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Introducing Communication Research, Third edition


By Donald Treadwell

Test Bank
Chapter 4

TRUE / FALSE QUESTIONS

1. In searching the scholarly literature, “relevance” and “quality” mean the same thing.
a. True
*b. False
Location: Reviewing the Literature

2. A search term and a search field are the same thing.


a. True
*b. False
Location: Reviewing the Literature

3. A document object identifier (doi) is a permanent Internet identification for a


document.
*a. True
b. False
Location: Information You Must Record

4. You should do research without first seeing what other researchers have done in your
field.
a. True
*b. False
Location: Library Research

5. Scholarly publication articles are peer reviewed and use citations.


*a. True
b. False
Location: Scholarly, Popular, and Trade Publications

6. A good literature review will assist you in choosing a method that is appropriate for
your study.
*a. True
b. False
Location: Methods

7. A good literature review can help ensure your research study is ethical.
*a. True
b. False
Location: Ethics

8. Relevance and quality are two goals of a literature search for your study.
*a. True
b. False

Location: Finding Relevance, Finding Quality

9. Finding relevant information in communication research is dependent on using


appropriate search terms.
*a. True
b. False
Location: Identifying Relevant Information

10. Using the search term “communication” is often useful in literature searches in
communication research.
a. True
*b. False
Location: Identifying Relevant Information

11. Peer-reviewed articles are likely to be high-quality studies.


*a. True
b. False
Location: Identifying Quality Information

12. Peer review and refereeing journal articles are the same thing.
*a. True
b. False
Location: Identifying Quality Information

13. One advantage of search engines is the unmanageable number of results, some of
which are poor quality.
a. True
*b. False
Location: Search Engines

14. Research results from database searches are generally highly credible.
*a. True
b. False
Location: Databases

15. Scholarly databases have more sophisticated interfaces than search engines do.
*a. True
b. False
Location: Databases

16. Since databases are specialized by content, you can often focus your literature search
by which database you choose.
*a. True
b. False
Location: Databases

17. The impact factors of a journal measure the number of times those articles are cited
by other researchers.
*a. True
b. False
Location: Assessing Scholarly Articles

18. Journals with a low impact factor are seen as influential in their field.
a. True
*b. False
Location: Assessing Scholarly Journals

19. Catalogs, dictionaries, and handbooks can be useful resources as you search the
literature.
*a. True
b. False
Location: Other Resources

20. A good way to determine credibility of website is to treat it like a book or journal
article: know who wrote it, their credentials, and who published it.
*a. True
b. False
Location: Stage One

21. Books and journals published by a university press are unbiased.


a. True
*b. False
Location: Stage One
22. It is useful to know the criteria by which a website accepts or rejects articles.
*a. True
b. False
Location: Stage Two

23. It is not necessary to record the complete bibliographic information when doing a
literature search.
a. True
*b. False
Location: Information you must record

24. A good literature review includes summary, synthesis, analysis, and critique.
*a. True
b. False
Location: The Literature Review

25. All literature reviews must be a minimum of 10 pages.


a. True
*b. False
Location: The literature Review

26. Citation-management software can help keep a researcher organized by interfacing


with library databases.
*a. True
b. False
Location: Citation Management Software

27. One way to review literature includes treating it like journalism—asking questions of
who, what, where, when, why, and how.
*a. True
b. False
Location: The literature review

28. A literature review is just a summary of relevant, quality literature in your research
area.
a. True
*b. False
Location: The literature review

29. A pro–con argument is useful for structuring the literature when academics don’t
agree about the topic.
*a. True
b. False
Location: Structuring the Literature Review
30. Chicago style is the most common citation style in the social sciences.
a. True
*b. False
Location: Questions of Style

31. The American Psychological Association (APA) style is the most common citation
style in the social sciences.
*a. True
b. False
Location: Questions of Style

32. Government agencies and businesses often have useful research data on human
communication.
*a. True
b. False
Location: Ethics panel

33. A good literature search can help you identify acceptable research methods for your
study.
*a. True
b. False
Location: Methods

34. Reading research will assist you in developing your research writing skills.
*a. True
b. False
Location: Language and Style

35. One useful way to find a “breakthrough” paper that clarifies concepts is to do a
thorough, systematic search.
*a. True
b. False
Location: Inspiration

36. Communication & Mass Media Complete is an example of a search engine.


a. True
*b. False
Location: Databases

37. Google and Bing are examples of search engines.


*a. True
b. False
Location: Search Engines

38. The impact factor of a journal is more important than the relevance of the article to
your study.
a. True
*b. False
Location: Assessing Scholarly Journals

39. Popular articles are published without a peer-review process.


*a. True
b. False
Location: How Will I know a scholarly article

40. Scholarly articles include citations at the end of the article.


*a. True
b. False
Location: How Will I know a scholarly article

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

41. In bibliographic research, the letters “doi” stand for


a. direct object identifier
*b. document object identifier
c. document object information
d. digital object identifier
e. digital object information
Location: Information You Must Record

42. A thorough review of the communication research literature will give you help with
everything EXCEPT
a. methods
b. ethics
c. language and style
*d. other methods of citation
Location: Reviewing the Literature

43. Which of the following will NOT help you decide whether a research report has
scholarly credibility?
a. author’s credentials
b. author’s affiliation
c. publisher
d. title
*e. citation style
Location: Identifying Quality Information

44. Which of the following will NOT help you decide if a website is publishing scholarly
credible information?
a. the URL or web address
b. information about how page content is accepted or rejected
c. presence or absence of contact information
d. verifiability of information on the website
*e. the web page color
Location: Stage Two: Additional Questions for Websites

45. A scholarly article is NOT


a. refereed
b. has citations
c. describes the research method used
d. *found in a newspaper

Location: How Will I Know A Scholarly Article

46. Researchers should be familiar with Library of Congress (LOC) Subject Headings
because
a. it is a federal requirement for research
b. the headings provide official spelling for search terms
c. the LOC shows the most popular search terms
*d. the headings give you a variety of different search terms for the same topic
e. the headings show you how to format a paper
Location: How Can the Library of Congress Help My Research

47. AND, OR, and NOT are called


a. logarithmic operators
b. Bodleian operators
*c. Boolean operators
d. numeric operators
e. telephone operators
Location: Mr. Boodle and the Three Bears

48. Which of the following are all Boolean operators?


a. and, or, then
b. and, or, when
*c. and, or, not
d. or, then, when
e. if, then, when
Location: Mr. Boodle and the Three Bears

49. Which of the following details comes first in a citation of a journal article in your
scholarly writing?
a. *author names
b. date of publication, and volume and issue number of the journal
c. page numbers
d. title of journal article
Location: Information You Must Record

50. APA, the style used in writing up much communication research, stands for
a. always punctuate accurately
b. American Publishers Association
c. American Philosophical Association
*d. American Psychological Association
e. Academic Publishing Association
Location: Questions of Style

51. Styles commonly used for formatting communication research papers include
a. APA, MLA, and ALA
b. APA, MLA, and New York
*c. APA, MLA, and Chicago
d. APA, MBA, and New York
e. APA, MBA, and Chicago
Location: Questions of Style

ESSAY / PARAGRAPH

52. Explain, with examples, the difference between primary and secondary sources.
Location: Primary versus secondary sources

53. Identify one example of a database and one example of a search engine and explain
the differences between them.
Location: Scholarly Databases versus search engines

54. Explain the differences among scholarly, popular, and trade publications. As a
research professional, which of these are you most likely to want to read and why?
Location: Scholarly, Popular, and Trade Publications

55. Explain the difference between the concepts of “relevant information” and “quality
information.”
Location: Finding Relevance, Finding Quality

56. What questions you would ask to determine if a book or journal was written to
scholarly standards? Why would asking these questions be important?
Location: How To Be Skeptical About Information

57. What questions would you ask to determine if a website was publishing credible
scholarly information? Why would asking these questions be important?
Location: How To Be Skeptical About Information
58. What are advantages to reading others’ research before beginning your own?
Location: Language and Style

59. How do you determine what qualifies as quality information in your literature search?
Location: Identifying Quality

60. Is there a best way to find relevant information? Why or why not?
Location: Identifying Relevant Information

61. Why is it useful to record the method and results of the literature you find?
Location: Information You Should Record

62. Explain the difference between a search term and a search field.
Location: Search Term and Search Field

63. Why is it important to accurately cite articles and resources you use in your literature
review?
Location: Questions of Style
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United States,
not including
cost of past
wars 76,295,220 152,068,100
100,000 1,520.00 1.99 80,034,335
1.04 233,102,435 3.03
United States,
including cost
of past wars 76,295,220 306,762,392
100,000 3,067.00 4.02 80,056,135
1.04 380,818,527 5.06

Congressional Record,
February 15, 1901, pages 2707-2709.

The following is an abstract of the British Army estimates for


1901-1902, submitted to Parliament in March, 1901, compared
with those of the previous year. They cover, of course, the
extraordinary expenditure incident to the South African war:

NET
ESTIMATES.

1901-1002.
1900-1901.

I. NUMBERS.
Total
Total
Numbers.
Numbers.
Number of men on the Home
and Colonial Establishments
of the Army, exclusive of
those serving 111 India. 450,000
430,000

II. EFFECTIVE SERVICES. £


£

Pay, &c., of Army (General


Staff, Regiments, Reserve, and
Departments). 21,657,500
18,450,000
Medical Establishment: Pay,&c. 1,083,600
908,000
Militia: Pay, Bounty, &c. 2,662,000
2,288,000
Yeomanry Cavalry: Pay and
Allowances. 375,000
141,000
Volunteer Corps: Pay and
Allowances. 1,230,000
1,730,000
Transport and Remounts. 15,977,000
19,800,000
Provisions, Forage and other
Supplies. 18,782,000
18,200,000
Clothing Establishments and
Services. 4,825,000
5,530,000
Warlike and other Stores:
Supply and Repair. 13,450,000
13,200,000
Works, Buildings, and Repairs:
Engineer Services. 3,281,000
4,730,700
Establishments for Military
Education. 119,200
113,800
Miscellaneous Effective Services 218,200
200,900
War Office: Salaries and
Miscellaneous Charges. 305,000
275,000

Total Effective Services. 83,970,500


85,573,400

III. NON-EFFECTIVE SERVICES.

Non-Effective Charges for


Officers, &c. 2,271,000
1,861,000
Non-Effective Charges for Men, &c. 1,485,000
l,379,000
Superannuation, Compensation,
and Compassionate Allowances. 188,500
186,000

Total Non-Effective Services. 3,944,500


3,426,000

Total Effective and


Non-Effective Services. 87,915,000
88,999,400

NOTE. The provision for Ordinary and War


Services is as follows:
1901-02. 1900-01.

£ £
For War Services:
South Africa 56,070,000 61,286,700
China 2,160,000 3,450,000

Total 58,230,000 64,736,700

For Ordinary Services 29,685,000 24,262,700

Total 87,915,000 88,999,400

The British navy estimates for 1901-1902 amount to a net total


of £30,875,500, being an increase of £2,083,600 beyond the
amount of £28,791,900 voted for the year 1900-1901. The total
number of Officers, Seamen and Boys, Coastguard, and Royal
Marines, proposed for the year 1901-1902 is 118,635, being an
increase of 3,745.

The following statistics of the numerical strength and ratio


to population of the armies of twenty-two nations, compiled in
the War Department of the United States, were cited in the
debate in the United States Senate on the bill to increase the
strength of the United States Army, January 15, 1901. They
differ in some particulars, but not greatly, from the
corresponding figures given by Mr. McClellan:

"War Department, Adjutant-General's office, Washington, August


28, 1900. According to the latest available sources, which are
considered fairly reliable, the peace and war strength of the
armies of the nations mentioned below is stated to be as
follows:
NATION. PEACE STRENGTH. WAR
STRENGTH.
Officers. Men.

Austria-Hungary, 1899. 26,454 335,239


1,872,178
Belgium, 1899 3,472 48,030
163,000
Brazil, 1897 2,300 25,860
China 300,000
1,000,000 (a)
France, 1900 29,740 586,735
2,500,000 (b)

(a) Estimated.
(b) Available men liable to military service.

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NATION. PEACE STRENGTH. WAR


STRENGTH.
Officers. Men.

Germany, 1899 23,230 562,266


3,000,000 (c)
Great Britain, 1900 11,904 241,237 (d)
503,484
Italy, 1898 14,084 310,602
1,304,854
Japan, 1898 6,356 115,673
407,963
Mexico, 1898 2,068 30,075
151,500
Persia 24,500
105,500
Portugal, 1899 1,804 30,000
157,126 (e)
Roumania 3,280 60,000
171,948
Russia, 1900 36,000 860,000
3,500,000 (f)
Servia, 1897 160,751
353,366
Spain, 1899 98,140
183,972
Sweden, 1899 2,513 37,639
327,000
Switzerland, 1899 (g)
509,707
Turkey, 1898 700,620
900,000
United States, 1900. 2,587 65,000
100,000

(c) Estimated on present organization to have


over 3,000,000
trained men. War strength not given.

(d) Of this number 74,288 are Indian troops.

(e) In addition there are maintained in the


colonies 9,478
officers and men.

(f) Approximately.
(g) No standing army.

"War Department, Adjutant General's office, Washington,


December 8, 1900. Peace strength of the armies, population, and
percentage of former to latter of the principal countries of the
world. This table is not strictly accurate at the present
time, because the dates of censuses vary. In preparing this
table the latest published census has been taken for
population, and the countries are arranged in order of their
percentages:

NATION. Peace Strength. Population.


Percentage.

France 616,475 38,517,975


1.6
Norway 30,900 2,000,917
1.54
Germany 585,896 52,279,901
1.1
Roumania 63,280 5,800,000
1.1
Italy 324,686 31,856,675
1
Greece 25,338 2,433,806
1
Servia 22,448 2,312,484
.97
Austria-Hungary 361,693 41,351,184
0.87
Sweden 40,152 5,062,918
.79
Belgium 51,502 6,669,732
.77
Russia. 896,000 128,932,113
.69
Great Britain
and Ireland. 259,141 38,104,975
.68
Turkey. 244,000 38,791,000
.63
Portugal 31,804 5,049,729
.62
Spain 98,140 17,565,632
.56
Netherlands 21,696 5,074,632
.54
Denmark 9,769 2,185,335
.45
Japan 122,029 43,745,353
.30
Mexico 32,143 12,630,863
.25
Brazil 28,160 14,338,915
.19
United States 67,587 76,295,220
.089
Switzerland (h) 3,119,635

(h) Switzerland has no standing army, but every citizen has to


bear arms. The first Class (élite), composed of men between
the ages of 20 and 32, has from forty to eighty days' training
the first year, and every second year thereafter sixteen days.
About 18,000 men join the elite annually.

In December, 1900, the British Board of Trade issued a return,


for the year 1899 (except as stated otherwise), of the "Naval
expenditure and Mercantile Marine" of leading nations, from
which the following table is taken:

COUNTRIES. Aggregate Aggregate


Aggregate
Naval Revenue
Tonnage of
Expenditure
Mercantile
on Seagoing
Marine.
Force.

£ £
Tons.

Great Britain
(United Kingdom) 26,145,599 119,839,905
9,164,342
(1898-99) (Year ended
31st March,
1900)

Russian Empire 8,306,500


165,905,000 554,141

Germany 6,672,788
76,309,000 1,639,552
(1899-1900)
(1898)

Netherlands 1,133,664
10,416,000 302,224
(1899-1900)
(1898)

France 13,796,033
142,021,000 957,756

Portugal 749,226
11,474,000 129,522
(Year ended
(1898)
30th June, 1900)

Spain 1,133,664
34,633,000 637,924
(Year ended (1898-99)
(1897)
30th June, 1900)

Italy. 4,617,034
70,181,000 815,162
(Year ended (Year
ended (1898)
30th June, 1900) 30th June,
1899)

Austria-Hungary 1,403,441

Austria.
66,171,000 164,506
(1898)
(1898)
Hungary.
42,903,000 66,072

United States
(year ended
30th June) 9,840,912
127,288,000 848,246 (b).
(1900)

Japan 5,076,294
22,017,000 (a) 648,324
(1899-1900)
(1898)

NOTE.
(a) Includes the Chinese indemnity.

(b) Registered for foreign trade only.

WAR DEPARTMENT, The United States:


Investigation of its conduct in the war with Spain.

See (in this volume)


UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1898-1899.

WASHINGTON, D. C.: A. D. 1897.


Completion of the building for the Library of Congress.

See (in this volume)


LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.

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WASHINGTON, D. C.: A. D. 1900 (December).


Celebration of the Centennial Anniversary.
The 100th anniversary of the removal of the national capital
from Philadelphia to Washington was fittingly celebrated on
the 12th of December, 1900, by an imposing military parade and
by a notable assemblage in the House of Representatives, where
addresses were delivered and the principal exercises took
place. The President and the Vice President elect, members of
all branches of the public service, the Governors and
delegates from all the States and Territories, and various
other dignitaries, were present. The day of celebration was
not precisely that of the anniversary, but one chosen for
convenience to represent it. Under the law in 1800 the two
houses of Congress began their regular winter session about
two weeks earlier than they do now, and November 17 was set as
the date on which the VIth Congress should reassemble at the
new seat of Federal power. As neither house could have taken
part this year in anniversary ceremonies held on November 17,
a day was naturally chosen which should allow the legislative
branch its proper share in the centennial celebration. The
Executive Departments had, in fact, been partially installed
in the new District some time before the members of the VIth
Congress found their way to the unfinished Capitol. President
Adams, leaving Philadelphia on May 27, and travelling by a
circuitous route through Lancaster and Frederick, reached
Georgetown on June 3, 1800. He inspected the single wing of
the original Capitol, then far from finished, visited
Alexandria, at the southern extreme of the District, and after
a ten days stay in Georgetown departed for Massachusetts. The
President and Mrs. Adams returned to occupy the White House
early in November of the same year.

WAZIRIS, British-Indian wars with the.

See (in this volume)


INDIA: A. D. 1894, and 1897-1898.

WEI-HAI-WEI, Lease of the harbor of, by Great Britain.


See (in this volume)
CHINA: A. D. 1898 (MARCH-JULY).

WELLMAN, Walter:
Second Arctic Expedition.

See (in this volume)


POLAR EXPLORATION, 1898-1899.

WELSH CHURCH:
Failure of Disestablishment Bill.

See (in this volume)


ENGLAND: A. D. 1894-1895.

WEST AFRICA: A. D. 1895.


Appointment of a Governor-General of the French possessions.

See (in this volume)


AFRICA: A. D. 1895 (FRENCH WEST AFRICA).

WEST AFRICA: A. D. 1899.


Definition of British and German boundaries.

See (in this volume)


SAMOAN ISLANDS.

WEST INDIES, The British: A. D. 1897.


Report of a Royal Commission on the condition and prospects
of the sugar-growing colonies.

A state of increasing distress in most of the British West


India colonies, caused by the depression of the sugar-growing
industry, led to the appointment, in December, 1896, of a
Royal Commission "to make an inquiry into the condition and
prospects of the colonies of Jamaica, British Guiana, Trinidad
and Tobago, Barbados, Grenada, St. Vincent, St. Lucia, and the
Leeward Islands, and to suggest such measures as appeared
calculated to restore and maintain the prosperity of these
colonies and their inhabitants." In the August following the
Commission made its report, with the following summary of
conclusions:

"a. The sugar industry in the West Indies is in danger of


great reduction, which in some colonies may be equivalent or
almost equivalent to extinction.

"b. The depression of the industry is due to the competition


of other sugar-producing countries and in a special degree to
the competition of beet sugar produced under a system of
bounties. It is also affected by high protective tariffs, and
by the competition of cane sugar, the production of which is
specially encouraged by the Governments concerned. The causes
of the depression may be described as permanent, inasmuch as
they are largely due to the policy of foreign countries, and
there is no indication that that policy is likely to be
abandoned in the immediate future.

"c. It is not due in any considerable degree to extravagance


in management, to imperfection in the process of manufacture,
or to inadequate supervision consequent on absentee
ownership, and the removal of these causes, wherever they
exist, would not enable it, generally, to be profitably
carried on under present conditions of competition. …

"d. The depression in the industry is causing sugar estates to


be abandoned, and will cause more estates to be abandoned, and
such abandonment is causing and will cause distress among the
labouring population, including a large number of East Indian
immigrants, and will seriously affect, for a considerable
time, the general prosperity of the sugar-producing Colonies,
and will render it impossible for some, and perhaps the
greater number of them, to provide, without external aid, for
their own government and administration.

"e. If the production of sugar is discontinued or very largely


reduced, there is no industry or industries that could
completely replace it in such islands as Barbados, Antigua,
and St. Kitts, and be profitably carried on and supply
employment for the labouring population. In Jamaica, in
Trinidad, in British Guiana, in St. Lucia, in St. Vincent, and
to some extent in Montserrat and Nevis, the sugar industry may
in time be replaced by other industries, but only after the
lapse of a considerable period and at the cost of much
displacement of labour and consequent suffering. In Dominica
the sugar industry is not at the present day of great
importance. We think it right to add that in all Colonies
where sugar can be completely, or very largely, replaced by
other industries, the Colonies in question will be in a much
sounder position, both politically and economically, when they
have ceased to depend wholly, or to a very great extent, upon
the continued prosperity of a single industry.

"f. The total or partial extinction of the sugar industry


would, in most places, very seriously affect the condition of
the labouring classes for the worse, and would largely reduce
the revenue of the Colonies. In some places the loss of
revenue could be met to a limited extent by economies, but
this could not be done universally nor in a material degree in
most of the Colonies. Some of the Colonies could not provide
the necessary cost of administration, including the relief of
distressed and necessitous persons, or of the support and
repatriation (when necessary) of the East Indian immigrants,
without subventions from the mother country. Jamaica,
Trinidad, and Grenada may be expected to meet from their own
resources the whole of the expenditure that is likely to fall
on them.

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"g. The best immediate remedy for the state of things which we
have shown to exist would be the abandonment of the bounty
system by continental nations. This change would in all
probability enable a large portion of the sugar-cane
cultivation to be carried on successfully, and would certainly
reduce the rate at which it will diminish. Looking, however,
to what appears to be the policy of the United States of
America, to the great cheapening of the cost of production of
beet sugar, and the fact that many countries appear to have
singled out the sugar industry as one which ought to be
artificially stimulated in various ways, it is not clear that,
even if the bounties were abolished, another crisis of a similar
character might not arise in the West Indies at a future day.

"11. A remedy which was strongly supported by witnesses


interested in the West Indian sugar estates was the imposition
of countervailing duties on bounty-fed sugar when imported
into the United Kingdom. …

"i. The special remedies or measures of relief which we


unanimously recommend are—

(1.) The settlement of the labouring population on small


plots of land as peasant proprietors.

(2.) The establishment of minor agricultural industries,


and the improvement of the system of cultivation,
especially in the case of small proprietors.

(3.) The improvement of the means of communication between


the different islands.

(4.) The encouragement of a trade in fruit with New York,


and, possibly, at a future time, with London.

(5.) The grant of a loan from the Imperial Exchequer for


the establishment of Central Factories in Barbados.
The subject of emigration from the distressed tracts also
requires the careful attention of the various Governments,
though we do not find ourselves at the present time in a
position to make recommendations in detail.

"j. We estimate the cost of the special remedies recommended


in (2) (3) and (4) of i, at £27,000 a year for ten years, the
expenditure to be borne by the mother country. We estimate the
amount of the loan to Barbados for the erection of central
factories at £120,000. This measure no doubt involves the risk
of loss. Grants will be required in Dominica and St. Vincent
for roads, and to enable the settlement of the labouring
population on the land to be carried out, and their amount may
be taken at £30,000. A further grant of about £60,000 is
required to clear off the floating debt in some of the smaller
islands. In addition, the smaller islands should receive grants
to enable them to meet their ordinary expenditure of an
obligatory nature. The amount may be placed at £20,000 a year
for five years, and possibly a reduced amount for a further
period of five years. The expenditure which we are able to
estimate may be summarized as follows:—

(1.) A grant of £27,000 a year for ten years.

(2.) A grant of £20,000 a year for five years.

(3.) Immediate grants of £60,000 and £30,000, or £90,000 in


all.

(4.) A loan of £120,000 to Barbados for the establishment


of central factories."

On a proposal for the federation of the West India colonies


the Commission reported unfavorably, for the reason that the
colonies are too widely scattered and differ too greatly in
conditions for an efficient or economical common government.
"Nor does it seem to us," says the report, "that the very
important Island of Jamaica, which is separated by many
hundreds of miles of sea from all the other West Indian
Colonies, could dispense with a separate Governor, even if
there should be a Governor-General; whilst the circumstances
of British Guiana and Trinidad almost equally demand the
constant presence and attention of an Administrator of
Governor's rank. It might be possible, without disadvantage,
to make some reduction in the number of higher officials in
the smaller islands, and we are disposed to think that it
would be conducive to efficiency and economy if the islands of
the Windward Group, that is, Grenada and the Grenadines, St.
Vincent and St. Lucia, were again placed under the Governor of
Barbados, as they were for many years previous to 1885. We are
also disposed to think that the Island of Dominica, which is
not much further than Grenada from Barbados, and which, in its
physical, social and industrial conditions partakes more of
the character of the Windward Islands than of that of the
other Leeward Islands, might be placed under this Government
instead of being considered one of the Leeward Group. It
might, indeed, be found possible to bring the whole of the
Leeward Islands under the same Government as Barbados and the
Windward Islands, and thus effect a further economy."
Great Britain,
Parliamentary Publications
(Papers by Command;
C.-8655, 1897, pages 69-70, and 23).

With the sanction of Parliament, most of the recommendations


of the Commission were promptly carried out. Provision was
made for the construction of roads in the islands; for
subsidising steamer lines between the several islands and
between Jamaica, Canada and London; for developing the
cultivation of fruits and other crops by a botanical
department; for establishing model factories for the better
and cheaper working of sugar cane; and for wiping off certain
debts which were a cause of distress to some of the poorer
islands. In these measures the imperial government undertook
obligations which might, it was said, involve the payment of
£200,000.

WEST INDIES: A. D. 1899-1901.


Reciprocity arrangement with the United States.

See (in this volume)


UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1899-1901.

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

See (in this volume)


AUSTRALIA; and CONSTITUTION OF AUSTRALIA.

WEYLER y NICOLAU, General:


At Barcelona.

See (in this volume)


SPAIN: A. D. 1895-1896.

WEYLER y NICOLAU, General:


Administration in Cuba.

See (in this volume)


CUBA: A. D. 1896-1897.

WEYLER y NICOLAU, General:


Appointed Captain-General of Madrid.

See (in this volume)


SPAIN: A. D. 1900 (OCTOBER-NOVEMBER).

WHEATON, General:
Military operations in the Philippine Islands.

See (in this volume)


PHILIPPINE ISLANDS: A. D. 1899 (JANUARY-NOVEMBER).

WHITE, Andrew D.:


American Commissioner to the Peace Conference at The Hague.

See (in this volume)


PEACE CONFERENCE.

WILDMAN, Rounseville:
Report of proposals from Philippine insurgents in 1897.

See (in this volume)


UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1897 (NOVEMBER).

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WILHELMINA, Queen of the Netherlands:


Enthronement and marriage.

See (in this volume)


NETHERLANDS: A. D. 1808, and 1901.

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