Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-10-13

homa, Kansas. Colorado. Wyoming and
New Mexico. The next cesslon was IN
der the treaty of 1913. containing 522,-
| 56S square miles, embracing the states
| of California, Nevada, Utah and parts
! of Colorado and Wyoming. and OF the
| territories Of Arizona and New Mexico.
| In 1858 we acquired by the gladden.
purchase A. 535 square miles which en-
brace parts of Louisiana and New
Mexico.
The next great acquisition was that
Of Alaska in 1861 containing 500 iG6
square miles. This treaty, like that for
the Louisiana purchase. was 1ierccly
resisted. When the House had under
consid, ration the bill anproprintinE the
sum Of s. 200 900. the amount OF pur-
chase nancy for Alaska agreed upon
by treaty the minority report on that
bill quoted approyingly an article
which characterized Alaska as Terra
incoSnita and that persons wen in
formed as TO Alaska are ungrateful
enough t. hint that We could have
bought much superior elephant i'll
Siam OF Bombay for one hundrrdth
part the money with not ten thous-
ardth part Of expense incurred in keep
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'Tn this treaty the opponents were III
the minority ana that great rich terri
tory from which we have drawn many
and many time over its purchase price
ana there was phenomenal growth yet
undcVvloped is ours in spite Of their op-
position.
In the last year we have added 20 tis
territory of the United States the terri
TORY of the Hawaiian islands, one Of Til,
gems Of the Pacific ocean, containing G12l
square mics: Porto Rico. containing :.Ge
square mil, 81: Guam containing 50 Square
miles; ana the Philippine archipelago.
embracing approximately 1l3,02l squlr.
miles. This last acquisition is about one
sixth the size Of the original Is states II
is larger than the combined area Of NcN
jersey, Delaware Maryland, Virginia.
North Carolina, South Carolina and til.
District cf Columbia. II exceeds in area
all Of tho New England states. II is ADJ
mos, as large ~ Washington ana oregon
combined. ana greater than ONO. Indian
and Illinois united. three times large
than New York. and three aud one -hai4
times larger than the state of Ohio.
THE treaty of peace with Spain, which
gave US the philippines. Porto Rico ana
Guam, mot with some opposition in the
Senate but was ratified by that body ,!
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