Show CUBA OWNS ISLE OF provisional government will not mix with its affairs havana the provisional govern ment will have nothing to do with the question of the sovereignty of the isle of pines or with the separation of the government of the island from the rest of the cuban republic the executive authority of the united states already has declared that the isle of pines be longs to cuba and has embodied that affirmation in a treaty conceding the sovereignty of the island to cuba and this treaty Is now pending ratification in the american senate the entire matter being one for the of the state department the provis lonal government which is wholly un der the war department will not mix therein the mode of the government of the isle of pines as part of the cuban re public may be altered or amended but the desire of americans in the isle of pines for territorial or municipal gov as part of the united states cannot be conceded by any act on the part of the provisional government of cuba or the war department |