| Show AMERICANS IN INTHE THE TUE ISLE Of PiNES Went There Under Impression That it Was United States Territory WAR DEPARTMENT SO HELD of tit if Sentiment I Said hI to In Ill Duo DuoTo I 1 To fu Im Nc NeIl l tf ii flet I i I mig for fill Trad TradIng limi d dlug lug Ing hI clI Will Cimba Special Correspondence Washington 1 D C No o ov r The treaty between the United limited States tates and Cuba over the time t of the bl of or Pines tu to tho tim th letter latter country now penU pend Ing Ill before the senate s committee un 1111 ma foreign relations has Imas ha a II rocky toad to travel before Its In reply to a resolution of or the sen senate 1 a aate ate of or Jan jolt 7 1001 1901 the entire entile i s had har with mith citizens of f t the States und and the War and sLIt nut at lI upon the question quest lull heth 0 1 er lH the time laic Isic of or Pines Pints was us u II rut lilt of the tM of ot the tho United v o lB s B s WIt WItto sto it to tIme the foreign bj by b t Loi eol ol Clarence Clarenie e K it lIHt dim f of or orI tIme tho I he bureau of Insular affairs Th Tiu car cur was voluminous In luding mg as liS It till did memoranda made by the tho if ci r In lit charge char to during American a cm J of or time tile Island cabinet en ca bitt I cm iti u t l and others together with maja and amid II I regarding rega Ih hi K 1 lend Inn That V nh tb it II Its attendant Information lu 1 upon u on the as to the i i i y yot of ot time the miami Island v sas as never mud mail Ill imi bill ilc but bu t when hen mm It Is i it i I vi i mi 1111 throw mien nev ne light upon hll t to be lie u a viny il 1 1 I to subject for tor the government to tl WAIt WAIl DEPA N NIn In 1302 1902 tIme thu WIll war department tsui 1 mi nn Isle of or s bulletin of l 1 Iii i with anis I Inhabitants re resources cud ond s was as distributed dl broadest t throughout tho the United States As a 1 le lIlt of ot the time gUon the Jle Ie of or by Uv 11 th the wal vai and the claim net meet up Immediately aN aNter mm II r 1 ter the tIme coc l OI of ot the lie war var by II time lilt lh then themi n assistant a toe secretary ol ot otar ir tr George D 1 that the thO theDIe DIe Itle Of wet wes United States tory large numbers of ot Americans our piu chased lands landH thereon laid out omit inmate elected fences and ind put t In III crepe were vete started mind e he tIme the lato direction lr clIon of ot Gen flen Wood then governor of ot Cuba a alime Ono nile r olony of ot d II 11 WO u acres au which was wu into cud on ott which n alO o now non located 10 families from froam Ohio ohm IndiuM Indiana New cw Yerk illinois other oilier states The rie Isle of ot Pities company composed of or New York New w Jersey und Tennessee l costing costin not i es than 5 COO fh Iowa colony comprising 43 n families and about 10 pur acres they ther mite ate now nol farming They rhey laid out a town which times they culled New Ne Columbia anti Gen Gell Wood established t he a 11 at nt that thai of or Tevan Teva Minnesota Nebraska u and Kentucky are arc al also o the vitally In ha having the tho hip Ula of or iL k ILL i in n ad to the pamphlet descriptive de of or the Island mid Its Us rh condition which Is he de tie described seethed scribed l iK tie having one omme of or the time most sale salu salubrious hi hatCh lit if if Lilly any all of ot time the Ih island in tim intha the tha in sea a mm laige lam ge map was pro pre prepared pared b by br the he t Will department of or time th which was vas marked us as belong belongIng Ing to the United States This Title map sent out o t J to 10 those but later luler on aim jup sUli when the law officers of ot the tIme var at ar department took look the tIme ground green that time tho th thov ov of 01 the Isle hIe of ot Pines was subject to treatY A 4 or OF I r rIn In talking to a r pio of or tim tim he lie h made the significant that tin time th which came cattle over OlI the tho law nill rihl cem Cers era of ot the tho war department thell former ormer contention that tIme the Isle ble of or In United States territory due clue to tho the fact that they ther needed something fur tur trading with Ith Cuba Cube A proposition wan wn wa made to the tho th Cuban government to give thorn them so much mon mone money j und time the Isle of or lines Cuba Kicked on the proposition because by entertaining It It would be lie placed In inthe the thu petition of ot admitting that the Islo Isle of ot uner time the treaty of ot Purl be became became came Caine Unit United Id States territory Just HH nil Porto Rico Hire had don donI that tha tho Isle of or Iines was waH United States Sh ell terri tern territory tory tor our OUI government vhs hold to this proportion until Cuba Cuha finally agreed to give gUe tu tie two coaling stations when It was WM decided that tin time I Isle le of or should pass pas to the th Cuban government by hy treaty TOBACCO HT The rime statement Is made in conjunction with tho time statement of the representative of or the state department that buck back of ut the tIme proposition that the Isle bIt of or Pines PincH belong to Lu Cuba la is II the sub tit till and ammil Influence of ot tho the to c i trust tru t If the tha UnIted States Staton re to tho the Isle Isie of Pine Pinel It Is h contended that tutu tho th tobacco raised rul ell thereon would como come In Lii duty free trel und end demoralize e th Lb prices es by the tho tru trust t It 1 Is a u no nr notorious fact tact that during the Spanish American war the thu most expert ral of ot Cuban tobacco w were wen ru sent to time In 1st of ot PInos linos PhI und end UM Uti a fA of their ef of efforts forts the tho p of ot the time best bent t Cuban tuba co was raised f In the he island The rhe pres pies flit agitation over our the Isis hie of ot Is hi paid still to tu be directly traceable to the ef er efforts forts fortI that time the tobacco U he I putting forward to h have hilo o the time treaty tr ty ceding tu tim I Isle of or Pines to Cuba |
