History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . s universal. In his call for the convention, also inhis opening address before it, GovernorWood mentioned its duty to determine therelations between Cuba and the UnitedStates. Jealous and suspicious, the con-vention, believing the United States boundby its pledge to leave the island to theunconditional control of its inhabitants,slighted these hints. Meantime, at PresidentMcKinleys instance, Congress adopted,March 2, 1901, as a rider to the pendingarmy appropriation bill, what was known as the Piatt amendm
History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . s universal. In his call for the convention, also inhis opening address before it, GovernorWood mentioned its duty to determine therelations between Cuba and the UnitedStates. Jealous and suspicious, the con-vention, believing the United States boundby its pledge to leave the island to theunconditional control of its inhabitants,slighted these hints. Meantime, at PresidentMcKinleys instance, Congress adopted,March 2, 1901, as a rider to the pendingarmy appropriation bill, what was known as the Piatt amendment, so called from itsauthor, Senator Piatt, of Connecticut. This enacted that in fulfilment of thecongressional joint resolution of April 20,1898, which led to the freeing of Cuba, thePresident was to leave the government andcontrol of the island to its people only 254 EXPANSION [igoi when a Government should be establishedthere under a constitution defining thefuture relations of the United States withCuba. The points to be safe-guarded werethat Cuba should permit no foreign lodg-. Governor-General Leonard A. Wood transferring the Island of Cuba to President Tomaso Estrada Palma, as a Cuban Republic, May, copyrighted stereoscopic photograph. By Underwood & Undervjood, N. Y. ment or control, contract no excessive debt,ratify the acts of the military government,and protect rights acquired thereunder, con-tinue to improve the sanitation of cities,give the United States certain coaling andnaval stations, and allow it to intervene ifnecessar}^ to preserve Cuban independence. igoi] CUBA LIBRE 255 maintain adequate government, or dischargeinternational obligations created by theParis Treaty. A week before the Piatt amendmentpassed, the Cuban convention adopted adeclaration of relations, provided the fu-ture government of Cuba thinks them advis-able, not mentioning coaling stations ora right of intervention, but declaring thatthe governments of the United Statesand Cuba o
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