dBooks desire

It is probable
that the area is too vast and the population too scattered and
transitory to make it wise at the present time to provide for an
elective legislative body, but the conditions calling for local
self-government will undoubtedly very soon exist, and will be
facilitated by the measures which I have recommended.
* * * * *
I recommend that legislation to the same end be had with reference to
the government of Puerto Rico. The time is ripe for the adoption of a
temporary form of government for this island; and many suggestions made
with reference to Alaska are applicable also to Puerto Rico.
The system of civil jurisprudence now adopted by the people of this
island is described by competent lawyers who are familiar with it, as
thoroughly modern and scientific, so far as it relates to matters of
internal business, trade, production, and social and private right in
general. The cities of the island are governed under charters which
probably require very little or no change.


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