As a U.S. Senator of Texas and a key member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, you must convince your colleagues how to vote on the treaty.
It is February 4, 1899, and in two days, the U.S. Senate will vote to ratify the Treaty of Paris that will end the Spanish-American War and give the United States new territory by annexing Puerto Rico and Guam, making Cuba a protectorate, and purchasing the Philippines as an American colony. Word arrives in the […]