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Show WHAT CONGRESS ACCOMPLISHED Important Action Has Been Confined to Cuba and Panama Canal. , Tho Important legislative accomplishments accom-plishments of tho sessions of tho Fifty-eighth congress wero confined to two subjects Cuba nnd Panama. Tho reciprocity treaty between tho now Island republic and tho United States, Inltlntcd by President McKInlcy, was mndo operative by n legislative enactment. enact-ment. Tho ratification of n treaty by tho sonnto and tho subsequent Initiation Initia-tion of legislation of tho government for tho canal zono commit tho United States to tho construction of the Pan-nmn Pan-nmn canal connecting tho waters of tho Atlantic and Pacific oceans. |