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Title: With Speaker Cannon through the tropics : a descriptive story of a voyage to the West Indies, Venezuela and Panama: containing views of the Speaker upon our colonial possessions
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Moore, J. Hampton (Joseph Hampton), 1864-1950
Subjects: Cannon, Joseph Gurney, 1836-1926
Publisher: Philadelphia, The Book print
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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heSpeaker on Citizenship—Birds, Snakes and the Mongoose—Session of the Legislature—A Fiery Welcome in Spanish—TheSpeakers Reply—Olcott and the High Life—The GovernorsGorgeous Palace—Exchanged for Home, Sweet Home—Increase of Exports—Secretary Taft on Altruism—The Cake andthe Penny, Too. That Tiilio Larrinaga, Resident Commissioner of PortoRico, had no vote in the Congress of the United States,grated a little on his native pride, but did not prevent hisbeing a very companionable neighbor. My seat in the Housewas next his, so that our conversation often drifted to theaffairs of the island. He had been educated as a civil en-gineer at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, andwas rather proud of it, so that I listened with a degree ofpatience to his friendly admonition that Porto Ricans freedfrom Spanish domination were now subjects of the UnitedStates. Moreover, he had been the friend in Porto Rico,under the McKinley administration, of our scholarly Penn- 28
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the: ISIyAND O:^ PORTO RICO. 31 sylvanian, Martin G. Brumbaugh, the first Commissioner ofPublic Instruction on the American plan in Porto Rico. As we cut through the deep water that separated islandsand rocks on the 72 mile course from St. Thomas to SanJuan, commenting on the lack of verdure and absence ofhabitation, I began to think up Porto Rico and wonder whatwe would find on our arrival there. A short distance out-side of St. Thomas we had noticed what seemed to be thehuge white sails of a full-rigged ship. Then again it re-sembled an armored cruiser, painted white. As we drewnear we observed thousands of seagulls flying about it likeso many buzzards above some great carcass of the sea. Wasit a mighty berg cut loose from its Arctic moorings and goneadrift in these tropical waters ? We examined the chart andfound the huge clifif now towering above us designated SailRock. The resemblance justified the title. What freakof nature reared this silent monument of stone out of thewaters ?

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