The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-31
PROBLEMS IN EXPANSION
THE MANY CONSTITUTIONAL 0UES-
 TIONS INV0LVED.

Officers Elected Yesterday Afternoon
 The Next Meeting Wil be Held In Bos-
 ton, in December, 1899.
 The fourteenth annual meeting of the American Historical association was brought to a close yesterday afternoon after a short though important business l session It was held in Osborn hall. The next meeting will be held in Boston during the last week in December, 1899. Officers for the coming year were elect ed as follows:
 President-James F. Rhodes of Bos- ton.
 First vice president-Edward Eggle- ston of New York.
 Second vice president-Professo Moses Colt Tyler of Cornell. ! Secretary-Professor Herbert B. Ad- ans of Baltimore.
 Assistant secretary-Professor A. Howard Clark of the Smithsonian Insti- ute.
 
 New York.
 i Secretary of the Church History sec i tion-Samuel Macauley Jackson, D. D., ILL. D., of New York
 Executive counci.-Professo H. Morse Stephens of Cornell, Professor Freaer- ick J. Turner of Madison, Wis, Profess sor Albert Bushnell Hart of Harvard. Chief Justice Melville w. Fuller of i Washington, D. C., Professor George Burton Adams of Yale and Professor I A. c. Mclaughlin of the University of l Michigan
 The American Historical Review was adopted as the official organ of the as- 1 sociation, and it was voted to send l copy to each of the twelve hundred members of the association.
 The committee of seven on the revis- ion of history courses was continued for another year.
 1 A committee consisting of Professors 1 Turner, Osgood, Andrews, Cheney and 1 Wells was appointed to supervise the l awarding of the Justin Windsor prize of $100, which is annually awarded to that member of the association who 1 presents the best historical essay before the next meeting.
 It was reported by the committee on historical manuscripts that they had 4 recently received one hundred pages of letters written by the late John z. Call houn. These pages have never been 1 published.
 l The committee on resolutions repor. .e expressions of thanks of the association to the New Haven Colony Historical society, to Yale university, to the Grad uates' club, to Professors Fisher and Farnam for their social courtesies and to Professors Farnam of Yale and 1 Bourne of Western Reserve university for their assistance in preparing the l programme.
 At the morning session Dr. Frank Strong of Yale read an able paper on the topic A Forgotten Danger to the New England Colonies,' This was fol- lowed by one delivered by Professor ] Henry E. Bourne of Western Reserve university. It was on the subject Some Lessons from the Recent History of European Dependencies l The paper read by Judge Simeon F. Baldwin of this city on The Constitu- tional Questions Incident to the Acqui- sition and Government of Island Terri tory" caused some very animated dis cussion. Dr. James s. Schouler of Bos- ton, Professor Hart of Harvard Pro- lessor Bourne of Western Reserve and George l.. Fox of this city made short but vigorous speeches concerning the subject. The leading features in full of Judge Baldwin's paper will be found below.
 l eral subject considered at the afternoon session
 Dr. Herbert Friedenwald, superinten- dent of MSS. department of Washing ton, read paper on Historical Manu- scripts in the Library of Congress. 2 The report of the Historical Manu- scripts commission was read by Pro- lessor J. Franklin Jameson of Brown university.
 The financial condition of the Ameri- can Historical association is most sat . isfactory. The report of the treasurer, MT. Bowen of New York, indicates that l the total assets of the association are nearly $12,000 in good securities There was an increase in the past year of about $1,5O0, in the available funds of the society, and with this money and the annual dues. from the 1,200 members the association intends to undertake various new activities chief among which is that of the Historical manu- script commission. The object of the commission is to collect and publish the original historical material, as, for ex- ample, the letters Of John c. Calhoun, which are now in the hands of the committee.
 JUDGE BALDWIN'S PAPER.
 The paper by Judge Simeon E. Bald win of this city on the "Consttutional Questions Incident to the Acouisition | and Government of Island Territory" gave an historical introduction, in which he showed that many of these had been settled by long usage and public acqui- essence, and others by judicial deci- | sions
 | Continuing, he said; Assuming, then, that the constitution is the supreme law wherever the flag of the Union l floats over it's soil, are there any of it's | provisions which are likely to embar- rass us in dealing with our new posses sions? That they are islands, and not a part of the mainland of North Amer ica is, of itself, an immaterial circum- stance, so far as the right to acquire \ them is concerned. Islands that fringe