There will be the usual formalities and the necessary delays of organizing the new government and transferring the island. Then the Cuban congress must act. They must reform and reenact their entire system of revenue and tariff laws so as to be able to make any concessions to us. They must enact our immigration. our exclusion laws. and our contractlabor laws. The Government must then proceed to negotiate the agreement provided for in this measure. And there are those who are now contending that they must also. before reciprocity shall take effect. embody the Platt amendment in a formal treaty with the United States.
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