GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS 



XV. Negro citizenship amendment was not acted on 

 by Tennessee; rejected by California, Delaware. Ken- 

 tucky, Maryland, New Jersey, and Oregon; ratified by 

 the remaining 30 States. New York rescinded its rati- 

 fication January 5, 1870. Proclaimed March 30, 1870. 



Corea or Korea. A country embracing 

 linsula lying between the Yellow Sea and 

 i of Japan. Yi Heui, who succeeded to 

 the throne in 1864, and assumed the title of 

 emperor in 1897, abdicated and was succeeded 

 by his son in 1907. Until 1894, China was the 

 in of Corea, but on the conclusion of 

 tr in 1895, China relinquished her 

 nty. and the independence of Corea was 

 acknowledged. Then a struggle began with 

 which culminated in the Russo-Japanese 

 War. and by the Peace Treaty between Russia 

 an.l Japan, 1905, the paramount interest of the 

 country in Corea was acknowledged. 

 A tn-at v between Corea and Japan, signed at 

 Seoul. November 17. 1905, provided that Japan, 

 Ji the department of foreign affair- in 

 Tnkio. should control and direct the external 

 relations and affairs of Corea; that Japan should 

 be represented at the court of the Emperor of 

 Corea by a resident-general residing at Seoul, 

 and have the right to station residents at 

 veral open ports and such other places 

 in Corea as it might deem necessary. The 

 attitude of the emperor, culminating in his 

 action in sending a delegation to The Hague 

 Conference, led to his abdication in favor of the 

 crown prince. .Inly 19, 1907, on the unanimous 

 advice of the mini-try, who were nearly mur- 

 dered for their pains. * The Japanese troops had 

 to put down some serious rioting in Seoul, and 

 itude of the ex-emperor, who at once 

 io eon-pire a-rain-t the Japanese, led to a 

 invention being promulgated (July 25th), 

 the terms of which were as follows: (1) The 

 administration of Corea was placed under the 

 Japanese resident-general. (2) The enact- 

 t all laws and ordinances and the transac- 

 tion of important state affairs must receive the 

 \al of the resident-general. (3) The 

 appointment of all high responsible officials 

 niu-t ree. i\ . t IK- approval of the resident-general. 

 (4) A distinct line of demarcation was drawn 

 M administrative and judicial affairs. 

 pane-e subjects recommended by the 

 n-ident L" rieral are eligible to office under the 

 Corean Government. (6) Foreigners may be 

 employed only with the mn-rnl of the resident- 



e lir-t ( lau-e of the convention 



'"I. providing for the employ - 



.1" a financial advi-cr, was annulled. The 



i native army was disbanded on August 



i without some trouble and loss of 



<'ub;i. iiaviim been continuously in the 



possession of Spain fn>m its discovery, wn- 



the peace preliminaries and by the definitive 



i^ned by the Peace Con rs at 



I, iWrmbcr 10, 189.X. n-linqu. -pain. 



; thu> lia of an independent 



on of tin 



ted States in tin- struggle a: ''ii-.li 



.ination ha-, however, DIOUghl the i-hiid 



ion with :-d States 



rnment. On November.".. 1900, a con 

 D met to deride on a Constitution, and on 



February 21, 1901, a Constitution was adopted, 

 under which the island has a republican form of 

 government, with a President, a Vice-;President, 

 t Senate, and a House of Representatives. The 

 United States Legislature passed a law author- 

 sing the President of the United States to make 

 over the government of the island to the Cuban 

 people as soon as Cuba should undertake to 

 make no treaty with any foreign power endan- 

 gering its independence, to contract no debt for 

 which the current revenue would not suffice, to 

 concede to the United States Government a 

 right of intervention, and also to grant to it 

 the use of naval stations. On June 12, 1901, 

 these conditions were accepted by Cuba, on 

 February 24, 1902, the President and Vice- 

 President of the Republic were elected, and on 

 May 20th, the control of the island was formally 

 transferred to the new Cuban Government. 

 Under treaties signed July 2, 1903 (to be ratified 

 within seven months of that date), the United 

 States will have coaling stations in the Bay of 

 Guantanamo and Bahia Honda, for whidh they 

 will pay $2,000 annually. The connection be- 

 tween Cuba and the United States was rendered 

 still closer by the reciprocal commercial con- 

 vention which came into operation on December 

 27, 1903. In August, 1906, an insurrection broke 

 out and, after futile attempts at the restoration 

 of order, and serious warning from the I'nited 

 States Peace Commission, which had arrived. 

 President Palma, on September 28th, resigned 

 office. No successor was elected and, as Cuba 

 was without a government, Mr. Taft. the 

 United States Secretary for War, and Peace 

 Commissioner to Cuba, undertook the provisional 

 government. He was succeeded on October 13th 

 by Mr. C. E. Magoon: as soon as it seems ex- 

 pedient a regular Cuban Government will be 

 formed. There is (normally) a Cabinet consist- 

 ing of the Secretary of State and of Justice, and 

 the Secretaries of the Interior, of 1 ina: 

 Agriculture, of Public Instruction, and of Public 

 Works. 

 Declaration of Independence 



THE UNANIMOt 



STATES OF AMI UK V. ; -S.JULY 4, 1776. 



When in the Course of human event-, it becomes 

 necessary for one ix>ople t.i cuMolVt the pottuoaJ bands 

 which have OOOnMtod them with another, MM to as- 

 sume among the powers of the earth, tin- separate and 

 c.|ii:il station to which the I^aws of Nature and of Na- 

 ture's God entitle them, a decent respect to the ; 

 of mankind requires that they should declare the causes 

 which impel them to the separation. 



We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men 

 are created equal, that they are endowed I 

 Creator with certain utmliennhlo Right*, that among 

 these are Life. Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. 

 That to secure these rights, Government.- are Instituted 

 among Men. d. nvinn their junt powers from the con- 

 sent of the governed. 1 



Government becomes destructive of these end*, it is the 

 Hiltht of the People to alter or to MXWNI it. 

 iii-titute, new Government, bunaf it* foundation on 

 such principle* and organising it* power* in Mich form. 

 a- to them hall seem n. 

 and Happme,s. Prudence, mdcod. w.ll 



.icnta long established should not t.e changed 

 for liRht and 



.-, hath nhewn. that mankind are num- 



I* nre (uffernhle. than to right 

 selves by abolishing the forme to which they are 

 tomed. But when a |..nu t 



.,, reduce them under nlwlutc Despotism, it 

 is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Gov- 



