The authority to appropriate funds to agencies experiencing a shortfall between meetings of the legislature belongs to the INTERIM FINANCE COMMITTEE (IFC).
IFC consists of Senate members of Finance and Assemble members. It functions within the Legislative Counsel Bureau. It provides funds to the for state agencies. It also reviews the requests from various agencies for grants and gifts.
They got support from the British and other major world powers then they settled because they found themselves as being superior because wit their color. They also had better weapons than the South Africans so they could easily defeat them.
USA had a better navy. (The White Fleet?)
USA was backed by guerrlia warfare in the Philippines.
USA had terrible guns going against the Spanish in the San Juan hill.
The USA Springfield Gun 1892 - 99 side clip was highly inefficient compared to the Spanish Mauser.
The Spanish had more firepower the Maxim beat the Gattling Gun.
The answer to your question is,
Continents on the east side could fit snugly against those on the west.
-Mabel <3
