A hip stopped every six months at Porto Rico leaving the money necessary to run the government. But at the beginning of the last century. just at the time that the gentleman from Virginia referred to when speaking of our political progress. our finances were adjusted by a man named Alexander Ramirez. who did for Porto Rico what your Alexander Hamilton did for you in the beginning of your national life. He took up the -finances of the island and established such regulations. or proposed them to the government. fostered immigration. and introduced such measures that from that time to the present day Porto Rico has been a selfsupporting country. In connection with this subject I wish further on to answer some of the statements made by the chairman of the Committee on Insular Affairs . but now I will go back to the beginning of the nineteenth century and will give you a brief outline of the political progress of Porto Rico. As the gentleman from Virginia stated. as far back as 1809 Porto Rico elected 26 members of the Spanish Cortes.
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