It is a fact not generally known that the United States already owns many other islands. The Aleutian Islands. extending a thousand miles farther west than Hawaii. were acquired in connection with Alaska in 1867. We also own fiftyseven other islands and groups of islands in the Pacific and thirteeii in the Caribbean Sea. which were taken possession of by American citizens under the act of Congress dated August 15. 1856. which provides for the registration and protection of islands so annexed. and it is only within the past month that one of our menofwar called at the Island of Navassa to inquire into the condition of the contract laborers located there. Mr. Chairman.
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