Reasons for Passing the Porto Rico Bill

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 10, 1900

Reasons for Passing the Porto Rico Bill

An administration correspondent says that there were just two principal considerations that caused the Senate to pass the Porto Rico bill as it was passed:—

1. A desire to assert the power of Congressional government without the Constitution.

2. A desire to start upon such a policy in this first legislation for the territories brought to us by the war with Spain as would prepare the way for a colonial system, and avoid the necessity of taking these possessions in as integral parts of the United States.