Senators Bacon Bacon and McLaurin of Mississippi made brief remarks saying that L w while le they could not Indorse all the provisions of the agreement they would place no ob obstacles obstacles obstacles ob- ob in the wa way of ratification BACON OFFERS Al AMENDMENT NT Senator Bacon moved to amend the treaty treaty by striking out the second paragraph paragraph paragraph para para- graph of Article III of the treaty reading reading read read- ing jog as follows wil The e civil rights and the and the political status of the inhabitants of oJ the islands be determined by the Congress Con Con- Con Con- gross gress subject to the con- con gained tamed in the present convention He based his opposition to this provision provision provision provi provi- sion on ri the ground that the Constitution Constitution tion should extend to the when when they became a part of the United States He lie said howe however er that the thc failure to accept accept accept ac ac- ac- ac the amendment would prevent it his voting for tor the treaty for he lie believed In the Monroe doctrine The amendment was rejected without division Senator Cullom explained all the provisions provisions provisions pro pro- visions of the treaty and gave a detailed account of the islands' islands re resources of their trade value to to the he United States He said the provision affecting c civil rights of the Inhabit Inhabitants waS similar to the provisIon provision provision pro pro- vision on the s m me subject In the Spanish treaty concerning P Porto Rico Senator Cullom said that in taking takingS the Islands the United States would assume no burden of debt as b by the terms of the agreement all claims held by Denmark Denmark Den Den- mark the against-the Insular treasury would be canceled lIe He placed th the total off of these claims at 2 He lIe also explained ex cx- ot f tr Tga f the na nature of the obligation the United States would Assume with refer e ence ce to th tha th St. St Thomas Floating Dock Dock- company and the Vest West India and ma taa company saying that ore ott the tel graph franchise it It would be necessary l to pay a subsidy of per year for three or four years and that in tn i both oth I cas cases there was an agreement to to- pro pro- t ct he the charters for the til granted by Denmark lIe He also gave a detailed ory of the St. St Croix Sugar company that t the Government of 01 Sad fiad ass as assumed assumed as- as s med debts amounting to V out ut for that concern but had a d to windup wind windup up UI the te affairs of the corn as soon as practicable thus relieving United States of all complications 0 o of that company I U TAKE POSSESSION N N N. Senator Cullom explained t t unde under the terms of the treaty the U Uw d states was to take possession of the the ands ands as soon as ratifications could be and said that it would not be to delay that act until the tion of money to pay for them theme them's to be had The harbor at St. St Thorn Thom as described described described de de- de- de scribed as one of the safest h best beat bestin beatin in the V West st Indies and the i tance of Its possession from a strat strata point was enl enlarged upon I Senator Cullom's motion to r l' was then adopted by a viva voce vo vol volThe vot The Danish West India island l' l the purchase of which a treaty wa waffled by the Senate yesterday consist three Saint Thomas Saint John a Croix all all In sight of each othe hell heir Entire area krea Is Is about squar iles The population is about abbOt ark has owned these islands for r ye but comparatively comparatively- little little- has hiss derived derived- nue from them 15 per cent the population is s w white l e. e but the black blacka e 6 of ofa ofa a superior class class' they have all th and privileges of the whites un the tle law law no no such thing as a color is drawn there T T Education has been made com com ry and all white and d black to school I g o of 7 ia 13 a as as- asto j to c There is is In churches nor 1 Ih fu business inter g gd between natives native arid and whites v IS Is ng unusual The off language i nish n- n Ish bUt everybody speaks English h hIs his is used in the schools as well in inthe inthe the courts of Justice The largest place on the island o of t tThomas Thomas is Charlotte Amalie Most ke e e. buildings there are one story big e a eold old ones of stone atone the modern ont wood All AH drinking water is collect cisterns On nfl the island of Saint Croix ar are n two tw t towns each having a po pot tion of about 1000 There are in places Episcopal Moravian Cat Catli Dutch Reformed and Methodist chur churl The whole army maintained by bymark bymark 1 mark is is- about On the island of Saint Croix there two thirty-two sugar estates the product which h goes i n in g New 1 1 gi City g Saint I has only 7 The Chief Judge of ot this island Is a of the of-the the truant sch Chief of Police head wharf master anti and house custom The Th police department over which presides has two I. 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