Rest assured that they will defend, with no care for the sacrifice of their own lives, the rights and the flag of this Nation, for they well know your splendid history, for they realize in maintaining the supremacy of your national character and influence they maintain the principles of modern freedom and civilization.
Geostrategic concerns created a window of opportunity for serious discussion of autonomy for Puerto Rico.
Jones of Virginia. But with my country, a greater injustice is being perpetrated by denying its right to home rule, which, from the very first day of American sovereignty, it insistently claimed.
He intimated that while the Unionist Party had stripped Puerto Rican statehood from its platform in November , he still believed that outcome was desirable.
Is that the kind of citizenship you offer us? Then that is the citizenship we refuse. He insisted that public funds be deposited in Puerto Rican banks rather than in financial institutions in New York and other U.
He also proposed the creation of a public service commission composed of cabinet members, an auditor, the president of the territorial senate, and the speaker of the territorial house. It is not a measure of self-government ample enough to solve definitely our political problem. He died of an infection from a ruptured gall bladder on November 15, , in Santurce, a suburb of San Juan.
Puerto Ricans were plunged into mourning. His funeral procession weaved miles across the island from the capital to Ponce and then back to Barranquitas for burial. Figures are approximate. Election results in other published sources vary.
At a critical juncture in U. View Record in the Biographical Directory of the U. Washington: Government Printing Office, Monclava, Lidio Cruz. San Juan, P. Reynolds, Mack. New York: Crowell-Collier Press, Rivera, Jose A. Princeton, N. Sterling, Philip. Garden City, N. Featured Search Historical Highlights of the House. Learn about Foreign Leader Addresses. Featured Search the People of the House. Majority Leaders. Bean Soup!
Featured Black Americans in Congress. Featured Mace of the U. The following year the Liberals returned to power; a royal decree of November 25 then granted autonomy to Puerto Rico and Cuba. In the first Cabinet, formed on Feb. The island was placed under United States military law. On October 18 the transfer of sovereignty to the United States took place, and the Cabinet members resigned, but Gen. Brooks, the first military governor, refused to accept their resignations.
The Cabinet continued until , when a second United States general succeeded to the governorship. In he was elected to the Puerto Rican House of Delegates. In he was elected resident commissioner for Puerto Rico to the United States. He then proceeded to learn English, at the age of 50, in order to present his country's needs and desires to Congress.
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