Ben Harrison: “We may not only hope for, but expect highly beneficial results from this conference, which will now soon assemble.”

The question whether Article XXIX is still in force depends, so far as the construction of the treaty goes, upon the meaning of the words 'the term of years mentioned in Article XXXIII'

A serious question would be raised as to whether these officers were not at once legislated out of office and vacancies created.

This legislation should be, and I do not doubt will be, not only just to the natives and all other residents and citizens of the islands, but should be characterized by great liberality and a high regard to the rights of all people and of…

The law creates two new officers, whose aggregate compensation may be $12,000 per annum, without, it seems to me, a justifying necessity.