Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-02-28
CONDITIONS EXACTED
Cuba Must Agree to Certain Things
Before Independence Is Granted.
United States Must Have Power to Inter
Vene and COaling and Naval Stations
Must Be observation-disclosures Of
fered to Army Reorganization Bill.


Washington, Feb. 26.-The senate
committee on relation with Cuba has
agreed to an amendment to the army
appropriation bill regarding Cuba.
The entire committee is in agreement
and there will be no minority report,
and no opposition is expected from
the democrats in the senate. 1t is
the general impression that the agree
ment makes an extra session of con-
gress unnecessary. The text of the
agreement is as follows:
That in fulfllment of the declaration
declared in the joint resolution approved
April 20, 1898, entitled For the recognition
of the independence of the people of Gu
ba, demanding that the government of
Spain relinQulsh its sovereignty in the
island of Cuba and to withdraw its land
and naval forces from the land of Cuba
and Cuban waters and directing the pres
ident of the United States to use the land
and naval forces of the United States to
carry these resolutions into effect the
president is hereby authorized to leave
the government and control of the island
to it's control, as so soon as a government
shall have been established in said island
under a constitution which either as a
part thereof or in an ordinance appended
thereto, shall define the future relations
of the United States with Cuba, substan-
TALLY as follows:
never enter into any treaty or other
compact with any foreign power or pow
erS which will impair or tend to impair
the independence of Cuba, nor in any
manner authorize or permit any foreign
power or powers to obtain by colonization
or for military or naval purposes or
otherwise, Judgement in, or control over
any portion of said island.
2. That said government shall not as
sumo or contract any public debt, to pay
the interest upon which and to make
reasonable sinking fund provision for the
ultimate discharge of which, the ordinary
revenues of the islands after defraying
the current expenses of government shall
be inadequate.
8. That the government of Cuba con-
sents that the United States may exercise
the right to intervene for the preservation
of Cuban independence, the maintenance
of q government adequate for the pro-
lection of life, property and individual
liberty, and for diScharging the obliga-
the treaty of Paris on the United States,
now to be assumed and undertaken by
the government of Cuba.
4. That all acts of the United States
in Cuba during its military occupancy
thereof ratified and validated and all
lawful rights acquired Hereunder shall be
maintained and protected.
5. That the government of Cuba will
execute, and as far as necessary extend
the plans already devised or other plans
to be mutually agreed upon, for the san
iratton of the cities of the island to the
end that a recurrence of epidemics and
infectious diseases may be prevented,
thereby assuring protection to the people
and commerce of Cuba as we'll as to the
commerce of the southern ports of the
United States and the people residing
therein.
6. That the Isle of Pines shall be
omitted from the proposed constitutional
boundaries of Cuba, the title thereto be-
ing left to future adjustment by treaty.
T. That to enable the United States to
maintain the independence of Cuba and to
protect the people thereof. as well as for
its own defense, the government of Cuba
will sell or lease to the United States
lands necessary for coaling or naval sta
lions at certain specified points, to be
agreed upon with the president of the
United States.
g. That by way of further assurance
the government of Cuba will embody the
foregoing provisions in a permanent
treaty with the United States.