Catholic Church Claims Porto Rican Lands
By the Treaty of Paris, signed at the conclusion of the war with Spain, the United States became sole judge in questions of the ownership of disputed lands formerly in the possession of the Spanish crown. There are various tracts of land in Porto Rico the title to which is in dispute between certain municipalities and the Catholic Church, and now Bishop Blenck, the head of the Catholic Church in that island, is in Washington, urging the claims of the church upon the Senate Committee on Insular Affairs. Will the bishop forget to remind Congress of the great political power of the church which can be wielded through the lately formed American Catholic federation?