The Administration declines to disclose its policy regarding the future government of the Islands, striving to keep the question before the Senate and the country the simple one of accepting or rejecting the Treaty. Indeed, President McKinley's the proclamation to people of the Philip: jines, issued on the 5th of January, carefal-notified them that sovereignty had been refrained from making this point clear.
acquited by the United States by conquest, assured them of protection in all their civil and religious tights, and yave notice that the United States expected loyal obedience and would deal firmly, but without undue severity, with all who should resist its authority.
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