...witiiiu a year from the date of the signature of this treaty, a declaration of their decision to reserve such allegiance, in default of which declaration they...nationality of the territory in which they may reside. Except as provided in this treaty, the civil rights and political status of the inhabitants of the...

...It will be observed that by the second paragraph of Article IX of the treat}' of Paris, which reads: The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territorios hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress. The question therefore...

...and, remember, Congress was then in regular session. The treaty of peace, article 9, provides that " the civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territory here by ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress " After the ratification...

...different wording of this same clause in the treaty for the cession of Porto Rico: * * * " The civil and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded shall be determined by congress." This illustrates the growth of the theory of expansion. Thus beginning...

...signed at Paris on December 10, 1898 (30 Stat. 1754). By article 19 of the treaty it was provided that : "The civil rights and political status of the native...United States shall be determined by the Congress." By the act of Congress of July 1, 1902, temporarily providing "for the administration of the affairs...

...Indies, and the Island of Guam In the Marianas or Ladronee." Article 9 of the same treaty provides: • "The civil rights and political status of the native...ceded to the United States, shall be determined by congress." The term "foreign" is familiarly used also in a more restricted aense in our interstate...

...nationality of the territory in which they may reside" (Article ninth). Then came this striking provision : "The civil rights and political status of the native...ceded to the United States shall be determined by Congress." Spaniards residing in the territories were to be "subject to the jurisdiction of the courts...

...Spanish, and, by the treaty, Peninsulars, not deciding to preserve their allegiance to Spain, were to be "held to have renounced it, and to have adopted...nationality of the territory in which they may reside." Thereupon Congress passed the act of April 12, 1900. That act created a civil government for Porto...

...of American citizenship upon the residents of those Islands, but simply the one brief sentence, that the civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories ceded shall be determined by Congress, and the Spaniards, not native of Porto Rico or the Philippines...

...before a court of record, within a year of the date of the exchange of ratifications of this treaty, a declaration of their decision to preserve such allegiance;...declaration they shall be held to have renounced it and to adopt the nationality of the territory in which they may reside. (Article IX.) It is a fundamental...