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RICHARDSON +</h3> +<h4> +A REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE STATE OF TENNESSEE +</h4> +<p> </p><p> </p> +<center> +COMPILED AND ARRANGED BY +<br /> +GEORGE RAYWOOD DEVITT, M.A. +<br /> +MEMBER NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY, ETC., ETC. +</center> +<center> +THIS VOLUME PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF<br /> BUREAU OF NATIONAL LITERATURE AND +ART +<br /> +1904 +</center> + +<hr /> + + +<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div> + +<h2> + Prefatory Note +</h2> +<p> +As the exigencies which prompted, at a late date, the change of plans +in the compilation of this work, left the messages and papers of the +McKinley administration incomplete and defective, it has been felt that +the time has now arrived for their collection. In this supplement are +included the messages, proclamations and executive orders of President +McKinley which do not appear in Volume X, and those of his successor, +President Roosevelt, to date. They set forth the home affairs of the +nation, and illustrate the stability of the government and institutions +of the United States. They demonstrate that affairs were conducted with +attention and directness unaffected by the apparently distracting, but +glorious, incidents, which marked her interposition by arms and the +extension of her sheltering aegis to Cuba. They teach us that the +foundations of this country are deep-rooted and that the process of +nation-building, as recounted in these volumes, has proceeded upon +right lines and with an unbounded fidelity to principle and purpose. +</p> +<p class="r"> +GEORGE RAYWOOD DEVITT. +</p> +<p> +WASHINGTON, D.C., <i>October 1, 1902.</i> +</p> + + +<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div> + +<h2> + SUPPLEMENT +</h2> +<hr> +<h3> +William McKinley +</h3> +<h3> +March 4, 1897, to September 14, 1901 +</h3> +<hr> +<h4> +Additional Messages, Proclamations, Executive Orders and Last Public +Utterance to the People at Buffalo +</h4> + + +<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div> + +<h2> + William McKinley +</h2> +<p> +(For portrait and early biographical sketch see Vol. X, pp. 125, 126, +127) +</p> +<p> +At the National Republican Convention which met at Philadelphia in June, +1901, William McKinley was again nominated the Republican candidate for +the Presidency of the United States. At the November election he was +re-elected, receiving 292 electoral votes, against 155 votes for William +J. Bryan. +</p> +<p> +In September, 1901, he accepted an invitation to be present at the +Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo. On September 5 he delivered his +last public utterance to the people, in the Temple of Music, to a vast +audience. The next day, returning from a short trip to Niagara Falls, he +yielded to the wishes of the people and held a reception in the Temple. +Among those who, passing in single file, took him by the hand, was one +who approached with his hand wrapped and held to his breast as though +injured. Concealed within the covering was a loaded revolver; and as he +gave his other hand to the President, a token of friendship, he quickly +fired two shots, from the effects of which the President sank into the +arms of those near him. He was taken to the residence of Mr. John G. +Milburn, President of the Exposition Company, where on September 14, +1901, after an unexpected relapse, he died. The body was taken to +Washington, D.C., and the state funeral was held in the rotunda of the +Capitol. Thence the body was taken to his home in Canton, Ohio, for +interment. +</p> +<p> +The period covered by the administration of William McKinley was, +undoubtedly, more crowded with events calculated to try and to touch the +very heart of the nation than was any period since the Civil War. The +United States has passed through crisis after crisis in quick succession +and has emerged not only in safety but with untarnished honor, increased +glory, and the great consciousness of solidarity and unification. This +is attested by the wise management of affairs in connection with the +Nicaragua Canal; the increase of the navy, the formation of an army and +the imposition of taxes which in no way impeded the march of industry; +the settlement of railway claims; and the successful starting in life of +Cuba and the administration of far colonial affairs. Aside from the wise +counsels of the Executive of the nation, the calmness and cool action of +the people, amid distracting and perplexing events, have contributed to +the honor of the nation in no slight degree. All of this, and more, was +abundantly testified to, at the time of the deplorable circumstances +attending William McKinley's death by the unexampled outburst throughout +the world of sympathy with the bereaved nation and of admiration for the +man. +</p> + +<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div> + +<h2> + INAUGURAL ADDRESS +</h2> +<p> + <i>Fellow-Citizens</i>: +</p> +<p> +In obedience to the will of the people, and in their presence, by +the authority vested in me by this oath, I assume the arduous and +responsible duties of President of the United States, relying upon the +support of my countrymen and invoking the guidance of Almighty God. Our +faith teaches that there is no safer reliance than upon the God of our +fathers, who has so singularly favored the American people in every +national trial, and who will not forsake us so long as we obey His +commandments and walk humbly in His footsteps. +</p> +<p> +The responsibilities of the high trust to which I have been +called—always of grave importance—are augmented by the prevailing +business conditions, entailing idleness upon willing labor and +loss to useful enterprises. The country is suffering from industrial +disturbances from which speedy relief must be had. Our financial system +needs some revision; our money is all good now, but its value must not +further be threatened. It should all be put on an enduring basis, not +subject to easy attack, nor its stability to doubt or dispute. Our +currency should continue under the supervision of the Government. +The several forms of our paper money offer, in my judgment, a constant +embarrassment to the Government and a safe balance in the Treasury. +Therefore I believe it necessary to devise a system which, without +diminishing the circulating medium or offering a premium for its +contraction, will present a remedy for those arrangements which, +temporary in their nature, might well in the years of our prosperity +have been displaced by wiser provisions. With adequate revenue secured, +but not until then, we can enter upon such changes in our fiscal laws as +will, while insuring safety and volume to our money, no longer impose +upon the Government the necessity of maintaining so large a gold +reserve, with its attendant and inevitable temptations to speculation. +Most of our financial laws are the outgrowth of experience and trial, +and should not be amended without investigation and demonstration of +the wisdom of the proposed changes. We must be both "sure we are right," +and "make haste slowly." If, therefore, Congress, in its wisdom, shall +deem it expedient to create a commission to take under early +consideration the revision of our coinage, banking and currency laws, +and give them that exhaustive, careful and dispassionate examination +that their importance demands, I shall cordially concur in such action. +If such power is vested in the President, it is my purpose to appoint +a commission of prominent, well-informed citizens of different parties, +who will command public confidence, both on account of their ability and +special fitness for the work. Business experience and public training +may thus be combined, and the patriotic zeal of the friends of the +country be so directed that such a report will be made as to receive the +support of all parties, and our finances cease to be the subject of mere +partisan contention. The experiment is, at all events, worth a trial, +and, in my opinion, it can but prove beneficial to the entire country. +</p> +<p> +The question of international bimetallism will have early and earnest +attention. It will be my constant endeavor to secure it by co-operation +with the other great commercial powers of the world. Until that +condition is realized when the parity between our gold and silver money +springs from and is supported by the relative value of the two metals, +the value of the silver already coined and of that which may hereafter +be coined, must be kept constantly at par with gold by every resource at +our command. The credit of the Government, the integrity of its +currency, and the inviolability of its obligations must be preserved. +This was the commanding verdict of the people, and it will not be +unheeded. +</p> +<p> +Economy is demanded in every branch of the Government at all times, but +especially in periods, like the present, of depression in business and +distress among the people. The severest economy must be observed in all +public expenditures, and extravagance stopped wherever it is found, and +prevented wherever in the future it may be developed. If the revenues +are to remain as now, the only relief that can come must be from +decreased expenditures. But the present must not become the permanent +condition of the Government. It has been our uniform practice to retire, +not increase our outstanding obligations, and this policy must again be +resumed and vigorously enforced. Our revenues should always be large +enough to meet with ease and promptness not only our current needs and +the principal and interest of the public debt, but to make proper and +liberal provision for that most deserving body of public creditors, the +soldiers and sailors and the widows and orphans who are the pensioners +of the United States. +</p> +<p> +The Government should not be permitted to run behind or increase its +debt in times like the present. Suitably to provide against this is the +mandate of duty—the certain and easy remedy for most of our financial +difficulties. A deficiency is inevitable so long as the expenditures of +the Government exceed its receipts. It can only be met by loans or an +increased revenue. While a large annual surplus of revenue may invite +waste and extravagance, inadequate revenue creates distrust and +undermines public and private credit. Neither should be encouraged. +Between more loans and more revenue there ought to be but one opinion. +We should have more revenue, and that without delay, hindrance, or +postponement. A surplus in the Treasury created by loans is not a +permanent or safe reliance. It will suffice while it lasts, but it can +not last long while the outlays of the Government are greater than its +receipts, as has been the case during the past two years. Nor must +it be forgotten that however much such loans may temporarily relieve +the situation, the Government is still indebted for the amount of the +surplus thus accrued, which it must ultimately pay, while its ability +to pay is not strengthened, but weakened by a continued deficit. Loans +are imperative in great emergencies to preserve the Government or its +credit, but a failure to supply needed revenue in time of peace for +the maintenance of either has no justification. +</p> +<p> +The best way for the Government to maintain its credit is to pay as it +goes—not by resorting to loans, but by keeping out of debt—through an +adequate income secured by a system of taxation, external or internal, +or both. It is the settled policy of the Government, pursued from the +beginning and practised by all parties and Administrations, to raise the +bulk of our revenue from taxes upon foreign productions entering the +United States for sale and consumption, and avoiding, for the most part, +every form of direct taxation, except in time of war. The country is +clearly opposed to any needless additions to the subject of internal +taxation, and is committed by its latest popular utterance to the system +of tariff taxation. There can be no misunderstanding, either, about the +principle upon which this tariff taxation shall be levied. Nothing has +ever been made plainer at a general election than that the controlling +principle in the raising of revenue from duties on imports is zealous +care for American interests and American labor. The people have declared +that such legislation should be had as will give ample protection and +encouragement to the industries and the development of our country. +It is, therefore, earnestly hoped and expected that Congress will, at +the earliest practicable moment, enact revenue legislation that shall +be fair, reasonable, conservative, and just, and which, while supplying +sufficient revenue for public purposes, will still be signally +beneficial and helpful to every section and every enterprise of the +people. To this policy we are all, of whatever party, firmly bound by +the voice of the people—a power vastly more potential than the +expression of any political platform. The paramount duty of Congress is +to stop deficiencies by the restoration of that protective legislation +which has always been the firmest prop of the Treasury. The passage of +such a law or laws would strengthen the credit of the Government both +at home and abroad, and go far toward stopping the drain upon the gold +reserve held for the redemption of our currency, which has been heavy +and well-nigh constant for several years. +</p> +<p> +In the revision of the tariff especial attention should be given +to the re-enactment and extension of the reciprocity principle of the +law of 1890, under which so great a stimulus was given to our foreign +trade in new and advantageous markets for our surplus agricultural and +manufactured products. The brief trial given this legislation amply +justifies a further experiment and additional discretionary power in +the making of commercial treaties, the end in view always to be the +opening up of new markets for the products of our country, by granting +concessions to the products of other lands that we need and cannot +produce ourselves, and which do not involve any loss of labor to our +own people, but tend to increase their employment. +</p> +<p> +The depression of the past four years has fallen with especial +severity upon the great body of toilers of the country, and upon none +more than the holders of small farms. Agriculture has languished and +labor suffered. The revival of manufacturing will be a relief to both. +No portion of our population is more devoted to the institution of +free government nor more loyal in their support, while none bears +more cheerfully or fully its proper share in the maintenance of the +Government or is better entitled to its wise and liberal care and +protection. Legislation helpful to producers is beneficial to all. +The depressed condition of industry on the farm and in the mine and +factory has lessened the ability of the people to meet the demands upon +them, and they rightfully expect that not only a system of revenue +shall be established that will secure the largest income with the least +burden, but that every means will be taken to decrease, rather than +increase, our public expenditures. Business conditions are not the most +promising. It will take time to restore the prosperity of former years. +If we cannot promptly attain it, we can resolutely turn our faces in +that direction and aid its return by friendly legislation. However +troublesome the situation may appear, Congress will not, I am sure, +be found lacking in disposition or ability to relieve it as far as +legislation can do so. The restoration of confidence and the revival of +business, which men of all parties so much desire, depend more largely +upon the prompt, energetic, and intelligent action of Congress than +upon any other single agency affecting the situation. +</p> +<p> +It is inspiring, too, to remember that no great emergency in the one +hundred and eight years of our eventful national life has ever arisen +that has not been met with wisdom and courage by the American people, +with fidelity to their best interests and highest destiny, and to the +honor of the American name. These years of glorious history have exalted +mankind and advanced the cause of freedom throughout the world, and +immeasurably strengthened the precious free institutions which we enjoy. +The people love and will sustain these institutions. The great essential +to our happiness and prosperity is that we adhere to the principles upon +which the Government was established and insist upon their faithful +observance. Equality of rights must prevail, and our laws be always and +everywhere respected and obeyed. We may have failed in the discharge of +our full duty as citizens of the great Republic, but it is consoling and +encouraging to realize that free speech, a free press, free thought, +free schools, the free and unmolested right of religious liberty and +worship, and free and fair elections are dearer and more universally +enjoyed to-day than ever before. These guaranties must be sacredly +preserved and wisely strengthened. The constituted authorities must be +cheerfully and vigorously upheld. Lynchings must not be tolerated in a +great and civilized country like the United States; courts, not mobs, +must execute the penalties of the law. The preservation of public order, +the right of discussion, the integrity of courts, and the orderly +administration of justice must continue forever the rock of safety upon +which our Government securely rests. +</p> +<p> +One of the lessons taught by the late election, which all can rejoice +in, is that the citizens of the United States are both law-respecting +and law-abiding people, not easily swerved from the path of patriotism +and honor. This is in entire accord with the genius of our institutions, +and but emphasizes the advantages of inculcating even a greater love for +law and order in the future. Immunity should be granted to none who +violate the laws, whether individuals, corporations, or communities; and +as the Constitution imposes upon the President the duty of both its own +execution, and of the statutes enacted in pursuance of its provisions, +I shall endeavor carefully to carry them into effect. The declaration of +the party now restored to power has been in the past that of "opposition +to all combinations of capital organized in trusts, or otherwise, to +control arbitrarily the condition of trade among our citizens," and it +has supported "such legislation as will prevent the execution of all +schemes to oppress the people by undue charges on their supplies, or by +unjust rates for the transportation of their products to the market." +This purpose will be steadily pursued, both by the enforcement of the +laws now in existence and the recommendation and support of such new +statutes as may be necessary to carry it into effect. +</p> +<p> +Our naturalization and immigration laws should be further improved to +the constant promotion of a safer, a better, and a higher citizenship. +A grave peril to the Republic would be a citizenship too ignorant to +understand or too vicious to appreciate the great value and beneficence +of our institutions and laws, and against all who come here to make war +upon them our gates must be promptly and tightly closed. Nor must we be +unmindful of the need of improvement among our own citizens, but with +the zeal of our forefathers encourage the spread of knowledge and free +education. Illiteracy must be banished from the land if we shall attain +that high destiny as the foremost of the enlightened nations of the +world which, under Providence, we ought to achieve. +</p> +<p> +Reforms in the civil service must go on; but the changes should be real +and genuine, not perfunctory, or prompted by a zeal in behalf of any +party simply because it happens to be in power. As a member of Congress +I voted and spoke in favor of the present law, and I shall attempt its +enforcement in the spirit in which it was enacted. The purpose in view +was to secure the most efficient service of the best men who would +accept appointment under the Government, retaining faithful and devoted +public servants in office, but shielding none, under the authority of +any rule or custom, who are inefficient, incompetent, or unworthy. The +best interests of the country demand this, and the people heartily +approve the law wherever and whenever it has been thus administrated. +</p> +<p> +Congress should give prompt attention to the restoration of our +American merchant marine, once the pride of the seas in all the great +ocean highways of commerce. To my mind, few more important subjects so +imperatively demand its intelligent consideration. The United States +has progressed with marvelous rapidity in every field of enterprise and +endeavor until we have become foremost in nearly all the great lines +of inland trade, commerce, and industry. Yet, while this is true, our +American merchant marine has been steadily declining until it is now +lower, both in the percentage of tonnage and the number of vessels +employed, than it was prior to the Civil War. Commendable progress has +been made of late years in the upbuilding of the American Navy, but we +must supplement these efforts by providing as a proper consort for it a +merchant marine amply sufficient for our own carrying trade to foreign +countries. The question is one that appeals both to our business +necessities and the patriotic aspirations of a great people. +</p> +<p> +It has been the policy of the United States since the foundation of +the Government to cultivate relations of peace and amity with all the +nations of the world, and this accords with my conception of our duty +now. We have cherished the policy of non-interference with the affairs +of foreign governments wisely inaugurated by Washington, keeping +ourselves free from entanglement, either as allies or foes, content +to leave undisturbed with them the settlement of their own domestic +concerns. It will be our aim to pursue a firm and dignified foreign +policy, which shall be just, impartial, ever watchful of our national +honor, and always insisting upon the enforcement of the lawful rights of +American citizens everywhere. Our diplomacy should seek nothing more and +accept nothing less than is due us. We want no wars of conquest; we must +avoid the temptation of territorial aggression. War should never be +entered upon until every agency of peace has failed; peace is preferable +to war in almost every contingency. Arbitration is the true method of +settlement of international as well as local or individual differences. +It was recognized as the best means of adjustment of differences between +employers and employees by the Forty-ninth Congress, in 1886, and its +application was extended to our diplomatic relations by the unanimous +concurrence of the Senate and House of the Fifty-first Congress in 1890. +The latter resolution was accepted as the basis of negotiations with +us by the British House of Commons in 1893, and upon our invitation a +treaty of arbitration between the United States and Great Britain was +signed at Washington and transmitted to the Senate for its ratification +in January last. Since this treaty is clearly the result of our own +initiative; since it has been recognized as the leading feature of our +foreign policy throughout our entire national history—the adjustment of +difficulties by judicial methods rather than force of arms—and since +it presents to the world the glorious example of reason and peace, not +passion and war, controlling the relations between two of the greatest +nations in the world, an example certain to be followed by others, +I respectfully urge the early action of the Senate thereon, not merely +as a matter of policy, but as a duty to mankind. The importance and +moral influence of the ratification of such a treaty can hardly be +overestimated in the cause of advancing civilization. It may well engage +the best thought of the statesmen and people of every country, and I +cannot but consider it fortunate that it was reserved to the United +States to have the leadership in so grand a work. +</p> +<p> +It has been the uniform practice of each President to avoid, as far +as possible, the convening of Congress in extraordinary session. It +is an example which, under ordinary circumstances and in the absence +of a public necessity, is to be commended. But a failure to convene +the representatives of the people in Congress in extra session when +it involves neglect of a public duty places the responsibility of +such neglect upon the Executive himself. The condition of the public +Treasury, as has been indicated, demands the immediate consideration of +Congress. It alone has the power to provide revenues for the Government. +Not to convene it under such circumstances I can view in no other sense +than the neglect of a plain duty. I do not sympathize with the sentiment +that Congress in session is dangerous to our general business interests. +Its members are the agents of the people, and their presence at the seat +of Government in the execution of the sovereign will should not operate +as an injury, but a benefit. There could be no better time to put the +Government upon a sound financial and economic basis than now. The +people have only recently voted that this should be done, and nothing +is more binding upon the agents of their will than the obligation of +immediate action. It has always seemed to me that the postponement of +the meeting of Congress until more than a year after it has been chosen +deprived Congress too often of the inspiration of the popular will and +the country of the corresponding benefits. It is evident, therefore, +that to postpone action in the presence of so great a necessity would +be unwise on the part of the Executive because unjust to the interests +of the people. Our action now will be freer from mere partisan +consideration than if the question of tariff revision was postponed +until the regular session of Congress. We are nearly two years from a +Congressional election, and politics cannot so greatly distract us as if +such contest was immediately pending. We can approach the problem calmly +and patriotically, without fearing its effect upon an early election. +</p> +<p> +Our fellow-citizens who may disagree with us upon the character of this +legislation prefer to have the question settled now, even against their +preconceived views, and perhaps settled so reasonably, as I trust and +believe it will be, as to insure great permanence, than to have further +uncertainty menacing the vast and varied business interests of the +United States. Again, whatever action Congress may take will be given a +fair opportunity for trial before the people are called to pass judgment +upon it, and this I consider a great essential to the rightful and +lasting settlement of the question. In view of these considerations, I +shall deem it my duty as President to convene Congress in extraordinary +session on Monday, the 15th day of March, 1897. +</p> +<p> +In conclusion, I congratulate the country upon the fraternal spirit of +the people and the manifestations of good will everywhere so apparent. +The recent election not only most fortunately demonstrated the +obliteration of sectional or geographical lines, but to some extent also +the prejudices which for years have distracted our councils and marred +our true greatness as a nation. The triumph of the people, whose verdict +is carried into effect to-day, is not the triumph of one section, nor +wholly of one party, but of all sections and all the people. The North +and the South no longer divide on the old lines, but upon principles and +policies; and in this fact surely every lover of the country can find +cause for true felicitation. Let us rejoice in and cultivate this +spirit; it is ennobling and will be both a gain and a blessing to our +beloved country. It will be my constant aim to do nothing, and permit +nothing to be done, that will arrest or disturb this growing sentiment +of unity and co-operation, this revival of esteem and affiliation which +now animates so many thousands in both the old antagonistic sections, +but I shall cheerfully do everything possible to promote and increase +it. +</p> +<p> +Let me again repeat the words of the oath administered by the Chief +Justice which, in their respective spheres, so far as applicable, I +would have all my countrymen observe: "I will faithfully execute the +office of President of the United States, and will, to the best of my +ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United +States." This is the obligation I have reverently taken before the Lord +Most High. To keep it will be my single purpose, my constant prayer; and +I shall confidently rely upon the forbearance and assistance of all the +people in the discharge of my solemn responsibilities. +</p> + + +<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div> + +<h2> + MESSAGES. +</h2> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>March 15, 1897</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Congress of the United States</i>: +</p> +<p> +Regretting the necessity which has required me to call you together, +I feel that your assembling in extraordinary session is indispensable +because of the condition in which we find the revenues of the +Government. It is conceded that its current expenditures are greater +than its receipts, and that such a condition has existed for now more +than three years. With unlimited means at our command, we are presenting +the remarkable spectacle of increasing our public debt by borrowing +money to meet the ordinary outlays incident upon even an economical and +prudent administration of the Government. An examination of the subject +discloses this fact in every detail and leads inevitably to the +conclusion that the condition of the revenue which allows it is +unjustifiable and should be corrected. +</p> +<p> +We find by the reports of the Secretary of the Treasury that the +revenues for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1892, from all sources +were $425,868,260.22, and the expenditures for all purposes were +$415,953,806.56, leaving an excess of receipts over expenditures of +$9,914,453.66. During that fiscal year $40,570,467.98 were paid upon the +public debt, which had been reduced since March 1, 1889, $259,076,890, +and the annual interest charge decreased $11,684,576.60. The receipts +of the Government from all sources during the fiscal year ending +June 30, 1893, amounted to $461,716,561.94, audits expenditures to +$459,374,887.65, showing an excess of receipts over expenditures of +$2,341,674.29. +</p> +<p> +Since that time the receipts of no fiscal year, and with but few +exceptions of no month of any fiscal year, have exceeded the +expenditures. The receipts of the Government, from all sources, during +the fiscal year ending June 30, 1894, were $372,802,498.29, and its +expenditures $442,605,758.87, leaving a deficit, the first since the +resumption of specie payments, of $69,803,260.58. Notwithstanding there +was a decrease of $16,769,128.78 in the ordinary expenses of the +Government, as compared with the previous fiscal year, its income was +still not sufficient to provide for its daily necessities, and the gold +reserve in the Treasury for the redemption of greenbacks was drawn upon +to meet them. But this did not suffice, and the Government then resorted +to loans to replenish the reserve. +</p> +<p> +In February, 1894, $50,000,000 in bonds were issued, and in November +following a second issue of $50,000,000 was deemed necessary. The sum of +$117,171,795 was realized by the sale of these bonds, but the reserve +was steadily decreased until, on February 8, 1895, a third sale of +$62,315,400 in bonds, for $65,116,244, was announced to Congress. +</p> +<p> +The receipts of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1895, +were $390,373,203.30 and the expenditures $433,178,426.48, showing a +deficit of $42,805,223.18. A further loan of $100,000,000 was negotiated +by the Government in February, 1896, the sale netting $111,166,246, +and swelling the aggregate of bonds issued within three years to +$262,315,400. For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1896, the revenues of +the Government from all sources amounted to $409,475,408.78, while its +expenditures were $434,678,654.48, or an excess of expenditures over +receipts of $25,203,245.70. In other words, the total receipts for the +three fiscal years ending June 30, 1896, were insufficient by +$137,811,729.46 to meet the total expenditures. +</p> +<p> +Nor has this condition since improved. For the first half of the present +fiscal year, the receipts of the Government, exclusive of postal +revenues, were $157,507,603.76, and its expenditures, exclusive of +postal service, $195,410,000.22, or an excess of expenditures over +receipts of $37,902,396.46. In January of this year, the receipts, +exclusive of postal revenues, were $24,316,994.05, and the expenditures, +exclusive of postal service, $30,269,389.29, a deficit of $5,952,395.24 +for the month. In February of this year, the receipts, exclusive of +postal revenues, were $24,400,997.38, and expenditures, exclusive of +postal service, $28,796,056.66, a deficit of $4,395,059.28; or a total +deficiency of $186,061,580.44 for the three years and eight months +ending March 1, 1897. Not only are we without a surplus in the Treasury, +but with an increase in the public debt there has been a corresponding +increase in the annual interest charge, from $22,893,883.20 in 1892, the +lowest of any year since 1862, to $34,387,297.60 in 1896, or an increase +of $11,493,414.40. +</p> +<p> +It may be urged that even if the revenues of the Government had been +sufficient to meet all its ordinary expenses during the past three +years, the gold reserve would still have been insufficient to meet the +demands upon it, and that bonds would necessarily have been issued for +its repletion. Be this as it may, it is clearly manifest, without +denying or affirming the correctness of such a conclusion, that the debt +would have been decreased in at least the amount of the deficiency, and +business confidence immeasurably strengthened throughout the country. +</p> +<p> +Congress should promptly correct the existing condition. Ample revenues +must be supplied not only for the ordinary expenses of the Government, +but for the prompt payment of liberal pensions and the liquidation of +the principal and interest of the public debt. In raising revenue, +duties should be so levied upon foreign products as to preserve the home +market, so far as possible, to our own producers; to revive and increase +manufactures; to relieve and encourage agriculture; to increase our +domestic and foreign commerce; to aid and develop mining and building; +and to render to labor in every field of useful occupation the liberal +wages and adequate rewards to which skill and industry are justly +entitled. The necessity of the passage of a tariff law which shall +provide ample revenue, need not be further urged. The imperative demand +of the hour is the prompt enactment of such a measure, and to this +object I earnestly recommend that Congress shall make every endeavor. +Before other business is transacted, let us first provide sufficient +revenue to faithfully administer the Government without the contracting +of further debt, or the continued disturbance of our finances. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>April 7, 1897</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate and House of Representatives</i>: +</p> +<p> +Information which has recently come to me from the governors of +Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana, and from prominent citizens of +these States and Tennessee, warrants the conclusion that widespread +distress, involving the destruction of a large amount of property and +loss of human life, has resulted from the floods which have submerged +that section of the country. These are stated, on reliable authority, to +be the most destructive floods that have ever devastated the Mississippi +Valley, the water being much higher than the highest stage it has +reached before. From Marion, Ark., north of Memphis, to Greenville, +Miss., a distance of more than 250 miles by river, it is reported there +are now at least fifty towns and villages under water, and a territory +extending from 100 miles north of Memphis to 200 miles south, and from +5 to 40 miles wide, is submerged. Hundreds of thousands of acres of +cultivated soil, with growing crops, are included in the submerged +territory. In this section alone there are from 50,000 to 60,000 people +whose property has been destroyed and whose business has been suspended. +Growing crops have been ruined, thousands of cattle have been drowned, +and the inhabitants of certain areas threatened with starvation. As a +great majority of the sufferers are small farmers, they have thus been +left entirely destitute, and will be unprepared for work even after the +floods have subsided. +</p> +<p> +The entire Mississippi Valley in Arkansas is flooded and communication +with many points cut off. In Mississippi a like condition exists. The +levees in Louisiana, with a single exception, have held; but the water +is rising and the situation there is reported as being extremely +critical. +</p> +<p> +Under such circumstances the citizens of these States look for the +co-operation and support of the National Government in relieving the +pressing cases of destitution for food, clothing, and shelter, which are +beyond the reach of local efforts. The authorities who have communicated +with the Executive recognize that their first and most energetic duty +is to provide as far as possible the means of caring for their own +citizens; but nearly all of them agree in the opinion that after their +resources have been exhausted a sum aggregating at least $150,000 and +possibly $200,000 will be required for immediate use. +</p> +<p> +Precedents are not wanting that in such emergencies as this Congress +has taken prompt, generous, and intelligent action, involving the +expenditure of considerable sums of money, with satisfactory results. +In 1874 $590,000 was appropriated, and in 1882 $350,000 was also +appropriated for relief in same direction, besides large sums in other +years. +</p> +<p> +The citizens' relief committee of Memphis has taken prompt action, +has already cared for from 6,000 to 7,000 refugees from the flooded +districts, and they are still arriving in that city in large numbers +daily. Supplies and provisions have been sent to the various points in +Arkansas and Mississippi by this committee, but the utmost that can be +done by these efforts is to partly relieve the most acute cases of +suffering. No action has yet been taken for the great majority of the +inhabitants living in the interior, whose condition has already been +described. +</p> +<p> +Under these conditions and having exerted themselves to the fullest +extent, the local authorities have reluctantly confessed their inability +to further cope with this distressing situation unaided by relief from +the Government. It has therefore seemed to me that the representatives +of the people should be promptly informed of the nature and extent +of the suffering and needs of these stricken people, and I have +communicated these facts in the hope and belief that the legislative +branch of the Government will promptly re-enforce the work of the local +authorities in the States named. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> + EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, April 14, 1897</i>. +</p> +<p> + <i>To the Senate and House of Representatives</i>: +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith for the consideration of the respective Houses +of the Congress, a report of the Secretary of State representing the +appropriateness of early action in order that the Government of the +United States may be enabled to accept the invitation of that of the +French Republic to participate in the Universal Exposition to be held +at Paris in 1900. +</p> +<p> +The recommendations of this report have my most cordial approval, +and I urge upon the Congress such timely provision for this great +international enterprise as will fittingly respond to the widely +testified wish and expectation of our inventors and producers that they +may have adequate opportunity again, as in the past, to fortify the +important positions that have won in the world's competitive fields +of discovery and industry. Nor are the traditional friendships of the +United States and France and the mutual advantages to accrue from +their enlarged commercial intercourse less important factors than the +individual interests to be fostered by renewed participation in a great +French exposition, especially when it is remembered that the present +display is projected with a degree of completeness and on a scale of +magnificence beyond any of the European exhibitions that have marked +the close of the century. +</p> +<p> +It is proper that I should emphasize the need of early action, for if +the present session pass without suitable provision being made, the +postponement of the matter for nearly a year longer could not but +operate greatly to the disadvantage of the United States, in view of the +elaborate preparations already making by other governments, and of the +danger that further delay may result in an inadequate allotment of space +to this country as well as an incomplete organization of the American +exhibit. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, May 3, 1897</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Congress of the United States</i>: +</p> +<p> +I transmit a report from the Secretary of State reciting the +circumstances attending the lynching at Hahnville, La., on the night +of August 8, 1896, of three Italian subjects, named Salvatore Arena, +Giuseppe Venturelia, and Lorenzo Salardino, and I recommend the +appropriation by Congress, without admitting the liability of the +Government of the United States in the premises, of the sum of $6,000, +to be paid by the Secretary of State to the Government of Italy, and to +be distributed by that government in such manner as it may deem proper +among the heirs of the three Italian subjects above named. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, May 13, 1897</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate of the United States</i>: +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith, in response to the Senate resolution of April 22, +1897, addressed to the Secretary of State, a report from that officer +relative to diplomatic and consular reports on postal savings banks +systems in foreign countries. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>May 17, 1897</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States</i>: +</p> +<p> +Official information from our consuls in Cuba establishes the fact that +a large number of American citizens in the island are in a state of +destitution, suffering for want of food and medicines. This applies +particularly to the rural districts of the central and eastern parts. +</p> +<p> +The agricultural classes have been forced from their farms into +the nearest towns, where they are without work or money. The local +authorities of the several towns, however kindly disposed, are unable to +relieve the needs of their own people, and are altogether powerless to +help our citizens. +</p> +<p> +The latest report of Consul-General Lee estimates six to eight +hundred Americans are without means of support. I have assured him that +provision would be made at once to relieve them. To that end I recommend +that Congress make an appropriation of not less than $50,000, to be +immediately available for use, under the direction of the Secretary of +State. +</p> +<p> +It is desirable that a part of the sum which may be appropriated by +Congress should, in the discretion of the Secretary of State, also be +used for the transportation of American citizens who, desiring to return +to the United States, are without means to do so. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>July 1, 1897</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Congress of the United States</i>: +</p> +<p> +On the 15th ultimo all the buildings of the immigration station at Ellis +Island, New York, excepting the heating plant and lighting apparatus, +were destroyed by fire. +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, which +states the fact and explains the need of rebuilding. +</p> +<p> +In order that there may be no delay in this important work, I recommend +that an appropriation be made at once of $600,000, the sum estimated by +the Secretary of the Treasury as required for this purpose. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, July 23, 1897</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate of the United States</i>: +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith a report from the Acting Secretary of State, with an +accompanying paper, in response to the resolution of the Senate of July +12, 1897, requesting the Secretary of State to send to the diplomatic +representatives of the United States abroad a circular letter, similar +to the one sent by Secretary Elaine on May 20, 1881, instructing them to +obtain from the several foreign governments to which they are accredited +as full information as possible (including copy of laws relating +thereto) as to the nature and practical workings (including expenses, +receipts, and rates) of the postal telegraphs, telephones, and postal +savings banks of such countries as have adopted the same. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>July 24, 1897</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Congress of the United States</i>: +</p> +<p> +In my message convening the Congress in extraordinary session I called +attention to a single subject—that of providing revenue adequate to +meet the reasonable and proper expenses of the Government. I believed +that to be the most pressing subject for settlement then. A bill to +provide the necessary revenues for the Government has already passed the +House of Representatives and the Senate and awaits executive action. +</p> +<p> +Another question of very great importance is that of the establishment +of our currency and banking system on a better basis, which I commented +upon in my inaugural address in the following words: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Our financial system needs some revision; our money is all good now, + but its value must not further be threatened. It should all be put upon + an enduring basis, not subject to easy attack, nor its stability to + doubt or dispute. The several forms of our paper money offer, in my + judgment, a constant embarrassment to the Government and imperil a safe + balance in the Treasury. +</p> +<p> +Nothing was settled more clearly at the late national election than the +determination upon the part of the people to keep their currency stable +in value and equal to that of the most advanced nations of the world. +</p> +<p> +The soundness of our currency is nowhere questioned. No loss can occur +to its holders. It is the system which should be simplified and +strengthened, keeping our money just as good as it is now with less +expense to the Government and the people. +</p> +<p> +The sentiment of the country is strongly in favor of early action +by Congress in this direction, to revise our currency laws and remove +them from partisan contention. A notable assembly of business men +with delegates from twenty-nine States and Territories was held at +Indianapolis in January of this year. The financial situation commanded +their earnest attention, and after a two days' session the convention +recommended to Congress the appointment of a monetary commission. +</p> +<p> +I recommend this report to the consideration of Congress. The authors of +the report recommend a commission "to make a thorough investigation of +the monetary affairs and needs of this country in all relations and +aspects, and to make proper suggestions as to any evils found to exist +and the remedies therefor." +</p> +<p> +This subject should receive the attention of Congress at its special +session. It ought not to be postponed until the regular session. +</p> +<p> +I therefore urgently recommend that a special commission be created, +non-partisan in its character, to be composed of well-informed citizens +of different parties who will command the confidence of Congress and the +country because of their special fitness for the work, whose duty it +shall be to make recommendations of whatever changes in our present +banking and currency laws may be found necessary and expedient, and to +report their conclusions on or before the 1st day of November next, in +order that the same may be transmitted by me to Congress for its +consideration at its first regular session. +</p> +<p> +It is to be hoped that the report thus made will be so comprehensive and +sound as to receive the support of all parties and the favorable action +of Congress. At all events, such a report cannot fail to be of value to +the executive branch of the Government, as well as to those charged with +public legislation, and to greatly assist in the establishment of an +improved system of finance. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div> + +<h2> + FIRST ANNUAL MESSAGE. +</h2> +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>December 6, 1897</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate and House of Representatives</i>: +</p> +<p> +It gives me pleasure to extend greeting to the Fifty-fifth Congress, +assembled in regular session at the seat of Government, with many +of whose Senators and Representatives I have been associated in the +legislative service. Their meeting occurs under felicitous conditions, +justifying sincere congratulation and calling for our grateful +acknowledgment to a beneficent Providence which has so signally blessed +and prospered us as a nation. Peace and good will with all the nations +of the earth continue unbroken. +</p> +<p> +A matter of genuine satisfaction is the growing feeling of fraternal +regard and unification of all sections of our country, the +incompleteness of which has too long delayed realization of the highest +blessings of the Union. The spirit of patriotism is universal and is +ever increasing in fervor. The public questions which now most engross +us are lifted far above either partisanship, prejudice, or former +sectional differences. They affect every part of our common country +alike and permit of no division on ancient lines. Questions of foreign +policy, of revenue, the soundness of the currency, the inviolability of +national obligations, the improvement of the public service, appeal to +the individual conscience of every earnest citizen to whatever party he +belongs or in whatever section of the country he may reside. +</p> +<p> +The extra session of this Congress which closed during July last +enacted important legislation, and while its full effect has not yet +been realized, what it has already accomplished assures us of its +timeliness and wisdom. To test its permanent value further time will be +required, and the people, satisfied with its operation and results thus +far, are in no mind to withhold from it a fair trial. +</p> +<p> +Tariff legislation having been settled by the extra session of Congress, +the question next pressing for consideration is that of the currency. +</p> +<p> +The work of putting our finances upon a sound basis, difficult as +it may seem, will appear easier when we recall the financial operations +of the Government since 1866. On the 30th day of June of that year +we had outstanding demand liabilities in the sum of $728,868,447.41. +On the 1st of January, 1879, these liabilities had been reduced to +$443,889,495.88. Of our interest-bearing obligations, the figures +are even more striking. On July 1, 1866, the principal of the +interest-bearing debt of the Government was $2,332,331,208. On the +1st day of July, 1893, this sum had been reduced to $585,037,100, or an +aggregate reduction of $1,747,294,108. The interest-bearing debt of the +United States on the 1st day of December, 1897, was $847,365,620. The +Government money now outstanding (December 1) consists of $346,681,016 +of United States notes, $107,793,280 of Treasury notes issued by +authority of the law of 1890, $384,963,504 of silver certificates, and +$61,280,761 of standard silver dollars. +</p> +<p> +With the great resources of the Government, and with the honorable +example of the past before us, we ought not to hesitate to enter upon a +currency revision which will make our demand obligations less onerous to +the Government and relieve our financial laws from ambiguity and doubt. +</p> +<p> +The brief review of what was accomplished from the close of the war +to 1893, makes unreasonable and groundless any distrust either of our +financial ability or soundness; while the situation from 1893 to 1897 +must admonish Congress of the immediate necessity of so legislating as +to make the return of the conditions then prevailing impossible. +</p> +<p> +There are many plans proposed as a remedy for the evil. Before we can +find the true remedy we must appreciate the real evil. It is not that +our currency of every kind is not good, for every dollar of it is good; +good because the Government's pledge is out to keep it so, and that +pledge will not be broken. However, the guaranty of our purpose to keep +the pledge will be best shown by advancing toward its fulfillment. +</p> +<p> +The evil of the present system is found in the great cost to the +Government of maintaining the parity of our different forms of money, +that is, keeping all of them at par with gold. We surely cannot be +longer heedless of the burden this imposes upon the people, even under +fairly prosperous conditions, while the past four years have +demonstrated that it is not only an expensive charge upon the +Government, but a dangerous menace to the National credit. +</p> +<p> +It is manifest that we must devise some plan to protect the Government +against bond issues for repeated redemptions. We must either curtail the +opportunity for speculation, made easy by the multiplied redemptions +of our demand obligations, or increase the gold reserve for their +redemption. We have $900,000,000 of currency which the Government by +solemn enactment has undertaken to keep at par with gold. Nobody is +obliged to redeem in gold but the Government. The banks are not required +to redeem in gold. The Government is obliged to keep equal with gold all +its outstanding currency and coin obligations, while its receipts are +not required to be paid in gold. They are paid in every kind of money +but gold, and the only means by which the Government can with certainty +get gold is by borrowing. It can get it in no other way when it most +needs it. The Government without any fixed gold revenue is pledged to +maintain gold redemption, which it has steadily and faithfully done, +and which, under the authority now given, it will continue to do. +</p> +<p> +The law which requires the Government, after having redeemed its United +States notes, to pay them out again as current funds, demands a constant +replenishment of the gold reserve. This is especially so in times of +business panic and when the revenues are insufficient to meet the +expenses of the Government. At such times the Government has no other +way to supply its deficit and maintain redemption but through the +increase of its bonded debt, as during the Administration of my +predecessor, when $262,315,400 of four-and-a-half per cent bonds were +issued and sold and the proceeds used to pay the expenses of the +Government in excess of the revenues and sustain the gold reserve. While +it is true that the greater part of the proceeds of these bonds were +used to supply deficient revenues, a considerable portion was required +to maintain the gold reserve. +</p> +<p> +With our revenues equal to our expenses, there would be no deficit +requiring the issuance of bonds. But if the gold reserve falls below +$100,000,000, how will it be replenished except by selling more bonds? +Is there any other way practicable under existing law? The serious +question then is, Shall we continue the policy that has been pursued in +the past; that is, when the gold reserve reaches the point of danger, +issue more bonds and supply the needed gold, or shall we provide other +means to prevent these recurring drains upon the gold reserve? If no +further legislation is had and the policy of selling bonds is to be +continued, then Congress should give the Secretary of the Treasury +authority to sell bonds at long or short periods, bearing a less rate of +interest than is now authorized by law. +</p> +<p> +I earnestly recommend, as soon as the receipts of the Government are +quite sufficient to pay all the expenses of the Government, that when +any of the United States notes are presented for redemption in gold and +are redeemed in gold, such notes shall be kept and set apart, and only +paid out in exchange for gold. This is an obvious duty. If the holder of +the United States note prefers the gold and gets it from the Government, +he should not receive back from the Government a United States note +without paying gold in exchange for it. The reason for this is made +all the more apparent when the Government issues an interest-bearing +debt to provide gold for the redemption of United States notes—a +non-interest-bearing debt. Surely it should not pay them out again +except on demand and for gold. If they are put out in any other way, +they may return again to be followed by another bond issue to redeem +them—another interest-bearing debt to redeem a non-interest-bearing +debt. +</p> +<p> +In my view, it is of the utmost importance that the Government +should be relieved from the burden of providing all the gold required +for exchanges and export. This responsibility is alone borne by the +Government, without any of the usual and necessary banking powers to +help itself. The banks do not feel the strain of gold redemption. The +whole strain rests upon the Government, and the size of the gold reserve +in the Treasury has come to be, with or without reason, the signal of +danger or of security. This ought to be stopped. +</p> +<p> +If we are to have an era of prosperity in the country, with sufficient +receipts for the expenses of the Government, we may feel no immediate +embarrassment from our present currency; but the danger still exists, +and will be ever present, menacing us so long as the existing system +continues. And, besides, it is in times of adequate revenues and +business tranquillity that the Government should prepare for the worst. +We cannot avoid, without serious consequences, the wise consideration +and prompt solution of this question. +</p> +<p> +The Secretary of the Treasury has outlined a plan, in great detail, for +the purpose of removing the threatened recurrence of a depleted gold +reserve and save us from future embarrassment on that account. To this +plan I invite your careful consideration. +</p> +<p> +I concur with the Secretary of the Treasury in his recommendation that +National banks be allowed to issue notes to the face value of the bonds +which they have deposited for circulation, and that the tax on +circulating notes secured by deposit of such bonds be reduced to +one-half of one per cent per annum. I also join him in recommending that +authority be given for the establishment of National banks with a +minimum capital of $25,000. This will enable the smaller villages and +agricultural regions of the country to be supplied with currency to meet +their needs. +</p> +<p> +I recommend that the issue of National bank notes be restricted to the +denomination of ten dollars and upwards. If the suggestions I have +herein made shall have the approval of Congress, then I would recommend +that National banks be required to redeem their notes in gold. +</p> +<hr> +<center> + [See Vol. X, pp. 127-136.] +</center> +<p> +Not a single American citizen is now in arrest or confinement in Cuba of +whom this Government has any knowledge. The near future will demonstrate +whether the indispensable condition of a righteous peace, just alike to +the Cubans and to Spain as well as equitable to all our interests so +intimately involved in the welfare of Cuba, is likely to be attained. If +not, the exigency of further and other action by the United States will +remain to be taken. When that time comes that action will be determined +in the line of indisputable right and duty. It will be faced, without +misgiving or hesitancy in the light of the obligation this Government +owes to itself, to the people who have confided to it the protection of +their interests and honor, and to humanity. +</p> +<p> +Sure of the right, keeping free from all offense ourselves, actuated +only by upright and patriotic considerations, moved neither by passion +nor selfishness, the Government will continue its watchful care over +the rights and property of American citizens and will abate none of +its efforts to bring about by peaceful agencies a peace which shall +be honorable and enduring. If it shall hereafter appear to be a duty +imposed by our obligations to ourselves, to civilization and humanity +to intervene with force, it shall be without fault on our part and only +because the necessity for such action will be so clear as to command the +support and approval of the civilized world. +</p> +<p> +By a special message dated the 16th day of June last, I laid before +the Senate a treaty signed that day by the plenipotentiaries of the +United States and of the Republic of Hawaii, having for its purpose +the incorporation of the Hawaiian Islands as an integral part of the +United States and under its sovereignty. The Senate having removed the +injunction of secrecy, although the treaty is still pending before that +body, the subject may be properly referred to in this Message because +the necessary action of the Congress is required to determine by +legislation many details of the eventual union should the fact of +annexation be accomplished, as I believe it should be. +</p> +<p> +While consistently disavowing from a very early period any aggressive +policy of absorption in regard to the Hawaiian group, a long series of +declarations through three-quarters of a century has proclaimed the +vital interest of the United States in the independent life of the +Islands and their intimate commercial dependence upon this country. At +the same time it has been repeatedly asserted that in no event could the +entity of Hawaiian statehood cease by the passage of the Islands under +the domination or influence of another power than the United States. +Under these circumstances, the logic of events required that annexation, +heretofore offered but declined, should in the ripeness of time come +about as the natural result of the strengthening ties that bind us to +those Islands, and be realized by the free will of the Hawaiian State. +</p> +<p> +That treaty was unanimously ratified without amendment by the Senate and +President of the Republic of Hawaii on the 10th of September last, and +only awaits the favorable action of the American Senate to effect the +complete absorption of the Islands into the domain of the United States. +What the conditions of such a union shall be, the political relation +thereof to the United States, the character of the local administration, +the quality and degree of the elective franchise of the inhabitants, the +extension of the federal laws to the territory or the enactment of +special laws to fit the peculiar condition thereof, the regulation if +need be of the labor system therein, are all matters which the treaty +has wisely relegated to the Congress. +</p> +<p> +If the treaty is confirmed as every consideration of dignity and honor +requires, the wisdom of Congress will see to it that, avoiding abrupt +assimilation of elements perhaps hardly yet fitted to share in the +highest franchises of citizenship, and having due regard to the +geographical conditions, the most just provisions for self-rule in local +matters with the largest political liberties as an integral part of our +Nation will be accorded to the Hawaiians. No less is due to a people +who, after nearly five years of demonstrated capacity to fulfill the +obligations of self-governing statehood, come of their free will to +merge their destinies in our body-politic. +</p> +<p> +The questions which have arisen between Japan and Hawaii by reason of +the treatment of Japanese laborers emigrating to the Islands under the +Hawaiian-Japanese convention of 1888, are in a satisfactory stage of +settlement by negotiation. This Government has not been invited to +mediate, and on the other hand has sought no intervention in that +matter, further than to evince its kindliest disposition toward such a +speedy and direct adjustment by the two sovereign States in interest as +shall comport with equity and honor. It is gratifying to learn that the +apprehensions at first displayed on the part of Japan lest the cessation +of Hawaii's national life through annexation might impair privileges to +which Japan honorably laid claim, have given place to confidence in the +uprightness of this Government, and in the sincerity of its purpose to +deal with all possible ulterior questions in the broadest spirit of +friendliness. +</p> +<p> +As to the representation of this Government to Nicaragua, Salvador, and +Costa Rica, I have concluded that Mr. William L. Merry, confirmed as +minister of the United States to the States of Nicaragua, Salvador and +Costa Rica, shall proceed to San José, Costa Rica, and there temporarily +establish the headquarters of the United States to those three States. +I took this action for what I regarded as the paramount interests of +this country. It was developed upon an investigation by the Secretary of +State that the Government of Nicaragua, while not unwilling to receive +Mr. Merry in his diplomatic quality, was unable to do so because of the +compact concluded June 20, 1895, whereby that Republic and those of +Salvador and Honduras, forming what is known as the Greater Republic of +Central America, had surrendered to the representative Diet thereof +their right to receive and send diplomatic agents. The Diet was not +willing to accept him because he was not accredited to that body. I +could not accredit him to that body because the appropriation law of +Congress did not permit it. Mr. Baker, the present minister at Managua, +has been directed to present his letters of recall. +</p> +<p> +Mr. W. Godfrey Hunter has likewise been accredited to the Governments +of Guatemala and Honduras, the same as his predecessor. Guatemala is not +a member of the Greater Republic of Central America, but Honduras is. +Should this latter Government decline to receive him, he has been +instructed to report this fact to his Government and await its further +instructions. +</p> +<p> +A subject of large importance to our country, and increasing +appreciation on the part of the people, is the completion of the great +highway of trade between the Atlantic and Pacific, known as the +Nicaragua Canal. Its utility and value to American commerce is +universally admitted. The Commission appointed under date of July 24 +last "to continue the surveys and examinations authorized by the act +approved March 2, 1895," in regard to "the proper route, feasibility, +and cost of construction of the Nicaragua Canal, with a view of making +complete plans for the entire work of construction of such canal," is +now employed in the undertaking. In the future I shall take occasion to +transmit to Congress the report of this Commission, making at the same +time such further suggestions as may then seem advisable. +</p> +<p> +Under the provisions of the act of Congress approved March 3, 1897, +for the promotion of an international agreement respecting bimetallism, +I appointed on the 14th day of April, 1897, Hon. Edward O. Wolcott of +Colorado, Hon. Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois, and Hon. Charles J. Paine +of Massachusetts, as special envoys to represent the United States. +They have been diligent in their efforts to secure the concurrence and +cooperation of European countries in the international settlement of the +question, but up to this time have not been able to secure an agreement +contemplated by their mission. +</p> +<p> +The gratifying action of our great sister Republic of France in joining +this country in the attempt to bring about an agreement among the +principal commercial nations of Europe, whereby a fixed and relative +value between gold and silver shall be secured, furnishes assurance that +we are not alone among the larger nations of the world in realizing the +international character of the problem and in the desire of reaching +some wise and practical solution of it. The British Government has +published a <i>résumé</i> of the steps taken jointly by the French +ambassador in London and the special envoys of the United States, with +whom our ambassador at London actively co-operated in the presentation +of this subject to Her Majesty's Government. This will be laid before +Congress. +</p> +<p> +Our special envoys have not made their final report, as further +negotiations between the representatives of this Government and the +Governments of other countries are pending and in contemplation. +They believe that doubts which have been raised in certain quarters +respecting the position of maintaining the stability of the parity +between the metals and kindred questions may yet be solved by further +negotiations. +</p> +<p> +Meanwhile it gives me satisfaction to state that the special envoys have +already demonstrated their ability and fitness to deal with the subject, +and it is to be earnestly hoped that their labors may result in an +international agreement which will bring about recognition of both gold +and silver as money upon such terms, and with such safeguards as will +secure the use of both metals upon a basis which shall work no injustice +to any class of our citizens. +</p> +<p> +In order to execute as early as possible the provisions of the third and +fourth sections of the Revenue Act, approved July 24, 1897, I appointed +the Hon. John A. Kasson of Iowa, a special commissioner plenipotentiary +to undertake the requisite negotiations with foreign countries desiring +to avail themselves of these provisions. The negotiations are now +proceeding with several Governments, both European and American. It is +believed that by a careful exercise of the powers conferred by that Act +some grievances of our own and of other countries in our mutual trade +relations may be either removed, or largely alleviated, and that the +volume of our commercial exchanges may be enlarged, with advantage to +both contracting parties. +</p> +<p> +Most desirable from every standpoint of national interest and patriotism +is the effort to extend our foreign commerce. To this end our merchant +marine should be improved and enlarged. We should do our full share of +the carrying trade of the world. We do not do it now. We should be the +laggard no longer. The inferiority of our merchant marine is justly +humiliating to the national pride. The Government by every proper +constitutional means, should aid in making our ships familiar visitors +at every commercial port of the world, thus opening up new and valuable +markets to the surplus products of the farm and the factory. +</p> +<p> +The efforts which had been made during the two previous years by my +predecessor to secure better protection to the fur seals in the North +Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea, were renewed at an early date by this +Administration, and have been pursued with earnestness. Upon my +invitation, the Governments of Japan and Russia sent delegates to +Washington, and an international conference was held during the months +of October and November last, wherein it was unanimously agreed that +under the existing regulations this species of useful animals was +threatened with extinction, and that an international agreement of all +the interested powers was necessary for their adequate protection. +</p> +<p> +The Government of Great Britain did not see proper to be represented at +this conference, but subsequently sent to Washington, as delegates, the +expert commissioners of Great Britain and Canada who had, during the +past two years, visited the Pribilof Islands, and who met in conference +similar commissioners on the part of the United States. The result of +this conference was an agreement on important facts connected with the +condition of the seal herd, heretofore in dispute, which should place +beyond controversy the duty of the Governments concerned to adopt +measures without delay for the preservation and restoration of the herd. +Negotiations to this end are now in progress, the result of which I hope +to be able to report to Congress at an early day. +</p> +<p> +International arbitration cannot be omitted from the list of subjects +claiming our consideration. Events have only served to strengthen the +general views on this question expressed in my inaugural address. The +best sentiment of the civilized world is moving toward the settlement +of differences between nations without resorting to the horrors of war. +Treaties embodying these humane principles on broad lines, without in +any way imperiling our interests or our honor, shall have my constant +encouragement. +</p> +<p> +The acceptance by this Government of the invitation of the Republic of +France to participate in the Universal Exposition of 1900, at Paris, was +immediately followed by the appointment of a special commissioner to +represent the United States in the proposed exposition, with special +reference to the securing of space for an adequate exhibit on behalf of +the United States. +</p> +<p> +The special commissioner delayed his departure for Paris long enough +to ascertain the probable demand for space by American exhibitors. His +inquiries developed an almost unprecedented interest in the proposed +exposition, and the information thus acquired enabled him to justify +an application for a much larger allotment of space for the American +section than had been reserved by the exposition authorities. The result +was particularly gratifying, in view of the fact that the United States +was one of the last countries to accept the invitation of France. +</p> +<p> +The reception accorded our special commissioner was most cordial, +and he was given every reasonable assurance that the United States +would receive a consideration commensurate with the proportions of our +exhibit. The report of the special commissioner as to the magnitude +and importance of the coming exposition, and the great demand for +space by American exhibitors, supplies new arguments for a liberal +and judicious appropriation by Congress, to the end that an exhibit +fairly representative of the industries and resources of our country may +be made in an exposition which will illustrate the world's progress +during the nineteenth century. That exposition is intended to be the +most important and comprehensive of the long series of international +exhibitions, of which our own at Chicago was a brilliant example, and +it is desirable that the United States should make a worthy exhibit of +American genius and skill and their unrivaled achievements in every +branch of industry. +</p> +<p> +The present immediately effective force of the Navy consists of four +battle ships of the first class, two of the second, and forty-eight +other vessels, ranging from armored cruisers to torpedo boats. There are +under construction five battle ships of the first class, sixteen torpedo +boats, and one submarine boat. No provision has yet been made for the +armor of three of the five battle ships, as it has been impossible to +obtain it at the price fixed by Congress. It is of great importance that +Congress provide this armor, as until then the ships are of no fighting +value. +</p> +<p> +The present naval force, especially in view of its increase by the +ships now under construction, while not as large as that of a few other +powers, is a formidable force; its vessels are the very best of each +type; and with the increase that should be made to it from time to time +in the future, and careful attention to keeping it in a high state of +efficiency and repair, it is well adapted to the necessities of the +country. +</p> +<p> +The great increase of the Navy which has taken place in recent years was +justified by the requirements for national defense, and has received +public approbation. The time has now arrived, however, when this +increase, to which the country is committed, should, for a time, take +the form of increased facilities commensurate with the increase of our +naval vessels. It is an unfortunate fact that there is only one dock on +the Pacific Coast capable of docking our largest ships, and only one on +the Atlantic Coast, and that the latter has for the last six or seven +months been under repair and therefore incapable of use. Immediate steps +should be taken to provide three or four docks of this capacity on the +Atlantic Coast, at least one on the Pacific Coast, and a floating dock +in the Gulf. This is the recommendation of a very competent Board, +appointed to investigate the subject. There should also be ample +provision made for powder and projectiles, and other munitions of war, +and for an increased number of officers and enlisted men. Some additions +are also necessary to our navy-yards, for the repair and care of our +large number of vessels. As there are now on the stocks five battle +ships of the largest class, which cannot be completed for a year or two, +I concur with the recommendation of the Secretary of the Navy for an +appropriation authorizing the construction of one battle ship for the +Pacific Coast, where, at present, there is only one in commission and +one under construction, while on the Atlantic Coast there are three in +commission and four under construction; and also that several torpedo +boats be authorized in connection with our general system of coast +defense. +</p> +<p> +The Territory of Alaska requires the prompt and early attention of +Congress. The conditions now existing demand material changes in the +laws relating to the Territory. The great influx of population during +the past summer and fall and the prospect of a still larger immigration +in the spring will not permit us to longer neglect the extension of +civil authority within the Territory or postpone the establishment of a +more thorough government. +</p> +<p> +A general system of public surveys has not yet been extended to Alaska +and all entries thus far made in that district are upon special surveys. +The act of Congress extending to Alaska the mining laws of the United +States contained the reservation that it should not be construed to put +in force the general land laws of the country. By act approved March 3, +1891, authority was given for entry of lands for town-site purposes and +also for the purchase of not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres then +or thereafter occupied for purposes of trade and manufacture. The +purpose of Congress as thus far expressed has been that only such rights +should apply to that Territory as should be specifically named. +</p> +<p> +It will be seen how much remains to be done for that vast and remote +and yet promising portion of our country. Special authority was given to +the President by the Act of Congress approved July 24, 1897, to divide +that Territory into two land districts and to designate the boundaries +thereof and to appoint registers and receivers of said land offices, and +the President was also authorized to appoint a surveyor-general for the +entire district. Pursuant to this authority, a surveyor-general and +receiver have been appointed, with offices at Sitka. If in the ensuing +year the conditions justify it, the additional land district authorized +by law will be established, with an office at some point in the Yukon +Valley. No appropriation, however, was made for this purpose, and that +is now necessary to be done for the two land districts into which the +Territory is to be divided. +</p> +<p> +I concur with the Secretary of War in his suggestions as to the +necessity for a military force in the Territory of Alaska for the +protection of persons and property. Already a small force, consisting of +twenty-five men, with two officers, under command of Lieutenant-Colonel +Randall, of the Eighth Infantry, has been sent to St. Michael to +establish a military post. +</p> +<p> +As it is to the interest of the Government to encourage the development +and settlement of the country and its duty to follow up its citizens +there with the benefits of legal machinery, I earnestly urge upon +Congress the establishment of a system of government with such +flexibility as will enable it to adjust itself to the future areas of +greatest population. +</p> +<p> +The startling though possibly exaggerated reports from the Yukon River +country, of the probable shortage of food for the large number of people +who are wintering there without the means of leaving the country are +confirmed in such measure as to justify bringing the matter to the +attention of Congress. Access to that country in winter can be had only +by the passes from Dyea and vicinity, which is a most difficult and +perhaps an impossible task. However, should these reports of the +suffering of our fellow-citizens be further verified, every effort at +any cost should be made to carry them relief. +</p> +<p> +For a number of years past it has been apparent that the conditions +under which the Five Civilized Tribes were established in the Indian +Territory under treaty provisions with the United States, with the right +of self-government and the exclusion of all white persons from within +their borders, have undergone so complete a change as to render the +continuance of the system thus inaugurated practically impossible. The +total number of the Five Civilized Tribes, as shown by the last census, +is 45,494, and this number has not materially increased; while the white +population is estimated at from 200,000 to 250,000 which, by permission +of the Indian Government has settled in the Territory. The present area +of the Indian Territory contains 25,694,564 acres, much of which is very +fertile land. The United States citizens residing in the Territory, most +of whom have gone there by invitation or with the consent of the tribal +authorities, have made permanent homes for themselves. Numerous towns +have been built in which from 500 to 5,000 white people now reside. +Valuable residences and business houses have been erected in many of +them. Large business enterprises are carried on in which vast sums +of money are employed, and yet these people, who have invested their +capital in the development of the productive resources of the country, +are without title to the land they occupy, and have no voice whatever +in the government either of the Nations or Tribes. Thousands of their +children who were born in the Territory are of school age, but the doors +of the schools of the Nations are shut against them, and what education +they get is by private contribution. No provision for the protection of +the life or property of these white citizens is made by the Tribal +Governments and Courts. +</p> +<p> +The Secretary of the Interior reports that leading Indians have +absorbed great tracts of land to the exclusion of the common people, and +government by an Indian aristocracy has been practically established, to +the detriment of the people. It has been found impossible for the United +States to keep its citizens out of the Territory, and the executory +conditions contained in the treaties with these Nations have for the +most part become impossible of execution. Nor has it been possible for +the Tribal Governments to secure to each individual Indian his full +enjoyment in common with other Indians of the common property of the +Nations. Friends of the Indians have long believed that the best +interests of the Indians of the Five Civilized Tribes would be found in +American citizenship, with all the rights and privileges which belong to +that condition. +</p> +<p> +By section 16, of the act of March 3, 1893, the President was authorized +to appoint three commissioners to enter into negotiations with the +Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Muscogee (or Creek), and Seminole Nations, +commonly known as the Five Civilized Tribes in the Indian Territory. +Briefly, the purposes of the negotiations were to be: The extinguishment +of Tribal titles to any lands within that Territory now held by any and +all such Nations or Tribes, either by cession of the same or some part +thereof to the United States, or by allotment and division of the same +in severalty among the Indians of such Nations or Tribes respectively as +may be entitled to the same, or by such other method as may be agreed +upon between the several Nations and Tribes aforesaid, or each of them, +with the United States, with a view to such an adjustment upon the basis +of justice and equity as may, with the consent of the said Nations of +Indians so far as may be necessary, be requisite and suitable to enable +the ultimate creation of a State or States of the Union which shall +embrace the lands within said Indian Territory. +</p> +<p> +The Commission met much opposition from the beginning. The Indians +were very slow to act, and those in control manifested a decided +disinclination to meet with favor the propositions submitted to them. +A little more than three years after this organization the Commission +effected an agreement with the Choctaw Nation alone. The Chickasaws, +however, refused to agree to its terms, and as they have a common +interest with the Choctaws in the lands of said Nations, the agreement +with the latter Nation could have no effect without the consent of the +former. On April 23, 1897, the Commission effected an agreement with +both tribes—the Choctaws and Chickasaws. This agreement, it is +understood, has been ratified by the constituted authorities of the +respective Tribes or Nations parties thereto, and only requires +ratification by Congress to make it binding. +</p> +<p> +On the 27th of September, 1897, an agreement was effected with the Creek +Nation, but it is understood that the National Council of said Nation +has refused to ratify the same. Negotiations are yet to be had with the +Cherokees, the most populous of the Five Civilized Tribes, and with the +Seminoles, the smallest in point of numbers and territory. +</p> +<p> +The provision in the Indian Appropriation Act, approved June 10, 1896, +makes it the duty of the Commission to investigate and determine the +rights of applicants for citizenship in the Five Civilized Tribes, +and to make complete census rolls of the citizens of said Tribes. The +Commission is at present engaged in this work among the Creeks, and has +made appointments for taking the census of these people up to and +including the 30th of the present month. +</p> +<p> +Should the agreement between the Choctaws and Chickasaws be ratified by +Congress and should the other Tribes fail to make an agreement with the +Commission, then it will be necessary that some legislation shall be had +by Congress, which, while just and honorable to the Indians, shall be +equitable to the white people who have settled upon these lands by +invitation of the Tribal Nations. +</p> +<p> +Hon. Henry L. Dawes, Chairman of the Commission, in a letter to the +Secretary of the Interior, under date of October 11, 1897, says: +"Individual ownership is, in their (the Commission's) opinion, +absolutely essential to any permanent improvement in present conditions, +and the lack of it is the root of nearly all the evils which so +grievously afflict these people. Allotment by agreement is the only +possible method, unless the United States Courts are clothed with the +authority to apportion the lands among the citizen Indians for whose use +it was originally granted." +</p> +<p> +I concur with the Secretary of the Interior that there can be no cure +for the evils engendered by the perversion of these great trusts, +excepting by their resumption by the Government which created them. +</p> +<p> +The recent prevalence of yellow fever in a number of cities and towns +throughout the South has resulted in much disturbance of commerce, and +demonstrated the necessity of such amendments to our quarantine laws +as will make the regulations of the national quarantine authorities +paramount. The Secretary of the Treasury, in the portion of his report +relating to the operation of the Marine Hospital Service, calls +attention to the defects in the present quarantine laws, and recommends +amendments thereto which will give the Treasury Department the requisite +authority to prevent the invasion of epidemic diseases from foreign +countries, and in times of emergency, like that of the past summer, will +add to the efficiency of the sanitary measures for the protection of the +people, and at the same time prevent unnecessary restriction of +commerce. I concur in his recommendation. +</p> +<p> +In further effort to prevent the invasion of the United States by yellow +fever, the importance of the discovery of the exact cause of the +disease, which up to the present time has been undetermined, is obvious, +and to this end a systematic bacteriological investigation should be +made. I therefore recommend that Congress authorize the appointment of a +commission by the President, to consist of four expert bacteriologists, +one to be selected from the medical officers of the Marine Hospital +Service, one to be appointed from civil life, one to be detailed from +the medical officers of the Army, and one from the medical officers of +the Navy. +</p> +<p> +The Union Pacific Railway, Main Line, was sold under the decree of the +United States Court for the District of Nebraska, on the 1st and 2d of +November of this year. The amount due the Government consisted of the +principal of the subsidy bonds, $27,236,512, and the accrued interest +thereon, $31,211,711.75, making the total indebtedness, $58,448,223.75. +The bid at the sale covered the first mortgage lien and the entire +mortgage claim of the Government, principal and interest. +</p> +<p> +The sale of the subsidized portion of the Kansas Pacific Line, upon +which the Government holds a second mortgage lien, has been postponed at +the instance of the Government to December 16, 1897. The debt of this +division of the Union Pacific Railway to the Government on November 1, +1897, was the principal of the subsidy bonds, $6,303,000, and the unpaid +and accrued interest thereon, $6,626,690.33, making a total of +$12,929,690.33. +</p> +<p> +The sale of this road was originally advertised for November 4, but for +the purpose of securing the utmost public notice of the event it was +postponed until December 16, and a second advertisement of the sale was +made. By the decree of the Court, the upset price on the sale of the +Kansas Pacific will yield to the Government the sum of $2,500,000 over +all prior liens, costs, and charges. If no other or better bid is made, +this sum is all that the Government will receive on its claim of nearly +$13,000,000. The Government has no information as to whether there will +be other bidders or a better bid than the minimum amount herein stated. +The question presented therefore is: Whether the Government shall, under +the authority given it by the act of March 3, 1887, purchase or redeem +the road in the event that a bid is not made by private parties covering +the entire Government claim. To qualify the Government to bid at the +sales will require a deposit of $900,000, as follows: In the Government +cause $500,000 and in each of the first mortgage causes $200,000, and +in the latter the deposit must be in cash. Payments at the sale are as +follows: Upon the acceptance of the bid a sum which with the amount +already deposited shall equal fifteen per cent of the bid; the balance +in installments of twenty-five per cent thirty, forty, and fifty days +after the confirmation of the sale. The lien on the Kansas Pacific +prior to that of the Government on the 30th July, 1897, principal and +interest, amounted to $7,281,048.11. The Government, therefore, should +it become the highest bidder, will have to pay the amount of the first +mortgage lien. +</p> +<p> +I believe that under the act of 1887 it has the authority to do this and +in absence of any action by Congress I shall direct the Secretary of the +Treasury to make the necessary deposit as required by the Court's decree +to qualify as a bidder and to bid at the sale a sum which will at least +equal the principal of the debt due to the Government; but suggest in +order to remove all controversy that an amendment of the law be +immediately passed explicitly giving such powers and appropriating in +general terms whatever sum is sufficient therefor. +</p> +<p> +In so important a matter as the Government becoming the possible owner +of railroad property which it perforce must conduct and operate, I feel +constrained to lay before Congress these facts for its consideration and +action before the consummation of the sale. It is clear to my mind that +the Government should not permit the property to be sold at a price +which will yield less than one-half of the principal of its debt and +less than one-fifth of its entire debt, principal and interest. But +whether the Government, rather than accept less than its claim, should +become a bidder and thereby the owner of the property, I submit to the +Congress for action. +</p> +<p> +The Library building provided for by the act of Congress approved April +15, 1886, has been completed and opened to the public. It should be a +matter of congratulation that through the foresight and munificence of +Congress the nation possesses this noble treasure-house of knowledge. It +is earnestly to be hoped that having done so much toward the cause of +education, Congress will continue to develop the Library in every phase +of research to the end that it may be not only one of the most +magnificent but among the richest and most useful libraries in the +world. +</p> +<p> +The important branch of our Government known as the Civil Service, +the practical improvement of which has long been a subject of earnest +discussion, has of late years received increased legislative and +Executive approval. During the past few months the service has been +placed upon a still firmer basis of business methods and personal merit. +While the right of our veteran soldiers to reinstatement in deserving +cases has been asserted, dismissals for merely political reasons have +been carefully guarded against, the examinations for admittance to the +service enlarged and at the same time rendered less technical and more +practical; and a distinct advance has been made by giving a hearing +before dismissal upon all cases where incompetency is charged or demand +made for the removal of officials in any of the Departments. This order +has been made to give to the accused his right to be heard but without +in any way impairing the power of removal, which should always be +exercised in cases of inefficiency and incompetency, and which is one +of the vital safeguards of the civil service reform system, preventing +stagnation and deadwood and keeping every employee keenly alive to the +fact that the security of his tenure depends not on favor but on his +own tested and carefully watched record of service. +</p> +<p> +Much of course still remains to be accomplished before the system can +be made reasonably perfect for our needs. There are places now in the +classified service which ought to be exempted and others not classified +may properly be included. I shall not hesitate to exempt cases which I +think have been improperly included in the classified service or include +those which in my judgment will best promote the public service. The +system has the approval of the people and it will be my endeavor to +uphold and extend it. +</p> +<p> +I am forced by the length of this Message to omit many important +references to affairs of the Government with which Congress will +have to deal at the present session. They are fully discussed in the +departmental reports, to all of which I invite your earnest attention. +</p> +<p> +The estimates of the expenses of the Government by the several +Departments will, I am sure, have your careful scrutiny. While the +Congress may not find it an easy task to reduce the expenses of the +Government, it should not encourage their increase. These expenses will +in my judgment admit of a decrease in many branches of the Government +without injury to the public service. It is a commanding duty to keep +the appropriations within the receipts of the Government, and thus avoid +a deficit. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, December 6, 1897</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Congress of the United States</i>: +</p> +<p> +The act of Congress, approved July 19, 1897, entitled "An act making +appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the +fiscal year ending June 30, 1897, and for prior years, for other +purposes," provided for the acceptance by the Government of the United +States of the invitation extended by the Republic of France to +participate in an international exposition to be held at Paris, from +April 15 to November 15, 1900, and authorized the President to appoint a +special commissioner with a view to securing all attainable information +necessary to a full and complete understanding by Congress in regard to +the participation of this Government in that exposition. +</p> +<p> +Maj. Moses P. Handy of Chicago, was appointed such special commissioner, +and I now enclose his report, giving the details of his mission. It is +a comprehensive and clear presentation of the situation. He recommends +that an appropriation of $919,600 be granted, so that a creditable +exhibit on behalf of the United States may be made. The details of this +report will show how this appropriation may be profitably expended. +</p> +<p> +Besides securing a much larger amount of space than had been reserved, +Major Handy obtained the gratifying assurance that the United States +will be placed on a footing with the most favored nations, and "that in +the installation of every important department the United States will +have a location commensurate with the dignity and importance of the +country and adjoining in every case countries of the first rank." +</p> +<p> +In view of the magnitude and importance of the approaching exposition, +and of our standing among the nations which will be there represented, +and in view also of our increased population and acknowledged progress +in arts, science, and manufactures, I earnestly commend the report of +Major Handy to your consideration, and trust that a liberal +appropriation may be made. +</p> +<p> +Moreover, the magnificent exhibit of the French Republic at Chicago +in 1893, on which a million dollars were expended, should be a strong +incentive to reciprocal liberality on the part of the Government of the +United States, and suggests to our citizens the necessity as well as the +propriety of installing at the Paris Exposition an exhibit on a par with +that of the Government and people of France at Chicago, and in keeping +with the scope and extent of the preparations which are being made by +nearly all the important nations of the earth for their proposed +exhibits in that exposition. +</p> +<p> +I suggest that the subject be given timely and favorable consideration. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, January 14, 1898</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Congress of the United States</i>: +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State in regard to +the award of the commissioners appointed pursuant to the stipulations of +the convention of February 8, 1896, between the United States and Great +Britain, providing for the settlement of the claims presented by the +latter against the former in virtue of the convention of February 29, +1892. +</p> +<p> +The report of the Secretary of State presents a clear epitome of the +award and renders unnecessary any extended observations on my part +further than to say that I cordially coincide with his recommendation +and that our treaty obligations demand prompt and favorable action by +Congress, which I urgently hope may be taken, to the end that these +long-pending questions may be finally and satisfactorily terminated. +</p> +<p> +The total amount necessary to satisfy the award of the commissioners is +$473,151.26, which I recommend be appropriated. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, January 18, 1898</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Congress of the United States</i>: +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, with +accompanying papers, touching the lynching in 1895 at Yreka, Cal., of +Luis Moreno, a Mexican citizen, and the demand of the Mexican Government +for an indemnity for his relatives on account thereof. +</p> +<p> +Following the course adopted in the case of the lynching of three +Italian subjects at Hahnville, La., on August 8, 1896, I recommend the +appropriation by Congress, out of humane consideration and without +reference to the question of liability of the Government of the United +States in the premises, of the sum of $2,000 to be paid by the Secretary +of State to the Government of Mexico, to be by that Government +distributed among the heirs of the above-named Luis Moreno. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, January 26, 1898</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Congress</i>: +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State and +accompanying papers presenting the claim of Capt. B. Tellefsen, of the +Norwegian steamer <i>Albert</i>, against the Government of the United +States, for $998.96, being the expenses incurred by him in consequence +of a violation of Article XIII of the treaty of commerce and navigation +of 1827 between the United States and Sweden and Norway. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, March 22, 1898</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate</i>: +</p> +<p> +In connection with Senate Document No. 39, Fifty-fifth Congress, second +session, and in further response to the resolution of the Senate of July +12, 1897, I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, with +additional papers, relating to postal telegraphs, telephones, and postal +savings banks in Austria. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>March 31, 1898</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Congress</i>: +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith, for the information of Congress, a communication +from the Secretary of Agriculture covering a detailed report showing the +present condition of the beet-sugar industry in this country and the +results of experiments made by the Department of Agriculture in the +production of sugar from beets in the United States during the past +year. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, April 4, 1898</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate of the United States</i>: +</p> +<p> +In response to the resolution of the Senate of January 17, 1898, +I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, accompanied by copies +of correspondence exchanged between Henry Woodruff, trustee and of +counsel for the holders of a majority of the first-mortgage bonds +of "The Railway of the East," of Venezuela, <i>et al.</i>, and the +Department of State, and by a list of claims of citizens of the United +States presented after August 1, 1898, and, so far as appears, not +settled by Venezuela, nor disposed of by the commission of 1889-90. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>April 7, 1898</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate</i>: +</p> +<p> +In response to the resolution of the Senate of February 26, 1898, +requesting the President "if not incompatible with the public interest, +to transmit to the Senate the proceedings of the international +commission authorized in the concurrent resolution of Congress of April +29, 1890, and a subsequent international convention between the United +States and Mexico of May 6, 1896, and also the correspondence relating +thereto with Mexico by the Department of the Interior, Department of +War, and Department of Justice, as well as the Department of State, +relating to the equitable distribution of the waters of the Rio Grande +River, including the draft of an incomplete treaty between said +Governments, negotiated between the late Secretary of State, Mr. Olney, +on the part of the United States, and Mr. Romero, on the part of Mexico, +and all the correspondence between said officials relating thereto," I +transmit herewith reports from the Secretary of State, the Secretary of +War, the Secretary of the Interior, and the Attorney-General, with +accompanying papers. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, April 15, 1898</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate</i>: +</p> +<p> +In connection with Senate Document No. 39, Fifty-fifth Congress, second +session, and in further response to the resolution of the Senate of July +12, 1897, I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, with +accompanying papers relating to postal telegraphs, telephones, and +postal savings banks in the colony of Victoria. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, April 27, 1898</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Congress</i>: +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State and +accompanying papers relating to the claim against the United States of +the Russian subject, Gustav Isak Dahlberg, master and principal owner of +the Russian bark <i>Hans</i>, based on his wrongful and illegal arrest +and imprisonment by officers of the United States district court for the +southern district of Mississippi, and in view of the opinion expressed +by the Department of Justice that the said arrest and detention of the +complainant were wrongful and without authority of law, I recommend the +appropriation by Congress of the sum of $5,000 to reimburse the master +and owners of the vessel for all losses and damages incurred by reason +of his said wrongful and illegal arrest and detention. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>May 16, 1898</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the House of Representatives</i>: +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of State, +accompanying the annual reports of the consuls of the United States upon +foreign industries and commerce. In view of the value of these reports +to the business interests of the country, I indorse the recommendation +of the Secretary of State that Congress authorize the printing of a +special edition of 10,000 copies of the general summary entitled "Review +of the World's Commerce," and 5,000 copies of Commercial Relations +(including this summary), to enable the Department of State to meet the +demands for such information. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>May 16, 1898</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the House of Representatives</i>: +</p> +<p> +I return herewith to the House of Representatives, in which it +originated, House bill No. 2219, entitled "An act for the relief of the +administrators of Isaac P. Tice, deceased, and others," without my +approval. +</p> +<p> +The object of this bill is to confer upon the Court of Claims +jurisdiction to retry and determine a case brought by the +representatives of Isaac P. Tice against the United States in the Court +of Claims in the year 1873 to recover from the Government the sum of +$25,000, the alleged value of certain meters invented by Isaac P. Tice +for the purpose of measuring the quality and strength of distilled +spirits. +</p> +<p> +It was claimed that this amount, together with the sum of $733.33 for +storage of said meters, was due to the claimant under a contract made +between Tice and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue in pursuance of +section 15 of the act of March 2, 1867 (14 Stats., 481). From the report +of the case in 13 Court of Claims Reports, 112, it appears that the +matter was fully and deliberately tried and argued both on behalf of the +claimant and of the United States, and that at December term, 1877, the +Court of Claims rendered a decision adverse to the claimant, expressly +stating that the claimants had failed to establish their claim both in +law and on the facts. Not satisfied with this conclusion of the Court of +Claims, the claimants took an appeal to the Supreme Court of the United +States, where the case was again argued and was decided, October term, +1878, the judgment of the Court of Claims being declared to be in +accordance with the law and therefore affirmed. In these two decisions +the law and the facts pertaining to the claim were fully set forth and +discussed. +</p> +<p> +The bill further confers upon the Court of Claims jurisdiction to try +and determine certain alleged claims of said Tice and others for money +collected on account of the Tice meters, but not paid over to him or +them under the regulations of the Treasury. +</p> +<p> +The amount of the latter claim, according to the report of the committee +of the House of Representatives to which this bill was referred, is +$140,000. It does not appear from the report of the committee, nor from +any documents to which I have access, who are the other persons by whom +this latter sum is claimed. The claim for $140,000 must have accrued +prior to July, 1871, and therefore at this time is of at least +twenty-seven years' standing. +</p> +<p> +It will thus be perceived that the object of the bill is to remove from +the pathway of the claimants two legal bars to the prosecution of their +claim in the courts—one, the bar of the statute of limitations, which +requires all claimants against the Government to present their claims +and bring actions thereon within six years from the time the cause of +action accrues; and the other, that bar of estoppel which arises by +reason of a former adverse judgment, rendered in a court of competent +jurisdiction. This is not a general modification of the law in these +respects, but a special application of it to these particular claimants. +</p> +<p> +If the principle on which the statute of limitations is founded is +wise and beneficent, then the effect of it ought not to be impaired by +special legislative exemptions in favor of particular persons or cases +except upon very clear and just grounds, where no lack of diligence in +the prosecution of the claim is apparent. I cannot find in the papers +submitted to me any sufficient grounds to justify a special exception +from the ordinary rule in favor of these claimants. As to the claim for +$140,000, no reason is stated why it was not included in the original +suit nor why action upon it was not brought against the Government +within the six years allowed by the statute for that purpose. To permit +such an action to be brought now is simply, without any reason of a +special nature, to grant a privilege to these claimants which is denied +to all other citizens of the United States, in accordance with the +provisions of the general statute of limitations. The principle +underlying statutes of limitations and the reasons for the maintenance +of such a rule of litigation are much more cogent when applied to claims +against the Government than when applied to claims against individuals. +</p> +<p> +These claims do not differ in their character from ordinary business +transactions such as transpire every day between private persons or +business corporations. The Government can only defend itself against +claims of this nature through its public officers and with the use of +such public records as the Departments may furnish. Great difficulties +are experienced by it in contesting fraudulent and unjust claims, and it +is only fair in the interest of the public that a rigorous adherence to +some rule of limitation should be maintained. +</p> +<p> +The provision of the bill which practically directs a new trial of the +claim for $25,000, decided adversely to the claimants more than twenty +years ago, is still more objectionable. These parties had their day in +court. They produced their witnesses and were heard both originally and +upon appeal, and upon the case they were then able to make the court +decided they had no claim against the Government. It is now suggested +that other witnesses have been discovered who can supply the lack of +proof which was produced on the former trial. Such a ground for a new +trial would never be considered in any court of law in the land in a +case between private parties where such a length of time had intervened +since the former trial. No explanation of a satisfactory nature is +furnished for the failure of the claimants to produce these witnesses +upon the original trial. +</p> +<p> +The bill further provides that upon a retrial of the original claim, or +upon the trial of the new claim, the claimants shall be at liberty to +offer in evidence the depositions of witnesses now on the files of any +of the committees of Congress in relation to the aforesaid matters, +which may be introduced as evidence in case of the death or disability +of the deponents. +</p> +<p> +This provision will enable the claimants to present <i>ex-parte</i> +affidavits, prepared by the claimants or their attorneys, without +opportunity being afforded to the Government to cross-examine, provided +the claimants can show that the deposing witnesses are either dead or +under disability, by which, no doubt, is intended any such disability by +reason of absence, illness, and the like, as may render them legally +incapable of being produced in person to testify upon the retrial. Such +a provision as this is most dangerous to the interests of the +Government. +</p> +<p> +I fail to see any reason in the facts connected with these claims for +granting to these parties relief of this extraordinary nature. +</p> +<p> +The Treasury of the United States ought to be very carefully guarded +against attacks of those who come forward with stale claims, and +especially from the attacks of those who have already been fully heard +according to the methods prescribed by the statutes. +</p> +<p> +To approve this bill would be to furnish a very dangerous precedent +which would open the door to demands upon Congress in other cases which +have been fully heard and determined. +</p> +<p> +For these reasons I am constrained to withhold my approval from this +bill. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, June 14, 1898</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Congress of the United States</i>: +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith (having reference to Senate Document No. 4, +Fifty-fifth Congress, second session) a report made by Thomas W. +Cridler, Third Assistant Secretary of State, who, upon the death of +Maj. Moses P. Handy, I designated to continue the work as special +commissioner, under the act of Congress approved July 19, 1897, in +relation to the acceptance by the Government of the United States of the +invitation of France to participate in the International Exposition to +be held at Paris from April 15 to November 5, 1900. +</p> +<p> +I cordially renew my recommendation that a liberal appropriation be +immediately granted. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>June 23, 1898</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate of the United States</i>: +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of the Interior relative +to Senate resolution of June 10, 1898, requesting the President "to make +such arrangements as may be necessary to secure at the Trans-Mississippi +and International Exposition to be held in the city of Omaha, Neb., the +attendance of representatives of the Iroquois tribes and Delawares of +Canada and of the Abenakis of St. Francis and Becaucourt, and such other +Indian nations as have emigrated from the territory now of the United +States to Canada." +</p> +<p> +To carry out this resolution, if it shall be found agreeable to the +Government of Canada, it will be necessary for this Government to send +an agent to visit the tribes and secure their assent, organize the +representative delegations, escort them to the exposition, take charge +of and care for them while there and until they are returned to their +respective tribes. +</p> +<p> +The resolution seems to presuppose that there are funds which may be +lawfully used to defray the expenses which must necessarily be incurred +in the premises. By reference to the Secretary's report, it will be seen +that there are no moneys lawfully available for that purpose. +</p> +<p> +It is not to be presumed that the Senate, under such circumstances, +would desire the Executive to take the action indicated in the +resolution, and I am therefore constrained to await the requisite +appropriation by Congress for the payment of the expenses that must be +necessarily incurred in the accomplishment of the proposed objects. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>December 6, 1898</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Congress of the United States</i>: +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith, for the information of the Congress, the report of +the Hawaiian Commission appointed in pursuance of the "Joint resolution +to provide for annexing the Hawaiian Islands to the United States," +approved July 7, 1898, together with a copy of the civil and penal laws +of Hawaii. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>January 5, 1899</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate and House of Representatives</i>: +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of Agriculture on the work +and expenditures of the agricultural experiment stations established +under the act of Congress of March 2, 1887, for the fiscal year ending +June 30, 1898, in accordance with the act making appropriations for the +Department of Agriculture for the said fiscal year. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>January 5, 1899</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate</i>: +</p> +<p> +In response to the resolution of the Senate of December 21, 1898, +requesting the President, "If it be not inconsistent with the public +service, to inform the Senate whether authentic information is in +possession of the Government as to the alleged dissolution of the +Government of the United States of Central America." I transmit herewith +a report from the Secretary of State with accompanying papers. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, January 6, 1899</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate of the United States</i>: +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith in answer to the resolution of the Senate of +December 15, 1898, a communication from the Secretary of State covering +a preliminary report from the Nicaraguan Canal Commission, dated +December 26, 1898, relative to its progress in investigating the +question of the proper route, the feasibility, and cost of construction +of the Nicaragua Canal. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, January 6, 1899</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate and House of Representatives</i>: +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of State, +inclosing the annual report of the Director of the Bureau of the +American Republics, with accompanying documents. In view of the improved +condition and increasing usefulness of the Bureau, to which I have +already called attention in my annual message, and the welcome +assurances of greater activity on the part of the other American +republics in support of its purposes, I cordially indorse the +recommendations of the Secretary of State. It will doubtless be as +gratifying to Congress as it is to me to be informed that the Argentine +Republic has decided to renew its relations with the Bureau, and that +there are grounds for hoping that the International American Union, +created by the impressive conference of the representatives of our +sister republics and those of the United States in Washington in +1889-90, will soon be perfected by the adhesion of the Republic of Chile +to the compact for the support of the Bureau as the organ of the union. +The interest of the United States in giving the fullest possible effect +to the laudable desire of the international conference to promote not +only trade intercourse but a closer fellowship among the various +republics of this hemisphere is so evident that I am satisfied the +progress made by the bureau, as a practical agency for attaining these +objects, will receive the commendation and support of Congress. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, January 11, 1899</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate of the United States</i>: +</p> +<p> +In response to the resolution of the Senate of June 6, 1898, I transmit +a report from the Secretary of State, inclosing copies of all papers on +file in the Department of State relating to the case of Hugo O. Loewi, +including those printed in Document No. 186, Senate, Fifty-fifth +Congress, second session. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>January 17, 1899</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate and House of Representatives</i>: +</p> +<p> +It will be remembered that in the month of October, 1897, reports were +received here of the probable loss of the whaling fleet in the Arctic +regions, and of the likelihood that nearly 300 men, composing the +officers and crews of the fleet, would perish from hunger unless succor +could reach them early in the spring. +</p> +<p> +The revenue cutter <i>Bear</i> was known to be <i>en route</i> from the +Arctic Ocean to Puget Sound, Washington. Her arrival was anxiously +awaited, as no other suitable Government vessel could be made available +for Arctic work. That ship arrived at Seattle, Wash., on the 6th of +November, after a six-months' cruise in the Arctic, and I at once +ordered an expedition prepared for the relief of the imperiled whalemen. +</p> +<p> +The preparation of the <i>Bear</i> was commenced on the 11th of +November, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. Her +officers and men of the Revenue-Cutter Service all volunteered for the +perilous work, and the ship was completely fitted out, and, under the +command of Capt. Francis Tuttle, of the Revenue-Cutter Service, sailed +on her errand of mercy November 29, 1897, within nineteen days from the +inception of the movement. +</p> +<p> +The plan of the expedition was briefly as follows: +</p> +<p> +The ship was to be fully provided with rations for the ice-imperiled +whalemen, which were to be conveyed to them as soon as the ice +conditions in Bering Strait would permit the passage through. An +overland expedition was to be landed from the <i>Bear</i> as soon as +practicable, at some point on the coast of Alaska, in Bering Sea, to be +determined upon by Captain Tuttle. The problem of getting food to the +imperiled people at the earliest time possible was the all-important +consideration, for it was fully understood that the <i>Bear</i> could +not, under the most favorable conditions of ice navigation in that +region, reach their neighborhood before the following July or August. +The utter lack of transportation of any kind in this far-off land +suggested the idea, which was adopted as the only possible plan, of +driving reindeer overland, to be slaughtered on arrival, for food to +last until the arrival of the <i>Bear</i> with supplies the following +summer. The reindeer were to be collected by the overland expedition +from several points in Alaska, notably Cape Prince of Wales and Point +Rodney, and, with such aid as could be procured from natives and others, +driven to Point Barrow. +</p> +<p> +The overland expedition was formed, and consisted of First Lieut. David +H. Jarvis, Revenue-Cutter Service, commanding; Second Lieut. Ellsworth +P. Bertholf, Revenue-Cutter Service, and Dr. Samuel J. Call, surgeon of +the <i>Bear</i>, all volunteers. This overland expedition was landed +from the <i>Bear</i> at Cape Vancouver, in Bering Sea, Alaska, on the +16th of December, 1897, and commenced its toilsome and dreary journey +through an arctic night to Point Barrow, Captain Tuttle returning with +his command to winter at Dutch Harbor, Alaska, and from there to take +advantage of the first opportunity in the early summer of 1898 to get +north. +</p> +<p> +The overland expedition worked its way to the reindeer stations named, +and succeeded in getting together about 450 deer. They were materially +aided by Mr. W.T. Lopp, agent of the American Missionary Society at Cape +Prince of Wales, and Artisarlook, a native of that region, both of whom, +at great personal sacrifice, left their families and accompanied the +reindeer herd to Point Barrow. +</p> +<p> +The overland expedition, after a difficult and hazardous journey of +nearly 2,000 miles through the storms and bitter cold of an arctic +winter, reached Point Barrow with the herd on the 29th of March, 1898, +three months and twelve days from their landing from the <i>Bear</i> at +Cape Vancouver, Alaskan coast of Bering Sea. They arrived none too soon. +From the lack of an authoritative head, supplemented by bad sanitary +conditions and want of proper food, the men from the whale ships +quartered there were found upon the verge of great suffering, while +sickness had broken out among them. Lieutenant Jarvis, under the +instructions given him by the Secretary of the Treasury, at once assumed +charge, in the name of the Government, of the camp and locality of Point +Barrow, and he and Dr. Call devoted themselves with intelligent energy +to correcting the wretched conditions found to exist. Order was at once +inaugurated. Fresh meat from the reindeer herd was supplied, the +sanitary conditions were improved, and the general health and comfort +of the whalemen received immediate attention. Lieutenant Jarvis and +Dr. Call remained at Point Barrow in charge until the arrival of the +<i>Bear</i>, July 28, 1898, a period of four months. As soon as the +<i>Bear</i> arrived Captain Tuttle began the distribution of ample +supplies to the whalemen on shipboard and on shore. Having supplied all +demands generously, succored the needy to the number of 275 between +Point Barrow and Kotzebue Sound, taking on board the <i>Bear</i> 146 +whalemen, 91 of whom were brought to the Pacific coast (the remainder +having of their own volition left the ship <i>en route</i>), the vessel +arrived back at Seattle on the 13th of September, after an absence in +the bleak and dreary regions of Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean of about +seventeen months. +</p> +<p> +The hardships and perils encountered by the members of the overland +expedition in their great journey through an almost uninhabited region, +a barren waste of ice and snow, facing death itself every day for nearly +four months, over a route never before traveled by white men, with no +refuge but at the end of the journey, carrying relief and cheer to 275 +distressed citizens of our country, all make another glorious page in +the history of American seamen. They reflect by their heroic and gallant +struggles the highest credit upon themselves and the Government which +they faithfully served. I commend this heroic crew to the grateful +consideration of Congress and the American people. +</p> +<p> +The year just closed has been fruitful of noble achievements in the +field of war; and while I have commended to your consideration the +names of heroes who have shed luster upon the American name in valorous +contests and battles by land and sea, it is no less my pleasure to +invite your attention to a victory of peace the results of which cannot +well be magnified, and the dauntless courage of the men engaged stamps +them as true heroes, whose services cannot pass unrecognized. +</p> +<p> +I have therefore the honor to submit the following recommendations and +to ask your favorable action thereon: +</p> +<p> +1. That the thanks of Congress be voted to Capt. Francis Tuttle, +Revenue-Cutter Service, and the officers and enlisted men composing his +command for their able and gallant services. +</p> +<p> +2. That the thanks of Congress be extended to the members of the +overland expedition; First Lieut. David H. Jarvis, Revenue-Cutter +Service, commanding the overland expedition; to Second Lieut. Ellsworth +P. Bertholf, Revenue-Cutter Service, and to Dr. Samuel J. Call, Surgeon. +</p> +<p> +3. That gold medals of honor of appropriate design, to be approved by +the Secretary of the Treasury, be awarded to Lieutenants Jarvis and +Bertholf and Dr. Call, commemorative of their heroic struggles in aid of +suffering fellow-men. +</p> +<p> +4. That the sum of $2,500 be appropriated to be disbursed by the +Secretary of the Treasury in bestowing rewards upon W.T. Lopp, +Artisarlook, and native herders, who rendered material aid to the relief +expedition. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>January 19, 1899</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate and House of Representatives</i>: +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith a second report on the investigations of the +agricultural capabilities of Alaska for the year 1898, in accordance +with the acts of Congress making appropriations for the Department of +Agriculture for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1898, and June 30, +1899. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>January 19, 1899</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate of the United States</i>: +</p> +<p> +I herewith return without approval Senate bill No. 708, entitled "An act +for the relief of Albert E. Redstone." +</p> +<p> +My objections to the bill are: +</p> +<p> +First. It assumes that the beneficiary, Albert E. Redstone, sustained a +loss by the incorporation of his preemption claim within the limits of +the Sierra Forest Reserve. This reserve was established by executive +proclamation of February 14, 1893 (27 Stats., 1059), issued under +section 24 of the act of March 8, 1891 (26 Stats., 1103), and contains +the following saving clause for the protection of existing claims under +the public land laws: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + * * * Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands + which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal + entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper + United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been + made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make + entry or filing of record has not expired; * * * +</p> +<p> +Mr. Redstone did not sustain any loss by the creation of this reserve, +because his rights, if he had any at that time, were fully recognized +and protected by this provision in the proclamation. +</p> +<p> +Second. Mr. Redstone's preemption declaratory statement was filed April +6, 1889, and alleged settlement upon the same day. The land covered +thereby had not been proclaimed for sale, and under sections 2265 and +2267 of the Revised Statutes, Mr. Redstone had thirty-three months from +the date of his settlement within which to make proof and payment for +the land, but in fact he never attempted to make such proof or payment. +His preemption claim had therefore expired by operation of law long +before the creation of this reserve. After his filing had thus expired +Mr. Redstone was cited by the Land Department to show cause why his +claim should not be declared at an end, and his filing formally canceled +upon the public records, but he made no response or defense, and the +filing was accordingly canceled. +</p> +<p> +Third. The Commissioner of the General Land Office reports that an +investigation, made under the supervision of his office, shows that Mr. +Redstone had actually abandoned the land covered by his preemption claim +before the reserve was established. +</p> +<p> +Fourth. The Commissioner of the General Land Office reports that an +examination, made under the supervision of his office, shows that the +improvements placed upon this land during the life of this preemption +claim and thereafter abandoned were less than $200 in value, while the +amount appropriated in this bill is $1,800. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>January 27, 1899</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate and House of Representatives</i>: +</p> +<p> +In accordance with a provision in the act making appropriations for +the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1899, +I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of Agriculture "upon the +forestry investigations and work of the Department of Agriculture." +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>February 9, 1899</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate of the United States</i>: +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith, in response to a resolution of the Senate of +the 2nd instant, requesting information "whether any franchises or +concessions of any character are being or have been granted by any +municipality in Cuba or Puerto Rico since the military occupation +thereof by the United States," etc., a report from the Secretary of +War and accompanying papers. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, February 11, 1899</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the House of Representatives</i>: +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith the response of the Secretary of State to the +resolution of the House of Representatives of February 4, 1899, calling +for information in his possession concerning certain alleged outrages +committed upon the person of Bishop Earl Cranston and other American +citizens in the city of Peking, China. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, February 18, 1899</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate</i>: +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith the response of the Secretary of Agriculture to the +resolution of the Senate of February 8, 1899, calling for information +in his possession regarding the practical usefulness of reservoirs to +agriculture in the irrigated region of the United States, especially +as affecting the distribution of water to crops, the area and value of +reclaimed land, and the stability and unprofitableness of farming where +irrigation is practised. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, February 21, 1899</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate and House of Representatives</i>: +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of State, +accompanying the commercial relations of the United States for the +year 1898, being the annual reports of the consular officers upon the +industries and commerce of foreign countries. In view of the value of +these reports to the manufacturing and exporting interests of the +country, I indorse the recommendation of the Secretary of State that +Congress authorize the printing of the usual editions of 10,000 copies +of the general summary, entitled "Review of the World's Commerce" and +of 5,000 copies of "Commercial Relations" (including this summary), to +enable the Department of State to meet the demand for such information. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>March 1, 1899</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate and House of Representatives</i>: +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith, for the information of Congress, a communication +from the Secretary of Agriculture, covering a report on the progress of +the beet-sugar industry in the United States during the year 1898. It +embraces the results of numerous chemical analyses and the observations +made by a special agent in various parts of the United States. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, March 3, 1899</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate</i>: +</p> +<p> +In response to the resolution of the Senate of February 28 last +directed to the Secretary of State, I transmit a report from that +officer submitting a list of claims against Spain, growing out of the +insurrection in Cuba, filed in the Department of State, not embraced +in Senate Document No. 79, Fifty-fourth Congress, second session. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>December 5, 1899</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate and House of Representatives</i>: +</p> +<p> +At the threshold of your deliberations you are called to mourn with your +countrymen the death of Vice-President Hobart, who passed from this life +on the morning of November 21 last. His great soul now rests in eternal +peace. His private life was pure and elevated, while his public career +was ever distinguished by large capacity, stainless integrity, and +exalted motives. He has been removed from the high office which he +honored and dignified, but his lofty character, his devotion to duty, +his honesty of purpose, and noble virtues remain with us as a priceless +legacy and example. +</p> +<p> +The Fifty-sixth Congress convenes in its first regular session with the +country in a condition of unusual prosperity, of universal good will +among the people at home, and in relations of peace and friendship with +every government of the world. Our foreign commerce has shown great +increase in volume and value. The combined imports and exports for the +year are the largest ever shown by a single year in all our history. +Our exports for 1899 alone exceeded by more than a billion dollars our +imports and exports combined in 1870. The imports per capita are 20 per +cent less than in 1870, while the exports per capita are 58 per cent +more than in 1870, showing the enlarged capacity of the United States +to satisfy the wants of its own increasing population, as well as to +contribute to those of the peoples of other nations. +</p> +<p> +Exports of agricultural products were $784,776,142. Of manufactured +products we exported in value $339,592,146, being larger than any +previous year. It is a noteworthy fact that the only years in all our +history when the products of our manufactories sold abroad exceeded +those bought abroad were 1898 and 1899. +</p> +<p> +Government receipts from all sources for the fiscal year ended June 30, +1899, including $11,798,314.14, part payment of the Central Pacific +Railroad indebtedness, aggregated $610,982,004.35. Customs receipts were +$206,128,481.75, and those from internal revenue $273,437,161.51. +</p> +<p> +For the fiscal year the expenditures were $700,093,564.02, leaving a +deficit of $89,111,559.67. +</p> +<p> +The Secretary of the Treasury estimates that the receipts for the +current fiscal year will aggregate $640,958,112, and upon the basis of +present appropriations the expenditures will aggregate $600,958,112, +leaving a surplus of $40,000,000. +</p> +<p> +For the fiscal year ended June 30, 1899, the internal-revenue receipts +were increased about $100,000,000. +</p> +<p> +The present gratifying strength of the Treasury is shown by the +fact that on December 1, 1899, the available cash balance was +$278,004,837.72, of which $239,744,905.36 was in gold coin and bullion. +The conditions of confidence which prevail throughout the country have +brought gold into more general use and customs receipts are now almost +entirely paid in that coin. +</p> +<p> +The strong position of the Treasury with respect to cash on hand and the +favorable showing made by the revenues have made it possible for the +Secretary of the Treasury to take action under the provisions of section +3694, Revised Statutes, relating to the sinking fund. Receipts exceeded +expenditures for the first five months of the current fiscal year by +$13,413,389.91, and, as mentioned above, the Secretary of the Treasury +estimates that there will be a surplus of approximately $40,000,000 at +the end of the year. Under such conditions it was deemed advisable and +proper to resume compliance with the provisions of the sinking-fund law, +which for eight years has not been done because of deficiencies in the +revenues. The Treasury Department therefore offered to purchase during +November $25,000,000 of the 5 per cent loan of 1904, or the 4 per cent +funded loan of 1907, at the current market price. The amount offered +and purchased during November was $18,408,600. The premium paid by +the Government on such purchases was $2,263,521 and the net saving +in interest was about $2,885,000. The success of this operation was +sufficient to induce the Government to continue the offer to purchase +bonds to and including the 23d day of December, instant, unless the +remainder of the $25,000,000 called for should be presented in the +meantime for redemption. +</p> +<p> +Increased activity in industry, with its welcome attendant—a larger +employment for labor at higher wages—gives to the body of the people +a larger power to absorb the circulating medium. It is further true +that year by year, with larger areas of land under cultivation, the +increasing volume of agricultural products, cotton, corn, and wheat, +calls for a larger volume of money supply. This is especially noticeable +at the crop-harvesting and crop-moving period. +</p> +<p> +In its earlier history the National Banking Act seemed to prove a +reasonable avenue through which needful additions to the circulation +could from time to time be made. Changing conditions have apparently +rendered it now inoperative to that end. The high margin in bond +securities required, resulting from large premiums which Government +bonds command in the market, or the tax on note issues, or both +operating together, appear to be the influences which impair its public +utility. +</p> +<p> +The attention of Congress is respectfully invited to this important +matter, with the view of ascertaining whether or not such reasonable +modifications can be made in the National Banking Act as will render +its service in the particulars here referred to more responsive to +the people's needs. I again urge that national banks be authorized +to organize with a capital of $25,000. +</p> +<p> +I urgently recommend that to support the existing gold standard, and to +maintain "the parity in value of the coins of the two metals (gold and +silver) and the equal power of every dollar at all times in the market +and in the payment of debts," the Secretary of the Treasury be given +additional power and charged with the duty to sell United States bonds +and to employ such other effective means as may be necessary to these +ends. The authority should include the power to sell bonds on long and +short time, as conditions may require, and should provide for a rate +of interest lower than that fixed by the act of January 14, 1875. +While there is now no commercial fright which withdraws gold from the +Government, but, on the contrary, such widespread confidence that gold +seeks the Treasury demanding paper money in exchange, yet the very +situation points to the present as the most fitting time to make +adequate provision to insure the continuance of the gold standard and of +public confidence in the ability and purpose of the Government to meet +all its obligations in the money which the civilized world recognizes +as the best. The financial transactions of the Government are conducted +upon a gold basis. We receive gold when we sell United States bonds and +use gold for their payment. We are maintaining the parity of all the +money issued or coined by authority of the Government. We are doing +these things with the means at hand. Happily at the present time we are +not compelled to resort to loans to supply gold. It has been done in the +past, however, and may have to be done in the future. It behooves us, +therefore, to provide at once the best means to meet the emergency when +it arises, and the best means are those which are the most certain and +economical. Those now authorized have the virtue neither of directness +nor economy. We have already eliminated one of the causes of our +financial plight and embarrassment during the years 1893, 1894, 1895, +and 1896. Our receipts now equal our expenditures; deficient revenues +no longer create alarm. Let us remove the only remaining cause by +conferring the full and necessary power on the Secretary of the Treasury +and impose upon him the duty to uphold the present gold standard and +preserve the coins of the two metals on a parity with each other, which +is the repeatedly declared policy of the United States. +</p> +<p> +In this connection I repeat my former recommendations that a portion of +the gold holdings shall be placed in a trust fund from which greenbacks +shall be redeemed upon presentation, but when once redeemed shall not +thereafter be paid out except for gold. +</p> +<p> +The value of an American merchant marine to the extension of our +commercial trade and the strengthening of our power upon the sea invites +the immediate action of the Congress. Our national development will be +one-sided and unsatisfactory so long as the remarkable growth of our +inland industries remains unaccompanied by progress on the seas. There +is no lack of constitutional authority for legislation which shall give +to the country maritime strength commensurate with its industrial +achievements and with its rank among the nations of the earth. +</p> +<p> +The past year has recorded exceptional activity in our shipyards, and +the promises of continual prosperity in shipbuilding are abundant. +Advanced legislation for the protection of our seamen has been enacted. +Our coast trade, under regulations wisely framed at the beginning of the +Government and since, shows results for the past fiscal year unequaled +in our records or those of any other power. We shall fail to realize our +opportunities, however, if we complacently regard only matters at home +and blind ourselves to the necessity of securing our share in the +valuable carrying trade of the world. +</p> +<p> +Last year American vessels transported a smaller share of our exports +and imports than during any former year in all our history, and the +measure of our dependence upon foreign shipping was painfully manifested +to our people. Without any choice of our own, but from necessity, the +Departments of the Government charged with military and naval operations +in the East and West Indies had to obtain from foreign flags merchant +vessels essential for those operations. +</p> +<p> +The other great nations have not hesitated to adopt the required means +to develop their shipping as a factor in national defense and as one of +the surest and speediest means of obtaining for their producers a share +in foreign markets. Like vigilance and effort on our part cannot fail +to improve our situation, which is regarded with humiliation at home +and with surprise abroad. Even the seeming sacrifices, which at the +beginning may be involved, will be offset later by more than equivalent +gains. +</p> +<p> +The expense is as nothing compared to the advantage to be achieved. +The reestablishment of our merchant marine involves in a large measure +our continued industrial progress and the extension of our commercial +triumphs. I am satisfied the judgment of the country favors the policy +of aid to our merchant marine, which will broaden our commerce and +markets and upbuild our sea-carrying capacity for the products of +agriculture and manufacture; which, with the increase of our Navy, mean +more work and wages to our countrymen, as well as a safeguard to +American interests in every part of the world. +</p> +<p> +Combinations of capital organized into trusts to control the conditions +of trade among our citizens, to stifle competition, limit production, +and determine the prices of products used and consumed by the people, +are justly provoking public discussion, and should early claim the +attention of the Congress. +</p> +<p> +The Industrial Commission, created by the act of the Congress of June +18, 1898, has been engaged in extended hearings upon the disputed +questions involved in the subject of combinations in restraint of trade +and competition. They have not yet completed their investigation of this +subject, and the conclusions and recommendations at which they may +arrive are undetermined. +</p> +<p> +The subject is one giving rise to many divergent views as to the nature +and variety or cause and extent of the injuries to the public which may +result from large combinations concentrating more or less numerous +enterprises and establishments, which previously to the formation of the +combination were carried on separately. +</p> +<p> +It is universally conceded that combinations which engross or control +the market of any particular kind of merchandise or commodity necessary +to the general community, by suppressing natural and ordinary +competition, whereby prices are unduly enhanced to the general consumer, +are obnoxious not only to the common law but also to the public welfare. +There must be a remedy for the evils involved in such organizations. If +the present law can be extended more certainly to control or check these +monopolies or trusts, it should be done without delay. Whatever power +the Congress possesses over this most important subject should be +promptly ascertained and asserted. +</p> +<p> +President Harrison in his annual message of December 3, 1889, says: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Earnest attention should be given by Congress to a consideration of the + question how far the restraint of those combinations of capital commonly + called "trusts" is matter of Federal jurisdiction. When organized, as + they often are, to crush out all healthy competition and to monopolize + the production or sale of an article of commerce and general necessity + they are dangerous conspiracies against the public good, and should be + made the subject of prohibitory and even penal legislation. +</p> +<p> +An act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints +and monopolies was passed by Congress on the 2d of July, 1890. The +provisions of this statute are comprehensive and stringent. It declares +every contract or combination, in the form of a trust or otherwise, +or conspiracy in the restraint of trade or commerce among the several +States or with foreign nations, to be unlawful. It denominates as a +criminal every person who makes any such contract or engages in any +such combination or conspiracy, and provides a punishment by fine or +imprisonment. It invests the several circuit courts of the United States +with jurisdiction to prevent and restrain violations of the act, and +makes it the duty of the several United States district attorneys, under +the direction of the Attorney-General, to institute proceedings in +equity to prevent and restrain such violations. It further confers upon +any person who shall be injured in his business or property by any other +person or corporation by reason of anything forbidden or declared to be +unlawful by the act, the power to sue therefor in any circuit court of +the United States without respect to the amount in controversy, and to +recover threefold the damages by him sustained and the costs of the +suit, including reasonable attorney fees. It will be perceived that the +act is aimed at every kind of combination in the nature of a trust or +monopoly in restraint of interstate or international commerce. +</p> +<p> +The prosecution by the United States of offenses under the act of 1890 +has been frequently resorted to in the Federal courts, and notable +efforts in the restraint of interstate commerce, such as the +Trans-Missouri Freight Association and the Joint Traffic Association, +have been successfully opposed and suppressed. +</p> +<p> +President Cleveland in his annual message of December 7, 1896—more than +six years subsequent to the enactment of this law—after stating the +evils of these trust combinations, says: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Though Congress has attempted to deal with this matter by legislation, + the laws passed for that purpose thus far have proved ineffective, not + because of any lack of disposition or attempt to enforce them, but + simply because the laws themselves as interpreted by the courts do not + reach the difficulty. If the insufficiencies of existing laws can be + remedied by further legislation, it should be done. The fact must be + recognized, however, that all Federal legislation on this subject may + fall short of its purpose because of inherent obstacles, and also + because of the complex character of our governmental system, which, + while making the Federal authority supreme within its sphere, has + carefully limited that sphere by metes and bounds which cannot be + transgressed. The decision of our highest court on this precise question + renders it quite doubtful whether the evils of trusts and monopolies can + be adequately treated through Federal action, unless they seek directly + and purposely to include in their objects transportation or intercourse + between States or between the United States and foreign countries. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + It does not follow, however, that this is the limit of the remedy that + may be applied. Even though it may be found that Federal authority is + not broad enough to fully reach the case, there can be no doubt of the + power of the several States to act effectively in the premises, and + there should be no reason to doubt their willingness to judiciously + exercise such power. +</p> +<p> +The State legislation to which President Cleveland looked for relief +from the evils of trusts has failed to accomplish fully that object. +This is probably due to a great extent to the fact that different States +take different views as to the proper way to discriminate between evil +and injurious combinations and those associations which are beneficial +and necessary to the business prosperity of the country. The great +diversity of treatment in different States arising from this cause and +the intimate relations of all parts of the country to each other without +regarding State lines in the conduct of business have made the +enforcement of State laws difficult. +</p> +<p> +It is apparent that uniformity of legislation upon this subject in +the several States is much to be desired. It is to be hoped that such +uniformity founded in a wise and just discrimination between what is +injurious and what is useful and necessary in business operations may +be obtained and that means may be found for the Congress within the +limitations of its constitutional power so to supplement an effective +code of State legislation as to make a complete system of laws +throughout the United States adequate to compel a general observance of +the salutary rules to which I have referred. +</p> +<p> +The whole question is so important and far-reaching that I am sure no +part of it will be lightly considered, but every phase of it will have +the studied deliberation of the Congress, resulting in wise and +judicious action. +</p> +<p> +A review of our relations with foreign States is presented with such +recommendations as are deemed appropriate. +</p> +<p> +The long-pending boundary dispute between the Argentine Republic and +Chile was settled in March last by the award of an arbitral commission, +on which the United States minister at Buenos Ayres served as umpire. +</p> +<p> +Progress has been made toward the conclusion of a convention of +extradition with the Argentine Republic. Having been advised and +consented to by the United States Senate and ratified by Argentina, it +only awaits the adjustment of some slight changes in the text before +exchange. +</p> +<p> +In my last annual message I adverted to the claim of the +Austro-Hungarian Government for indemnity for the killing of certain +Austrian and Hungarian subjects by the authorities of the State of +Pennsylvania, at Lattimer, while suppressing an unlawful tumult of +miners, September 10, 1897. In view of the verdict of acquittal rendered +by the court before which the sheriff and his deputies were tried for +murder, and following the established doctrine that the Government may +not be held accountable for injuries suffered by individuals at the +hands of the public authorities while acting in the line of duty in +suppressing disturbance of the public peace, this Government, after due +consideration of the claim advanced by the Austro-Hungarian Government, +was constrained to decline liability to indemnify the sufferers. +</p> +<p> +It is gratifying to be able to announce that the Belgian Government has +mitigated the restrictions on the importation of cattle from the United +States, to which I referred in my last annual message. +</p> +<p> +Having been invited by Belgium to participate in a congress, held at +Brussels, to revise the provisions of the general act of July 2, 1890, +for the repression of the African slave trade, to which the United +States was a signatory party, this Government preferred not to be +represented by a plenipotentiary, but reserved the right of accession +to the result. Notable changes were made, those especially concerning +this country being in the line of the increased restriction of the +deleterious trade in spirituous liquors with the native tribes, which +this Government has from the outset urgently advocated. The amended +general act will be laid before the Senate, with a view to its advice +and consent. +</p> +<p> +Early in the year the peace of Bolivia was disturbed by a successful +insurrection. The United States minister remained at his post, attending +to the American interests in that quarter, and using besides his good +offices for the protection of the interests of British subjects in the +absence of their national representative. On the establishment of the +new Government, our minister was directed to enter into relations +therewith. +</p> +<p> +General Pando was elected President of Bolivia on October 23. +</p> +<p> +Our representative has been instructed to use all permissible friendly +endeavors to induce the Government of Bolivia to amend its marriage laws +so as to give legal status to the non-Catholic and civil marriages of +aliens within its jurisdiction, and strong hopes are entertained that +the Bolivian law in this regard will be brought, as was that of Peru +some years ago, into harmony with the general practice of modern States. +</p> +<p> +A convention of extradition with Brazil, signed May 14, 1897, has been +ratified by the Brazilian Legislature. +</p> +<p> +During the past summer two national ships of the United States have +visited Brazilian ports on a friendly mission and been cordially +received. The voyage of the <i>Wilmington</i> up the Amazon River gave +rise to a passing misunderstanding, owing to confusion in obtaining +permission to visit the interior and make surveys in the general +interest of navigation, but the incident found a ready adjustment in +harmony with the close relations of amity which this Government has +always sedulously sought to cultivate with the commonwealths of the +Western Continent. +</p> +<p> +The claim growing out of the seizure of the American-owned newspaper +"The Panama Star and Herald" by the authorities of Colombia has been +settled, after a controversy of several years, by an agreement assessing +at $30,000 the indemnity to be paid by the Colombian Government, in +three installments of $10,000 each. +</p> +<p> +The good will of Colombia toward our country has been testified anew by +the cordial extension of facilities to the Nicaraguan Canal Commission +in their approaching investigation of the Panama Canal and other +projected routes across the Isthmus of Darien. +</p> +<p> +Toward the end of October an insurrectionary disturbance developed in +the Colombian Republic. This movement has thus far not attained any +decisive result and is still in progress. +</p> +<p> +Discussion of the questions raised by the action of Denmark in imposing +restrictions on the importation of American meats has continued without +substantial result in our favor. +</p> +<p> +The neighboring island Republic of Santo Domingo has lately been the +scene of revolution, following a long period of tranquillity. It began +with the killing of President Heureaux in July last, and culminated in +the relinquishment by the succeeding Vice-President of the reins of +government to the insurgents. The first act of the provisional +government was the calling of a presidential and constituent election. +Juan Isidro Jimenez, having been elected President, was inaugurated on +the 14th of November. Relations have been entered into with the newly +established Government. +</p> +<p> +The experimental association of Nicaragua, Honduras, and Salvador, under +the title of the Greater Republic of Central America, when apparently on +the threshold of a complete federal organization by the adoption of a +constitution and the formation of a national legislature, was disrupted +in the last days of November, 1898, by the withdrawal of Salvador. +Thereupon Nicaragua and Honduras abandoned the joint compact, each +resuming its former independent sovereignty. This was followed by the +reception of Minister Merry by the Republics of Nicaragua and Salvador, +while Minister Hunter in turn presented his credentials to the +Government of Honduras, thus reverting to the old distribution of the +diplomatic agencies of the United States in Central America for which +our existing statutes provide. A Nicaraguan envoy has been accredited to +the United States. +</p> +<p> +An insurrectionary movement, under General Reyes, broke out at +Bluefields in February last, and for a time exercised actual control +in the Mosquito Territory. The <i>Detroit</i> was promptly sent thither +for the protection of American interests. After a few weeks the Reyes +government renounced the conflict, giving place to the restored +supremacy of Nicaragua. During the interregnum certain public dues +accruing under Nicaraguan law were collected from American merchants by +the authorities for the time being in effective administrative control. +Upon the titular government regaining power, a second payment of these +dues was demanded. Controversy arose touching the validity of the +original payment of the debt to the <i>de facto</i> regent of the +territory. An arrangement was effected in April last by the United +States minister and the foreign secretary of Nicaragua whereby the +amounts of the duplicate payments were deposited with the British consul +pending an adjustment of the matter by direct agreement between the +Governments of the United States and Nicaragua. The controversy is still +unsettled. +</p> +<p> +The contract of the Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua was declared +forfeited by the Nicaraguan Government on the 10th of October, on the +ground of nonfulfillment within the ten years' term stipulated in the +contract. The Maritime Canal Company has lodged a protest against this +action, alleging rights in the premises which appear worthy of +consideration. This Government expects that Nicaragua will afford the +protestants a full and fair hearing upon the merits of the case. +</p> +<p> +The Nicaragua Canal Commission, which had been engaged upon the work of +examination and survey for a ship-canal route across Nicaragua, having +completed its labors and made its report, was dissolved on May 31, and +on June 10 a new commission, known as the Isthmian Canal Commission, was +organized under the terms of the act approved March 3, 1899, for the +purpose of examining the American Isthmus with a view to determining the +most practicable and feasible route for a ship canal across that +Isthmus, with its probable cost, and other essential details. +</p> +<p> +This Commission, under the presidency of Rear-Admiral John G. Walker, +U.S.N. (retired), entered promptly upon the work intrusted to it, +and is now carrying on examinations in Nicaragua along the route of +the Panama Canal, and in Darien from the Atlantic, in the neighborhood +of the Atrato River, to the Bay of Panama, on the Pacific side. Good +progress has been made, but under the law a comprehensive and complete +investigation is called for, which will require much labor and +considerable time for its accomplishment. The work will be prosecuted as +expeditiously as possible and a report made at the earliest practicable +date. +</p> +<p> +The great importance of this work cannot be too often or too strongly +pressed upon the attention of the Congress. In my message of a year ago +I expressed my views of the necessity of a canal which would link the +two great oceans, to which I again invite your consideration. The +reasons then presented for early action are even stronger now. +</p> +<p> +A pleasing incident in the relations of this Government with that +of Chile occurred in the generous assistance given to the war ship +<i>Newark</i> when in distress in Chilean waters. Not alone in this way +has the friendly disposition of Chile found expression. That country has +acceded to the convention for the establishment of the Bureau of the +American Republics, in which organization every independent State of the +continent now shares. +</p> +<p> +The exchange of ratifications of a convention for the revival of the +United States and Chilean Claims Commission and for the adjudication of +claims heretofore presented but not determined during the life of the +previous Commission has been delayed by reason of the necessity for +fresh action by the Chilean Senate upon the amendments attached to the +ratification of the treaty by the United States Senate. This formality +is soon to be accomplished. +</p> +<p> +In view of disturbances in the populous provinces of northern China, +where are many of our citizens, and of the imminence of disorder near +the capital and toward the seaboard, a guard of marines was landed +from the <i>Boston</i> and stationed during last winter in the legation +compound at Peking. With the restoration of order this protection was +withdrawn. +</p> +<p> +The interests of our citizens in that vast Empire have not been neglected +during the past year. Adequate protection has been secured for our +missionaries and some injuries to their property have been redressed. +</p> +<p> +American capital has sought and found various opportunities of competing +to carry out the internal improvements which the Imperial Government is +wisely encouraging, and to develop the natural resources of the Empire. +Our trade with China has continued to grow, and our commercial rights +under existing treaties have been everywhere maintained during the past +year, as they will be in the future. +</p> +<p> +The extension of the area open to international foreign settlement at +Shanghai and the opening of the ports of Nanking, Tsing-tao (Kiao chao), +and Ta-lien-wan to foreign trade and settlement will doubtless afford +American enterprise additional facilities and new fields, of which it +will not be slow to take advantage. +</p> +<p> +In my message to Congress of December 5, 1898, I urged that the +recommendation which had been made to the Speaker of the House of +Representatives by the Secretary of the Treasury on the 14th of June, +1898, for an appropriation for a commission to study the commercial +and industrial conditions in the Chinese Empire and report as to the +opportunities for, and obstacles to, the enlargement of markets in China +for the raw products and manufactures of the United States, should +receive at your hands the consideration which its importance and +timeliness merited, but the Congress failed to take action. +</p> +<p> +I now renew this recommendation, as the importance of the subject has +steadily grown since it was first submitted to you, and no time should +be lost in studying for ourselves the resources of this great field for +American trade and enterprise. +</p> +<p> +The death of President Faure in February last called forth those sincere +expressions of sympathy which befit the relations of two Republics as +closely allied by unbroken historic ties as are the United States and +France. +</p> +<p> +Preparations for the representation of the industries, arts, and +products of the United States at the World's Exposition to be held in +Paris next year continue on an elaborate and comprehensive scale, thanks +to the generous appropriation provided by Congress and to the friendly +interest the French Government has shown in furthering a typical exhibit +of American progress. +</p> +<p> +There has been allotted to the United States a considerable addition +of space, which, while placing our country in the first rank among +exhibitors, does not suffice to meet the increasingly urgent demands +of our manufacturers. The efforts of the Commissioner-General are ably +directed toward a strictly representative display of all that most +characteristically marks American achievement in the inventive arts, +and most adequately shows the excellence of our natural productions. +</p> +<p> +In this age of keen rivalry among nations for mastery in commerce, the +doctrine of evolution and the rule of the survival of the fittest must +be as inexorable in their operation as they are positive in the results +they bring about. The place won in the struggle by an industrial people +can only be held by unrelaxed endeavor and constant advance in +achievement. The present extraordinary impetus in every line of American +exportation and the astounding increase in the volume and value of our +share in the world's markets may not be attributed to accidental +conditions. +</p> +<p> +The reasons are not far to seek. They lie deep in our national character +and find expression year by year in every branch of handicraft, in every +new device whereby the materials we so abundantly produce are subdued to +the artisan's will and made to yield the largest, most practical, and +most beneficial return. The American exhibit at Paris should, and I am +confident will, be an open volume, whose lessons of skillfully directed +endeavor, unfaltering energy, and consummate performance may be read by +all on every page, thus spreading abroad a clearer knowledge of the +worth of our productions and the justice of our claim to an important +place in the marts of the world. To accomplish this by judicious +selection, by recognition of paramount merit in whatever walk of trade +or manufacture it may appear, and by orderly classification and +attractive installation is the task of our Commission. +</p> +<p> +The United States Government building is approaching completion, and no +effort will be spared to make it worthy, in beauty of architectural plan +and in completeness of display, to represent our nation. It has been +suggested that a permanent building of similar or appropriate design be +erected on a convenient site, already given by the municipality, near +the exposition grounds, to serve in commemoration of the part taken by +this country in this great enterprise, as an American National +Institute, for our countrymen resorting to Paris for study. +</p> +<p> +I am informed by our Commissioner-General that we shall have in the +American sections at Paris over 7,000 exhibitors, from every State in +our country, a number ten times as great as those which were represented +at Vienna in 1873, six times as many as those in Paris in 1878, and four +times as many as those who exhibited in Paris in 1889. This statement +does not include the exhibits from either Cuba, Puerto Rico, or Hawaii, +for which arrangements have been made. +</p> +<p> +A number of important international congresses on special topics +affecting public interests are proposed to be held in Paris next summer +in connection with the exposition. Effort will be made to have the +several technical branches of our administration efficiently represented +at those conferences, each in its special line, and to procure the +largest possible concourse of State representatives, particularly at the +Congresses of Public Charity and Medicine. +</p> +<p> +Our relations with Germany continue to be most cordial. The increasing +intimacy of direct association has been marked during the year by the +granting permission in April for the landing on our shores of a cable +from Borkum Eniden, on the North Sea, by way of the Azores, and also +by the conclusion on September 2 of a Parcels Post Convention with the +German Empire. In all that promises closer relations of intercourse and +commerce and a better understanding between two races having so many +traits in common, Germany can be assured of the most cordial cooperation +of this Government and people. We may be rivals in many material paths, +but our rivalry should be generous and open, ever aiming toward the +attainment of larger results and the mutually beneficial advancement of +each in the line of its especial adaptabilities. +</p> +<p> +The several governments of the Empire seem reluctant to admit the +natural excellence of our food productions and to accept the evidence +we constantly tender of the care with which their purity is guarded +by rigid inspection from the farm, through the slaughterhouse and the +packing establishments, to the port of shipment. Our system of control +over exported food staples invites examination from any quarter and +challenges respect by its efficient thoroughness. +</p> +<p> +It is to be hoped that in time the two Governments will act in common +accord toward the realization of their common purpose to safeguard the +public health and to insure the purity and wholesomeness of all food +products imported by either country from the other. Were the Congress +to authorize an invitation to Germany, in connection with the pending +reciprocity negotiations, for the constitution of a joint commission of +scientific experts and practical men of affairs to conduct a searching +investigation of food production and exportation in both countries and +report to their respective legislatures for the adoption of such +remedial measures as they might recommend for either, the way might be +opened for the desirable result indicated. +</p> +<p> +Efforts to obtain for American life insurance companies a full hearing +as to their business operations in Prussia have, after several years of +patient representation, happily succeeded, and one of the most important +American companies has been granted a concession to continue business in +that Kingdom. +</p> +<p> +I am also glad to announce that the German insurance companies have been +readmitted by the superintendent of insurance to do business in the +State of New York. +</p> +<p> +Subsequent to the exchange of our peace treaty with Spain, Germany +acquired the Caroline Islands by purchase, paying therefor $5,000,000. +Assurances have been received from the German Government that the rights +of American missionaries and traders there will be considerately +observed. +</p> +<p> +In my last annual message I referred to the pending negotiations with +Great Britain in respect to the Dominion of Canada. By means of an +executive agreement, a Joint High Commission had been created for the +purpose of adjusting all unsettled questions between the United States +and Canada, embracing twelve subjects, among which were the questions of +the fur seals, the fisheries of the coast and contiguous inland waters, +the Alaskan boundary, the transit of merchandise in bond, the alien +labor laws, mining rights, reciprocity in trade, revision of the +agreement respecting naval vessels in the Great Lakes, a more complete +marking of parts of the boundary, provision for the conveyance of +criminals, and for wrecking and salvage. +</p> +<p> +Much progress had been made by the Commission toward the adjustment of +many of these questions, when it became apparent that an irreconcilable +difference of views was entertained respecting the delimitation of the +Alaskan boundary. In the failure of an agreement as to the meaning of +Articles III and IV of the treaty of 1825 between Russia and Great +Britain, which defined the boundary between Alaska and Canada, the +American Commissioners proposed that the subject of the boundary be +laid aside, and that the remaining questions of difference be proceeded +with, some of which were so far advanced as to assure the probability +of a settlement. This being declined by the British Commissioners, an +adjournment was taken until the boundary should be adjusted by the two +Governments. The subject has been receiving the careful attention which +its importance demands, with the result that a <i>modus vivendi</i> for +provisional demarcations in the region about the head of Lynn Canal has +been agreed upon; and it is hoped that the negotiations now in progress +between the two Governments will end in an agreement for the +establishment and delimitation of a permanent boundary. +</p> +<p> +Apart from these questions growing out of our relationship with our +northern neighbor, the most friendly disposition and ready agreement +have marked the discussion of numerous matters arising in the vast and +intimate intercourse of the United States with Great Britain. +</p> +<p> +This Government has maintained an attitude of neutrality in the +unfortunate contest between Great Britain and the Boer States of +Africa. We have remained faithful to the precept of avoiding entangling +alliances as to affairs not of our direct concern. Had circumstances +suggested that the parties to the quarrel would have welcomed any kindly +expression of the hope of the American people that war might be averted, +good offices would have been gladly tendered. The United States +representative at Pretoria was early instructed to see that all neutral +American interests be respected by the combatants. This has been an easy +task in view of the positive declarations of both British and Boer +authorities that the personal and property rights of our citizens should +be observed. +</p> +<p> +Upon the withdrawal of the British agent from Pretoria the United States +consul was authorized, upon the request of the British Government and +with the assent of the South African and Orange Free State Governments, +to exercise the customary good offices of a neutral for the care of +British interests. In the discharge of this function, I am happy to say +that abundant opportunity has been afforded to show the impartiality of +this Government toward both the combatants. +</p> +<p> +For the fourth time in the present decade, question has arisen with +the Government of Italy in regard to the lynching of Italian subjects. +The latest of these deplorable events occurred at Tallulah, Louisiana, +whereby five unfortunates of Italian origin were taken from jail and +hanged. +</p> +<p> +The authorities of the State and a representative of the Italian Embassy +having separately investigated the occurrence, with discrepant results, +particularly as to the alleged citizenship of the victims, and it not +appearing that the State had been able to discover and punish the +violators of the law, an independent investigation has been set on foot, +through the agency of the Department of State, and is still in progress. +The result will enable the Executive to treat the question with the +Government of Italy in a spirit of fairness and justice. A satisfactory +solution will doubtless be reached. +</p> +<p> +The recurrence of these distressing manifestations of blind mob fury +directed at dependents or natives of a foreign country suggests that +the contingency has arisen for action by Congress in the direction +of conferring upon the Federal courts jurisdiction in this class of +international cases where the ultimate responsibility of the Federal +Government may be involved. The suggestion is not new. In his annual +message of December 9, 1891, my predecessor, President Harrison, said: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + It would, I believe, be entirely competent for Congress to make offenses + against the treaty rights of foreigners domiciled in the United States + cognizable in the Federal courts. This has not, however, been done, and + the Federal officers and courts have no power in such cases to intervene + either for the protection of a foreign citizen or for the punishment of + his slayers. It seems to me to follow, in this state of the law, that + the officers of the State charged with police and judicial powers in + such cases must, in the consideration of international questions growing + out of such incidents, be regarded in such sense as Federal agents as to + make this Government answerable for their acts in cases where it would + be answerable if the United States had used its constitutional power to + define and punish crimes against treaty rights. +</p> +<p> +A bill to provide for the punishment of violations of treaty rights +of aliens was introduced in the Senate March 1, 1892, and reported +favorably March 30. Having doubtless in view the language of that part +of Article III of the treaty of February 26, 1871, between the United +States and Italy, which stipulates that "The citizens of each of the +high contracting parties shall receive, in the States and Territories of +the other, most constant protection and security for their persons and +property, and shall enjoy in this respect the same rights and privileges +as are or shall be granted to the natives, on their submitting +themselves to the conditions imposed upon the natives," the bill so +introduced and reported provided that any act committed in any State or +Territory of the United States in violation of the rights of a citizen +or subject of a foreign country secured to such citizen or subject +by treaty between the United States and such foreign country and +constituting a crime under the laws of the State or Territory shall +constitute a like crime against the United States and be cognizable in +the Federal courts. No action was taken by Congress in the matter. +</p> +<p> +I earnestly recommend that the subject be taken up anew and acted +upon during the present session. The necessity for some such provision +abundantly appears. Precedent for constituting a Federal jurisdiction in +criminal cases where aliens are sufferers is rationally deducible from +the existing statute, which gives to the district and circuit courts of +the United States jurisdiction of civil suits brought by aliens where +the amount involved exceeds a certain sum. If such jealous solicitude be +shown for alien rights in cases of merely civil and pecuniary import, +how much greater should be the public duty to take cognizance of matters +affecting the lives and the rights of aliens under the settled +principles of international law no less than under treaty stipulation, +in cases of such transcendent wrongdoing as mob murder, especially when +experience has shown that local justice is too often helpless to punish +the offenders. +</p> +<p> +After many years of endeavor on the part of this Government to that end +the Italian Government has consented to enter into negotiations for a +naturalization convention, having for one of its objects the regulation +of the status of Italians (except those of an age for active military +service) who, having been naturalized in the United States, may revisit +Italy. It is hoped that with the mutually conciliatory spirit displayed +a successful conclusion will be reached. +</p> +<p> +The treaty of commerce and navigation between the United States and +Japan on November 22, 1894, took effect in accordance with the terms +of its XIXth Article on the 17th of July last, simultaneously with the +enforcement of like treaties with the other powers, except France, whose +convention did not go into operation until August 4, the United States +being, however, granted up to that date all the privileges and rights +accorded to French citizens under the old French treaty. By this notable +conventional reform Japan's position as a fully independent sovereign +power is assured, control being gained of taxation, customs revenues, +judicial administration, coasting trade, and all other domestic +functions of government, and foreign extra-territorial rights being +renounced. +</p> +<p> +Comprehensive codes of civil and criminal procedure according to +western methods, public instruction, patents and copyrights, municipal +administration, including jurisdiction over the former foreign +settlements, customs tariffs and procedure, public health, and other +administrative measures have been proclaimed. The working of the new +system has given rise to no material complaints on the part of the +American citizens or interests, a circumstance which attests the ripe +consideration with which the change has been prepared. +</p> +<p> +Valuable assistance was rendered by the Japanese authorities to the +United States transport ship <i>Morgan City</i> while stranded at Kobe. +Permission has been granted to land and pasture army horses at Japanese +ports of call on the way to the Philippine Islands. These kindly +evidences of good will are highly appreciated. +</p> +<p> +The Japanese Government has shown a lively interest in the proposition +of the Pacific Cable Company to add to its projected cable lines to +Hawaii, Guam, and the Philippines a branch connection with the coast of +Japan. It would be a gratifying consummation were the utility of the +contemplated scheme enhanced by bringing Japan and the United States +into direct telegraphic relation. +</p> +<p> +Without repeating the observations of my special message of February 10, +1899, concerning the necessity of a cable to Manila, I respectfully +invite attention to it. +</p> +<p> +I recommend that, in case the Congress should not take measures +to bring about this result by direct action of the Government, the +Postmaster-General be authorized to invite competitive bids for the +establishment of a cable; the company making the best responsible bid to +be awarded the contract; the successful company to give ample bonds to +insure the completion of the work within a reasonable time. +</p> +<p> +The year has been marked by constant increase in the intimacy of our +relations with Mexico and in the magnitude of mutually advantageous +interchanges. This Government has omitted no opportunity to show its +strong desire to develop and perpetuate the ties of cordiality now so +long happily unbroken. +</p> +<p> +Following the termination on January 20, 1899, by Mexico of the +convention of extradition of December 11, 1861, a new treaty more in +accordance with the ascertained needs of both countries was signed +February 22, 1899, and exchanged in the City of Mexico on the 22d of +April last. Its operation thus far has been effective and satisfactory. +A recent case has served to test the application of its IVth Article, +which provides that neither party shall be bound to deliver up its own +citizens, but that the executive authority of each shall have the power +to deliver them up if in its discretion it be deemed proper to do so. +</p> +<p> +The extradition of Mrs. Mattie Rich, a citizen of the United +States, charged with homicide committed in Mexico, was after mature +consideration directed by me in the conviction that the ends of justice +would be thereby subserved. Similar action, on appropriate occasion, +by the Mexican Executive will not only tend to accomplish the desire +of both Governments that grave crimes go not unpunished, but also to +repress lawlessness along the border of the two countries. The new +treaty stipulates that neither Government shall assume jurisdiction in +the punishment of crimes committed exclusively within the territory of +the other. This will obviate in future the embarrassing controversies +which have heretofore arisen through Mexico's assertion of a claim to +try and punish an American citizen for an offense committed within the +jurisdiction of the United States. +</p> +<p> +The International Water Boundary Commission, organized by the convention +of March 1, 1889, for the adjustment of questions affecting the Rio +Grande frontier, has not yet completed its labors. A further extension +of its term for one year, until December 24, 1899, was effected by a +convention signed December 2, 1898, and exchanged and proclaimed in +February last. +</p> +<p> +An invitation extended to the President of Mexico to visit Chicago in +October, on the occasion of laying the corner stone of the United States +Government building in that city, was cordially accepted by him, with +the necessary consent of the Mexican Congress, but the illness of a +member of his family prevented his attendance. The Minister of Foreign +Relations, however, came as the personal representative of President +Diaz, and in that high character was duly honored. +</p> +<p> +Claims growing out of the seizure of American sealing vessels in Bering +Sea have been under discussion with the Government of Russia for several +years, with the recent happy result of an agreement to submit them to +the decision of a single arbitrator. By this act Russia affords proof +of her adherence to the beneficent principle of arbitration which her +plenipotentiaries conspicuously favored at The Hague Disarmament +Conference when it was advocated by the representatives of the United +States. +</p> +<p> +A suggestion for a permanent exposition of our products and manufactures +in Russia, although not yet fully shaped, has been so cordially welcomed +by the Imperial Government that it may not inaptly take a fitting place +in whatever legislation the Congress may adopt looking to enlargement of +our commercial opportunities abroad. +</p> +<p> +Important events have occurred in the Samoan Islands. The election, +according to the laws and customs of Samoa, of a successor to the late +King, Malietoa Laupepa, developed a contest as to the validity of the +result, which issue, by the terms of the General Act, was to be decided +by the Chief Justice. Upon his rendering a judgment in favor of Malietoa +Tanu, the rival chief, Mataafa, took up arms. The active intervention of +American and British war ships became imperative to restore order, at +the cost of sanguinary encounters. In this emergency a joint commission +of representatives of the United States, Germany, and Great Britain +was sent to Samoa to investigate the situation and provide a temporary +remedy. By its active efforts a peaceful solution was reached for the +time being, the kingship being abolished and a provisional government +established. Recommendations unanimously made by the commission +for a permanent adjustment of the Samoan question were taken under +consideration by the three powers parties to the General Act. But the +more they were examined the more evident it became that a radical change +was necessary in the relations of the powers to Samoa. +</p> +<p> +The inconveniences and possible perils of the tripartite scheme of +supervision and control in the Samoan group by powers having little +interest in common in that quarter beyond commercial rivalry had been +once more emphasized by the recent events. The suggested remedy of the +Joint Commission, like the scheme it aimed to replace, amounted to +what has been styled a <i>tridominium</i>, being the exercise of the +functions of sovereignty by an unanimous agreement of three powers. +The situation had become far more intricate and embarrassing from every +point of view than it was when my predecessor, in 1894, summed up its +perplexities and condemned the participation in it of the United States. +</p> +<p> +The arrangement under which Samoa was administered had proved +impracticable and unacceptable to all the powers concerned. To withdraw +from the agreement and abandon the islands to Germany and Great Britain +would not be compatible with our interests in the archipelago. To +relinquish our rights in the harbor of Pago Pago, the best anchorage in +the Pacific, the occupancy of which had been leased to the United States +in 1878 by the first foreign treaty ever concluded by Samoa, was not to +be thought of either as regards the needs of our Navy or the interests +of our growing commerce with the East. We could not have considered any +proposition for the abrogation of the tripartite control which did not +confirm us in all our rights and safeguard all our national interests in +the islands. +</p> +<p> +Our views commended themselves to the other powers. A satisfactory +arrangement was concluded between the Governments of Germany and of +England, by virtue of which England retired from Samoa in view of +compensations in other directions, and both powers renounced in favor +of the United States all their rights and claims over and in respect +to that portion of the group lying to the east of the one hundred +and seventy-first degree of west longitude, embracing the islands of +Tutuila, Ofoo, Olosenga, and Manua. I transmit to the Senate, for +its constitutional action thereon, a convention, which besides the +provisions above mentioned also guarantees us the same privileges and +conditions in respect to commerce and commercial vessels in all of the +islands of Samoa as those possessed by Germany. +</p> +<p> +Claims have been preferred by white residents of Samoa on account of +injuries alleged to have been suffered through the acts of the treaty +Governments in putting down the late disturbances. A convention has been +made between the three powers for the investigation and settlement of +these claims by a neutral arbitrator, to which the attention of the +Senate will be invited. +</p> +<p> +My annual message of last year was necessarily devoted in great part to +a consideration of the Spanish War and of the results it wrought and the +conditions it imposed for the future. I am gratified to announce that +the treaty of peace has restored friendly relations between the two +powers. Effect has been given to its most important provisions. The +evacuation of Puerto Rico having already been accomplished on the 18th +of October, 1898, nothing remained necessary there but to continue the +provisional military control of the island until the Congress should +enact a suitable government for the ceded territory. Of the character +and scope of the measures to that end I shall treat in another part of +this message. +</p> +<p> +The withdrawal of the authority of Spain from the island of Cuba was +effected by the 1st of January, so that the full re-establishment of +peace found the relinquished territory held by us in trust for the +inhabitants, maintaining, under the direction of the Executive, such +government and control therein as should conserve public order, restore +the productive conditions of peace so long disturbed by the instability +and disorder which prevailed for the greater part of the preceding three +decades, and build up that tranquil development of the domestic state +whereby alone can be realized the high purpose, as proclaimed in the +joint resolution adopted by the Congress on the 19th of April, 1898, +by which the United States disclaimed any disposition or intention to +exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over Cuba, except for +the pacification thereof, and asserted its determination when that was +accomplished to leave the government and control of the island to its +people. The pledge contained in this resolution is of the highest +honorable obligation and must be sacredly kept. +</p> +<p> +I believe that substantial progress has been made in this direction. +All the administrative measures adopted in Cuba have aimed to fit it for +a regenerated existence by enforcing the supremacy of law and justice; +by placing wherever practicable the machinery of administration in the +hands of the inhabitants; by instituting needed sanitary reforms; by +spreading education; by fostering industry and trade; by inculcating +public morality, and, in short, by taking every rational step to aid +the Cuban people to attain to that plane of self-conscious respect +and self-reliant unity which fits an enlightened community for +self-government within its own sphere, while enabling it to fulfill +all outward obligations. +</p> +<p> +This nation has assumed before the world a grave responsibility for the +future good government of Cuba. We have accepted a trust the fulfillment +of which calls for the sternest integrity of purpose and the exercise of +the highest wisdom. The new Cuba yet to arise from the ashes of the past +must needs be bound to us by ties of singular intimacy and strength +if its enduring welfare is to be assured. Whether those ties shall be +organic or conventional, the destinies of Cuba are in some rightful +form and manner irrevocably linked with our own, but how and how far +is for the future to determine in the ripeness of events. Whatever be +the outcome, we must see to it that free Cuba be a reality, not a name, +a perfect entity, not a hasty experiment bearing within itself the +elements of failure. Our mission, to accomplish which we took up the +wager of battle, is not to be fulfilled by turning adrift any loosely +framed commonwealth to face the vicissitudes which too often attend +weaker States whose natural wealth and abundant resources are offset +by the incongruities of their political organization and the recurring +occasions for internal rivalries to sap their strength and dissipate +their energies. The greatest blessing which can come to Cuba is the +restoration of her agricultural and industrial prosperity, which will +give employment to idle men and re-establish the pursuits of peace. +This is her chief and immediate need. +</p> +<p> +On the 19th of August last an order was made for the taking of the +census in the island, to be completed on the 30th of November. By the +treaty of peace the Spanish people on the island have until April 11, +1900, to elect whether they will remain citizens of Spain or become +citizens of Cuba. Until then it cannot be definitely ascertained who +shall be entitled to participate in the formation of the government of +Cuba. By that time the results of the census will have been tabulated +and we shall proceed to provide for elections which will commit the +municipal governments of the island to the officers elected by the +people. The experience thus acquired will prove of great value in the +formation of a representative convention of the people to draft a +constitution and establish a general system of independent government +for the island. In the meantime and so long as we exercise control over +the island the products of Cuba should have a market in the United +States on as good terms and with as favorable rates of duty as are given +to the West India Islands under treaties of reciprocity which shall be +made. +</p> +<p> +For the relief of the distressed in the island of Cuba the War +Department has issued supplies to destitute persons through the officers +of the Army, which have amounted to 5,493,000 rations, at a cost of +$1,417,554.07. +</p> +<p> +To promote the disarmament of the Cuban volunteer army, and in the +interest of public peace and the welfare of the people, the sum of $75 +was paid to each Cuban soldier borne upon the authenticated rolls, +on condition that he should deposit his arms with the authorities +designated by the United States. The sum thus disbursed aggregated +$2,547,750, which was paid from the emergency fund provided by the act +of January 5, 1899, for that purpose. +</p> +<p> +Out of the Cuban island revenues during the six months ending June 30, +1899, $1,712,014.20 was expended for sanitation, $293,881.70 for +charities and hospitals, and $88,944.03 for aid to the destitute. +</p> +<p> +Following the exchange of ratifications of the treaty of peace the +two Governments accredited ministers to each other, Spain sending +to Washington the Duke of Arcos, an eminent diplomatist, previously +stationed in Mexico, while the United States transferred to Madrid Hon. +Bellamy Storer, its minister at Brussels. This was followed by the +respective appointment of consuls, thereby fully resuming the relations +interrupted by the war. In addition to its consular representation in +the United States, the Spanish Government has appointed consuls for +Cuba, who have been provisionally recognized during the military +administration of the affairs of that island. +</p> +<p> +Judicial intercourse between the courts of Cuba and Puerto Rico and of +Spain has been established, as provided by the treaty of peace. The +Cuban political prisoners in Spanish penal stations have been and are +being released and returned to their homes, in accordance with Article +VI of the treaty. Negotiations are about to be had for defining the +conventional relations between the two countries, which fell into +abeyance by reason of the war. I trust that these will include a +favorable arrangement for commercial reciprocity under the terms of +sections 3 and 4 of the current tariff act. In these, as in all matters +of international concern, no effort will be spared to respond to the +good disposition of Spain, and to cultivate in all practicable ways the +intimacy which should prevail between two nations whose past history has +so often and in so many ways been marked by sincere friendship and by +community of interests. +</p> +<p> +I would recommend appropriate legislation in order to carry into +execution Article VII of the Treaty of Peace with Spain, by which the +United States assured the payment of certain claims for indemnity of its +citizens against Spain. +</p> +<hr> +<p> +The United States minister to Turkey continues, under instructions, +to press for a money payment in satisfaction of the just claims for +injuries suffered by American citizens in the disorders of several years +past and for wrongs done to them by the Ottoman authorities. Some of +these claims are of many years' standing. This Government is hopeful of +a general agreement in this regard. +</p> +<p> +In the Turkish Empire the situation of our citizens remains +unsatisfactory. Our efforts during nearly forty years to bring about a +convention of naturalization seem to be on the brink of final failure +through the announced policy of the Ottoman Porte to refuse recognition +of the alien status of native Turkish subjects naturalized abroad since +1867. Our statutes do not allow this Government to admit any distinction +between the treatment of native and naturalized Americans abroad, so +that ceaseless controversy arises in cases where persons owing in the +eye of international law a dual allegiance are prevented from entering +Turkey or are expelled after entrance. Our law in this regard contrasts +with that of the European States. The British act, for instance, does +not claim effect for the naturalization of an alien in the event of his +return to his native country, unless the change be recognized by the law +of that country or stipulated by treaty between it and the naturalizing +State. +</p> +<p> +The arbitrary treatment, in some instances, of American productions in +Turkey has attracted attention of late, notably in regard to our flour. +Large shipments by the recently opened direct steamship line to Turkish +ports have been denied entrance on the score that, although of standard +composition and unquestioned purity, the flour was pernicious to health +because of deficient "elasticity" as indicated by antiquated and +untrustworthy tests. Upon due protest by the American minister, and it +appearing that the act was a virtual discrimination against our product, +the shipments in question were admitted. In these, as in all instances, +wherever occurring, when American products may be subjected in a foreign +country, upon specious pretexts, to discrimination compared with the +like products of another country, this Government will use its earnest +efforts to secure fair and equal treatment for its citizens and their +goods. Failing this, it will not hesitate to apply whatever corrective +may be provided by the statutes. +</p> +<hr> +<p> +The International Commission of Arbitration, appointed under the +Anglo-Venezuelan treaty of 1897, rendered an award on October 3 last, +whereby the boundary line between Venezuela and British Guiana is +determined, thus ending a controversy which has existed for the greater +part of the century. The award, as to which the arbitrators were +unanimous, while not meeting the extreme contention of either party, +gives to Great Britain a large share of the interior territory in +dispute and to Venezuela the entire mouth of the Orinoco, including +Barima Point and the Caribbean littoral for some distance to the +eastward. The decision appears to be equally satisfactory to both +parties. +</p> +<p> +Venezuela has once more undergone a revolution. The insurgents, under +General Castro, after a sanguinary engagement in which they suffered +much loss, rallied in the mountainous interior and advanced toward the +capital. The bulk of the army having sided with the movement, President +Andrade quitted Caracas, where General Castro set up a provisional +government with which our minister and the representatives of other +powers entered into diplomatic relations on the 20th of November, 1899. +</p> +<hr> +<p> +The fourth section of the Tariff Act approved July 24, 1897, appears +to provide only for commercial treaties which should be entered into by +the President and also ratified by the Senate within two years from its +passage. Owing to delays inevitable in negotiations of this nature, none +of the treaties initiated under that section could be concluded in time +for ratification by the Senate prior to its adjournment on the 4th of +March last. Some of the pending negotiations, however, were near +conclusion at that time, and the resulting conventions have since been +signed by the plenipotentiaries. Others, within both the third and +fourth sections of the act, are still under consideration. Acting under +the constitutional power of the Executive in respect to treaties, +I have deemed it my duty, while observing the limitations of concession +provided by the fourth section, to bring to a conclusion all pending +negotiations, and submit them to the Senate for its advice and consent. +</p> +<p> +Conventions of reciprocity have been signed during the Congressional +recess with Great Britain for the respective colonies of British Guiana, +Barbados, Bermuda, Jamaica, and Turks and Caicos Islands, and with the +Republic of Nicaragua. +</p> +<p> +Important reciprocal conventions have also been concluded with France +and with the Argentine Republic. +</p> +<p> +In my last annual message the progress noted in the work of the +diplomatic and consular officers in collecting information as to +the industries and commerce of other countries, and in the care and +promptitude with which their reports are printed and distributed, has +continued during the past year, with increasingly valuable results in +suggesting new sources of demand for American products and in pointing +out the obstacles still to be overcome in facilitating the remarkable +expansion of our foreign trade. It will doubtless be gratifying to +Congress to learn that the various agencies of the Department of State +are co-operating in these endeavors with a zeal and effectiveness +which are not only receiving the cordial recognition of our business +interests, but are exciting the emulation of other Governments. In any +rearrangement of the great and complicated work of obtaining official +data of an economic character which Congress may undertake it is most +important, in my judgment, that the results already secured by the +efforts of the Department of State should be carefully considered with +a view to a judicious development and increased utility to our export +trade. +</p> +<p> +The interest taken by the various States forming the International Union +of American Republics in the work of its organic bureau is evidenced by +the fact that for the first time since its creation in 1890 all the +Republics of South and Central America are now represented in it. +</p> +<p> +The unanimous recommendation of the International American Conference, +providing for the International Union of American Republics, stated that +it should continue in force during a term of ten years from the date of +its organization, and no country becoming a member of the union should +cease to be a member until the end of said period of ten years, and +unless twelve months before the expiration of said period a majority +of the members of the union had given to the Secretary of State of the +United States official notice of their wish to terminate the union +at the end of its first period, that the union should continue to be +maintained for another period of ten years, and thereafter, under the +same conditions, for successive periods of ten years each. +</p> +<p> +The period for notification expired on July 14, 1899, without any of the +members having given the necessary notice of withdrawal. Its maintenance +is therefore assured for the next ten years. In view of this fact and of +the numerous questions of general interest and common benefit to all of +the Republics of America, some of which were considered by the first +International American Conference, but not finally settled, and others +which have since then grown to importance, it would seem expedient that +the various Republics constituting the Union should be invited to hold +at an early date another conference in the capital of one of the +countries other than the United States, which has already enjoyed this +honor. +</p> +<p> +The purely international character of the work being done by the +bureau and the appreciation of its value are further emphasized by the +active co-operation which the various Governments of the Latin-American +Republics and their diplomatic representatives in this capital are now +exhibiting and the zealous endeavors they are making to extend its +field of usefulness, to promote through it commercial intercourse, and +strengthen the bonds of amity and confidence between its various members +and the nations of this continent. +</p> +<p> +The act to encourage the holding of the Pan-American Exposition on the +Niagara frontier, within the county of Erie or Niagara, in the State of +New York, in the year 1901, was approved on March 3, 1899. +</p> +<p> +This exposition, which will be held in the city of Buffalo, in the near +vicinity of the great Niagara cataract, and within a day's journey of +which reside 40,000,000 of our people, will be confined entirely to the +Western Hemisphere. Satisfactory assurances have already been given by +the diplomatic representatives of Great Britain, Mexico, the Central and +South American Republics, and most of the States of the United States +that these countries and States will make an unique, interesting, and +instructive exhibit, peculiarly illustrative of their material progress +during the century which is about to close. +</p> +<p> +The law provides an appropriation of $500,000 for the purpose of making +an exhibit at the exposition by the Government of the United States +from its Executive Departments and from the Smithsonian Institution and +National Museum, the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, the +Department of Labor, and the Bureau of the American Republics. To secure +a complete and harmonious arrangement of this Government exhibit a board +of management has already been created, and charged with the selection, +purchase, preparation, transportation, arrangement, and safe-keeping +of the articles and materials to be exhibited. This board has been +organized and has already entered upon the performance of its duties, +as provided for by the law. +</p> +<p> +I have every reason to hope and believe that this exposition will tend +more firmly to cement the cordial relations between the nations on this +continent. +</p> +<p> +In accordance with an act of Congress approved December 21, 1898, +and under the auspices of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum, a most +interesting and valuable exposition of products and manufactures +especially adapted to export trade was held in Philadelphia from the +14th of September to the 1st of December, 1899. The representative +character of the exhibits and the widespread interest manifested in the +special objects of the undertaking afford renewed encouragement to those +who look confidently to the steady growth of our enlarged exportation +of manufactured goods, which has been the most remarkable fact in the +economic development of the United States in recent years. A feature of +this exposition which is likely to become of permanent and increasing +utility to our industries is the collection of samples of merchandise +produced in various countries with special reference to particular +markets, providing practical object lessons to United States +manufacturers as to qualities, styles, and prices of goods such as meet +the special demands of consumers and may be exported with advantage. +</p> +<p> +In connection with the exposition an International Commercial +Congress was held, upon the invitation of the Philadelphia Commercial +Museum, transmitted by the Department of State to the various foreign +Governments, for an exchange of information and opinions with the +view to the promotion of international trade. This invitation met +with general and cordial acceptance, and the Congress, which began +its sessions at the exposition on the 13th of October, proved to be of +great practical importance, from the fact that it developed a general +recognition of the interdependence of nations in trade and a most +gratifying spirit of accommodation with reference to the gradual removal +of existing impediments to reciprocal relations, without injury to the +industrial interests of either party. +</p> +<p> +In response to the invitation of His Majesty, the Emperor of Russia, +delegates from twenty-six countries were assembled at The Hague on the +18th of May, as members of a conference in the interest of peace. The +commission from the United States consisted of the Hon. Andrew D. White, +the Hon. Seth Low, the Hon. Stanford Newel, Captain Alfred T. Mahan, of +the United States Navy, Captain William Crozier, of the United States +Army, and the Hon. Frederick W. Holls, secretary. The occasion seemed +to be opportune for the serious consideration of a plan for the pacific +adjustment of international differences, a subject in which the American +people have been deeply interested for many years, and a definite +project for a permanent international tribunal was included in the +instructions to the delegates of the United States. +</p> +<p> +The final act of the conference includes conventions upon the +amelioration of the laws and customs of war on land, the adaptation to +maritime warfare of the principles of the Geneva Convention of 1864, and +the extension of judicial methods to international cases. The Convention +for the Pacific Settlement of International Conflicts embodies the +leading features of the American plan, with such modifications as were +rendered necessary by the great diversity of views and interests +represented by the delegates. The four titles of the convention provide +for the maintenance of general peace, the exercise of good offices and +mediation, the formation of commissions of inquiry, and international +arbitration. +</p> +<p> +The mediation provided for by the convention is purely voluntary and +advisory, and is intended to avoid any invasion or limitation of the +sovereign rights of the adhering States. The commissions of inquiry +proposed consists of delegations to be specifically constituted for +particular purposes by means of conventions between the contesting +parties, having for their object the clear understanding of +international differences before resorting to the use of force. +The provision for arbitration contemplates the formation of a permanent +tribunal before which disputed cases may be brought for settlement +by the mutual consent of the litigants in each separate case. The +advantages of such a permanent tribunal over impromptu commissions of +arbitration are conceived to be the actual existence of a competent +court, prepared to administer justice, the greater economy resulting +from a well-devised system, and the accumulated judicial skill and +experience which such a tribunal would soon possess. +</p> +<p> +While earnestly promoting the idea of establishing a permanent +international tribunal, the delegation of the United States was not +unmindful of the inconveniences which might arise from an obtrusive +exercise of mediation, and in signing the convention carefully guarded +the historic position of the United States by the following declaration: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Nothing contained in this convention shall be so construed as to require + the United States of America to depart from its traditional policy of + not intruding upon, interfering with, or entangling itself in the + political questions or policy or internal administration of any foreign + state; nor shall anything contained in the said convention be construed + to imply a relinquishment by the United States of America of its + traditional attitude toward purely American questions. +</p> +<p> +Thus interpreted, the Convention for the Pacific Settlement of +International Conflicts may be regarded as realizing the earnest desire +of great numbers of American citizens, whose deep sense of justice, +expressed in numerous resolutions and memorials, has urged them to labor +for this noble achievement. The general character of this convention, +already signed by the delegates of more than twenty sovereign States, +further commends it to the favorable action of the Senate of the United +States, whose ratification it still awaits. +</p> +<p> +Since my last annual message, and in obedience to the acts of the +Congress of April 22 and 26, 1898, the remaining volunteer force +enlisted for the Spanish War, consisting of 34,834 regulars and 110,202 +volunteers, with over 5,000 volunteer officers, has been discharged from +the military service. Of the volunteers, 667 officers and 14,831 men +were serving in the Philippines, and 1,650 of the regulars, who were +entitled to be mustered out after the ratification of the treaty of +peace. They voluntarily remained at the front until their places could +be filled by new troops. They were returned home in the order in which +they went to Manila, and are now all of them out of the service and in +the ranks of citizenship. I recommend that the Congress provide a +special medal of honor for the volunteers, regulars, sailors, and +marines on duty in the Philippines who voluntarily remained in the +service after their terms of enlistment had expired. +</p> +<p> +By the act of March 2, 1899, Congress gave authority to increase the +Regular Army to a maximum not exceeding 65,000 enlisted men, and to +enlist a force of 35,000 volunteers, to be recruited from the country at +large. By virtue of this authority the Regular Army has been increased +to the number of 61,999 enlisted men and 2,248 officers, and new +volunteer regiments have been organized aggregating 33,050 enlisted men +and 1,524 officers. Two of these volunteer regiments are made up of +colored men, with colored line officers. The new troops to take the +places of those returning from the Philippines have been transported +to Manila to the number of 581 officers and 26,322 enlisted men of +the Regular Army and 594 officers and 15,388 enlisted men of the new +volunteer force, while 504 officers and 14,119 men of the volunteer +force are on the ocean <i>en route</i> to Manila. +</p> +<p> +The force now in Manila consists of 905 officers and 30,578 regulars, +and 594 officers and 15,388 of the volunteers, making an aggregate of +1,499 officers and 45,966 men. When the troops now under orders shall +reach Manila the force in the archipelago will comprise 2,051 officers +and 63,483 men. The muster out of the great volunteer army organized +for the Spanish War and the creation of a new army, the transportation +from Manila to San Francisco of those entitled to discharge and the +transportation of the new troops to take their places have been a work +of great magnitude well and ably done, for which too much credit cannot +be given the War Department. +</p> +<p> +During the past year we have reduced our force in Cuba and Puerto Rico. +In Cuba we now have 334 officers and 10,796 enlisted men; in Puerto +Rico, 87 officers and 2,855 enlisted men and a battalion of 400 men +composed of native Puerto Ricans; while stationed throughout the United +States are 910 officers and 17,317 men, and in Hawaii 12 officers and +453 enlisted men. +</p> +<p> +The operations of the Army are fully presented in the report of the +Secretary of War. I cannot withhold from officers and men the highest +commendation for their soldierly conduct in trying situations, their +willing sacrifices for their country, and the integrity and ability with +which they have performed unusual and difficult duties in our island +possessions. +</p> +<p> +In the organization of the volunteer regiments authorized by the +act of March 2, 1899, it was found that no provision had been made for +chaplains. This omission was doubtless from inadvertence. I recommend +the early authorization for the appointment of one chaplain for each of +said regiments. These regiments are now in the Philippines, and it is +important that immediate action be had. +</p> +<p> +In restoring peaceful conditions, orderly rule, and civic progress in +Cuba, Puerto Rico, and, so far as practicable, in the Philippines, the +rehabilitation of the postal service has been an essential and important +part of the work. It became necessary to provide mail facilities both +for our forces of occupation and for the native population. To meet this +requirement has involved a substantial reconstruction. The existing +systems were so fragmentary, defective, and inadequate that a new and +comprehensive organization had to be created. American trained officials +have been assigned to the directing and executive positions, while +natives have been chiefly employed in making up the body of the force. +In working out this plan the merit rule has been rigorously and +faithfully applied. +</p> +<p> +The appointment of Director-General of Posts of Cuba was given +to an expert who had been Chief Post-Office Inspector and Assistant +Postmaster-General, and who united large experience with administrative +capacity. For the postmastership at Havana the range of skilled and +available men was scanned, and the choice fell upon one who had been +twenty years in the service as deputy postmaster and postmaster of a +large city. This principle governed and determined the selection of the +American officials sent not only to Cuba, but to Puerto Rico and the +Philippines, and they were instructed to apply it so far as practicable +in the employment of the natives as minor postmasters and clerks. The +postal system in Cuba, though remaining under the general guidance of +the Postmaster-General, was made essentially independent. It was felt +that it should not be a burden upon the postal service of the United +States, and provision was made that any deficit in the postal revenue +should be a charge upon the general revenues of the island. +</p> +<p> +Though Puerto Rico and the Philippines hold a different relation +to the United States, yet, for convenience of administration, the +same principle of an autonomous system has been extended to them. The +development of the service in all of the islands has been rapid and +successful. It has moved forward on American lines, with free delivery, +money order, and registry systems, and has given the people mail +facilities far greater and more reliable than any they have ever before +enjoyed. It is thus not only a vital agency of industrial, social, and +business progress, but an important influence in diffusing a just +understanding of the true spirit and character of American +administration. +</p> +<p> +The domestic postal service continues to grow with extraordinary +rapidity. The expenditures and the revenues will each exceed +$100,000,000 during the current year. Fortunately, since the revival +of prosperous times the revenues have grown much faster than the +expenditures, and there is every indication that a short period will +witness the obliteration of the annual deficit. In this connection the +report of the Postmaster-General embodies a statement of some evils +which have grown up outside of the contemplation of law in the treatment +of some classes of mail matter which wrongly exercise the privilege +of the pound rate, and shows that if this matter had been properly +classified and had paid the rate which it should have paid, instead +of a postal deficit for the last fiscal year of $6,610,000, there +would have been on one basis a surplus of $17,637,570, and on another +of $5,733,836. The reform thus suggested, in the opinion of the +Postmaster-General, would not only put the postal service at once on a +self-sustaining basis, but would permit great and valuable improvements, +and I commend the subject to the consideration of the Congress. +</p> +<p> +The Navy has maintained the spirit and high efficiency which have always +characterized that service, and has lost none of the gallantry in heroic +action which has signalized its brilliant and glorious past. The Nation +has equal pride in its early and later achievements. Its habitual +readiness for every emergency has won the confidence and admiration of +the country. The people are interested in the continued preparation and +prestige of the Navy and will justify liberal appropriations for its +maintenance and improvement. The officers have shown peculiar adaptation +for the performance of new and delicate duties which our recent war has +imposed. +</p> +<p> +It cannot be doubted that Congress will at once make necessary provision +for the armor plate for the vessels now under contract and building. +Its attention is respectfully called to the report of the Secretary +of the Navy, in which the subject is fully presented. I unite in his +recommendation that the Congress enact such special legislation as may +be necessary to enable the Department to make contracts early in the +coming year for armor of the best quality that can be obtained in this +country for the <i>Maine</i>, <i>Ohio</i>, and <i>Missouri</i>, and that the provision +of the act of March 3, 1899, limiting the price of armor to $300 per ton +be removed. +</p> +<p> +In the matter of naval construction Italy and Japan, of the great +powers, laid down less tonnage in the year 1899 than this country, and +Italy alone has less tonnage under construction. I heartily concur in +the recommendations for the increase of the Navy, as suggested by the +Secretary. +</p> +<p> +Our future progress and prosperity depend upon our ability to equal, if +not surpass, other nations in the enlargement and advance of science, +industry, and commerce. To invention we must turn as one of the most +powerful aids to the accomplishment of such a result. The attention of +the Congress is directed to the report of the Commissioner of Patents, +in which will be found valuable suggestions and recommendations. +</p> +<p> +On the 30th of June, 1899, the pension roll of the United States +numbered 991,519. These include the pensioners of the Army and Navy in +all our wars. The number added to the rolls during the year was 40,991. +The number dropped by reason of death, remarriage, minors by legal +limitation, failure to claim within three years, and other causes, was +43,186, and the number of claims disallowed was 107,919. During the year +89,054 pension certificates were issued, of which 37,077 were for new or +original pensions. The amount disbursed for army and navy pensions +during the year was $138,355,052.95, which was $1,651,461.61 less than +the sum of the appropriations. +</p> +<p> +The Grand Army of the Republic at its recent national encampment held in +Philadelphia has brought to my attention and to that of the Congress the +wisdom and justice of a modification of the third section of the act of +June 27, 1890, which provides pensions for the widows of officers and +enlisted men who served ninety days or more during the War of the +Rebellion and were honorably discharged, provided that such widows are +without other means of support than their daily labor and were married +to the soldier, sailor, or marine on account of whose service they claim +pension prior to the date of the act. +</p> +<p> +The present holding of the Department is that if the widow's income +aside from her daily labor does not exceed in amount what her pension +would be, to wit, $96 per annum, she would be deemed to be without +other means of support than her daily labor, and would be entitled to +a pension under this act; while if the widow's income independent of +the amount received by her as the result of her daily labor exceeds +$96, she would not be pensionable under the act. I am advised by the +Commissioner of Pensions that the amount of the income allowed before +title to pension would be barred has varied widely under different +administrations of the Pension Office, as well as during different +periods of the same administration, and has been the cause of just +complaint and criticism. +</p> +<p> +With the approval of the Secretary of the Interior the Commissioner of +Pensions recommends that, in order to make the practice at all times +uniform and to do justice to the dependent widow, the amount of income +allowed independent of the proceeds of her daily labor should be not +less than $250 per annum, and he urges that the Congress shall so amend +the act as to permit the Pension Office to grant pensionable status to +widows under the terms of the third section of the act of June 27, 1890, +whose income aside from the proceeds of daily labor is not in excess of +$250 per annum. I believe this to be a simple act of justice and +heartily recommend it. +</p> +<p> +The Dawes Commission reports that gratifying progress has been made in +its work during the preceding year. The field-work of enrollment of four +of the nations has been completed. I recommend that Congress at an early +day make liberal appropriation for educational purposes in the Indian +Territory. +</p> +<p> +In accordance with the act of Congress approved March 3, 1899, the +preliminary work in connection with the Twelfth Census is now fully +under way. The officers required for the proper administration of the +duties imposed have been selected. The provision for securing a proper +enumeration of the population, as well as to secure evidence of the +industrial growth of the Nation, is broader and more comprehensive than +any similar legislation in the past. The Director advises that every +needful effort is being made to push this great work to completion in +the time limited by the statute. It is believed that the Twelfth Census +will emphasize our remarkable advance in all that pertains to national +progress. +</p> +<p> +Under the authority of the act of Congress approved July 7, 1898, +the commission consisting of the Secretary of the Treasury, the +Attorney-General, and the Secretary of the Interior has made an +agreement of settlement, which has had my approval, of the indebtedness +to the Government growing out of the issue of bonds to aid in the +construction of the Central Pacific and Western Pacific railroads. +The agreement secures to the Government the principal and interest of +said bonds, amounting to $58,812,715.48. There has been paid thereon +$11,762,543.12, which has been covered into the Treasury, and the +remainder, payable within ten years, with interest at the rate of 3 per +cent per annum, payable semiannually, is secured by the deposit of an +equal amount of first-mortgage bonds of the Pacific Railway companies. +The amounts paid and secured to be paid to the Government on account of +the Pacific Railroad subsidy claims are: +</p> + +<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" summary="Railroad subsidy claims paid"> +<tr><td> Union Pacific, cash </td><td align="right">$58,448,223.75 </td></tr> +<tr><td> Kansas Pacific, cash </td><td align="right"> 6,303,000.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td> Central and Western Pacific, cash </td><td align="right"> 11,798,314.14 </td></tr> +<tr><td> Notes, secured </td><td align="right"> 47,050,172.36 </td></tr> +<tr><td> Kansas Pacific—dividends for deficiency due United States, cash </td><td align="right"> 821,897.70 </td></tr> +<tr><td> </td><td align="right"> <hr class="full"> </td></tr> +<tr><td> Making a total of </td><td align="right">124,421,607.95</td></tr> +</table> + +<p> +The whole indebtedness was about $130,000,000, more than half of which +consisted of accrued interest, for which sum the Government has realized +the entire amount less about $6,000,000 within a period of two years. +</p> +<p> +On June 30, 1898, there were thirty forest reservations (exclusive of +the Afognak Forest and Fish Culture Reserve in Alaska), embracing an +estimated area of 40,719,474 acres. During the past year two of the +existing forest reserves, the Trabuco Canyon (California) and Black +Hills (South Dakota and Wyoming), have been considerably enlarged, the +area of the Mount Rainier Reserve, in the State of Washington, has been +somewhat reduced, and six additional reserves have been established, +namely, the San Francisco Mountains (Arizona), the Black Mesa (Arizona), +Lake Tahoe (California), Gallatin (Montana), Gila River (New Mexico), +and Fish Lake (Utah), the total estimated area of which is 5,205,775 +acres. This makes at the present time a total of thirty-six forest +reservations, embracing an estimated area of 46,021,899 acres. This +estimated area is the aggregated areas within the boundaries of the +reserves. The lands actually reserved are, however, only the vacant +public lands therein, and these have been set aside and reserved for +sale or settlement in order that they may be of the greatest use to +the people. +</p> +<p> +Protection of the national forests, inaugurated by the Department of +the Interior in 1897, has been continued during the past year and much +has been accomplished in the way of preventing forest fires and the +protection of the timber. There are now large tracts covered by forests +which will eventually be reserved and set apart for forest uses. Until +that can be done Congress should increase the appropriations for the +work of protecting the forests. +</p> +<p> +The Department of Agriculture is constantly consulting the needs of +producers in all the States and Territories. It is introducing seeds and +plants of great value and promoting fuller diversification of crops. +Grains, grasses, fruits, legumes, and vegetables are imported for all +parts of the United States. Under this encouragement the sugar-beet +factory multiplies in the North and far West, semitropical plants are +sent to the South, and congenial climates are sought for the choice +productions of the far East. The hybridizing of fruit trees and grains +is conducted in the search for varieties adapted to exacting conditions. +The introduction of tea gardens into the Southern States promises to +provide employment for idle hands, as well as to supply the home market +with tea. The subject of irrigation where it is of vital importance to +the people is being carefully studied, steps are being taken to reclaim +injured or abandoned lands, and information for the people along these +lines is being printed and distributed. +</p> +<p> +Markets are being sought and opened up for surplus farm and factory +products in Europe and in Asia. The outlook for the education of the +young farmer through agricultural college and experiment station, with +opportunity given to specialize in the Department of Agriculture, is +very promising. The people of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Philippine +Islands should be helped, by the establishment of experiment stations, +to a more scientific knowledge of the production of coffee, india +rubber, and other tropical products, for which there is demand in the +United States. +</p> +<p> +There is widespread interest in the improvement of our public highways +at the present time, and the Department of Agriculture is co-operating +with the people in each locality in making the best possible roads +from local material and in experimenting with steel tracks. A more +intelligent system of managing the forests of the country is being put +in operation and a careful study of the whole forestry problem is being +conducted throughout the United States. A very extensive and complete +exhibit of the agricultural and horticultural products of the United +States is being prepared for the Paris Exposition. +</p> +<hr> +<p> +On the 10th of December, 1898, the treaty of peace between the United +States and Spain was signed. It provided, among other things, that Spain +should cede to the United States the archipelago known as the Philippine +Islands, that the United States should pay to Spain the sum of twenty +millions of dollars, and that the civil rights and political status of +the native inhabitants of the territories thus ceded to the United +States should be determined by the Congress. The treaty was ratified by +the Senate on the 6th of February, 1899, and by the Government of Spain +on the 19th of March following. The ratifications were exchanged on the +11th of April and the treaty publicly proclaimed. On the 2d of March the +Congress voted the sum contemplated by the treaty, and the amount was +paid over to the Spanish Government on the 1st of May. +</p> +<p> +In this manner the Philippines came to the United States. The islands +were ceded by the Government of Spain, which had been in undisputed +possession of them for centuries. They were accepted not merely by our +authorized commissioners in Paris, under the direction of the Executive, +but by the constitutional and well-considered action of the +representatives of the people of the United States in both Houses of +Congress. I had every reason to believe, and I still believe that this +transfer of sovereignty was in accordance with the wishes and the +aspirations of the great mass of the Filipino people. +</p> +<p> +From the earliest moment no opportunity was lost of assuring the +people of the islands of our ardent desire for their welfare and of the +intention of this Government to do everything possible to advance their +interests. In my order of the 19th of May, 1898, the commander of the +military expedition dispatched to the Philippines was instructed to +declare that we came not to make war upon the people of that country, +"nor upon any party or faction among them, but to protect them in +their homes, in their employments, and in their personal and religious +rights." That there should be no doubt as to the paramount authority +there, on the 17th of August it was directed that "there must be no +joint occupation with the insurgents"; that the United States must +preserve the peace and protect persons and property within the territory +occupied by their military and naval forces; that the insurgents and +all others must recognize the military occupation and authority of +the United States. As early as December 4, before the cession, and +in anticipation of that event, the commander in Manila was urged to +restore peace and tranquillity and to undertake the establishment of +a beneficent government, which should afford the fullest security for +life and property. +</p> +<p> +On the 21st of December, after the treaty was signed, the commander of +the forces of occupation was instructed "to announce and proclaim in the +most public manner that we come, not as invaders and conquerors, but as +friends to protect the natives in their homes, in their employments, and +in their personal and religious rights." On the same day, while ordering +General Otis to see that the peace should be preserved in Iloilo, he was +admonished that: "It is most important that there should be no conflict +with the insurgents." On the 1st day of January, 1899, urgent orders +were reiterated that the kindly intentions of this Government should be +in every possible way communicated to the insurgents. +</p> +<p> +On the 21st of January I announced my intention of dispatching to Manila +a commission composed of three gentlemen of the highest character and +distinction, thoroughly acquainted with the Orient, who, in association +with Admiral Dewey and Major-General Otis, were instructed "to +facilitate the most humane and effective extension of authority +throughout the islands, and to secure with the least possible delay the +benefits of a wise and generous protection of life and property to the +inhabitants." These gentlemen were Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, president +of Cornell University; the Hon. Charles Denby, for many years minister +to China, and Prof. Dean C. Worcester, of the University of Michigan, +who had made a most careful study of life in the Philippines. While +the treaty of peace was under consideration in the Senate, these +Commissioners set out on their mission of good will and liberation. +Their character was a sufficient guaranty of the beneficent purpose with +which they went, even if they had not borne the positive instructions of +this Government, which made their errand pre-eminently one of peace and +friendship. +</p> +<p> +But before their arrival at Manila the sinister ambition of a few +leaders of the Filipinos had created a situation full of embarrassment +for us and most grievous in its consequences to themselves. The clear +and impartial preliminary report of the Commissioners, which I transmit +herewith, gives so lucid and comprehensive a history of the present +insurrectionary movement that the story need not be here repeated. It is +enough to say that the claim of the rebel leader that he was promised +independence by an officer of the United States in return for his +assistance has no foundation in fact and is categorically denied by +the very witnesses who were called to prove it. The most the insurgent +leader hoped for when he came back to Manila was the liberation of the +islands from the Spanish control, which they had been laboring for years +without success to throw off. +</p> +<p> +The prompt accomplishment of this work by the American Army and Navy +gave him other ideas and ambitions, and insidious suggestions from +various quarters perverted the purposes and intentions with which he had +taken up arms. No sooner had our army captured Manila than the Filipino +forces began to assume an attitude of suspicion and hostility which the +utmost efforts of our officers and troops were unable to disarm or +modify. Their kindness and forbearance were taken as a proof of +cowardice. The aggressions of the Filipinos continually increased until +finally, just before the time set by the Senate of the United States for +a vote upon the treaty, an attack, evidently prepared in advance, was +made all along the American lines, which resulted in a terribly +destructive and sanguinary repulse of the insurgents. +</p> +<p> +Ten days later an order of the insurgent government was issued to its +adherents who had remained in Manila, of which General Otis justly +observes that "for barbarous intent it is unequaled in modern times." +It directs that at 8 o'clock on the night of the 15th of February the +"territorial militia" shall come together in the streets of San Pedro +armed with their <i>bolos</i>, with guns and ammunition where convenient; +that Filipino families only shall be respected; but that all other +individuals, of whatever race they may be, shall be exterminated without +any compassion, after the extermination of the army of occupation, +and adds: "Brothers, we must avenge ourselves on the Americans and +exterminate them, that we may take our revenge for the infamies and +treacheries which they have committed upon us. Have no compassion upon +them; attack with vigor." A copy of this fell by good fortune into the +hands of our officers and they were able to take measures to control the +rising, which was actually attempted on the night of February 22, a week +later than was originally contemplated. Considerable numbers of armed +insurgents entered the city by waterways and swamps and in concert with +confederates inside attempted to destroy Manila by fire. They were kept +in check during the night and the next day driven out of the city with +heavy loss. +</p> +<p> +This was the unhappy condition of affairs which confronted our +Commissioners on their arrival in Manila. They had come with the hope +and intention of co-operating with Admiral Dewey and Major-General Otis +in establishing peace and order in the archipelago and the largest +measure of self-government compatible with the true welfare of the +people. What they actually found can best be set forth in their own +words: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Deplorable as war is, the one in which we are now engaged was + unavoidable by us. We were attacked by a bold, adventurous, and + enthusiastic army. No alternative was left to us except ignominious + retreat. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + It is not to be conceived of that any American would have sanctioned + the surrender of Manila to the insurgents. Our obligations to other + nations and to the friendly Filipinos and to ourselves and our flag + demanded that force should be met by force. Whatever the future of + the Philippines may be, there is no course open to us now except the + prosecution of the war until the insurgents are reduced to submission. + The Commission is of the opinion that there has been no time since + the destruction of the Spanish squadron by Admiral Dewey when it was + possible to withdraw our forces from the island either with honor to + ourselves or with safety to the inhabitants. +</p> +<p> +The course thus clearly indicated has been unflinchingly pursued. +The rebellion must be put down. Civil government cannot be thoroughly +established until order is restored. With a devotion and gallantry +worthy of its most brilliant history, the Army, ably and loyally +assisted by the Navy, has carried on this unwelcome but most righteous +campaign with richly deserved success. The noble self-sacrifice with +which our soldiers and sailors whose terms of service had expired +refused to avail themselves of their right to return home as long as +they were needed at the front forms one of the brightest pages in our +annals. Although their operations have been somewhat interrupted and +checked by a rainy season of unusual violence and duration, they have +gained ground steadily in every direction, and now look forward +confidently to a speedy completion of their task. +</p> +<p> +The unfavorable circumstances connected with an active campaign have +not been permitted to interfere with the equally important work of +reconstruction. Again I invite your attention to the report of the +Commissioners for the interesting and encouraging details of the work +already accomplished in the establishment of peace and order and the +inauguration of self-governing municipal life in many portions of the +archipelago. A notable beginning has been made in the establishment +of a government in the island of Negros which is deserving of special +consideration. This was the first island to accept American sovereignty. +Its people unreservedly proclaimed allegiance to the United States +and adopted a constitution looking to the establishment of a popular +government. It was impossible to guarantee to the people of Negros that +the constitution so adopted should be the ultimate form of government. +Such a question, under the treaty with Spain and in accordance with our +own Constitution and laws, came exclusively within the jurisdiction +of the Congress. The government actually set up by the inhabitants of +Negros eventually proved unsatisfactory to the natives themselves. A new +system was put into force by order of the Major-General Commanding the +Department, of which the following are the most important elements: +</p> +<p> +It was ordered that the government of the island of Negros should +consist of a military governor appointed by the United States military +governor of the Philippines, and a civil governor and an advisory +council elected by the people. The military governor was authorized +to appoint secretaries of the treasury, interior, agriculture, public +instruction, an attorney-general, and an auditor. The seat of government +was fixed at Bacolod. The military governor exercises the supreme +executive power. He is to see that the laws are executed, appoint to +office, and fill all vacancies in office not otherwise provided for, +and may, with the approval of the military governor of the Philippines, +remove any officer from office. The civil governor advises the military +governor on all public civil questions and presides over the advisory +council. He, in general, performs the duties which are performed by +secretaries of state in our own system of government. +</p> +<p> +The advisory council consists of eight members elected by the people +within territorial limits which are defined in the order of the +commanding general. +</p> +<p> +The times and places of holding elections are to be fixed by the +military governor of the island of Negros. The qualifications of voters +are as follows: +</p> +<p> +(1) A voter must be a male citizen of the island of Negros. (2) Of the +age of 21 years. (3) He shall be able to speak, read, and write the +English, Spanish, or Visayan language, or he must own real property +worth $500, or pay a rental on real property of the value of $1,000. (4) +He must have resided in the island not less than one year preceding, and +in the district in which he offers to register as a voter not less than +three months immediately preceding the time he offers to register. (5) +He must register at a time fixed by law before voting. (6) Prior to such +registration he shall have paid all taxes due by him to the Government. +Provided, that no insane person shall be allowed to register or vote. +</p> +<p> +The military governor has the right to veto all bills or resolutions +adopted by the advisory council, and his veto is final if not +disapproved by the military governor of the Philippines. +</p> +<p> +The advisory council discharges all the ordinary duties of a +legislature. The usual duties pertaining to said offices are to be +performed by the secretaries of the treasury, interior, agriculture, +public instruction, the attorney-general, and the auditor. +</p> +<p> +The judicial power is vested in three judges, who are to be appointed +by the military governor of the island. Inferior courts are to be +established. +</p> +<p> +Free public schools are to be established throughout the populous +districts of the island, in which the English language shall be taught, +and this subject will receive the careful consideration of the advisory +council. +</p> +<p> +The burden of government must be distributed equally and equitably among +the people. The military authorities will collect and receive the +customs revenue, and will control postal matters and Philippine +inter-island trade and commerce. +</p> +<p> +The military governor, subject to the approval of the military governor +of the Philippines, determines all questions not specifically provided +for and which do not come under the jurisdiction of the advisory +council. +</p> +<p> +The authorities of the Sulu Islands have accepted the succession of +the United States to the rights of Spain, and our flag floats over +that territory. On the 10th of August, 1899, Brig.-Gen. J.C. Bates, +United States Volunteers, negotiated an agreement with the Sultan +and his principal chiefs, which I transmit herewith. By Article I the +sovereignty of the United States over the whole archipelago of Jolo +and its dependencies is declared and acknowledged. +</p> +<p> +The United States flag will be used in the archipelago and its +dependencies, on land and sea. Piracy is to be suppressed, and the +Sultan agrees to co-operate heartily with the United States authorities +to that end and to make every possible effort to arrest and bring to +justice all persons engaged in piracy. All trade in domestic products of +the archipelago of Jolo when carried on with any part of the Philippine +Islands and under the American flag shall be free, unlimited, and +undutiable. The United States will give full protection to the Sultan in +case any foreign nation should attempt to impose upon him. The United +States will not sell the island of Jolo or any other island of the Jolo +archipelago to any foreign nation without the consent of the Sultan. +Salaries for the Sultan and his associates in the administration of the +islands have been agreed upon to the amount of $760 monthly. +</p> +<p> +Article X provides that any slave in the archipelago of Jolo shall have +the right to purchase freedom by paying to the master the usual market +value. The agreement by General Bates was made subject to confirmation +by the President and to future modifications by the consent of the +parties in interest. I have confirmed said agreement, subject to the +action of the Congress, and with the reservation, which I have directed +shall be communicated to the Sultan of Jolo, that this agreement is not +to be deemed in any way to authorize or give the consent of the United +States to the existence of slavery in the Sulu archipelago. I +communicate these facts to the Congress for its information and action. +</p> +<p> +Everything indicates that with the speedy suppression of the Tagalo +rebellion life in the archipelago will soon resume its ordinary course +under the protection of our sovereignty, and the people of those favored +islands will enjoy a prosperity and a freedom which they have never +before known. Already hundreds of schools are open and filled with +children. Religious freedom is sacredly assured and enjoyed. The courts +are dispensing justice. Business is beginning to circulate in its +accustomed channels. Manila, whose inhabitants were fleeing to the +country a few months ago, is now a populous and thriving mart of +commerce. The earnest and unremitting endeavors of the Commission and +the Admiral and Major-General Commanding the Department of the Pacific +to assure the people of the beneficent intentions of this Government +have had their legitimate effect in convincing the great mass of them +that peace and safety and prosperity and stable government can only be +found in a loyal acceptance of the authority of the United States. +</p> +<p> +The future government of the Philippines rests with the Congress of the +United States. Few graver responsibilities have ever been confided to +us. If we accept them in a spirit worthy of our race and our traditions, +a great opportunity comes with them. The islands lie under the shelter +of our flag. They are ours by every title of law and equity. They cannot +be abandoned. If we desert them we leave them at once to anarchy and +finally to barbarism. We fling them, a golden apple of discord, among +the rival powers, no one of which could permit another to seize them +unquestioned. Their rich plains and valleys would be the scene of +endless strife and bloodshed. The advent of Dewey's fleet in Manila Bay +instead of being, as we hope, the dawn of a new day of freedom and +progress, will have been the beginning of an era of misery and violence +worse than any which has darkened their unhappy past. The suggestion +has been made that we could renounce our authority over the islands +and, giving them independence, could retain a protectorate over them. +This proposition will not be found, I am sure, worthy of your serious +attention. Such an arrangement would involve at the outset a cruel +breach of faith. It would place the peaceable and loyal majority, who +ask nothing better than to accept our authority, at the mercy of the +minority of armed insurgents. It would make us responsible for the acts +of the insurgent leaders and give us no power to control them. It would +charge us with the task of protecting them against each other and +defending them against any foreign power with which they chose to +quarrel. In short, it would take from the Congress of the United States +the power of declaring war and vest that tremendous prerogative in the +Tagal leader of the hour. +</p> +<p> +It does not seem desirable that I should recommend at this time a +specific and final form of government for these islands. When peace +shall be restored it will be the duty of Congress to construct a plan +of government which shall establish and maintain freedom and order and +peace in the Philippines. The insurrection is still existing, and when +it terminates further information will be required as to the actual +condition of affairs before inaugurating a permanent scheme of civil +government. The full report of the Commission, now in preparation, will +contain information and suggestions which will be of value to Congress, +and which I will transmit as soon as it is completed. As long as the +insurrection continues the military arm must necessarily be supreme. +But there is no reason why steps should not be taken from time to time +to inaugurate governments essentially popular in their form as fast +as territory is held and controlled by our troops. To this end I am +considering the advisability of the return of the Commission, or such of +the members thereof as can be secured, to aid the existing authorities +and facilitate this work throughout the islands. I have believed that +reconstruction should not begin by the establishment of one central +civil government for all the islands, with its seat at Manila, but +rather that the work should be commenced by building up from the bottom, +first establishing municipal governments and then provincial +governments, a central government at last to follow. +</p> +<p> +Until Congress shall have made known the formal expression of its +will I shall use the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the +statutes to uphold the sovereignty of the United States in those distant +islands as in all other places where our flag rightfully floats. I shall +put at the disposal of the Army and Navy all the means which the +liberality of Congress and the people have provided to cause this +unprovoked and wasteful insurrection to cease. +</p> +<p> +If any orders of mine were required to insure the merciful conduct of +military and naval operations, they would not be lacking; but every step +of the progress of our troops has been marked by a humanity which has +surprised even the misguided insurgents. The truest kindness to them +will be a swift and effective defeat of their present leader. The hour +of victory will be the hour of clemency and reconstruction. +</p> +<p> +No effort will be spared to build up the waste places desolated by war +and by long years of misgovernment. We shall not wait for the end of +strife to begin the beneficent work. We shall continue, as we have +begun, to open the schools and the churches, to set the courts in +operation, to foster industry and trade and agriculture, and in every +way in our power to make these people whom Providence has brought within +our jurisdiction feel that it is their liberty and not our power, their +welfare and not our gain, we are seeking to enhance. Our flag has never +waved over any community but in blessing. I believe the Filipinos will +soon recognize the fact that it has not lost its gift of benediction in +its world-wide journey to their shores. +</p> +<hr> +<p> +Some embarrassment in administration has occurred by reason of the +peculiar status which the Hawaiian Islands at present occupy under the +joint resolution of annexation approved July 7, 1898. While by that +resolution the Republic of Hawaii as an independent nation was +extinguished, its separate sovereignty destroyed, and its property and +possessions vested in the United States, yet a complete establishment +for its government under our system was not effected. While the +municipal laws of the islands not enacted for the fulfillment of +treaties and not inconsistent with the joint resolution or contrary to +the Constitution of the United States or any of its treaties remain in +force, yet these laws relate only to the social and internal affairs of +the islands, and do not touch many subjects of importance which are +of a broader national character. For example, the Hawaiian Republic +was divested of all title to the public lands in the islands, and is +not only unable to dispose of lands to settlers desiring to take up +homestead sites, but is without power to give complete title in cases +where lands have been entered upon under lease or other conditions which +carry with them the right to the purchaser, lessee, or settler to have a +full title granted to him upon compliance with the conditions prescribed +by law or by his particular agreement of entry. +</p> +<p> +Questions of doubt and difficulty have also arisen with reference to +the collection of tonnage tax on vessels coming from Hawaiian ports; +with reference to the status of Chinese in the islands, their entrance +and exit therefrom; as to patents and copyrights; as to the register +of vessels under the navigation laws; as to the necessity of holding +elections in accordance with the provisions of the Hawaiian statutes +for the choice of various officers, and as to several other matters of +detail touching the interests both of the island and of the Federal +Government. +</p> +<p> +By the resolution of annexation the President was directed to appoint +five commissioners to recommend to Congress such legislation concerning +the islands as they should deem necessary or proper. These commissioners +were duly appointed and after a careful investigation and study of the +system of laws and government prevailing in the islands, and of the +conditions existing there, they prepared a bill to provide a government +under the title of "The Territory of Hawaii." The report of the +Commission, with the bill which they prepared, was transmitted by me to +Congress on December 6, 1898, but the bill still awaits final action. +</p> +<p> +The people of these islands are entitled to the benefits and privileges +of our Constitution, but in the absence of any act of Congress providing +for Federal courts in the islands, and for a procedure by which appeals, +writs of error, and other judicial proceedings necessary for the +enforcement of civil rights may be prosecuted, they are powerless to +secure their enforcement by the judgment of the courts of the United +States. It is manifestly important, therefore, that an act shall be +passed as speedily as possible erecting these islands into a judicial +district, providing for the appointment of a judge and other proper +officers and methods of procedure in appellate proceedings, and that the +government of this newly acquired territory under the Federal +Constitution shall be fully defined and provided for. +</p> +<hr> +<p> +A necessity for immediate legislative relief exists in the Territory of +Alaska. Substantially the only law providing a civil government for this +Territory is the act of May 17, 1884. This is meager in its provisions, +and is fitted only for the administration of affairs in a country +sparsely inhabited by civilized people and unimportant in trade and +production, as was Alaska at the time this act was passed. The increase +in population by immigration during the past few years, consequent +upon the discovery of gold, has produced such a condition as calls +for more ample facilities for local self-government and more numerous +conveniences of civil and judicial administration. Settlements have +grown up in various places, constituting in point of population and +business cities of thousands of inhabitants, yet there is no provision +of law under which a municipality can be organized or maintained. +</p> +<p> +In some localities the inhabitants have met together and voluntarily +formed a municipal organization for the purposes of local government, +adopting the form of a municipal constitution and charter, under +which said officials have been appointed; and ordinances creating and +regulating a police force, a fire department, a department of health, +and making provision for the care of the insane and indigent poor and +sick and for public schools, have been passed. These proceedings and +the ordinances passed by such municipalities are without statutory +authority and have no sanction, except as they are maintained by the +popular sentiment of the community. There is an entire absence of +authority to provide the ordinary instruments of local police control +and administration, the population consisting of the usual percentage +of lawless adventurers of the class that always flock to new fields of +enterprise or discovery, and under circumstances which require more than +ordinary provision for the maintenance of peace, good order, and lawful +conduct. +</p> +<p> +The whole vast area of Alaska comprises but one judicial district, with +one judge, one marshal, and one district attorney, yet the civil and +criminal business has more than doubled within the past year, and is +many times greater both in volume and importance than it was in 1884. +The duties of the judge require him to travel thousands of miles to +discharge his judicial duties at the various places designated for that +purpose. The Territory should be divided into at least two districts, +and an additional judge, district attorney, marshal, and other +appropriate officers be provided. +</p> +<p> +There is practically no organized form of government in the Territory. +There is no authority, except in Congress, to pass any law, no matter +how local or trivial, and the difficulty of conveying to the Congress an +adequate conception and understanding of the various needs of the people +in the different communities is easily understood. I see no reason why a +more complete form of Territorial organization should not be provided. +Following the precedent established in the year 1805, when a temporary +government was provided for the recently acquired territory, then +known under the name of Louisiana, it seems to me that it would be +advantageous to confer greater executive power upon the governor and +to establish, as was done in the case of the Territory of Louisiana, a +legislative council having power to adopt ordinances which shall extend +to all the rightful subjects of local legislation, such ordinances not +to take effect until reported to and approved by the Congress if in +session, and if that body is not in session then by the President. +In this manner a system of laws providing for the incorporation and +government of towns and cities having a certain population, giving them +the power to establish and maintain a system of education to be locally +supported, and ordinances providing for police, sanitary, and other such +purposes, could be speedily provided. I believe a provision of this kind +would be satisfactory to the people of the Territory. 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. +</p> +<hr> +<p> +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. +</p> +<p> +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. So that with relation to +matters of local concern and private right, it is not probable that +much, if any, legislation is desirable; but with reference to public +administration and the relations of the island to the Federal +Government, there are many matters which are of pressing urgency. +The same necessity exists for legislation on the part of Congress to +establish Federal courts and Federal jurisdiction in the island as has +been previously pointed out by me with reference to Hawaii. Besides the +administration of justice, there are the subjects of the public lands; +the control and improvement of rivers and harbors; the control of the +waters or streams not navigable, which, under the Spanish law, belonged +to the Crown of Spain, and have by the treaty of cession passed to the +United States; the immigration of people from foreign countries; the +importation of contract labor; the imposition and collection of internal +revenue; the application of the navigation laws; the regulation of the +current money; the establishment of post-offices and post-roads; the +regulation of tariff rates on merchandise imported from the island into +the United States; the establishment of ports of entry and delivery; the +regulation of patents and copyrights; these, with various other subjects +which rest entirely within the power of the Congress, call for careful +consideration and immediate action. +</p> +<p> +It must be borne in mind that since the cession Puerto Rico has been +denied the principal markets she had long enjoyed and our tariffs have +been continued against her products as when she was under Spanish +sovereignty. The markets of Spain are closed to her products except upon +terms to which the commerce of all nations is subjected. The island of +Cuba, which used to buy her cattle and tobacco without customs duties, +now imposes the same duties upon these products as from any other +country entering her ports. She has therefore lost her free intercourse +with Spain and Cuba without any compensating benefits in this market. +Her coffee was little known and not in use by our people, and therefore +there was no demand here for this, one of her chief products. The +markets of the United States should be opened up to her products. Our +plain duty is to abolish all customs tariffs between the United States +and Puerto Rico and give her products free access to our markets. +</p> +<p> +As a result of the hurricane which swept over Puerto Rico on the 8th of +August, 1899, over 100,000 people were reduced to absolute destitution, +without homes, and deprived of the necessaries of life. To the appeal +of the War Department the people of the United States made prompt and +generous response. In addition to the private charity of our people, +the War Department has expended for the relief of the distressed +$392,342.63, which does not include the cost of transportation. +</p> +<p> +It is desirable that the government of the island under the law of +belligerent right, now maintained through the Executive Department, +should be superseded by an administration entirely civil in its nature. +For present purposes I recommend that Congress pass a law for the +organization of a temporary government, which shall provide for the +appointment by the President, subject to confirmation by the Senate, of +a governor and such other officers as the general administration of the +island may require, and that for legislative purposes upon subjects of a +local nature not partaking of a Federal character a legislative council, +composed partly of Puerto Ricans and partly of citizens of the United +States, shall be nominated and appointed by the President, subject to +confirmation by the Senate, their acts to be subject to the approval +of the Congress or the President prior to going into effect. In the +municipalities and other local subdivisions I recommend that the +principle of local self-government be applied at once, so as to enable +the intelligent citizens of the island to participate in their own +government and to learn by practical experience the duties and +requirements of a self-contained and self-governing people. I have +not thought it wise to commit the entire government of the island to +officers selected by the people, because I doubt whether in habits, +training, and experience they are such as to fit them to exercise at +once so large a degree of self-government; but it is my judgment and +expectation that they will soon arrive at an attainment of experience +and wisdom and self-control that will justify conferring upon them a +much larger participation in the choice of their insular officers. +</p> +<p> +The fundamental requirement for these people, as for all people, is +education. The free schoolhouse is the best preceptor for citizenship. +In the introduction of modern educational methods care, however, must +be exercised that changes be not made too abruptly and that the history +and racial peculiarities of the inhabitants shall be given due weight. +Systems of education in these new possessions founded upon common-sense +methods, adapted to existing conditions and looking to the future moral +and industrial advancement of the people, will commend to them in a +peculiarly effective manner the blessings of free government. +</p> +<hr> +<p> +The love of law and the sense of obedience and submission to the +lawfully constituted judicial tribunals are embedded in the hearts of +our people, and any violation of these sentiments and disregard of their +obligations justly arouses public condemnation. The guaranties of life, +liberty, and of civil rights should be faithfully upheld; the right of +trial by jury respected and defended. The rule of the courts should +assure the public of the prompt trial of those charged with criminal +offenses, and upon conviction the punishment should be commensurate with +the enormity of the crime. +</p> +<p> +Those who, in disregard of law and the public peace, unwilling to await +the judgment of court and jury, constitute themselves judges and +executioners should not escape the severest penalties for their crimes. +</p> +<p> +What I said in my inaugural address of March 4, 1897, I now repeat: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + The constituted authorities must be cheerfully and vigorously upheld. + Lynchings must not be tolerated in a great and civilized country like + the United States. Courts, not mobs, must execute the penalties of the + laws. The preservation of public order, the right of discussion, the + integrity of courts, and the orderly administration of justice must + continue forever the rock of safety upon which our Government securely + rests. +</p> +<p> +In accordance with the act of Congress providing for an appropriate +national celebration in the year 1900 of the establishment of the seat +of Government in the District of Columbia, I have appointed a committee, +consisting of the governors of all the States and Territories of the +United States, who have been invited to assemble in the city of +Washington on the 21st of December, 1899, which, with the committees of +the Congress and the District of Columbia, are charged with the proper +conduct of this celebration. +</p> +<hr> +<p> +Congress at its last session appropriated five thousand dollars "to +enable the Chief of Engineers of the Army to continue the examination of +the subject and to make or secure designs, calculations, and estimates +for a memorial bridge from the most convenient point of the Naval +Observatory grounds, or adjacent thereto, across the Potomac River +to the most convenient point of the Arlington estate property." In +accordance with the provisions of this act, the Chief of Engineers has +selected four eminent bridge engineers to submit competitive designs +for a bridge combining the elements of strength and durability and such +architectural embellishment and ornamentation as will fitly apply to +the dedication, "A memorial to American patriotism." The designs are +now being prepared, and as soon as completed will be submitted to +the Congress by the Secretary of War. The proposed bridge would be a +convenience to all the people from every part of the country who visit +the national cemetery, an ornament to the Capital of the Nation, and +forever stand as a monument to American patriotism. I do not doubt that +Congress will give to the enterprise still further proof of its favor +and approval. +</p> +<hr> +<p> +The executive order of May 6, 1896, extending the limits of the +classified service, brought within the operation of the civil-service +law and rules nearly all of the executive civil service not previously +classified. +</p> +<p> +Some of the inclusions were found wholly illogical and unsuited +to the work of the several Departments. The application of the rules +to many of the places so included was found to result in friction and +embarrassment. After long and very careful consideration, it became +evident to the heads of the Departments, responsible for their +efficiency, that in order to remove these difficulties and promote +an efficient and harmonious administration certain amendments were +necessary. These amendments were promulgated by me in executive order +dated May 29, 1899. +</p> +<p> +The principal purpose of the order was to except from competitive +examination certain places involving fiduciary responsibilities or +duties of a strictly confidential, scientific, or executive character +which it was thought might better be filled either by noncompetitive +examination, or in the discretion of the appointing officer, than by +open competition. These places were comparatively few in number. The +order provides for the filling of a much larger number of places, mainly +in the outside service of the War Department, by what is known as the +registration system, under regulations to be approved by the President, +similar to those which have produced such admirable results in the +navy-yard service. +</p> +<p> +All of the amendments had for their main object a more efficient and +satisfactory administration of the system of appointments established +by the civil-service law. The results attained show that under their +operation the public service has improved and that the civil-service +system is relieved of many objectionable features which heretofore +subjected it to just criticism and the administrative officers to the +charge of unbusinesslike methods in the conduct of public affairs. It +is believed that the merit system has been greatly strengthened and its +permanence assured. It will be my constant aim in the administration of +government in our new possessions to make fitness, character, and merit +essential to appointment to office, and to give to the capable and +deserving inhabitants preference in appointments. +</p> +<p> +The 14th of December will be the One Hundredth Anniversary of the death +of Washington. For a hundred years the Republic has had the priceless +advantage of the lofty standard of character and conduct which he +bequeathed to the American people. It is an inheritance which time, +instead of wasting, continually increases and enriches. We may justly +hope that in the years to come the benignant influence of the Father of +his Country may be even more potent for good than in the century which +is drawing to a close. I have been glad to learn that in many parts of +the country the people will fittingly observe this historic anniversary. +</p> +<p> +Presented to this Congress are great opportunities. With them come great +responsibilities. The power confided to us increases the weight of our +obligations to the people, and we must be profoundly sensible of them +as we contemplate the new and grave problems which confront us. Aiming +only at the public good, we cannot err. A right interpretation of the +people's will and of duty cannot fail to insure wise measures for the +welfare of the islands which have come under the authority of the United +States, and inure to the common interest and lasting honor of our +country. Never has this Nation had more abundant cause than during the +past year for thankfulness to God for manifold blessings and mercies, +for which we make reverent acknowledgment. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, December 11, 1899</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate and House of Representatives</i>: +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith, for the consideration of the Congress, a +communication from the secretary of the Chamber of Commerce of the State +of New York, inclosing resolutions unanimously adopted by that chamber +on June 1, 1899, requesting legislation authorizing the appointment of +commercial <i>attachés</i> to the principal embassies and legations of +the United States. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>January 4, 1900</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate of the United States</i>: +</p> +<p> +In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 20, 1899, I +transmit herewith a copy of the report of the commission appointed by +the President to investigate the conduct of the War Department in the +war with Spain, together with a copy of all the testimony taken by said +commission. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, February 1, 1900</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate of the United States</i>: +</p> +<p> +In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of January 24, 1900, I +transmit herewith a copy of the report and all accompanying papers of +Brig-Gen. John C. Bates, in relation to the negotiations of a treaty or +agreement made by him with the Sultan of Sulu on the 20th day of August, +1899. +</p> +<p> +I reply to the request and said resolution for further information that +the payments of money provided for by the agreement will be made from +the revenues of the Philippine Islands, unless Congress shall otherwise +direct. +</p> +<p> +Such payments are not for specific services but are a part consideration +due to the Sulu tribe or nation under the agreement, and they have been +stipulated for subject to the action of Congress in conformity with the +practice of this Government from the earliest times in its agreements +with the various Indian nations occupying and governing portions of the +territory subject to the sovereignty of the United States. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>February 2, 1900</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate and House of Representatives</i>: +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith, for the information of the Congress, a report of a +commission appointed by me on January 20, 1899, to investigate affairs +in the Philippine Islands. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>February 21, 1900</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the House of Representatives</i>: +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, in response to +the resolution of the House of Representatives of February 19, 1900, +calling upon him to inform the House of Representatives— +</p> +<p> +1. If "Charles E. Macrum, as consul of the American Government, informed +the State Department that his official mail had been opened and read by +the British censor at Durban, and if so, what steps, if any, have been +taken in relation thereto; and +</p> +<p> +2. "What truth there is in the charge that a secret alliance exists +between the Republic of the United States and the Empire of Great +Britain." +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>March 5, 1900</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate</i>: +</p> +<p> +In response to the following resolution of the Senate of January 17, +1900, requesting the President— +</p> +<p class="quote"> + If in his judgment not incompatible with the public interest, to + communicate to the Senate all communications which have been received by + him or by any Department or officer, civil or military, from Aguinaldo + or any other person undertaking to represent the people in arms against + the United States in the Philippine Islands, or any alleged government + or public authority of said people, and all replies to such + communications; +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Also, the proclamation sent by him to be issued to the people of the + Philippine Islands, as actually directed by him to be issued, and the + same as actually proclaimed by General Otis, if in any respect it was + altered or any part of it was omitted; +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Also, to inform the Senate whether any approval or disapproval was + expressed by his authority, or that of the War Department, of such + change, if any; +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Also, all constitutions, forms of government, or proclamations issued + by Aguinaldo, or any congress or legislative assembly or body claiming + to be such, or convention of the people of the Philippine Islands, or + any part thereof, or claiming to represent them or any part thereof, + of which information may have come to him or to any Department of the + Government; +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Also, all instructions given by him to the commissioners of the + Philippine Islands, or either of them; +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Also, any information which may have come to him, or any Department of + the Government, since January 1, 1898, in regard to any plans of the + people in arms against the United States for the pillage of Manila, for + risings in the city, or for the destruction of foreign property and the + massacre of foreign residents; +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Also, any information that may have come to him, or any Department + of the Government, of the treatment of the other inhabitants of the + Philippines by those in arms against the authority of the United States, + and of the attitude and feeling of such other inhabitants or tribes + toward the so-called government of Aguinaldo and his armed followers; +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Also, any information that may have come to him, or any Department of + the Government, of the treatment of prisoners, either Spanish or + American, by the people in arms against the authority of the United + States; +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Also, any information that may have come to him, or any Department of + the Government, as to any aid or encouragement received by Aguinaldo and + his followers from persons in the United States; as to what pamphlets, + speeches, or other documents emanating from the United States and + adverse to its authority and to its policy were circulated in whole or + in part among the Filipinos in arms against the United States, among the + other inhabitants of the islands, or among the soldiers of the United + States, and any information as to the effect, if any, of such pamphlets, + speeches, and other documents, or of similar utterances in the United + States upon the course of the rebellion against the United States; +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Also, any further or other information which would tend to throw light + upon the conduct and events of the insurrection against the authority + of the United States in the Philippine Islands, and of the military + movements for its suppression since January 1, 1898. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + And that the President be further requested to communicate, without + delay, so much of such information as is now in his possession or in + that of any Department at Washington, without waiting to obtain so much + of said information as may require considerable delay or communication + with the Philippine Islands, and to communicate the remainder of the + information as soon thereafter as it can be obtained, +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith the following papers: +</p> +<p> +First. Copies of all communications which have been received by me, or +by any Department or officer, civil or military, from Aguinaldo, or any +other person undertaking to represent the people in arms against the +United States in the Philippine Islands, or any alleged government or +public authority of said people, and copies of all replies to such +communications, so far as such communications and replies have been +reported to me or to any Executive Department. Said copies of documents +are appended hereto marked "I." +</p> +<p> +Second. Copy of instructions relating to a proclamation sent to General +Otis and of the proclamation issued by General Otis pursuant thereto. +Said copies of documents are appended hereto, marked "II." No +disapproval of the said proclamation was expressed by my authority or +that of the War Department. It was, in fact, approved by me, although no +formal communication to that effect was sent to General Otis. +</p> +<p> +Also, among the papers marked "II," a letter of instructions to +Maj.-Gen. Wesley Merritt, commanding the army in the Philippines, under +date of May 28, 1898, and a proclamation issued by him to the people of +the Philippines dated August 14, 1898. +</p> +<p> +Third. Copies of English translations of all constitutions, forms of +government, or proclamations issued by Aguinaldo, or any congress or +legislative assembly or body claiming to be such, or convention of the +people of the Philippine Islands, or any part thereof, or claiming to +represent them, or any part thereof, of which information has come to me +or to any Department of the Government. Said copies of documents are +appended hereto marked "III." +</p> +<p> +Fourth. Copies of all written instructions given by me to the +commissioners to the Philippine Islands, or either of them. Said copies +of documents are appended hereto marked "IV." +</p> +<p> +Fifth. Such information as has come to me, or any Department of the +Government, since January 1, 1898, in regard to any plans of the people +in arms against the United States for the pillage of Manila, for risings +in the city, or for the destruction of foreign property and the massacre +of foreign residents. Said copies of documents are appended hereto +marked "V." +</p> +<p> +Sixth. The information which has come to me, or any Department of the +Government, of the treatment of the other inhabitants of the Philippines +by those in arms against the authority of the United States, and of the +attitude and feeling of such other inhabitants or tribes toward the +so-called government of Aguinaldo and his armed followers, is contained +in the preliminary statement of the Philippine Commission, dated +November 2, 1899, in the report of the Philippine Commission, dated +January 31, 1900, and transmitted by me to Congress February 2, 1900, +together with the preliminary statement, and the report of Maj.-Gen. E. +S. Otis, United States Volunteers, commanding the Department of the +Pacific and Eighth Army Corps, dated August 31, 1899, and transmitted to +Congress with the report of the Secretary of War, dated November 29, +1899, with the accompanying documents. +</p> +<p> +Seventh. The information which has come to me, or any Department of the +Government, of the treatment of prisoners, either Spanish or American, +by the people in arms against the authority of the United States, is +contained in the same documents. +</p> +<p> +Eighth. The information that has come to me, or any Department of the +Government, as to any aid or encouragement received by Aguinaldo and +his followers from persons in the United States, as to what pamphlets, +speeches, or other documents emanating from the United States, and +adverse to its authority and to its policy, were circulated, in whole or +in part, among the Filipinos in arms against the United States, among +the other inhabitants of the islands, or among the soldiers of the +United States, and any information as to the effect, if any, of such +pamphlets, speeches, and other documents, or of similar utterances in +the United States upon the course of the rebellion against the United +States is contained in the same documents, and the copies of documents +appended hereto marked "VI." +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>March 15, 1900</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate of the United States</i>: +</p> +<p> +In response to the resolution of the Senate of March 12, 1900, calling +for the correspondence touching the request of the Government of the +South African Republics for my intervention with a view to the cessation +of hostilities, I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of State +furnishing the requested papers. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>March 21, 1900</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate</i>: +</p> +<p> +In response to the resolution of the Senate of January 23, 1900, +requesting the President, "if in his opinion it is not incompatible +with the public interest, to furnish the Senate with copies of the +correspondence with the Republic of Colombia in relation to the Panama +Canal and to the treaty between this Government and New Granada +concluded December 12, 1846, not heretofore communicated," I transmit +herewith a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, March 27, 1900</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the House of Representatives</i>: +</p> +<p> +In response to the resolution of the House of Representatives of March +24, 1900, reading as follows: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + WHEREAS the commercial community of the United States is deeply + interested in ascertaining the conditions which are to govern trade + in such parts of the Chinese Empire as are claimed by various foreign + powers to be within their "areas of interest"; and +</p> +<p class="quote"> + WHEREAS bills are now pending before both Houses of Congress for the + dispatch of a mission to China to study its economic condition: + Therefore, be it +</p> +<p class="quote"> + <i>Resolved</i>, That the President of the United States be requested + to transmit to the House of Representatives, if not incompatible with + the public service, such correspondence as may have passed between the + Department of State and various foreign Governments concerning the + maintenance of the "open door" policy in China, +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, with +accompanying papers. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, April 2, 1900</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate and House of Representatives</i>: +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith a copy of a letter from Mr. Ferdinand W. Peck, +Commissioner-General of the United States to the Paris Exposition of +1900, dated November 17, 1899, submitting a detailed statement of the +expenditures incurred under authority of law. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>April 17, 1900</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the House of Representatives</i>: +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State in response +to the resolution of the House of Representatives of March 23, 1900, +calling for copies of any and all letters on file in the Department of +State from citizens of the United States resident in the South African +Republic from January 1, 1899, to the present time, making complaints +of treatment by the South African Republic. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, May 3, 1900</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the House of Representatives</i>: +</p> +<p> +I herewith return, without approval, House bill No. 4001, entitled "An +act authorizing the rights of settlers on the Navajo Indian Reservation, +Territory of Arizona." My objections to the bill are embodied in the +following statement: +</p> +<p> +This tribe has a population of about 20,500 souls, of whom 1,000 dress +in the manner of white men, 250 can read, and 500 use enough English +for ordinary conversation. Last year they cultivated 8,000 acres, and +possessed approximately 1,000,000 sheep, 250,000 goats, 100,500 cattle, +1,200 swine, and very considerable herds of horses and ponies. +</p> +<p> +Prior to January last the reservation, which is in the extreme +northeastern portion of the Territory of Arizona, consisted of lands +set apart for the use of these Indians under the treaty of June 1, 1863 +(15 Stat., 667), and subsequent executive orders. On account of the +conditions naturally prevailing in that section, the reservation, as +then constituted, was altogether inadequate for the purpose for which +it was set apart. There was not a sufficient supply of grass or water +within its borders for the flocks and herds of the tribe, and in +consequence more than one-third of the Indians were habitually off the +reservation with their flocks and herds, and were in frequent contention +and strife with whites over pasturage and water. +</p> +<p> +After most careful inquiry and inspection of the reservation as it +then existed, and of adjacent land by efficient officers in the Indian +service, the Commission of Indian Affairs, with the concurrence of +the Secretary of the Interior, recommended that the limits of the +reservation be extended westward so as to embrace the lands lying +between the Navajo and Moqui Indian reservations on the east and the +Colorado and Little Colorado Rivers and the Grand Canyon Forest Reserve +on the west. This recommendation was supported by a very numerously +signed petition from the white residents of that section, and also by a +letter from the Governor of the Territory of Arizona, in which it was +said: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + I understand that a petition has been forwarded asking that the western + limit be fixed at the Little Colorado River, as being better for all + concerned and less liable to cause friction between the Indians and the + whites. I earnestly hope that the prayer of the petitioners be granted, + for the reason that the Little Colorado could be made a natural dividing + line, distinct and well defined, and would extend the grazing territory + of the Navajoes to a very considerable extent without seriously + encroaching upon the interests of white settlers who have their property + in that neighborhood. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + I think great care should be exercised in questions of this nature + because of possible serious friction which may occur if the interests of + all concerned are not carefully protected. +</p> +<p> +The investigation which preceded this recommendation, and upon which it +was in part based, showed that with the boundaries of the reservation +thus extended the Indians would be able to obtain within the limits of +the reservation sufficient grass and water for their flocks and herds, +and the Government would therefore be justified in confining them to the +reservation, thus avoiding the prior contention and friction between +them and the whites. +</p> +<p> +It appearing that but little aid had been extended to these Indians by +the Government for many years, that they had taken on habits of industry +and husbandry, which entitled them to encouragement, and that it was +neither just nor possible to confine them to the limits of a reservation +which would not sustain their flocks and herds, an order was issued by +me January 8 last, extending the reservation boundaries as recommended. +The Indians have accepted this as an evidence of the good faith of the +Government toward them, and it is now the belief of those charged with +the administration of Indian affairs that further contention and +friction between the Indians and whites will be avoided, if this +arrangement is not disturbed. +</p> +<p> +The present bill proposes to open to miners and prospectors, and to the +operation of the mining laws, a substantial portion of this reservation, +including a part of the lands covered by the recent order. There has +been no effort to obtain from the Indians a concession of this +character, nor has any reason been presented why, if these lands are to +be taken from them—for that will practically result from this bill, if +it becomes a law, even though not so intended—it should not be done in +pursuance of negotiations had with the Indians as in other instances. +</p> +<p> +The Indians could not understand how lands given to them in January as +necessary for their use should be taken away without previous notice in +May of the same year. While the Indians are the wards of the Government, +and must submit to that which is deemed for their best interests by the +sovereign guardian, they should, nevertheless, be dealt with in a manner +calculated to give them confidence in the Government and to assist them +in passing through the inevitable transition to a state of civilization +and full citizenship. Believing that due consideration has not been +given to the status and interests of the Indians, I withhold my approval +from the bill. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, May 12, 1900</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate of the United States</i>: +</p> +<p> +In reply to the resolution of the Senate, dated March 2, 1900, I send +herewith copy of an order to the provost marshal general of Manila, +dated March 8, 1900, and the various endorsements and reports thereon, +whereby it appears that the traffic in wine, beer, and liquor in the +city of Manila is now controlled under a rigidly enforced high-license +system; that the number of places where the liquor is sold has greatly +decreased; that all such places are required to be closed at 8:30 in the +evening on week days and to be kept closed on Sundays, and that the +orderly condition of the city compares favorably with cities of similar +size in the United States. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>May 12, 1900</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate of the United States</i>: +</p> +<p> +In response to a resolution of the Senate of April 11, 1900, reading as +follows: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + <i>Resolved</i>, That the President be, and is hereby, requested, if not + incompatible with public interest, to inform the Senate whether persons + have been executed in Puerto Rico by the Spanish method of garrote since + he has been governing that country as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and + Navy of the United States; and if so, the President is requested to + inform the Senate why this mode of execution was adopted. +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith copies of reports from Brig.-Gen. George W. Davis, +United States Volunteers, military governor of Puerto Rico, which +contain the information called for. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, May 19, 1900</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate</i>: +</p> +<p> +In response to the following resolution of the Senate of April 28, 1900: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + <i>Resolved</i>, That the President be, and he is hereby requested, if + not incompatible with the public interest, to inform the Senate whether + General Torres, one of the officers of the Philippine army, came to + General Otis with a flag of truce on February 5, 1899, the day after + the fighting commenced between our forces and those of the Filipinos, + and stated to General Otis that General Aguinaldo declared that + fighting had been begun accidentally, and was not authorized by him, + and that Aguinaldo wished to have it stopped, and that to bring about + a conclusion of hostilities he proposed the establishment of a neutral + zone between the two armies of a width that would be agreeable to + General Otis, so that during the peace negotiations there might be no + further danger of conflict between the two armies, and whether General + Otis replied that fighting having once begun, must go on to the grim + end. Was General Otis directed by the Secretary of War to make such an + answer? Did General Otis telegraph the Secretary of War on February 9, + 1899, as follows: "Aguinaldo now applies for a cessation of hostilities + and conference. Have declined to answer?" And did General Otis + afterwards reply? Was he directed by the Secretary of War to reply, and + what answer, if any, did he or the Secretary of War make to the + application to cease fighting? +</p> +<p class="quote"> + The President is also requested to inform the Senate whether the flag of + the Philippine Republic was ever saluted by Admiral Dewey or any of the + vessels of his fleet at any time since May 1, 1898. "Did Admiral Dewey, + at the request of Aguinaldo, or any officer under him, send the vessels + <i>Concord</i> and <i>Raleigh</i> to Subig Bay to assist Aguinaldo's + forces in the capture of the Spanish garrison at that place? Did said + vessels assist in the capture of the Spanish garrison, and after the + capture did they turn the prisoners thus taken over to the Philippine + forces?" +</p> +<p> +I herewith transmit a copy of a cable dispatch to General Otis, dated +April 30, 1900, and of his reply, dated May 1, 1900. +</p> +<p> +General Otis was not directed by the Secretary of War to make such +an answer as is set forth in the resolution, nor were any answers +to communications upon the subject of the cessation of hostilities +prescribed by the Secretary of War to General Otis, but he was left to +exercise in respect thereof his own judgment, based upon his superior +knowledge of the conditions surrounding the troops under his command. +</p> +<p> +I also transmit a copy of a cable dispatch from General Otis, sent from +Manila February 8, 1899, received in Washington February 9, 1899, being +the same dispatch to which he refers in his reply of May 1, 1900 as +misleading. So far as I am informed, General Otis did not afterwards +reply, except as set forth in his dispatch of May 1, 1900. He was not +directed by the Secretary of War to reply, and no answer was made by him +or the Secretary of War to an application to cease fighting. There +appears to have been no such application. +</p> +<p> +I further transmit a copy of a letter from the Secretary of the Navy to +Admiral George Dewey, dated May 14, 1900, and a copy of the Admiral's +reply, dated May 17, 1900. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>May 22, 1900</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate and House of Representatives</i>: +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, with +accompanying papers, relative to the status of Chinese persons in the +Philippine Islands. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>May 22, 1900</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate and House of Representatives</i>: +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith, for the information of Congress, a communication +from the Secretary of Agriculture, forwarding a report on the progress +of the beet-sugar industry in the United States during the year 1899. It +embraces the observations made by a special agent on the various phases +of the beet-sugar industry of the Hawaiian Islands; also the results of +analyses of sugar-beets received by the Department of Agriculture from +the different States and Territories, together with much other +information relating to the sugar industry. +</p> +<p> +Your attention is invited to the recommendation of the Secretary of +Agriculture that 20,000 copies of the report be printed for the use of +the Department, in addition to such number as may be desired for the use +of the Senate and House of Representatives. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, May 26, 1900</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate</i>: +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith, in answer to the resolution of the Senate of May +22, 1900, a report from the Secretary of State showing that the consul +of the United States at Pretoria was directed on May 8, 1900, to forward +copies of the constitutions of the South African Republic and the Orange +Free State by return mail. Translations thereof will be communicated to +the Senate at the earliest practicable date. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, June 2, 1900</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate of the United States</i>: +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith, in further reply to the resolution of the Senate of +April 10, 1900, having reference to Senate Document No. 336, Fifty-sixth +Congress, first session, a further report from the Secretary of State, +showing the places of residence of experts, clerks, officers, and +employees of the Commission of the United States to the Paris Exposition +of 1900, as well as the items of expenditures of the Commission for the +months of January, February, and March, 1900, amounting to $211,583.25. +</p> +<center> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</center> +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, June 6, 1900</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate of the United States</i>: +</p> +<p> +In further response to the resolution of the Senate of January 17, 1900, +requesting, among other things, information tending to throw light upon +the conduct and events of the insurrection against the authority of the +United States in the Philippine Islands, I transmit herewith a +correspondence between the Secretary of War and the officers of the +Second Division of the Eighth Army Corps. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>December 3, 1900</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate and House of Representatives</i>: +</p> +<p> +At the outgoing of the old and the incoming of the new century you begin +the last session of the Fifty-sixth Congress with evidences on every +hand of individual and national prosperity and with proof of the growing +strength and increasing power for good of Republican institutions. Your +countrymen will join with you in felicitation that American liberty is +more firmly established than ever before, and that love for it and the +determination to preserve it are more universal than at any former +period of our history. +</p> +<p> +The Republic was never so strong, because never so strongly intrenched +in the hearts of the people as now. The Constitution, with few +amendments, exists as it left the hands of its authors. The additions +which have been made to it proclaim larger freedom and more extended +citizenship. Popular government has demonstrated in its one hundred and +twenty-four years of trial here its stability and security, and its +efficiency as the best instrument of national development and the best +safeguard to human rights. +</p> +<p> +When the Sixth Congress assembled in November, 1800, the population +of the United States was 5,308,483. It is now 76,304,799. Then we had +sixteen States. Now we have forty-five. Then our territory consisted +of 909,050 square miles. It is now 3,846,595 square miles. Education, +religion, and morality have kept pace with our advancement in other +directions, and while extending its power the Government has adhered to +its foundation principles and abated none of them in dealing with our +new peoples and possessions. A nation so preserved and blessed gives +reverent thanks to God and invokes His guidance and the continuance of +His care and favor. +</p> +<p> +In our foreign intercourse the dominant question has been the treatment +of the Chinese problem. Apart from this our relations with the powers +have been happy. +</p> +<p> +The recent troubles in China spring from the antiforeign agitation which +for the past three years has gained strength in the northern provinces. +Their origin lies deep in the character of the Chinese races and in the +traditions of their Government. The Taiping rebellion and the opening of +Chinese ports to foreign trade and settlement disturbed alike the +homogeneity and the seclusion of China. +</p> +<p> +Meanwhile foreign activity made itself felt in all quarters, not alone +on the coast, but along the great river arteries and in the remoter +districts, carrying new ideas and introducing new associations among a +primitive people which had pursued for centuries a national policy of +isolation. +</p> +<p> +The telegraph and the railway spreading over their land, the steamers +plying on their waterways, the merchant and the missionary penetrating +year by year farther to the interior, became to the Chinese mind types +of an alien invasion, changing the course of their national life and +fraught with vague forebodings of disaster to their beliefs and their +self-control. +</p> +<p> +For several years before the present troubles all the resources of +foreign diplomacy, backed by moral demonstrations of the physical +force of fleets and arms, have been needed to secure due respect for +the treaty rights of foreigners and to obtain satisfaction from the +responsible authorities for the sporadic outrages upon the persons and +property of unoffending sojourners, which from time to time occurred at +widely separated points in the northern provinces, as in the case of the +outbreaks in Sze-chuen and Shan-tung. +</p> +<p> +Posting of antiforeign placards became a daily occurrence, which the +repeated reprobation of the Imperial power failed to check or punish. +These inflammatory appeals to the ignorance and superstition of the +masses, mendacious and absurd in their accusations and deeply hostile +in their spirit, could not but work cumulative harm. They aimed at no +particular class of foreigners; they were impartial in attacking +everything foreign. +</p> +<p> +An outbreak in Shan-tung, in which German missionaries were slain, was +the too natural result of these malevolent teachings. The posting of +seditious placards, exhorting to the utter destruction of foreigners and +of every foreign thing, continued unrebuked. Hostile demonstrations +toward the stranger gained strength by organization. +</p> +<p> +The sect, commonly styled the Boxers, developed greatly in the provinces +north of the Yang-Tse, and with the collusion of many notable officials, +including some in the immediate councils of the Throne itself, became +alarmingly aggressive. No foreigner's life, outside of the protected +treaty ports, was safe. No foreign interest was secure from spoliation. +</p> +<p> +The diplomatic representatives of the powers in Peking strove in vain +to check this movement. Protest was followed by demand and demand by +renewed protest, to be met with perfunctory edicts from the Palace and +evasive and futile assurances from the Tsung-li Yamen. The circle of the +Boxer influence narrowed about Peking, and while nominally stigmatized +as seditious, it was felt that its spirit pervaded the capital itself, +that the Imperial forces were imbued with its doctrines, and that the +immediate counselors of the Empress Dowager were in full sympathy with +the antiforeign movement. +</p> +<p> +The increasing gravity of the conditions in China and the imminence of +peril to our own diversified interests in the Empire, as well as to +those of all the other treaty governments, were soon appreciated by this +Government, causing it profound solicitude. The United States from the +earliest days of foreign intercourse with China had followed a policy of +peace, omitting no occasions to testify good will, to further the +extension of lawful trade, to respect the sovereignty of its Government, +and to insure by all legitimate and kindly but earnest means the fullest +measure of protection for the lives and property of our law-abiding +citizens and for the exercise of their beneficent callings among the +Chinese people. +</p> +<p> +Mindful of this, it was felt to be appropriate that our purposes should +be pronounced in favor of such course as would hasten united action of +the powers at Peking to promote the administrative reforms so greatly +needed for strengthening the Imperial Government and maintaining the +integrity of China, in which we believed the whole western world to be +alike concerned. To these ends I caused to be addressed to the several +powers occupying territory and maintaining spheres of influence in China +the circular proposals of 1899, inviting from them declarations of their +intentions and views as to the desirability of the adoption of measures +insuring the benefits of equality of treatment of all foreign trade +throughout China. +</p> +<p> +With gratifying unanimity the responses coincided in this common policy, +enabling me to see in the successful termination of these negotiations +proof of the friendly spirit which animates the various powers +interested in the untrammeled development of commerce and industry in +the Chinese Empire as a source of vast benefit to the whole commercial +world. +</p> +<p> +In this conclusion, which I had the gratification to announce as a +completed engagement to the interested powers on March 20, 1900, I +hopefully discerned a potential factor for the abatement of the distrust +of foreign purposes which for a year past had appeared to inspire the +policy of the Imperial Government, and for the effective exertion by it +of power and authority to quell the critical antiforeign movement in the +northern provinces most immediately influenced by the Manchu sentiment. +</p> +<p> +Seeking to testify confidence in the willingness and ability of the +Imperial administration to redress the wrongs and prevent the evils we +suffered and feared, the marine guard, which had been sent to Peking in +the autumn of 1899 for the protection of the legation, was withdrawn at +the earliest practicable moment, and all pending questions were +remitted, as far as we were concerned, to the ordinary resorts of +diplomatic intercourse. +</p> +<p> +The Chinese Government proved, however, unable to check the rising +strength of the Boxers and appeared to be a prey to internal +dissensions. In the unequal contest the antiforeign influences soon +gained the ascendancy under the leadership of Prince Tuan. Organized +armies of Boxers, with which the Imperial forces affiliated, held the +country between Peking and the coast, penetrated into Manchuria up to +the Russian borders, and through their emissaries threatened a like +rising throughout northern China. +</p> +<p> +Attacks upon foreigners, destruction of their property, and slaughter +of native converts were reported from all sides. The Tsung-li Yamen, +already permeated with hostile sympathies, could make no effective +response to the appeals of the legations. At this critical juncture, in +the early spring of this year, a proposal was made by the other powers +that a combined fleet should be assembled in Chinese waters as a moral +demonstration, under cover of which to exact of the Chinese Government +respect for foreign treaty rights and the suppression of the Boxers. +</p> +<p> +The United States, while not participating in the joint demonstration, +promptly sent from the Philippines all ships that could be spared for +service on the Chinese coast. A small force of marines was landed at +Taku and sent to Peking for the protection of the American legation. +Other powers took similar action, until some four hundred men were +assembled in the capital as legation guards. +</p> +<p> +Still the peril increased. The legations reported the development of the +seditious movement in Peking and the need of increased provision for +defense against it. While preparations were in progress for a larger +expedition, to strengthen the legation guards and keep the railway open, +an attempt of the foreign ships to make a landing at Taku was met by a +fire from the Chinese forts. The forts were thereupon shelled by the +foreign vessels, the American admiral taking no part in the attack, +on the ground that we were not at war with China and that a hostile +demonstration might consolidate the anti-foreign elements and strengthen +the Boxers to oppose the relieving column. +</p> +<p> +Two days later the Taku forts were captured after a sanguinary conflict. +Severance of communication with Peking followed, and a combined force +of additional guards, which was advancing to Peking by the Pei-Ho, was +checked at Langfang. The isolation of the legations was complete. +</p> +<p> +The siege and the relief of the legations has passed into undying +history. In all the stirring chapter which records the heroism of the +devoted band, clinging to hope in the face of despair, and the undaunted +spirit that led their relievers through battle and suffering to the +goal, it is a memory of which my countrymen may be justly proud that the +honor of our flag was maintained alike in the siege and the rescue, and +that stout American hearts have again set high, in fervent emulation +with true men of other race and language, the indomitable courage that +ever strives for the cause of right and justice. +</p> +<p> +By June 19 the legations were cut off. An identical note from the Yamen +ordered each minister to leave Peking, under a promised escort, within +twenty-four hours. To gain time they replied, asking prolongation of the +time, which was afterwards granted, and requesting an interview with the +Tsung-li Yamen on the following day. No reply being received, on the +morning of the 20th the German minister, Baron von Ketteler, set out for +the Yamen to obtain a response, and on the way was murdered. +</p> +<p> +An attempt by the legation guard to recover his body was foiled by the +Chinese. Armed forces turned out against the legations. Their quarters +were surrounded and attacked. The mission compounds were abandoned, +their inmates taking refuge in the British legation, where all the other +legations and guards gathered for more effective defense. Four hundred +persons were crowded in its narrow compass. Two thousand native converts +were assembled in a nearby palace under protection of the foreigners. +Lines of defense were strengthened, trenches dug, barricades raised, and +preparations made to stand a siege, which at once began. +</p> +<p> +From June 20 until July 17, writes Minister Conger, "there was scarcely +an hour during which there was not firing upon some part of our lines +and into some of the legations, varying from a single shot to a general +and continuous attack along the whole line." Artillery was placed around +the legations and on the over-looking palace walls, and thousands of +3-inch shot and shell were fired, destroying some buildings and damaging +all. So thickly did the balls rain, that, when the ammunition of the +besieged ran low, five quarts of Chinese bullets were gathered in an +hour in one compound and recast. +</p> +<p> +Attempts were made to burn the legations by setting neighboring houses +on fire, but the flames were successfully fought off, although the +Austrian, Belgian, Italian, and Dutch legations were then and +subsequently burned. With the aid of the native converts, directed by +the missionaries, to whose helpful co-operation Mr. Conger awards +unstinted praise, the British legation was made a veritable fortress. +The British minister, Sir Claude MacDonald, was chosen general commander +of the defense, with the secretary of the American legation, Mr. E.G. +Squiers, as chief of staff. +</p> +<p> +To save life and ammunition the besieged sparingly returned the +incessant fire of the Chinese soldiery, fighting only to repel attack or +make an occasional successful sortie for strategic advantage, such as +that of fifty-five American, British, and Russian marines led by Captain +Myers, of the United States Marine Corps, which resulted in the capture +of a formidable barricade on the wall that gravely menaced the American +position. It was held to the last, and proved an invaluable acquisition, +because commanding the water gate through which the relief column +entered. +</p> +<p> +During the siege the defenders lost 65 killed, 135 wounded, and 7 by +disease—the last all children. +</p> +<p> +On July 14 the besieged had their first communication with the Tsung-li +Yamen, from whom a message came inviting to a conference, which was +declined. Correspondence, however, ensued and a sort of armistice was +agreed upon, which stopped the bombardment and lessened the rifle fire +for a time. Even then no protection whatever was afforded, nor any aid +given, save to send to the legations a small supply of fruit and three +sacks of flour. +</p> +<p> +Indeed, the only communication had with the Chinese Government related +to the occasional delivery or dispatch of a telegram or to the demands +of the Tsung-li Yamen for the withdrawal of the legations to the coast +under escort. Not only are the protestations of the Chinese Government +that it protected and succored the legations positively contradicted, +but irresistible proof accumulates that the attacks upon them were made +by Imperial troops, regularly uniformed, armed, and officered, belonging +to the command of Jung Lu, the Imperial commander in chief. Decrees +encouraging the Boxers, organizing them under prominent Imperial +officers, provisioning them, and even granting them large sums in the +name of the Empress Dowager, are known to exist. Members of the Tsung-li +Yamen who counseled protection of the foreigners were beheaded. Even in +the distant provinces men suspected of foreign sympathy were put to +death, prominent among these being Chang Yen-hoon, formerly Chinese +minister in Washington. +</p> +<p> +With the negotiation of the partial armistice of July 14, a proceeding +which was doubtless promoted by the representations of the Chinese envoy +in Washington, the way was opened for the conveyance to Mr. Conger of a +test message sent by the Secretary of State through the kind offices of +Minister Wu Ting-fang. Mr. Conger's reply, dispatched from Peking on +July 18 through the same channel, afforded to the outside world the +first tidings that the inmates of the legations were still alive and +hoping for succor. +</p> +<p> +This news stimulated the preparations for a joint relief expedition in +numbers sufficient to overcome the resistance which for a month had been +organizing between Taku and the capital. Reinforcements sent by all the +co-operating Governments were constantly arriving. The United States +contingent, hastily assembled from the Philippines or dispatched from +this country, amounted to some 5,000 men, under the able command first +of the lamented Colonel Liscum and afterwards of General Chaffee. +</p> +<p> +Toward the end of July the movement began. A severe conflict followed at +Tientsin, in which Colonel Liscum was killed. The city was stormed and +partly destroyed. Its capture afforded the base of operations from which +to make the final advance, which began in the first days of August, the +expedition being made up of Japanese, Russian, British, and American +troops at the outset. +</p> +<p> +Another battle was fought and won at Yangtsun. Thereafter the +disheartened Chinese troops offered little show of resistance. A few +days later the important position of Ho-si-woo was taken. A rapid march +brought the united forces to the populous city of Tung Chow, which +capitulated without a contest. +</p> +<p> +On August 14 the capital was reached. After a brief conflict beneath +the walls the relief column entered and the legations were saved. The +United States soldiers, sailors, and marines, officers and men alike, +in those distant climes and unusual surroundings, showed the same valor, +discipline, and good conduct and gave proof of the same high degree of +intelligence and efficiency which have distinguished them in every +emergency. +</p> +<p> +The Imperial family and the Government had fled a few days before. +The city was without visible control. The remaining Imperial soldiery +had made on the night of the 13th a last attempt to exterminate the +besieged, which was gallantly repelled. It fell to the occupying forces +to restore order and organize a provisional administration. +</p> +<p> +Happily the acute disturbances were confined to the northern provinces. +It is a relief to recall and a pleasure to record the loyal conduct +of the viceroys and local authorities of the southern and eastern +provinces. Their efforts were continuously directed to the pacific +control of the vast populations under their rule and to the scrupulous +observance of foreign treaty rights. At critical moments they did not +hesitate to memorialize the Throne, urging the protection of the +legations, the restoration of communication, and the assertion of the +Imperial authority against the subversive elements. They maintained +excellent relations with the official representatives of foreign powers. +To their kindly disposition is largely due the success of the consuls in +removing many of the missionaries from the interior to places of safety. +In this relation the action of the consuls should be highly commended. +In Shan-tung and eastern Chi-li the task was difficult, but, thanks to +their energy and the cooperation of American and foreign naval +commanders, hundreds of foreigners, including those of other +nationalities than ours, were rescued from imminent peril. +</p> +<p> +The policy of the United States through all this trying period was +clearly announced and scrupulously carried out. A circular note to the +powers dated July 3 proclaimed our attitude. Treating the condition in +the north as one of virtual anarchy, in which the great provinces of the +south and southeast had no share, we regarded the local authorities in +the latter quarters as representing the Chinese people with whom we +sought to remain in peace and friendship. Our declared aims involved no +war against the Chinese nation. We adhered to the legitimate office of +rescuing the imperiled legation, obtaining redress for wrongs already +suffered, securing wherever possible the safety of American life and +property in China, and preventing a spread of the disorders or their +recurrence. +</p> +<p> +As was then said, "The policy of the Government of the United States is +to seek a solution which may bring about permanent safety and peace to +China, preserve Chinese territorial and administrative entity, protect +all rights guaranteed to friendly powers by treaty and international +law, and safeguard for the world the principle of equal and impartial +trade with all parts of the Chinese Empire." +</p> +<p> +Faithful to those professions which, as it proved, reflected the views +and purposes of the other co-operating Governments, all our efforts +have been directed toward ending the anomalous situation in China by +negotiations for a settlement at the earliest possible moment. As soon +as the sacred duty of relieving our legation and its dependents was +accomplished we withdrew from active hostilities, leaving our legation +under an adequate guard in Peking as a channel of negotiation and +settlement—a course adopted by others of the interested powers. +Overtures of the empowered representatives of the Chinese Emperor have +been considerately entertained. +</p> +<p> +The Russian proposition looking to the restoration of the Imperial power +in Peking has been accepted as in full consonance with our own desires, +for we have held and hold that effective reparation for wrongs suffered +and an enduring settlement that will make their recurrence impossible +can best be brought about under an authority which the Chinese nation +reverences and obeys. While so doing we forego no jot of our undoubted +right to exact exemplary and deterrent punishment of the responsible +authors and abettors of the criminal acts whereby we and other nations +have suffered grievous injury. +</p> +<p> +For the real culprits, the evil counselors who have misled the Imperial +judgment and diverted the sovereign authority to their own guilty ends, +full expiation becomes imperative within the rational limits of +retributive justice. Regarding this as the initial condition of an +acceptable settlement between China and the powers, I said in my message +of October 18 to the Chinese Emperor: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + I trust that negotiations may begin so soon as we and the other offended + Governments shall be effectively satisfied of Your Majesty's ability and + power to treat with just sternness the principal offenders, who are + doubly culpable, not alone toward the foreigners, but toward Your + Majesty, under whose rule the purpose of China to dwell in concord with + the world had hitherto found expression in the welcome and protection + assured to strangers. +</p> +<p> +Taking, as a point of departure, the Imperial edict appointing Earl Li +Hung Chang and Prince Ching plenipotentiaries to arrange a settlement, +and the edict of September 25, whereby certain high officials were +designated for punishment, this Government has moved, in concert with +the other powers, toward the opening of negotiations, which Mr. Conger, +assisted by Mr. Rockhill, has been authorized to conduct on behalf of +the United States. +</p> +<p> +General bases of negotiation formulated by the Government of the French +Republic have been accepted with certain reservations as to details, +made necessary by our own circumstances, but, like similar reservations +by other powers, open to discussion in the progress of the negotiations. +The disposition of the Emperor's Government to admit liability for +wrongs done to foreign Governments and their nationals, and to act upon +such additional designation of the guilty persons as the foreign +ministers at Peking may be in a position to make, gives hope of a +complete settlement of all questions involved, assuring foreign rights +of residence and intercourse on terms of equality for all the world. +</p> +<p> +I regard as one of the essential factors of a durable adjustment the +securement of adequate guarantees for liberty of faith, since insecurity +of those natives who may embrace alien creeds is a scarcely less +effectual assault upon the rights of foreign worship and teaching than +would be the direct invasion thereof. +</p> +<p> +The matter of indemnity for our wronged citizens is a question of +grave concern. Measured in money alone, a sufficient reparation may +prove to be beyond the ability of China to meet. All the powers concur +in emphatic disclaimers of any purpose of aggrandizement through +the dismemberment of the Empire. I am disposed to think that due +compensation may be made in part by increased guarantees of security +for foreign rights and immunities, and, most important of all, by the +opening of China to the equal commerce of all the world. These views +have been and will be earnestly advocated by our representatives. +</p> +<p> +The Government of Russia has put forward a suggestion, that in the event +of protracted divergence of views in regard to indemnities the matter +may be relegated to the Court of Arbitration at The Hague. I favorably +incline to this, believing that high tribunal could not fail to reach a +solution no less conducive to the stability and enlarged prosperity of +China itself than immediately beneficial to the powers. +</p> +<p> +Ratifications of a treaty of extradition with the Argentine Republic +were exchanged on June 2 last. +</p> +<p> +While the Austro-Hungarian Government has in the many cases that have +been reported of the arrest of our naturalized citizens for alleged +evasion of military service faithfully observed the provisions of the +treaty and released such persons from military obligations, it has in +some instances expelled those whose presence in the community of their +origin was asserted to have a pernicious influence. Representations have +been made against this course whenever its adoption has appeared unduly +onerous. +</p> +<p> +We have been urgently solicited by Belgium to ratify the International +Convention of June, 1899, amendatory of the previous Convention of 1890 +in respect to the regulation of the liquor trade in Africa. Compliance +was necessarily withheld, in the absence of the advice and consent of +the Senate thereto. The principle involved has the cordial sympathy of +this Government, which in the revisionary negotiations advocated more +drastic measures, and I would gladly see its extension, by international +agreement, to the restriction of the liquor traffic with all uncivilized +peoples, especially in the Western Pacific. +</p> +<p> +A conference will be held at Brussels December 11, 1900, under the +Convention for the protection of industrial property, concluded at +Paris March 20, 1883, to which delegates from this country have been +appointed. Any lessening of the difficulties that our inventors +encounter in obtaining patents abroad for their inventions and that +our farmers, manufacturers, and merchants may have in the protection of +their trade-marks is worthy of careful consideration, and your attention +will be called to the results of the conference at the proper time. +</p> +<p> +In the interest of expanding trade between this country and South +America, efforts have been made during the past year to conclude +conventions with the southern republics for the enlargement of postal +facilities. Two such agreements, signed with Bolivia on April 24, of +which that establishing the money-order system is undergoing certain +changes suggested by the Post-Office Department, have not yet been +ratified by this Government. A treaty of extradition with that country, +signed on the same day, is before the Senate. +</p> +<p> +A boundary dispute between Brazil and Bolivia over the territory of Acre +is in a fair way of friendly adjustment, a protocol signed in December, +1899, having agreed on a definite frontier and provided for its +demarcation by a joint commission. +</p> +<p> +Conditions in Brazil have weighed heavily on our export trade to that +country in marked contrast to the favorable conditions upon which +Brazilian products are admitted into our markets. Urgent representations +have been made to that Government on the subject and some amelioration +has been effected. We rely upon the reciprocal justice and good will of +that Government to assure to us a further improvement in our commercial +relations. +</p> +<p> +The Convention signed May 24, 1897, for the final settlement of claims +left in abeyance upon the dissolution of the Commission of 1893, was at +length ratified by the Chilean Congress and the supplemental Commission +has been organized. +</p> +<p> +It remains for the Congress to appropriate for the necessary expenses of +the Commission. +</p> +<p> +The insurrectionary movement which disturbed Colombia in the latter part +of 1899 has been practically suppressed, although guerrillas still +operate in some departments. The executive power of that Republic +changed hands in August last by the act of Vice-President Marroquin in +assuming the reins of government during the absence of President San +Clemente from the capital. The change met with no serious opposition, +and, following the precedents in such cases, the United States minister +entered into relations with the new <i>de facto</i> Government on +September 17. +</p> +<p> +It is gratifying to announce that the residual questions between Costa +Rica and Nicaragua growing out of the Award of President Cleveland in +1888 have been adjusted through the choice of an American engineer, +General E.P. Alexander, as umpire to run the disputed line. His task has +been accomplished to the satisfaction of both contestants. +</p> +<p> +A revolution in the Dominican Republic toward the close of last year +resulted in the installation of President Jimenez, whose Government was +formally recognized in January. Since then final payment has been made +of the American claim in regard to the Ozama bridge. +</p> +<p> +The year of the exposition has been fruitful in occasions for displaying +the good will that exists between this country and France. This great +competition brought together from every nation the best in natural +productions, industry, science, and the arts, submitted in generous +rivalry to a judgment made all the more searching because of that +rivalry. The extraordinary increase of exportations from this country +during the past three years and the activity with which our inventions +and wares had invaded new markets caused much interest to center upon +the American exhibit, and every encouragement was offered in the way of +space and facilities to permit of its being comprehensive as a whole and +complete in every part. +</p> +<p> +It was, however, not an easy task to assemble exhibits that could fitly +illustrate our diversified resources and manufactures. Singularly +enough, our national prosperity lessened the incentive to exhibit. The +dealer in raw materials knew that the user must come to him; the great +factories were contented with the phenomenal demand for their output, +not alone at home, but also abroad, where merit had already won a +profitable trade. +</p> +<p> +Appeals had to be made to the patriotism of exhibitors to induce them +to incur outlays promising no immediate return. This was especially +the case where it became needful to complete an industrial sequence or +illustrate a class of processes. One manufacturer after another had to +be visited and importuned, and at times, after a promise to exhibit in a +particular section had been obtained, it would be withdrawn, owing to +pressure of trade orders, and a new quest would have to be made. +</p> +<p> +The installation of exhibits, too, encountered many obstacles and +involved unexpected cost. The exposition was far from ready at the date +fixed for its opening. The French transportation lines were congested +with offered freight. Belated goods had to be hastily installed in +unfinished quarters with whatever labor could be obtained in the +prevailing confusion. Nor was the task of the Commission lightened by +the fact that, owing to the scheme of classification adopted, it was +impossible to have the entire exhibit of any one country in the same +building or more than one group of exhibits in the same part of any +building. Our installations were scattered on both sides of the Seine +and in widely remote suburbs of Paris, so that additional assistants +were needed for the work of supervision and arrangement. +</p> +<p> +Despite all these drawbacks the contribution of the United States was +not only the largest foreign display, but was among the earliest in +place and the most orderly in arrangement. Our exhibits were shown in +one hundred and one out of one hundred and twenty-one classes, and more +completely covered the entire classification than those of any other +nation. In total number they ranked next after those of France, and the +attractive form in which they were presented secured general attention. +</p> +<p> +A criterion of the extent and success of our participation and of the +thoroughness with which our exhibits were organized is seen in the +awards granted to American exhibitors by the international jury, namely, +grand prizes, 240; gold medals, 597; silver medals, 776; bronze medals, +541, and honorable mentions, 322—2,476 in all, being the greatest total +number given to the exhibit of any exhibiting nation, as well as the +largest number in each grade. This significant recognition of merit in +competition with the chosen exhibits of all other nations and at the +hands of juries almost wholly made up of representatives of France and +other competing countries is not only most gratifying, but is especially +valuable, since it sets us to the front in international questions of +supply and demand, while the large proportion of awards in the classes +of art and artistic manufactures afforded unexpected proof of the +stimulation of national culture by the prosperity that flows from +natural productiveness joined to industrial excellence. +</p> +<p> +Apart from the exposition several occasions for showing international +good will occurred. The inauguration in Paris of the Lafayette Monument, +presented by the school children of the United States, and the designing +of a commemorative coin by our Mint and the presentation of the first +piece struck to the President of the Republic, were marked by +appropriate ceremonies, and the Fourth of July was especially observed +in the French capital. +</p> +<p> +Good will prevails in our relations with the German Empire. An amicable +adjustment of the long-pending question of the admission of our +life-insurance companies to do business in Prussia has been reached. One +of the principal companies has already been readmitted and the way is +opened for the others to share the privilege. +</p> +<p> +The settlement of the Samoan problem, to which I adverted in my last +message, has accomplished good results. Peace and contentment prevail in +the islands, especially in Tutuila, where a convenient administration +that has won the confidence and esteem of the kindly disposed natives +has been organized under the direction of the commander of the United +States naval station at Pago-Pago. +</p> +<p> +An Imperial meat-inspection law has been enacted for Germany. While it +may simplify the inspections, it prohibits certain products heretofore +admitted. There is still great uncertainty as to whether our well-nigh +extinguished German trade in meat products can revive under its new +burdens. Much will depend upon regulations not yet promulgated, which we +confidently hope will be free from the discriminations which attended +the enforcement of the old statutes. +</p> +<p> +The remaining link in the new lines of direct telegraphic communication +between the United States and the German Empire has recently been +completed, affording a gratifying occasion for exchange of friendly +congratulations with the German Emperor. +</p> +<p> +Our friendly relations with Great Britain continue. The war in +Southern Africa introduced important questions. A condition unusual +in international wars was presented in that while one belligerent had +control of the seas, the other had no ports, shipping, or direct trade, +but was only accessible through the territory of a neutral. Vexatious +questions arose through Great Britain's action in respect to neutral +cargoes, not contraband in their own nature, shipped to Portuguese South +Africa, on the score of probable or suspected ultimate destination to +the Boer States. +</p> +<p> +Such consignments in British ships, by which alone direct trade is kept +up between our ports and Southern Africa, were seized in application of +a municipal law prohibiting British vessels from trading with the enemy +without regard to any contraband character of the goods, while cargoes +shipped to Delagoa Bay in neutral bottoms were arrested on the ground +of alleged destination to enemy's country. Appropriate representations +on our part resulted in the British Government agreeing to purchase +outright all such goods shown to be the actual property of American +citizens, thus closing the incident to the satisfaction of the +immediately interested parties, although, unfortunately, without a broad +settlement of the question of a neutral's right to send goods not +contraband <i>per se</i> to a neutral port adjacent to a belligerent +area. +</p> +<p> +The work of marking certain provisional boundary points, for convenience +of administration, around the head of Lynn Canal, in accordance with the +temporary arrangement of October, 1899, was completed by a joint survey +in July last. The <i>modus vivendi</i> has so far worked without +friction, and the Dominion Government has provided rules and regulations +for securing to our citizens the benefit of the reciprocal stipulation +that the citizens or subjects of either power found by that arrangement +within the temporary jurisdiction of the other shall suffer no +diminution of the rights and privileges they have hitherto enjoyed. But +however necessary such an expedient may have been to tide over the grave +emergencies of the situation, it is at best but an unsatisfactory +makeshift, which should not be suffered to delay the speedy and complete +establishment of the frontier line to which we are entitled under the +Russo-American treaty for the cession of Alaska. +</p> +<p> +In this relation I may refer again to the need of definitely marking +the Alaskan boundary where it follows the one hundred and forty-first +meridian. A convention to that end has been before the Senate for some +two years, but as no action has been taken I contemplate negotiating a +new convention for a joint determination of the meridian by telegraphic +observations. These, it is believed, will give more accurate and +unquestionable results than the sidereal methods heretofore independently +followed, which, as is known, proved discrepant at several points on +the line, although not varying at any place more than 700 feet. +</p> +<p> +The pending claim of R.H. May against the Guatemalan Government has been +settled by arbitration, Mr. George F.B. Jenner, British minister at +Guatemala, who was chosen as sole arbitrator, having awarded $143,750.73 +in gold to the claimant. +</p> +<p> +Various American claims against Haiti have been or are being advanced to +the resort of arbitration. +</p> +<p> +As the result of negotiations with the Government of Honduras in regard +to the indemnity demanded for the murder of Frank H. Pears in Honduras, +that Government has paid $10,000 in settlement of the claim of the +heirs. +</p> +<p> +The assassination of King Humbert called forth sincere expressions of +sorrow from this Government and people, and occasion was fitly taken to +testify to the Italian nation the high regard here felt for the memory +of the lamented ruler. +</p> +<p> +In my last message I referred at considerable length to the lynching of +five Italians at Tallulah. Notwithstanding the efforts of the Federal +Government, the production of evidence tending to inculpate the authors +of this grievous offense against our civilization, and the repeated +inquests set on foot by the authorities of the State of Louisiana, no +punishments have followed. Successive grand juries have failed to +indict. The representations of the Italian Government in the face of +this miscarriage have been most temperate and just. +</p> +<p> +Setting the principle at issue high above all consideration of merely +pecuniary indemnification, such as this Government made in the three +previous cases, Italy has solemnly invoked the pledges of existing +treaty and asked that the justice to which she is entitled shall be +meted in regard to her unfortunate countrymen in our territory with the +same full measure she herself would give to any American were his +reciprocal treaty rights contemned. +</p> +<p> +I renew the urgent recommendations I made last year that the Congress +appropriately confer upon the Federal courts jurisdiction in this class +of international cases where the ultimate responsibility of the Federal +Government may be involved, and I invite action upon the bills to +accomplish this which were introduced in the Senate and House. It is +incumbent upon us to remedy the statutory omission which has led, and +may again lead, to such untoward results. I have pointed out the +necessity and the precedent for legislation of this character. Its +enactment is a simple measure of previsory justice toward the nations +with which we as a sovereign equal make treaties requiring reciprocal +observance. +</p> +<p> +While the Italian Government naturally regards such action as the +primary and, indeed, the most essential element in the disposal of the +Tallulah incident, I advise that, in accordance with precedent, and in +view of the improbability of that particular case being reached by the +bill now pending, Congress make gracious provision for indemnity to the +Italian sufferers in the same form and proportion as heretofore. +</p> +<p> +In my inaugural address I referred to the general subject of lynching in +these words: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Lynching must not be tolerated in a great and civilized country like the + United States; courts, not mobs, must execute the penalties of the law. + The preservation of public order, the right of discussion, the integrity + of courts, and the orderly administration of justice must continue + forever the rock of safety upon which our Government securely rests. +</p> +<p> +This I most urgently reiterate and again invite the attention of my +countrymen to this reproach upon our civilization. +</p> +<p> +The closing year has witnessed a decided strengthening of Japan's +relations to other States. The development of her independent judicial +and administrative functions under the treaties which took effect July +17, 1899, has proceeded without international friction, showing the +competence of the Japanese to hold a foremost place among modern +peoples. +</p> +<p> +In the treatment of the difficult Chinese problems Japan has acted in +harmonious concert with the other powers, and her generous cooperation +materially aided in the joint relief of the beleaguered legations in +Peking and in bringing about an understanding preliminary to a +settlement of the issues between the powers and China. Japan's +declarations in favor of the integrity of the Chinese Empire and the +conservation of open world trade therewith have been frank and positive. +As a factor for promoting the general interests of peace, order, and +fair commerce in the Far East the influence of Japan can hardly be +overestimated. +</p> +<p> +The valuable aid and kindly courtesies extended by the Japanese +Government and naval officers to the battle ship <i>Oregon</i> are +gratefully appreciated. +</p> +<p> +Complaint was made last summer of the discriminatory enforcement +of a bubonic quarantine against Japanese on the Pacific coast and of +interference with their travel in California and Colorado under the +health laws of those States. The latter restrictions have been adjudged +by a Federal court to be unconstitutional. No recurrence of either cause +of complaint is apprehended. +</p> +<p> +No noteworthy incident has occurred in our relations with our important +southern neighbor. Commercial intercourse with Mexico continues to +thrive, and the two Governments neglect no opportunity to foster their +mutual interests in all practicable ways. +</p> +<p> +Pursuant to the declaration of the Supreme Court that the awards of +the late Joint Commission in the La Abra and Weil claims were obtained +through fraud, the sum awarded in the first case, $403,030.08, has been +returned to Mexico, and the amount of the Weil award will be returned in +like manner. +</p> +<p> +A Convention indefinitely extending the time for the labors of the +United States and Mexican International (Water) Boundary Commission has +been signed. +</p> +<p> +It is with satisfaction that I am able to announce the formal +notification at The Hague, on September 4, of the deposit of +ratifications of the Convention for the Pacific Settlement of +International Disputes by sixteen powers, namely, the United States, +Austria, Belgium, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Italy, Persia, +Portugal, Roumania, Russia, Siam, Spain, Sweden and Norway, and the +Netherlands. Japan also has since ratified the Convention. +</p> +<p> +The Administrative Council of the Permanent Court of Arbitration has +been organized and has adopted rules of order and a constitution for the +International Arbitration Bureau. In accordance with Article XXIII of +the Convention providing for the appointment by each signatory power +of persons of known competency in questions of international law as +arbitrators, I have appointed as members of this Court, Hon. Benjamin +Harrison, of Indiana, ex-President of the United States; Hon. Melville +W. Fuller, of Illinois, Chief Justice of the United States; Hon. John W. +Griggs, of New Jersey, Attorney-General of the United States; and Hon. +George Gray, of Delaware, a judge of the circuit court of the United +States. +</p> +<p> +As an incident of the brief revolution in the Mosquito district of +Nicaragua early in 1899 the insurgents forcibly collected from American +merchants duties upon imports. On the restoration of order the +Nicaraguan authorities demanded a second payment of such duties on the +ground that they were due to the titular Government and that their +diversion had aided the revolt. +</p> +<p> +This position was not accepted by us. After prolonged discussion a +compromise was effected under which the amount of the second payments +was deposited with the British consul at San Juan del Norte in trust +until the two Governments should determine whether the first payments +had been made under compulsion to a <i>de facto</i> authority. Agreement +as to this was not reached, and the point was waived by the act of the +Nicaraguan Government in requesting the British consul to return the +deposits to the merchants. +</p> +<p> +Menacing differences between several of the Central American States have +been accommodated, our ministers rendering good offices toward an +understanding. +</p> +<p> +The all-important matter of an interoceanic canal has assumed a new +phase. Adhering to its refusal to reopen the question of the forfeiture +of the contract of the Maritime Canal Company, which was terminated for +alleged nonexecution in October, 1899, the Government of Nicaragua has +since supplemented that action by declaring the so-styled Eyre-Cragin +option void for nonpayment of the stipulated advance. Protests in +relation to these acts have been filed in the State Department and are +under consideration. Deeming itself relieved from existing engagements, +the Nicaraguan Government shows a disposition to deal freely with the +canal question either in the way of negotiations with the United States +or by taking measures to promote the waterway. +</p> +<p> +Overtures for a convention to effect the building of a canal under the +auspices of the United States are under consideration. In the meantime, +the views of the Congress upon the general subject, in the light of the +report of the Commission appointed to examine the comparative merits of +the various trans-Isthmian ship-canal projects, may be awaited. +</p> +<p> +I commend to the early attention of the Senate the Convention with Great +Britain to facilitate the construction of such a canal and to remove any +objection which might arise out of the Convention commonly called the +Clayton-Bulwer Treaty. +</p> +<p> +The long-standing contention with Portugal, growing out of the seizure +of the Delagoa Bay Railway, has been at last determined by a favorable +award of the tribunal of arbitration at Berne, to which it was +submitted. The amount of the award, which was deposited in London +awaiting arrangements by the Governments of the United States and Great +Britain for its disposal, has recently been paid over to the two +Governments. +</p> +<p> +A lately signed Convention of Extradition with Peru as amended by the +Senate has been ratified by the Peruvian Congress. +</p> +<p> +Another illustration of the policy of this Government to refer +international disputes to impartial arbitration is seen in the agreement +reached with Russia to submit the claims on behalf of American sealing +vessels seized in Bering Sea to determination by Mr. T.M.C. Asser, a +distinguished statesman and jurist of the Netherlands. +</p> +<p> +Thanks are due to the Imperial Russian Government for the kindly aid +rendered by its authorities in eastern Siberia to American missionaries +fleeing from Manchuria. +</p> +<p> +Satisfactory progress has been made toward the conclusion of a general +treaty of friendship and intercourse with Spain, in replacement of the +old treaty, which passed into abeyance by reason of the late war. A new +convention of extradition is approaching completion, and I should be +much pleased were a commercial arrangement to follow. I feel that we +should not suffer to pass any opportunity to reaffirm the cordial ties +that existed between us and Spain from the time of our earliest +independence, and to enhance the mutual benefits of that commercial +intercourse which is natural between the two countries. +</p> +<p> +By the terms of the Treaty of Peace the line bounding the ceded +Philippine group in the southwest failed to include several small +islands lying westward of the Sulus, which have always been recognized +as under Spanish control. The occupation of Sibutú and Cagayan Sulu by +our naval forces elicited a claim on the part of Spain, the essential +equity of which could not be gainsaid. In order to cure the defect of +the treaty by removing all possible ground of future misunderstanding +respecting the interpretation of its third article, I directed the +negotiation of a supplementary treaty, which will be forthwith laid +before the Senate, whereby Spain quits all title and claim of title to +the islands named as well as to any and all islands belonging to the +Philippine Archipelago lying outside the lines described in said third +article, and agrees that all such islands shall be comprehended in the +cession of the archipelago as fully as if they had been expressly +included within those lines. In consideration of this cession the United +States is to pay to Spain the sum of $100,000. +</p> +<p> +A bill is now pending to effect the recommendation made in my last +annual message that appropriate legislation be had to carry into +execution Article VII of the Treaty of Peace with Spain, by which the +United States assumed the payment of certain claims for indemnity of its +citizens against Spain. I ask that action be taken to fulfill this +obligation. +</p> +<p> +The King of Sweden and Norway has accepted the joint invitation of the +United States, Germany, and Great Britain to arbitrate claims growing +out of losses sustained in the Samoan Islands in the course of military +operations made necessary by the disturbances in 1899. +</p> +<p> +Our claims upon the Government of the Sultan for reparation for injuries +suffered by American citizens in Armenia and elsewhere give promise of +early and satisfactory settlement. His Majesty's good disposition in +this regard has been evinced by the issuance of an irade for rebuilding +the American college at Harpoot. +</p> +<p> +The failure of action by the Senate at its last session upon the +commercial conventions then submitted for its consideration and +approval, although caused by the great pressure of other legislative +business, has caused much disappointment to the agricultural and +industrial interests of the country, which hoped to profit by their +provisions. The conventional periods for their ratification having +expired, it became necessary to sign additional articles extending the +time for that purpose. This was requested on our part, and the other +Governments interested have concurred with the exception of one +convention, in respect to which no formal reply has been received. +</p> +<p> +Since my last communication to the Congress on this subject special +commercial agreements under the third section of the tariff act have +been proclaimed with Portugal, with Italy, and with Germany. Commercial +conventions under the general limitations of the fourth section of the +same act have been concluded with Nicaragua, with Ecuador, with the +Dominican Republic, with Great Britain on behalf of the island of +Trinidad, and with Denmark on behalf of the island of St. Croix. These +will be early communicated to the Senate. Negotiations with other +Governments are in progress for the improvement and security of our +commercial relations. +</p> +<p> +The policy of reciprocity so manifestly rests upon the principles of +international equity and has been so repeatedly approved by the people +of the United States that there ought to be no hesitation in either +branch of the Congress in giving to it full effect. +</p> +<p> +This Government desires to preserve the most just and amicable +commercial relations with all foreign countries, unmoved by the +industrial rivalries necessarily developed in the expansion of +international trade. It is believed that the foreign Governments +generally entertain the same purpose, although in some instances there +are clamorous demands upon them for legislation specifically hostile to +American interests. Should these demands prevail I shall communicate +with the Congress with the view of advising such legislation as may be +necessary to meet the emergency. +</p> +<p> +The exposition of the resources and products of the Western Hemisphere +to be held at Buffalo next year promises important results not only +for the United States but for the other participating countries. It is +gratifying that the Latin-American States have evinced the liveliest +interest, and the fact that an International American Congress will +be held in the City of Mexico while the exposition is in progress +encourages the hope of a larger display at Buffalo than might otherwise +be practicable. The work of preparing an exhibit of our national +resources is making satisfactory progress under the direction of +different officials of the Federal Government, and the various States of +the Union have shown a disposition toward the most liberal participation +in the enterprise. +</p> +<p> +The Bureau of the American Republics continues to discharge, with the +happiest results, the important work of promoting cordial relations +between the United States and the Latin-American countries, all of which +are now active members of the International Union. The Bureau has been +instrumental in bringing about the agreement for another International +American Congress, which is to meet in the City of Mexico in October, +1901. The Bureau's future for another term of ten years is assured by +the international compact, but the congress will doubtless have much to +do with shaping new lines of work and a general policy. Its usefulness +to the interests of Latin-American trade is widely appreciated and shows +a gratifying development. +</p> +<p> +The practical utility of the consular service in obtaining a wide range +of information as to the industries and commerce of other countries and +the opportunities thereby afforded for introducing the sale of our goods +have kept steadily in advance of the notable expansion of our foreign +trade, and abundant evidence has been furnished, both at home and +abroad, of the fact that the Consular Reports, including many from our +diplomatic representatives, have to a considerable extent pointed out +ways and means of disposing of a great variety of manufactured goods +which otherwise might not have found sale abroad. +</p> +<p> +Testimony of foreign observers to the commercial efficiency of the +consular corps seems to be conclusive, and our own manufacturers and +exporters highly appreciate the value of the services rendered not only +in the printed reports but also in the individual efforts of consular +officers to promote American trade. An increasing part of the work of +the Bureau of Foreign Commerce, whose primary duty it is to compile and +print the reports, is to answer inquiries from trade organizations, +business houses, etc., as to conditions in various parts of the world, +and, notwithstanding the smallness of the force employed, the work has +been so systematized that responses are made with such promptitude and +accuracy as to elicit flattering encomiums. The experiment of printing +the Consular Reports daily for immediate use by trade bodies, exporters, +and the press, which was begun in January, 1898, continues to give +general satisfaction. +</p> +<p> +It is gratifying to be able to state that the surplus revenues for +the fiscal year ended June 30, 1900, were $79,527,060.18. For the six +preceding years we had only deficits, the aggregate of which from 1894 +to 1899, inclusive, amounted to $283,022,991.14. The receipts for the +year from all sources, exclusive of postal revenues, aggregated +$567,240,851.89, and expenditures for all purposes, except for the +administration of the postal department, aggregated $487,713,791.71. +The receipts from customs were $233,164,871.16, an increase over the +preceding year of $27,036,389.41. The receipts from internal revenue +were $295,327,926.76, an increase of $21,890,765.25 over 1899. The +receipts from miscellaneous sources were $38,748,053.97, as against +$36,394,976.92 for the previous year. +</p> +<p> +It is gratifying also to note that during the year a considerable +reduction is shown in the expenditures of the Government. The War +Department expenditures for the fiscal year 1900 were $134,774,767.78, +a reduction of $95,066,486.69 over those of 1899. In the Navy Department +the expenditures were $55,953,077.72 for the year 1900, as against +$63,942,104.25 for the preceding year, a decrease of $7,989,026.53. In +the expenditures on account of Indians there was a decrease in 1900 over +1899 of $2,630,604.38; and in the civil and miscellaneous expenses for +1900 there was a reduction of $13,418,065.74. +</p> +<p> +Because of the excess of revenues over expenditures the Secretary of the +Treasury was enabled to apply bonds and other securities to the sinking +fund to the amount of $56,544,556.06. The details of the sinking fund +are set forth in the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, to which +I invite attention. The Secretary of the Treasury estimates that the +receipts for the current fiscal year will aggregate $580,000,000 and +the expenditures $500,000,000, leaving an excess of revenues over +expenditures of $80,000,000. The present condition of the Treasury is +one of undoubted strength. The available cash balance November 30 was +$139,303,794.50. Under the form of statement prior to the financial law +of March 14 last there would have been included in the statement of +available cash gold coin and bullion held for the redemption of United +States notes. +</p> +<p> +If this form were pursued, the cash balance including the present gold +reserve of $150,000,000, would be $289,303,794.50. Such balance November +30, 1899, was $296,495,301.55. In the general fund, which is wholly +separate from the reserve and trust funds, there was on November 30, +$70,090,073.15 in gold coin and bullion, to which should be added +$22,957,300 in gold certificates subject to issue, against which there +is held in the Division of Redemption gold coin and bullion, making a +total holding of free gold amounting to $93,047,373.15. +</p> +<p> +It will be the duty as I am sure it will be the disposition of the +Congress to provide whatever further legislation is needed to insure the +continued parity under all conditions between our two forms of metallic +money, silver and gold. +</p> +<p> +Our surplus revenues have permitted the Secretary of the Treasury +since the close of the fiscal year to call in the funded loan of 1891 +continued at 2 per cent, in the sum of $25,364,500. To and including +November 30, $23,458,100 of these bonds have been paid. This sum, +together with the amount which may accrue from further redemptions under +the call, will be applied to the sinking fund. +</p> +<p> +The law of March 14, 1900, provided for refunding into 2 per cent +thirty-year bonds, payable, principal and interest, in gold coin of the +present standard value, that portion of the public debt represented by +the 3 per cent bonds of 1908, the 4 percents of 1907, and the 5 percents +of 1904, of which there was outstanding at the date of said law +$839,149,930. The holders of the old bonds presented them for exchange +between March 14 and November 30 to the amount of $364,943,750. The net +saving to the Government on these transactions aggregates $9,106,166. +</p> +<p> +Another effect of the operation, as stated by the Secretary, is to +reduce the charge upon the Treasury for the payment of interest from the +dates of refunding to February 1, 1904, by the sum of more than seven +million dollars annually. From February 1, 1904, to July 1, 1907, the +annual interest charge will be reduced by the sum of more than five +millions, and for the thirteen months ending August 1, 1908, by about +one million. The full details of the refunding are given in the annual +report of the Secretary of the Treasury. +</p> +<p> +The beneficial effect of the financial act of 1900, so far as it +relates to a modification of the national banking act, is already +apparent. The provision for the incorporation of national banks with a +capital of not less than $25,000 in places not exceeding three thousand +inhabitants has resulted in the extension of banking facilities to many +small communities hitherto unable to provide themselves with banking +institutions under the national system. There were organized from the +enactment of the law up to and including November 30, 369 national +banks, of which 266 were with capital less than $50,000, and 103 with +capital of $50,000 or more. +</p> +<p> +It is worthy of mention that the greater number of banks being organized +under the new law are in sections where the need of banking facilities +has been most pronounced. Iowa stands first, with 30 banks of the +smaller class, while Texas, Oklahoma, Indian Territory, and the middle +and western sections of the country have also availed themselves largely +of the privileges under the new law. +</p> +<p> +A large increase in national-bank-note circulation has resulted from the +provision of the act which permits national banks to issue circulating +notes to the par value of the United States bonds deposited as security +instead of only 90 per cent thereof, as heretofore. The increase in +circulating notes from March 14 to November 30 is $77,889,570. +</p> +<p> +The party in power is committed to such legislation as will better make +the currency responsive to the varying needs of business at all seasons +and in all sections. +</p> +<p> +Our foreign trade shows a remarkable record of commercial and industrial +progress. The total of imports and exports for the first time in the +history of the country exceeded two billions of dollars. The exports are +greater than they have ever been before, the total for the fiscal year +1900 being $1,394,483,082, an increase over 1899 of $167,459,780, an +increase over 1898 of $163,000,752, over 1897 of $343,489,526, and +greater than 1896 by $511,876,144. +</p> +<p> +The growth of manufactures in the United States is evidenced by the fact +that exports of manufactured products largely exceed those of any +previous year, their value for 1900 being $433,851,756, against +$339,592,146 in 1899, an increase of 28 per cent. +</p> +<p> +Agricultural products were also exported during 1900 in greater volume +than in 1899, the total for the year being $835,858,123, against +$784,776,142 in 1899. +</p> +<p> +The imports for the year amounted to $849,941,184, an increase over 1899 +of $152,792,695. This increase is largely in materials for manufacture, +and is in response to the rapid development of manufacturing in the +United States. While there was imported for use in manufactures in 1900 +material to the value of $79,768,972 in excess of 1899, it is reassuring +to observe that there is a tendency toward decrease in the importation +of articles manufactured ready for consumption, which in 1900 formed +15.17 per cent of the total imports, against 15.54 per cent in 1899 and +21.09 per cent in 1896. +</p> +<p> +I recommend that the Congress at its present session reduce the +internal-revenue taxes imposed to meet the expenses of the war with +Spain in the sum of thirty millions of dollars. This reduction should be +secured by the remission of those taxes which experience has shown to be +the most burdensome to the industries of the people. +</p> +<p> +I specially urge that there be included in whatever reduction is made +the legacy tax on bequests for public uses of a literary, educational, +or charitable character. +</p> +<p> +American vessels during the past three years have carried about 9 per +cent of our exports and imports. Foreign ships should carry the least, +not the greatest, part of American trade. The remarkable growth of our +steel industries, the progress of shipbuilding for the domestic trade, +and our steadily maintained expenditures for the Navy have created an +opportunity to place the United States in the first rank of commercial +maritime powers. +</p> +<p> +Besides realizing a proper national aspiration this will mean the +establishment and healthy growth along all our coasts of a distinctive +national industry, expanding the field for the profitable employment of +labor and capital. It will increase the transportation facilities and +reduce freight charges on the vast volume of products brought from the +interior to the seaboard for export, and will strengthen an arm of the +national defense upon which the founders of the Government and their +successors have relied. In again urging immediate action by the Congress +on measures to promote American shipping and foreign trade, I direct +attention to the recommendations on the subject in previous messages, +and particularly to the opinion expressed in the message of 1899: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + I am satisfied the judgment of the country favors the policy of aid to + our merchant marine, which will broaden our commerce and markets and + upbuild our sea-carrying capacity for the products of agriculture and + manufacture, which, with the increase of our Navy, mean more work and + wages to our countrymen, as well as a safeguard to American interests + in every part of the world. +</p> +<p> +The attention of the Congress is invited to the recommendation of the +Secretary of the Treasury in his annual report for legislation in behalf +of the Revenue-Cutter Service, and favorable action is urged. +</p> +<p> +In my last annual message to the Congress I called attention to the +necessity for early action to remedy such evils as might be found to +exist in connection with combinations of capital organized into trusts, +and again invite attention to my discussion of the subject at that time, +which concluded with these words: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + It is apparent that uniformity of legislation upon this subject in + the several States is much to be desired. It is to be hoped that such + uniformity, founded in a wise and just discrimination between what is + injurious and what is useful and necessary in business operations, may + be obtained, and that means may be found for the Congress, within the + limitations of its constitutional power, so to supplement an effective + code of State legislation as to make a complete system of laws + throughout the United States adequate to compel a general observance + of the salutary rules to which I have referred. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + The whole question is so important and far-reaching that I am sure no + part of it will be lightly considered, but every phase of it will have + the studied deliberation of the Congress, resulting in wise and + judicious action. +</p> +<p> +Restraint upon such combinations as are injurious, and which are within +Federal jurisdiction, should be promptly applied by the Congress. +</p> +<p> +In my last annual message I dwelt at some length upon the condition of +affairs in the Philippines. While seeking to impress upon you that the +grave responsibility of the future government of those islands rests +with the Congress of the United States, I abstained from recommending +at that time a specific and final form of government for the territory +actually held by the United States forces and in which as long as +insurrection continues the military arm must necessarily be supreme. +I stated my purpose, until the Congress shall have made the formal +expression of its will, to use the authority vested in me by the +Constitution and the statutes to uphold the sovereignty of the United +States in those distant islands as in all other places where our flag +rightfully floats, placing, to that end, at the disposal of the army and +navy all the means which the liberality of the Congress and the people +have provided. No contrary expression of the will of the Congress having +been made, I have steadfastly pursued the purpose so declared, employing +the civil arm as well toward the accomplishment of pacification and the +institution of local governments within the lines of authority and law. +</p> +<p> +Progress in the hoped-for direction has been favorable. Our forces have +successfully controlled the greater part of the islands, overcoming the +organized forces of the insurgents and carrying order and administrative +regularity to all quarters. What opposition remains is for the most part +scattered, obeying no concerted plan of strategic action, operating only +by the methods common to the traditions of guerrilla warfare, which, +while ineffective to alter the general control now established, are +still sufficient to beget insecurity among the populations that have +felt the good results of our control and thus delay the conferment upon +them of the fuller measures of local self-government, of education, and +of industrial and agricultural development which we stand ready to give +to them. +</p> +<p> +By the spring of this year the effective opposition of the dissatisfied +Tagals to the authority of the United States was virtually ended, thus +opening the door for the extension of a stable administration over much +of the territory of the Archipelago. Desiring to bring this about, I +appointed in March last a civil Commission composed of the Hon. William +H. Taft, of Ohio; Prof. Dean C. Worcester, of Michigan; the Hon. Luke I. +Wright, of Tennessee; the Hon. Henry C. Ide, of Vermont, and Prof. +Bernard Moses, of California. The aims of their mission and the scope of +their authority are clearly set forth in my instructions of April 7, +1900, addressed to the Secretary of War to be transmitted to them: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + In the message transmitted to the Congress on the 5th of December, 1899, + I said, speaking of the Philippine Islands: "As long as the insurrection + continues the military arm must necessarily be supreme. But there is no + reason why steps should not be taken from time to time to inaugurate + governments essentially popular in their form as fast as territory is + held and controlled by our troops. To this end I am considering the + advisability of the return of the Commission, or such of the members + thereof as can be secured, to aid the existing authorities and + facilitate this work throughout the islands." +</p> +<p class="quote"> + To give effect to the intention thus expressed, I have appointed Hon. + William H. Taft, of Ohio; Prof. Dean C. Worcester, of Michigan; Hon. + Luke I. Wright, of Tennessee; Hon. Henry C. Ide, of Vermont, and Prof. + Bernard Moses, of California, Commissioners to the Philippine Islands + to continue and perfect the work of organizing and establishing civil + government already commenced by the military authorities, subject in + all respects to any laws which Congress may hereafter enact. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + The Commissioners named will meet and act as a board, and the Hon. + William H. Taft is designated as president of the board. It is probable + that the transfer of authority from military commanders to civil + officers will be gradual and will occupy a considerable period. Its + successful accomplishment and the maintenance of peace and order in the + meantime will require the most perfect co-operation between the civil + and military authorities in the islands, and both should be directed + during the transition period by the same Executive Department. The + Commission will therefore report to the Secretary of War, and all their + action will be subject to your approval and control. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + You will instruct the Commission to proceed to the city of Manila, + where they will make their principal office, and to communicate with + the Military Governor of the Philippine Islands, whom you will at the + same time direct to render to them every assistance within his power + in the performance of their duties. Without hampering them by too + specific instructions, they should in general be enjoined, after making + themselves familiar with the conditions and needs of the country, to + devote their attention in the first instance to the establishment of + municipal governments, in which the natives of the islands, both in the + cities and in the rural communities, shall be afforded the opportunity + to manage their own local affairs to the fullest extent of which they + are capable and subject to the least degree of supervision and control + which a careful study of their capacities and observation of the + workings of native control show to be consistent with the maintenance + of law, order, and loyalty. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + The next subject in order of importance should be the organization of + government in the larger administrative divisions corresponding to + counties, departments, or provinces, in which the common interests of + many or several municipalities falling within the same tribal lines, + or the same natural geographical limits, may best be subserved by + a common administration. Whenever the Commission is of the opinion + that the condition of affairs in the islands is such that the central + administration may safely be transferred from military to civil control + they will report that conclusion to you, with their recommendations as + to the form of central government to be established for the purpose of + taking over the control. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Beginning with the 1st day of September, 1900, the authority to + exercise, subject to my approval, through the Secretary of War, that + part of the power of government in the Philippine Islands which is of a + legislative nature is to be transferred from the Military Governor of + the islands to this Commission, to be thereafter exercised by them in + the place and stead of the Military Governor, under such rules and + regulations as you shall prescribe, until the establishment of the civil + central government for the islands contemplated in the last foregoing + paragraph, or until Congress shall otherwise provide. Exercise of this + legislative authority will include the making of rules and orders, + having the effect of law, for the raising of revenue by taxes, customs + duties, and imposts; the appropriation and expenditure of public funds + of the islands; the establishment of an educational system throughout + the islands; the establishment of a system to secure an efficient civil + service; the organization and establishment of courts; the organization + and establishment of municipal and departmental governments, and all + other matters of a civil nature for which the Military Governor is now + competent to provide by rules or orders of a legislative character. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + The Commission will also have power during the same period to appoint to + office such officers under the judicial, educational, and civil-service + systems and in the municipal and departmental governments as shall be + provided for. Until the complete transfer of control the Military + Governor will remain the chief executive head of the government of the + islands, and will exercise the executive authority now possessed by him + and not herein expressly assigned to the Commission, subject, however, + to the rules and orders enacted by the Commission in the exercise of the + legislative powers conferred upon them. In the meantime the municipal + and departmental governments will continue to report to the Military + Governor and be subject to his administrative supervision and control, + under your direction, but that supervision and control will be confined + within the narrowest limits consistent with the requirement that the + powers of government in the municipalities and departments shall be + honestly and effectively exercised and that law and order and individual + freedom shall be maintained. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + All legislative rules and orders, establishments of government, and + appointments to office by the Commission will take effect immediately, + or at such times as they shall designate, subject to your approval + and action upon the coming in of the Commission's reports, which are + to be made from time to time as their action is taken. Wherever civil + governments are constituted under the direction of the Commission + such military posts, garrisons, and forces will be continued for the + suppression of insurrection and brigandage and the maintenance of law + and order as the Military Commander shall deem requisite, and the + military forces shall be at all times subject, under his orders, to the + call of the civil authorities for the maintenance of law and order and + the enforcement of their authority. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + In the establishment of municipal governments the Commission will take + as the basis of their work the governments established by the Military + Governor under his order of August 8, 1899, and under the report of the + board constituted by the Military Governor by his order of January 29, + 1900, to formulate and report a plan of municipal government, of which + His Honor Cayetano Arellano, President of the Audiencia, was chairman, + and they will give to the conclusions of that board the weight and + consideration which the high character and distinguished abilities of + its members justify. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + In the constitution of departmental or provincial governments they will + give especial attention to the existing government of the island of + Negros, constituted with the approval of the people of that island, + under the order of the Military Governor of July 22, 1899, and after + verifying, so far as may be practicable, the reports of the successful + working of that government they will be guided by the experience thus + acquired so far as it may be applicable to the condition existing in + other portions of the Philippines. They will avail themselves, to the + fullest degree practicable, of the conclusions reached by the previous + Commission to the Philippines. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + In the distribution of powers among the governments organized by the + Commission, the presumption is always to be in favor of the smaller + subdivision, so that all the powers which can properly be exercised by + the municipal government shall be vested in that government, and all + the powers of a more general character which can be exercised by the + departmental government shall be vested in that government, and so + that in the governmental system, which is the result of the process, + the central government of the islands, following the example of + the distribution of the powers between the States and the National + Government of the United States, shall have no direct administration + except of matters of purely general concern, and shall have only such + supervision and control over local governments as may be necessary to + secure and enforce faithful and efficient administration by local + officers. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + The many different degrees of civilization and varieties of custom + and capacity among the people of the different islands preclude very + definite instruction as to the part which the people shall take in the + selection of their own officers; but these general rules are to be + observed: That in all cases the municipal officers who administer the + local affairs of the people, are to be selected by the people, and that + wherever officers of more extended jurisdiction are to be selected in + any way, natives of the islands are to be preferred, and if they can be + found competent and willing to perform the duties, they are to receive + the offices in preference to any others. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + It will be necessary to fill some offices for the present with Americans + which after a time may well be filled by natives of the islands. As + soon as practicable a system for ascertaining the merit and fitness of + candidates for civil office should be put in force. An indispensable + qualification for all offices and positions of trust and authority in + the islands must be absolute and unconditional loyalty to the United + States, and absolute and unhampered authority and power to remove and + punish any officer deviating from that standard must at all times be + retained in the hands of the central authority of the islands. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + In all the forms of government and administrative provisions which + they are authorized to prescribe the Commission should bear in mind + that the government which they are establishing is designed not for our + satisfaction, or for the expression of our theoretical views, but for + the happiness, peace, and prosperity of the people of the Philippine + Islands, and the measures adopted should be made to conform to their + customs, their habits, and even their prejudices, to the fullest extent + consistent with the accomplishment of the indispensable requisites of + just and effective government. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + At the same time the Commission should bear in mind, and the people + of the islands should be made plainly to understand, that there are + certain great principles of government which have been made the basis + of our governmental system which we deem essential to the rule of law + and the maintenance of individual freedom, and of which they have, + unfortunately, been denied the experience possessed by us; that there + are also certain practical rules of government which we have found to + be essential to the preservation of these great principles of liberty + and law, and that these principles and these rules of government must + be established and maintained in their islands for the sake of their + liberty and happiness, however much they may conflict with the customs + or laws of procedure with which they are familiar. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + It is evident that the most enlightened thought of the Philippine + Islands fully appreciates the importance of these principles and rules, + and they will inevitably within a short time command universal assent. + Upon every division and branch of the government of the Philippines, + therefore, must be imposed these inviolable rules: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + That no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without + due process of law; that private property shall not be taken for public + use without just compensation; that in all criminal prosecutions the + accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, to be + informed of the nature and cause of the accusation, to be confronted + with the witnesses against him, to have compulsory process for obtaining + witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his + defense; that excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines + imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishment inflicted; that no person + shall be put twice in jeopardy for the same offense, or be compelled in + any criminal case to be a witness against himself; that the right to be + secure against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated; + that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist except as a + punishment for crime; that no bill of attainder or <i>ex-post-facto</i> + law shall be passed; that no law shall be passed abridging the freedom + of speech or of the press, or the rights of the people to peaceably + assemble and petition the Government for a redress of grievances; that + no law shall be made respecting an establishment of religion, or + prohibiting the free exercise thereof, and that the free exercise and + enjoyment of religious profession and worship without discrimination or + preference shall forever be allowed. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + It will be the duty of the Commission to make a thorough investigation + into the titles to the large tracts of land held or claimed by + individuals or by religious orders; into the justice of the claims and + complaints made against such landholders by the people of the island or + any part of the people, and to seek by wise and peaceable measures a + just settlement of the controversies and redress of wrongs which have + caused strife and bloodshed in the past. In the performance of this duty + the Commission is enjoined to see that no injustice is done; to have + regard for substantial rights and equity, disregarding technicalities so + far as substantial right permits, and to observe the following rules: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + That the provision of the Treaty of Paris pledging the United States + to the protection of all rights of property in the islands, and as + well the principle of our own Government which prohibits the taking of + private property without due process of law, shall not be violated; + that the welfare of the people of the islands, which should be a + paramount consideration, shall be attained consistently with this rule + of property right; that if it becomes necessary for the public interest + of the people of the islands to dispose of claims to property which the + Commission finds to be not lawfully acquired and held disposition shall + be made thereof by due legal procedure, in which there shall be full + opportunity for fair and impartial hearing and judgment; that if the + same public interests require the extinguishment of property rights + lawfully acquired and held due compensation shall be made out of the + public treasury therefor; that no form of religion and no minister of + religion shall be forced upon any community or upon any citizen of the + islands; that, upon the other hand, no minister of religion shall be + interfered with or molested in following his calling, and that the + separation between State and Church shall be real, entire, and absolute. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + It will be the duty of the Commission to promote and extend, and, + as they find occasion, to improve the system of education already + inaugurated by the military authorities. In doing this they should + regard as of first importance the extension of a system of primary + education which shall be free to all, and which shall tend to fit the + people for the duties of citizenship and for the ordinary avocations of + a civilized community. This instruction should be given in the first + instance in every part of the islands in the language of the people. + In view of the great number of languages spoken by the different tribes, + it is especially important to the prosperity of the islands that a + common medium of communication may be established, and it is obviously + desirable that this medium should be the English language. Especial + attention should be at once given to affording full opportunity to all + the people of the islands to acquire the use of the English language. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + It may be well that the main changes which should be made in the system + of taxation and in the body of the laws under which the people are + governed, except such changes as have already been made by the military + government, should be relegated to the civil government which is to be + established under the auspices of the Commission. It will, however, be + the duty of the Commission to inquire diligently as to whether there + are any further changes which ought not to be delayed, and if so, they + are authorized to make such changes subject to your approval. In doing + so they are to bear in mind that taxes which tend to penalize or repress + industry and enterprise are to be avoided; that provisions for taxation + should be simple, so that they may be understood by the people; that + they should affect the fewest practicable subjects of taxation which + will serve for the general distribution of the burden. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + The main body of the laws which regulate the rights and obligations of + the people should be maintained with as little interference as possible. + Changes made should be mainly in procedure, and in the criminal laws to + secure speedy and impartial trials, and at the same time effective + administration and respect for individual rights. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + In dealing with the uncivilized tribes of the islands the Commission + should adopt the same course followed by Congress in permitting the + tribes of our North American Indians to maintain their tribal + organization and government, and under which many of those tribes are + now living in peace and contentment, surrounded by a civilization to + which they are unable or unwilling to conform. Such tribal governments + should, however, be subjected to wise and firm regulation, and, without + undue or petty interference, constant and active effort should be + exercised to prevent barbarous practices and introduce civilized + customs. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Upon all officers and employees of the United States, both civil and + military, should be impressed a sense of the duty to observe not merely + the material but the personal and social rights of the people of the + islands, and to treat them with the same courtesy and respect for their + personal dignity which the people of the United States are accustomed + to require from each other. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + The articles of capitulation of the city of Manila on the 13th of + August, 1898, concluded with these words: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + "This city, its inhabitants, its churches and religious worship, + its educational establishments, and its private property of all + descriptions, are placed under the special safeguard of the faith and + honor of the American Army." +</p> +<p class="quote"> + I believe that this pledge has been faithfully kept. As high and + sacred an obligation rests upon the Government of the United States to + give protection for property and life, civil and religious freedom, and + wise, firm, and unselfish guidance in the paths of peace and prosperity + to all the people of the Philippine Islands. I charge this Commission + to labor for the full performance of this obligation, which concerns + the honor and conscience of their country, in the firm hope that through + their labors all the inhabitants of the Philippine Islands may come to + look back with gratitude to the day when God gave victory to American + arms at Manila and set their land under the sovereignty and the + protection of the people of the United States. +</p> +<p> +Coincidently with the entrance of the Commission upon its labors I +caused to be issued by General MacArthur, the Military Governor of the +Philippines, on June 21, 1900, a proclamation of amnesty in generous +terms, of which many of the insurgents took advantage, among them a +number of important leaders. +</p> +<p> +This Commission, composed of eminent citizens representing the diverse +geographical and political interests of the country, and bringing +to their task the ripe fruits of long and intelligent service in +educational, administrative, and judicial careers, made great progress +from the outset. As early as August 21, 1900, it submitted a preliminary +report, which will be laid before the Congress, and from which it +appears that already the good effects of returning order are felt; that +business, interrupted by hostilities, is improving as peace extends; +that a larger area is under sugar cultivation than ever before; that the +customs revenues are greater than at any time during the Spanish rule; +that economy and efficiency in the military administration have created +a surplus fund of $6,000,000, available for needed public improvements; +that a stringent civil-service law is in preparation; that railroad +communications are expanding, opening up rich districts, and that a +comprehensive scheme of education is being organized. +</p> +<p> +Later reports from the Commission show yet more encouraging advance +toward insuring the benefits of liberty and good government to the +Filipinos, in the interest of humanity and with the aim of building up +an enduring, self-supporting, and self-administering community in those +far eastern seas. I would impress upon the Congress that whatever +legislation may be enacted in respect to the Philippine Islands should +be along these generous lines. The fortune of war has thrown upon this +nation an unsought trust which should be unselfishly discharged, and +devolved upon this Government a moral as well as material responsibility +toward these millions whom we have freed from an oppressive yoke. +</p> +<p> +I have on another occasion called the Filipinos "the wards of the +nation." Our obligation as guardian was not lightly assumed; it must not +be otherwise than honestly fulfilled, aiming first of all to benefit +those who have come under our fostering care. It is our duty so to treat +them that our flag may be no less beloved in the mountains of Luzon and +the fertile zones of Mindanao and Negros than it is at home, that there +as here it shall be the revered symbol of liberty, enlightenment, and +progress in every avenue of development. +</p> +<p> +The Filipinos are a race quick to learn and to profit by knowledge. +He would be rash who, with the teachings of contemporaneous history in +view, would fix a limit to the degree of culture and advancement yet +within the reach of these people if our duty toward them be faithfully +performed. +</p> +<p> +The civil government of Puerto Rico provided for by the act of the +Congress approved April 12, 1900, is in successful operation. The courts +have been established. The Governor and his associates, working +intelligently and harmoniously, are meeting with commendable success. +</p> +<p> +On the 6th of November a general election was held in the island for +members of the Legislature, and the body elected has been called to +convene on the first Monday of December. +</p> +<p> +I recommend that legislation be enacted by the Congress conferring upon +the Secretary of the Interior supervision over the public lands in +Puerto Rico, and that he be directed to ascertain the location and +quantity of lands the title to which remained in the Crown of Spain +at the date of cession of Puerto Rico to the United States, and that +appropriations necessary for surveys be made, and that the methods of +the disposition of such lands be prescribed by law. +</p> +<p> +On the 25th of July, 1900, I directed that a call be issued for an +election in Cuba for members of a constitutional convention to frame a +constitution as a basis for a stable and independent government in the +island. In pursuance thereof the Military Governor issued the following +instructions: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Whereas the Congress of the United States, by its joint resolution of + April 20, 1898, declared— +</p> +<p class="quote"> + "That the people of the island of Cuba are, and of right ought to be, + free and independent. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + "That the United States hereby disclaims any disposition or intention to + exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island except + for the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination, when that + is accomplished, to leave the government and control of the island to + its people;" +</p> +<p class="quote"> + And whereas, the people of Cuba have established municipal governments, + deriving their authority from the suffrages of the people given under + just and equal laws, and are now ready, in like manner, to proceed to + the establishment of a general government which shall assume and + exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, and control over the island: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Therefore, it is ordered that a general election be held in the island + of Cuba on the third Saturday of September, in the year nineteen + hundred, to elect delegates to a convention to meet in the city of + Havana at twelve o'clock noon on the first Monday of November, in the + year nineteen hundred, to frame and adopt a constitution for the people + of Cuba, and as a part thereof to provide for and agree with the + Government of the United States upon the relations to exist between that + Government and the Government of Cuba, and to provide for the election + by the people of officers under such constitution and the transfer of + government to the officers so elected. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + The election will be held in the several voting precincts of the island + under, and pursuant to, the provisions of the electoral law of April 18, + 1900, and the amendments thereof. +</p> +<p> +The election was held on the 15th of September, and the convention +assembled on the 5th of November, 1900, and is now in session. +</p> +<p> +In calling the convention to order, the Military Governor of Cuba made +the following statement: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + As Military Governor of the island, representing the President of the + United States, I call this convention to order. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + It will be your duty, first, to frame and adopt a constitution for Cuba, + and when that has been done to formulate what in your opinion ought to + be the relations between Cuba and the United States. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + The constitution must be adequate to secure a stable, orderly, and free + government. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + When you have formulated the relations which in your opinion ought to + exist between Cuba and the United States the Government of the United + States will doubtless take such action on its part as shall lead to a + final and authoritative agreement between the people of the two + countries to the promotion of their common interests. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + All friends of Cuba will follow your deliberations with the deepest + interest, earnestly desiring that you shall reach just conclusions, and + that by the dignity, individual self-restraint, and wise conservatism + which shall characterize your proceedings the capacity of the Cuban + people for representative government may be signally illustrated. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + The fundamental distinction between true representative government and + dictatorship is that in the former every representative of the people, + in whatever office, confines himself strictly within the limits of his + defined powers. Without such restraint there can be no free + constitutional government. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Under the order pursuant to which you have been elected and convened you + have no duty and no authority to take part in the present government of + the island. Your powers are strictly limited by the terms of that order. +</p> +<p> +When the convention concludes its labors I will transmit to the Congress +the constitution as framed by the convention for its consideration and +for such action as it may deem advisable. +</p> +<p> +I renew the recommendation made in my special message of February 10, +1899, as to the necessity for cable communication between the United +States and Hawaii, with extension to Manila. Since then circumstances +have strikingly emphasized this need. Surveys have shown the entire +feasibility of a chain of cables which at each stopping place shall +touch on American territory, so that the system shall be under our own +complete control. Manila once within telegraphic reach, connection with +the systems of the Asiatic coast would open increased and profitable +opportunities for a more direct cable route from our shores to the +Orient than is now afforded by the trans-Atlantic, continental, and +trans-Asian lines. I urge attention to this important matter. +</p> +<p> +The present strength of the Army is 100,000 men—65,000 regulars and +35,000 volunteers. Under the act of March 2, 1899, on the 30th of June +next the present volunteer force will be discharged and the Regular Army +will be reduced to 2,447 officers and 29,025 enlisted men. +</p> +<p> +In 1888 a Board of Officers convened by President Cleveland adopted a +comprehensive scheme of coast-defense fortifications which involved the +outlay of something over one hundred million dollars. This plan received +the approval of the Congress, and since then regular appropriations have +been made and the work of fortification has steadily progressed. +</p> +<p> +More than sixty millions of dollars have been invested in a great number +of forts and guns, with all the complicated and scientific machinery and +electrical appliances necessary for their use. The proper care of this +defensive machinery requires men trained in its use. The number of men +necessary to perform this duty alone is ascertained by the War +Department, at a minimum allowance, to be 18,420. +</p> +<p> +There are fifty-eight or more military posts in the United States other +than the coast-defense fortifications. +</p> +<p> +The number of these posts is being constantly increased by the Congress. +More than $22,000,000 have been expended in building and equipment, +and they can only be cared for by the Regular Army. The posts now in +existence and others to be built provide for accommodations for, and if +fully garrisoned require, 26,000 troops. Many of these posts are along +our frontier or at important strategic points, the occupation of which +is necessary. +</p> +<p> +We have in Cuba between 5,000 and 6,000 troops. For the present our +troops in that island cannot be withdrawn or materially diminished, and +certainly not until the conclusion of the labors of the constitutional +convention now in session and a government provided by the new +constitution shall have been established and its stability assured. +</p> +<p> +In Puerto Rico we have reduced the garrisons to 1,636, which includes +879 native troops. There is no room for further reduction here. +</p> +<p> +We will be required to keep a considerable force in the Philippine +Islands for some time to come. From the best information obtainable we +will need there for the immediate future from 45,000 to 60,000 men. +I am sure the number may be reduced as the insurgents shall come to +acknowledge the authority of the United States, of which there are +assuring indications. +</p> +<p> +It must be apparent that we will require an army of about 60,000, and +that during present conditions in Cuba and the Philippines the President +should have authority to increase the force to the present number of +100,000. Included in this number authority should be given to raise +native troops in the Philippines up to 15,000, which the Taft Commission +believe will be more effective in detecting and suppressing guerrillas, +assassins, and ladrones than our own soldiers. +</p> +<p> +The full discussion of this subject by the Secretary of War in his +annual report is called to your earnest attention. +</p> +<p> +I renew the recommendation made in my last annual message that the +Congress provide a special medal of honor for the volunteers, regulars, +sailors, and marines on duty in the Philippines who voluntarily remained +in the service after their terms of enlistment had expired. +</p> +<p> +I favor the recommendation of the Secretary of War for the detail +of officers from the line of the Army when vacancies occur in the +Adjutant-General's Department, Inspector-General's Department, +Quartermaster's Department, Subsistence Department, Pay Department, +Ordnance Department, and Signal Corps. +</p> +<p> +The Army cannot be too highly commended for its faithful and effective +service in active military operations in the field and the difficult +work of civil administration. +</p> +<p> +The continued and rapid growth of the postal service is a sure index +of the great and increasing business activity of the country. Its most +striking new development is the extension of rural free delivery. This +has come almost wholly within the last year. At the beginning of the +fiscal year 1899-1900 the number of routes in operation was only 391, +and most of these had been running less than twelve months. On the +15th of November, 1900, the number had increased to 2,614, reaching +into forty-four States and Territories, and serving a population of +1,801,524. The number of applications now pending and awaiting action +nearly equals all those granted up to the present time, and by the +close of the current fiscal year about 4,000 routes will have been +established, providing for the daily delivery of mails at the scattered +homes of about three and a half millions of rural population. +</p> +<p> +This service ameliorates the isolation of farm life, conduces to +good roads, and quickens and extends the dissemination of general +information. Experience thus far has tended to allay the apprehension +that it would be so expensive as to forbid its general adoption or make +it a serious burden. Its actual application has shown that it increases +postal receipts, and can be accompanied by reductions in other branches +of the service, so that the augmented revenues and the accomplished +savings together materially reduce the net cost. The evidences which +point to these conclusions are presented in detail in the annual report +of the Postmaster-General, which with its recommendations is commended +to the consideration of the Congress. The full development of this +special service, however, requires such a large outlay of money that +it should be undertaken only after a careful study and thorough +understanding of all that it involves. +</p> +<p> +Very efficient service has been rendered by the Navy in connection with +the insurrection in the Philippines and the recent disturbance in China. +</p> +<p> +A very satisfactory settlement has been made of the long-pending +question of the manufacture of armor plate. A reasonable price has been +secured and the necessity for a Government armor plant avoided. +</p> +<p> +I approve of the recommendations of the Secretary for new vessels and +for additional officers and men which the required increase of the Navy +makes necessary. I commend to the favorable action of the Congress the +measure now pending for the erection of a statue to the memory of the +late Admiral David D. Porter. I commend also the establishment of a +national naval reserve and of the grade of vice-admiral. Provision +should be made, as recommended by the Secretary, for suitable rewards +for special merit. Many officers who rendered the most distinguished +service during the recent war with Spain have received in return no +recognition from the Congress. +</p> +<p> +The total area of public lands as given by the Secretary of the Interior +is approximately 1,071,881,662 acres, of which 917,135,880 acres are +undisposed of and 154,745,782 acres have been reserved for various +purposes. The public lands disposed of during the year amount to +13,453,887.96 acres, including 62,423.09 acres of Indian lands, an +increase of 4,271,474.80 over the preceding year. The total receipts +from the sale of public lands during the fiscal year were $4,379,758.10, +an increase of $1,309,620.76 over the preceding year. +</p> +<p> +The results obtained from our forest policy have demonstrated its wisdom +and the necessity in the interest of the public for its continuance and +increased appropriations by the Congress for the carrying on of the +work. On June 30, 1900, there were thirty-seven forest reserves, created +by Presidential proclamations under section 24 of the act of March 3, +1891, embracing an area of 46,425,529 acres. +</p> +<p> +During the past year the Olympic Reserve, in the State of Washington, +was reduced 265,040 acres, leaving its present area at 1,923,840 acres. +The Prescott Reserve, in Arizona, was increased from 10,240 acres to +423,680 acres, and the Big Horn Reserve, in Wyoming, was increased from +1,127,680 acres to 1,180,800 acres. A new reserve, the Santa Ynez, in +California, embracing an area of 145,000 acres, was created during this +year. On October 10, 1900, the Crow Creek Forest Reserve, in Wyoming, +was created, with an area of 56,320 acres. +</p> +<p> +At the end of the fiscal year there were on the pension roll 993,529 +names, a net increase of 2,010 over the fiscal year 1899. The number +added to the rolls during the year was 45,344. The amount disbursed for +Army pensions during the year was $134,700,597.24 and for Navy pensions +$3,761,533.41, a total of $138,462,130.65, leaving an unexpended balance +of $5,542,768.25 to be covered into the Treasury, which shows an +increase over the previous year's expenditure of $107,077.70. There were +684 names added to the rolls during the year by special acts passed at +the first session of the Fifty-sixth Congress. +</p> +<p> +The act of May 9, 1900, among other things provides for an extension +of income to widows pensioned under said act to $250 per annum. The +Secretary of the Interior believes that by the operations of this act +the number of persons pensioned under it will increase and the increased +annual payment for pensions will be between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000. +</p> +<p> +The Government justly appreciates the services of its soldiers and +sailors by making pension payments liberal beyond precedent to them, +their widows and orphans. +</p> +<p> +There were 26,540 letters patent granted, including reissues and +designs, during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1900; 1,660 trademarks, +682 labels, and 93 prints registered. The number of patents which +expired was 19,988. The total receipts for patents were $1,358,228.35. +The expenditures were $1,247,827.58, showing a surplus of $110,400.77. +</p> +<p> +The attention of the Congress is called to the report of the Secretary +of the Interior touching the necessity for the further establishment of +schools in the Territory of Alaska, and favorable action is invited +thereon. +</p> +<p> +Much interesting information is given in the report of the Governor of +Hawaii as to the progress and development of the islands during the +period from July 7, 1898, the date of the approval of the joint +resolution of the Congress providing for their annexation, up to April +30, 1900, the date of the approval of the act providing a government for +the Territory, and thereafter. +</p> +<p> +The last Hawaiian census, taken in the year 1896, gives a total +population of 109,020, of which 31,019 were native Hawaiians. The number +of Americans reported was 8,485. The results of the Federal census, +taken this year, show the islands to have a total population of 154,001, +showing an increase over that reported in 1896 of 44,981, or 41.2 per +cent. +</p> +<p> +There has been marked progress in the educational, agricultural, and +railroad development of the islands. +</p> +<p> +In the Territorial act of April 30, 1900, section 7 of said act repeals +Chapter 34 of the Civil Laws of Hawaii whereby the Government was to +assist in encouraging and developing the agricultural resources of the +Republic, especially irrigation. The Governor of Hawaii recommends +legislation looking to the development of such water supply as may exist +on the public lands, with a view of promoting land settlement. The +earnest consideration of the Congress is invited to this important +recommendation and others, as embodied in the report of the Secretary of +the Interior. +</p> +<p> +The Director of the Census states that the work in connection with the +Twelfth Census is progressing favorably. This national undertaking, +ordered by the Congress each decade, has finally resulted in the +collection of an aggregation of statistical facts to determine the +industrial growth of the country, its manufacturing and mechanical +resources, its richness in mines and forests, the number of its +agriculturists, their farms and products, its educational and religious +opportunities, as well as questions pertaining to sociological +conditions. +</p> +<p> +The labors of the officials in charge of the Bureau indicate that the +four important and most-desired subjects, namely, population, +agricultural, manufacturing, and vital statistics, will be completed +within the limit prescribed by the law of March 3, 1899. +</p> +<p> +The field work incident to the above inquiries is now practically +finished, and as a result the population of the States and Territories, +including the Hawaiian Islands and Alaska, has been announced. The +growth of population during the last decade amounts to over 13,000,000, +a greater numerical increase than in any previous census in the history +of the country. +</p> +<p> +Bulletins will be issued as rapidly as possible giving the population by +States and Territories, by minor civil divisions. Several announcements +of this kind have already been made, and it is hoped that the list will +be completed by January 1. Other bulletins giving the results of the +manufacturing and agricultural inquiries will be given to the public as +rapidly as circumstances will admit. +</p> +<p> +The Director, while confident of his ability to complete the +different branches of the undertaking in the allotted time, finds +himself embarrassed by the lack of a trained force properly equipped for +statistical work, thus raising the question whether in the interest of +economy and a thorough execution of the census work there should not +be retained in the Government employ a certain number of experts not +only to aid in the preliminary organization prior to the taking of the +decennial census, but in addition to have the advantage in the field and +office work of the Bureau of trained assistants to facilitate the early +completion of this enormous undertaking. +</p> +<p> +I recommend that the Congress at its present session apportion +representation among the several States as provided by the Constitution. +</p> +<p> +The Department of Agriculture has been extending its work during the +past year, reaching farther for new varieties of seeds and plants; +co-operating more fully with the States and Territories in research +along useful lines; making progress in meteorological work relating to +lines of wireless telegraphy and forecasts for ocean-going vessels; +continuing inquiry as to animal disease; looking into the extent +and character of food adulteration; outlining plans for the care, +preservation, and intelligent harvesting of our woodlands; studying +soils that producers may cultivate with better knowledge of conditions, +and helping to clothe desert places with grasses suitable to our arid +regions. Our island possessions are being considered that their peoples +may be helped to produce the tropical products now so extensively +brought into the United States. Inquiry into methods of improving our +roads has been active during the year; help has been given to many +localities, and scientific investigation of material in the States and +Territories has been inaugurated. Irrigation problems in our semiarid +regions are receiving careful and increased consideration. +</p> +<p> +An extensive exhibit at Paris of the products of agriculture has made +the peoples of many countries more familiar with the varied products of +our fields and their comparative excellence. +</p> +<p> +The collection of statistics regarding our crops is being improved and +sources of information are being enlarged, to the end that producers may +have the earliest advices regarding crop conditions. There has never +been a time when those for whom it was established have shown more +appreciation of the services of the Department. +</p> +<p> +In my annual message of December 5, 1898, I called attention to the +necessity for some amendment of the alien contract law. There still +remain important features of the rightful application of the eight-hour +law for the benefit of labor and of the principle of arbitration, and I +again commend these subjects to the careful attention of the Congress. +</p> +<p> +That there may be secured the best service possible in the Philippine +Islands, I have issued, under date of November 30, 1900, the following +order: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + The United States Civil Service Commission is directed to render such + assistance as may be practicable to the Civil Service Board, created + under the act of the United States Philippine Commission, for the + establishment and maintenance of an honest and efficient civil service + in the Philippine Islands, and for that purpose to conduct examinations + for the civil service of the Philippine Islands, upon the request of the + Civil Service Board of said islands, under such regulations as may be + agreed upon by the said Board and the said United States Civil Service + Commission. +</p> +<p> +The Civil Service Commission is greatly embarrassed in its work for +want of an adequate permanent force for clerical and other assistance. +Its needs are fully set forth in its report. I invite attention to +the report, and especially urge upon the Congress that this important +bureau of the public service, which passes upon the qualifications and +character of so large a number of the officers and employees of the +Government, should be supported by all needed appropriations to secure +promptness and efficiency. +</p> +<p> +I am very much impressed with the statement made by the heads of all the +Departments of the urgent necessity of a hall of public records. In +every departmental building in Washington, so far as I am informed, the +space for official records is not only exhausted, but the walls of rooms +are lined with shelves, the middle floor space of many rooms is filled +with file cases, and garrets and basements, which were never intended +and are unfitted for their accommodation, are crowded with them. Aside +from the inconvenience there is great danger, not only from fire, but +from the weight of these records upon timbers not intended for their +support. There should be a separate building especially designed for the +purpose of receiving and preserving the annually accumulating archives +of the several Executive Departments. Such a hall need not be a costly +structure, but should be so arranged as to admit of enlargement from +time to time. I urgently recommend that the Congress take early action +in this matter. +</p> +<p> +I transmit to the Congress a resolution adopted at a recent meeting of +the American Bar Association concerning the proposed celebration of John +Marshall Day, February 4, 1901. Fitting exercises have been arranged, +and it is earnestly desired by the committee that the Congress may +participate in this movement to honor the memory of the great jurist. +</p> +<p> +The transfer of the Government to this city is a fact of great +historical interest. Among the people there is a feeling of genuine +pride in the Capital of the Republic. +</p> +<p> +It is a matter of interest in this connection that in 1800 the +population of the District of Columbia was 14,093; to-day it is 278,718. +The population of the city of Washington was then 3,210; to-day it is +218,196. +</p> +<p> +The Congress having provided for "an appropriate national celebration +of the Centennial Anniversary of the Establishment of the Seat of the +Government in the District of Columbia," the committees authorized by it +have prepared a programme for the 12th of December, 1900, which date has +been selected as the anniversary day. Deep interest has been shown in +the arrangements for the celebration by the members of the committees +of the Senate and House of Representatives, the committee of Governors +appointed by the President, and the committees appointed by the citizens +and inhabitants of the District of Columbia generally. The programme, in +addition to a reception and other exercises at the Executive Mansion, +provides commemorative exercises to be held jointly by the Senate and +House of Representatives in the Hall of the House of Representatives, +and a reception in the evening at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in honor +of the Governors of the States and Territories. +</p> +<p> +In our great prosperity we must guard against the danger it invites of +extravagance in Government expenditures and appropriations; and the +chosen representatives of the people will, I doubt not, furnish an +example in their legislation of that wise economy which in a season of +plenty husbands for the future. In this era of great business activity +and opportunity caution is not untimely. It will not abate, but +strengthen, confidence. It will not retard, but promote, legitimate +industrial and commercial expansion. Our growing power brings with it +temptations and perils requiring constant vigilance to avoid. It must +not be used to invite conflicts, nor for oppression, but for the more +effective maintenance of those principles of equality and justice upon +which our institutions and happiness depend. Let us keep always in mind +that the foundation of our Government is liberty; its superstructure +peace. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, December 4, 1900</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate and House of Representatives</i>: +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith, for the information of Congress, copy of a letter +from the Commissioner-General of the United States to the Paris +Exposition of 1900, of November 17, 1900, giving a detailed statement of +the expenditures of the commission for the year ended November 15, 1900. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, December 6, 1900</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate and House of Representatives</i>: +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith the report from the Secretary of State and +accompanying papers relating to the claim against the United States of +the Russian subject, Gustav Isak Dahlberg, master and principal owner of +the Russian bark <i>Hans</i>, based on his wrongful and illegal arrest +and imprisonment by officers of the United States District Court for the +southern district of Mississippi, and, in view of the opinion expressed +by the Department of Justice that the said arrest and detention of the +complainant were wrongful and without the authority of law, I recommend +the appropriation by Congress of the sum of $5,000 to reimburse the +master and owners of the vessel for all losses and damages incurred by +reason of his said wrongful and illegal arrest and detention. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, December 6, 1900</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Congress of the United States</i>: +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, with +accompanying papers, in relation to the lynching, in La Salle County, +Tex., on October 5, 1895, of Florentine Suaste, a Mexican citizen. +</p> +<p> +Following the course pursued in the case of the lynching of three +Italian subjects at Hahnville, La., on August 8, 1896, and in that of +the lynching of the Mexican citizen, Luis Moreno, at Yreka, Cal., in +August, 1895, I recommend the appropriation by Congress, out of humane +consideration, and without reference to the question of liability of the +Government of the United States, of the sum of $2,000, to be paid by the +Secretary of State to the Government of Mexico, and by that Government +distributed to the heirs of the above-mentioned Florentino Suaste. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>January 3, 1901</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate of the United States</i>: +</p> +<p> +In reply to a resolution of the Senate of December 19, 1900, directing +the Secretary of War "to transmit to the Senate the report of Abraham L. +Lawshe, giving in detail the result of his investigations, made under +the direction of the War Department, into the receipts and expenditures +of Cuban funds," the Senate is informed that for the reasons stated in +the accompanying communication from the Secretary of War, dated December +28, 1900, it is not deemed compatible with the public interest to +transmit the report to the Senate at this time. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, January 16, 1901</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate and House of Representatives</i>: +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith for the information of the Congress a letter from +the Secretary of Agriculture, in which he presents a preliminary report +of investigations upon the forests of the southern Appalachian Mountain +region. Upon the basis of the facts established by this investigation +the Secretary of Agriculture recommends the purchase of land for a +national forest reserve in western North Carolina, eastern Tennessee, +and adjacent States. I commend to the favorable consideration of +Congress the reasons upon which this recommendation rests. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>January 25, 1901</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate and House of Representatives</i>: +</p> +<p> +For the information of the Congress and with a view to such action on +its part as it may deem wise and appropriate I transmit a report of the +Secretary of War, made to me under date of January 24, 1901, containing +the reports of the Taft commission, its several acts of legislation, and +other important information relating to the conditions and immediate +wants of the Philippine Islands. +</p> +<p> +I earnestly recommend legislation under which the government of the +islands may have authority to assist in their peaceful industrial +development in the directions indicated by the Secretary of War. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, January 29, 1901</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Congress</i>: +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State relating to +the treaty between the United States and Spain, signed at Washington, +November 7, 1900, providing for the cession of any and all islands of +the Philippine Archipelago lying outside of the lines described in +Article III of the treaty of peace of December 10, 1898. +</p> +<p> +I recommend the appropriation by Congress during the present session of +the sum of one hundred thousand dollars for the purpose of carrying out +the obligations of the United States under the treaty. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, January 29, 1901</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Congress</i>: +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State relating to the +lynching of two Italian subjects at Tallulah, La., on July 20, 1899. +</p> +<p> +I renew the recommendation made in my annual message to the Congress on +December 3, 1900, that in accordance with precedent Congress make +gracious provision for indemnity to the families of the victims in the +same form as heretofore. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, January 29, 1901</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate and House of Representatives</i>: +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of State +accompanying the Commercial Relations of the United States for the year +1900, being the annual and other reports of consular and diplomatic +officers upon the industries and commerce of foreign countries, with +particular reference to the growing share of the United States in +international trade. The advance in the general efficiency of our +consular service in promoting trade, which was noted in my message of +March 1, 1900, transmitting the reports for 1899, was even more marked +than last year. The promptitude with which the reports of the consuls +are printed and distributed, the generous recognition which is being +increasingly accorded by our business interests to the practical value +of their efforts for enlarging trade, and the continued testimony of +competent foreign authorities to the general superiority of their +commercial work, have naturally had a stimulating effect upon its +consular corps as a whole, and experience in the discharge of their +duties adds greatly to their efficiency. It is gratifying to be able to +state that the improvement in the service, following closely upon the +steady progress in expediting the publication of reports, has enabled +the Department of State this year to submit the annual reports a month +in advance of the usual time, and to make them as nearly as possible a +contemporaneous picture of the trade of the world. In view of the great +importance of these reports to our producers, manufacturers, exporters, +and business interest generally, I cordially approve the recommendation +of the Secretary of State that Congress shall authorize the printing as +heretofore of an edition of 10,000 copies of the summary, entitled +"Review of the World's Commerce," and of 5,000 copies of Commercial +Relations (including this summary), to be distributed by the Department +of State. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>February 14, 1901</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate and House of Representatives</i>: +</p> +<p> +During our recent war with Spain the United States naval force on the +North Atlantic Station was charged with varied and important duties, +chief among which were the maintenance of the blockade of Cuba, aiding +the army, and landing troops and in subsequent operations, and +particularly in the pursuit, blockade, and destruction of the Spanish +Squadron under Admiral Cervera. +</p> +<p> +This naval campaign, embracing objects of wide scope and grave +responsibilities, was conducted with great ability on the part of the +commander-in-chief, and of the officers and enlisted men under his +command. It culminated in the annihilation of the Spanish fleet in the +battle of July 3, 1898, one of the most memorable naval engagements in +history. +</p> +<p> +The result of this battle was the freeing of our Atlantic coast from the +possibilities to which it had been exposed from Admiral Cervera's fleet, +and the termination of the war upon the seas. +</p> +<p> +I recommend that, following our national precedents, especially that +in the case of Admiral Dewey and the Asiatic Squadron, the thanks of +Congress be given to Rear-Admiral William T. Sampson, United States +Navy, and to the officers and men under his command for highly +distinguished conduct in conflict with the enemy, and in carrying on +the blockade and naval campaign on the Cuban coast, resulting in the +destruction of the Spanish fleet at Santiago de Cuba July 3, 1898. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>February 21, 1901</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate and House of Representatives</i>: +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith, for the information of the Congress and with a view +to its publication in suitable form, if such action is deemed desirable, +a special report of the United States Board on Geographic Names, +relating to geographic names in the Philippine Islands, and invite +attention to the recommendation of the Board: +</p> +<p> +"That in addition to the usual number, there be printed 15,000 copies: +2,000 copies for the use of the Senate, 3,000 copies for the use of the +House of Representatives, and 10,000 copies for distribution by the +Board to the Executive Departments and the public." +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, February 26, 1901</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Congress</i>: +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, in connection +with my message of January 29, 1901, relative to the lynching of certain +Italian subjects at Tallulah, La., a report by the Secretary of State +touching a claim for $5,000 presented by the Italian ambassador at +Washington on behalf of Guiseppe Defina, on account of his being obliged +to abandon his home and business. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, February 28, 1901</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Senate and House of Representatives</i>: +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith, in pursuance of the act of Congress approved July +1, 1898 (U.S. Stat. L., vol. 30, pp. 645, 646), the report of Mr. +Ferdinand W. Peck, commissioner-general of the United States to the +International Exposition held at Paris, France, during the year 1900. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, March 1, 1901</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the House of Representatives</i>: +</p> +<p> +I return herewith, without approval, House bill No. 3204, entitled "An +act to refer certain claims for Indian depredations to the Court of +Claims." +</p> +<p> +General relief has been extended to citizens who have lost property by +reason of Indian depredations by the act of March 3, 1891, conferring +jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear and determine such cases. +That act provides for payment for damages growing out of depredations +committed by any Indian or Indians belonging to a band, tribe, or nation +in amity with the United States, excluding from consideration all claims +which originated during the existence of actual hostilities between the +United States and the Indian tribe. +</p> +<p> +In making this discrimination the act of 1891 follows the general +principle which has been asserted in all general legislation which has +ever been enacted for the payment of claims for property destroyed by +Indians. The first act which promised such indemnity, that of May 19, +1796, contained the same restriction, and it was reported in every +subsequent general act of Congress dealing with the subject. This +policy, which has been clearly manifested from the beginning, is in +accord with the recognized principle that the nation is not liable for +damage to the private property of its citizens caused by the act of the +public enemy. This statute has been thoroughly considered by the Court +of Claims and by the Supreme Court and its interpretation fixed, and it +has been declared to be in accord not only with the policy of Congress +as expressed through the legislation of the century, but with the +general principles of international law. +</p> +<p> +I am informed that the records of the Court of Claims show that the +claims of four of the five beneficiaries named in the present bill +have been presented to that court under the general law and decided +adversely, the court having held that a state of war existed between +the United States and the Sioux Indians in the year 1862 when the +claims arose. The remaining claim, which originated under the same +circumstances and at the same time, would, of course, be subject to +the same defense if presented. +</p> +<p> +The bill provides that these claims shall be sent back to the Court of +Claims for trial according to the principles and rules which governed +the commission appointed under the act of February 16, 1863. That act, +which was a special act relating to losses occurring during the +hostilities of the previous year, did not, of course, impose the +requirement of amity, the claims allowed by the commission being paid +out of the funds belonging to the hostile Indians sequestered by the +statute. The effect of this bill, if it became a law, would be to +provide for the payment out of the Treasury of the United States of +these claims which were not presented for payment out of the Indian +funds and which have been rejected by the courts under the general law. +There are many hundreds of cases, aggregating a large amount claimed, +which have been filed in the Court of Claims, but which are excluded +from its jurisdiction for the same reason which necessitated the +dismissal of the petitions filed by these claimants. There is no legal +obligation on the part of the United States, and no promise, express or +implied, for the payment of such claims. +</p> +<p> +The measure of governmental liability is fulfilled by the passage of the +act of March 3, 1891, and the prompt payment of the judgments rendered +thereunder. To single out for payment a few claims of this large class +to the exclusion of all others would, in my judgment, be unjust; and +such action would also with reason be cited as a precedent for extending +governmental aid in all similar cases. +</p> +<p> +For the reasons given I am constrained to withhold my approval from the +bill. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>March 7, 1901</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the House of Representatives</i>: +</p> +<p> +I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State in response to +the resolution of the House of Representatives of February 19, 1901, +requesting him to furnish that body "all the information in the +possession of the State Department relating to the shipment of horses +and mules from New Orleans in large numbers for the use of the British +army in the war in South Africa." +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, March 2, 1901</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the House of Representatives</i>: +</p> +<p> +I return herewith, without approval, House bill No. 321, entitled "An +act for the relief of the legal representative of Samuel Tewksbury, +deceased." +</p> +<p> +This bill provides for the payment to the legal representative of Samuel +Tewksbury, late of Scranton, Allegheny County, Pa., the sum of $5,697 +in full compensation for the use and occupation by the United States +Government of the brick building and premises owned by him in the city +of Scranton, Pa., as a depot or barracks for United States troops by the +Provost Marshal of the United States from June, 1862, to June, 1865, +inclusive. +</p> +<p> +The records of the War Department show that about April 26, 1865, Col. +J.G. Johnson, Chief Quartermaster, forwarded to the office of the +Quartermaster-General a claim of Samuel Tewksbury for use of a building +at Scranton, Pa., from February 24, 1864, to February 3, 1865, Stated at +$1,133.33, and damage to said building at $1,400, total $2,533.33. +</p> +<p> +In forwarding these papers Colonel Johnson states as follows: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + In the spring of 1864 Mr. Samuel Tewksbury presented to me through his + agents a claim against the United States Government for use of the + premises mentioned in the enclosed account accompanying the papers. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + I learn from Mr. S.N. Bradford, Provost Marshal of the Twelfth District + of Pennsylvania at Scranton, that lodgings were furnished to persons in + military service at that place by Gardiner and Atkinson under a contract + with the Provost Marshal, also that the contractors rented the building + used for the above purpose from Mr. Tewksbury. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Considering it a matter entirely between that gentleman and his tenants, + Messrs. Gardiner and Atkinson, I at that time refused to take any action + in the matter whatever. +</p> +<p> +The claim was again submitted to the office of the Quartermaster-General +on September 30, 1865, by Major W.B. Lane, and was returned on May 1, +1866, with the information that the United States had already paid for +lodging of the troops under the control of the Provost Marshal at +Scranton, Pa., during the time for which charge for rent is made. +</p> +<p> +The claimant was referred to the officer or person by whom the building +was taken for compensation for its use. No other record of this case is +found in the War Department, although it will be observed that the bill +covers a period from June, 1862, to June, 1865, inclusive, while the +claim as originally presented to the War Department was for occupancy of +the building at Scranton, Pa., from February 24, 1864, to February 3, +1865. +</p> +<p> +It thus appears that when this claim was originally presented it was +examined by the proper representative of the Government, and was +rejected; that no such use and occupation as the United States +Government had of claimant's building was under a contract between the +Government and the tenants of claimant, and that payment therefor was +duly made by the Government. Now after a lapse of some thirty-seven +years the period of use and occupation covered by the claim has +increased threefold, and the compensation asked therefor has more than +doubled. Under the circumstances of this case I do not feel at liberty +to approve the bill. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div> + +<h2> + PRESIDENT McKINLEY'S SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS. +</h2> +<p> +<i>My Fellow-Citizens</i>: +</p> +<p> +When we assembled here on the 4th of March, 1897, there was great +anxiety with regard to our currency and credit. None exists now. Then +our Treasury receipts were inadequate to meet the current obligations +of the Government. Now they are sufficient for all public needs, and we +have a surplus instead of a deficit. Then I felt constrained to convene +the Congress in extraordinary session to devise revenues to pay the +ordinary expenses of the Government. Now I have the satisfaction to +announce that the Congress just closed has reduced taxation in the sum +of $41,000,000. Then there was deep solicitude because of the long +depression in our manufacturing, mining, agricultural, and mercantile +industries and the consequent distress of our laboring population. Now +every avenue of production is crowded with activity, labor is well +employed, and American products find good markets at home and abroad. +</p> +<p> +Our diversified productions, however, are increasing in such +unprecedented volume as to admonish us of the necessity of still further +enlarging our foreign markets by broader commercial relations. For this +purpose reciprocal trade arrangements with other nations should in +liberal spirit be carefully cultivated and promoted. +</p> +<p> +The national verdict of 1896 has for the most part been executed. +Whatever remains unfulfilled is a continuing obligation resting with +undiminished force upon the Executive and the Congress. But fortunate as +our condition is, its permanence can only be assured by sound business +methods and strict economy in national administration and legislation. +We should not permit our great prosperity to lead us to reckless +ventures in business or profligacy in public expenditures. While the +Congress determines the objects and the sum of appropriations, the +officials of the executive departments are responsible for honest and +faithful disbursement, and it should be their constant care to avoid +waste and extravagance. +</p> +<p> +Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in +public employment. These should be fundamental requisites to original +appointment and the surest guaranties against removal. +</p> +<p> +Four years ago we stood on the brink of war without the people knowing +it and without any preparation or effort at preparation for the +impending peril. I did all that in honor could be done to avert the war, +but without avail. It became inevitable; and the Congress at its first +regular session, without party division, provided money in anticipation +of the crisis and in preparation to meet it. It came. The result was +signally favorable to American arms and in the highest degree honorable +to the Government. It imposed upon us obligations from which we cannot +escape and from which it would be dishonorable to seek escape. We are +now at peace with the world, and it is my fervent prayer that if +differences arise between us and other powers they may be settled by +peaceful arbitration and that hereafter we may be spared the horrors +of war. +</p> +<p> +Intrusted by the people for a second time with the office of President, +I enter upon its administration appreciating the great responsibilities +which attach to this renewed honor and commission, promising unreserved +devotion on my part to their faithful discharge and reverently invoking +for my guidance the direction and favor of Almighty God. I should shrink +from the duties this day assumed if I did not feel that in their +performance I should have the co-operation of the wise and patriotic +men of all parties. It encourages me for the great task which I now +undertake to believe that those who voluntarily committed to me the +trust imposed upon the Chief Executive of the Republic will give to +me generous support in my duties to "preserve, protect, and defend, +the Constitution of the United States" and to "care that the laws be +faithfully executed." The national purpose is indicated through a +national election. It is the constitutional method of ascertaining the +public will. When once it is registered it is a law to us all, and +faithful observance should follow its decrees. +</p> +<p> +Strong hearts and helpful hands are needed, and, fortunately, we have +them in every part of our beloved country. We are reunited. Sectionalism +has disappeared. Division on public questions can no longer be traced +by the war maps of 1861. These old differences less and less disturb +the judgment. Existing problems demand the thought and quicken the +conscience of the country, and the responsibility for their presence, as +well as for their righteous settlement, rests upon us all—no more upon +me than upon you. There are some national questions in the solution +of which patriotism should exclude partisanship. Magnifying their +difficulties will not take them off our hands nor facilitate their +adjustment. Distrust of the capacity, integrity, and high purposes of +the American people will not be an inspiring theme for future political +contests. Dark pictures and gloomy forebodings are worse than useless. +These only becloud, they do not help to point the way of safety and +honor. "Hope maketh not ashamed." The prophets of evil were not the +builders of the Republic, nor in its crises since have they saved or +served it. The faith of the fathers was a mighty force in its creation, +and the faith of their descendants has wrought its progress and +furnished its defenders. They are obstructionists who despair, and who +would destroy confidence in the ability of our people to solve wisely +and for civilization the mighty problems resting upon them. The American +people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them +wherever they go, and they reject as mistaken and unworthy the doctrine +that we lose our own liberties by securing the enduring foundations of +liberty to others. Our institutions will not deteriorate by extension, +and our sense of justice will not abate under tropic suns in distant +seas. As heretofore, so hereafter will the nation demonstrate its +fitness to administer any new estate which events devolve upon it, and +in the fear of God will "take occasion by the hand and make the bounds +of freedom wider yet." If there are those among us who would make our +way more difficult, we must not be disheartened, but the more earnestly +dedicate ourselves to the task upon which we have rightly entered. The +path of progress is seldom smooth. New things are often found hard to +do. Our fathers found them so. We find them so. They are inconvenient. +They cost us something. But are we not made better for the effort and +sacrifice, and are not those we serve lifted up and blessed? +</p> +<p> +We will be consoled, too, with the fact that opposition has confronted +every onward movement of the Republic from its opening hour until now, +but without success. The Republic has marched on and on, and its step +has exalted freedom and humanity. We are undergoing the same ordeal as +did our predecessors nearly a century ago. We are following the course +they blazed. They triumphed. Will their successors falter and plead +organic impotency in the nation? Surely after 125 years of achievement +for mankind we will not now surrender our equality with other powers on +matters fundamental and essential to nationality. With no such purpose +was the nation created. In no such spirit has it developed its full and +independent sovereignty. We adhere to the principle of equality among +ourselves, and by no act of ours will we assign to ourselves a +subordinate rank in the family of nations. +</p> +<p> +My fellow-citizens, the public events of the past four years have +gone into history. They are too near to justify recital. Some of them +were unforeseen; many of them momentous and far-reaching in their +consequences to ourselves and our relations with the rest of the world. +The part which the United States bore so honorably in the thrilling +scenes in China, while new to American life, has been in harmony with +its true spirit and best traditions, and in dealing with the results its +policy will be that of moderation and fairness. +</p> +<p> +We face at this moment a most important question—that of the future +relations of the United States and Cuba. With our near neighbors we must +remain close friends. The declaration of the purposes of this Government +in the resolution of April 20, 1898, must be made good. Ever since the +evacuation of the island by the army of Spain the Executive, with all +practicable speed, has been assisting its people in the successive steps +necessary to the establishment of a free and independent government +prepared to assume and perform the obligations of international law +which now rest upon the United States under the treaty of Paris. The +convention elected by the people to frame a constitution is approaching +the completion of its labors. The transfer of American control to the +new government is of such great importance, involving an obligation +resulting from our intervention and the treaty of peace, that I am glad +to be advised by the recent act of Congress of the policy which the +legislative branch of the Government deems essential to the best +interests of Cuba and the United States. The principles which led to +our intervention require that the fundamental law upon which the new +government rests should be adapted to secure a government capable of +performing the duties and discharging the functions of a separate +nation, of observing its international obligations of protecting life +and property, insuring order, safety, and liberty, and conforming to the +established and historical policy of the United States in its relation +to Cuba. +</p> +<p> +The peace which we are pledged to leave to the Cuban people must +carry with it the guaranties of permanence. We became sponsors for the +pacification of the island, and we remain accountable to the Cubans, +no less than to our own country and people, for the reconstruction of +Cuba as a free commonwealth on abiding foundations of right, justice, +liberty, and assured order. Our enfranchisement of the people will not +be completed until free Cuba shall "be a reality, not a name; a perfect +entity, not a hasty experiment bearing within itself the elements of +failure." +</p> +<p> +While the treaty of peace with Spain was ratified on the 6th of +February, 1899, and ratifications were exchanged nearly two years ago, +the Congress has indicated no form of government for the Philippine +Islands. It has, however, provided an army to enable the Executive to +suppress insurrection, restore peace, give security to the inhabitants, +and establish the authority of the United States throughout the +archipelago. It has authorized the organization of native troops as +auxiliary to the regular force. It has been advised from time to time +of the acts of the military and naval officers in the islands, of my +action in appointing civil commissions, of the instructions with which +they were charged, of their duties and powers, of their recommendations, +and of their several acts under executive commission, together with the +very complete general information they have submitted. These reports +fully set forth the conditions, past and present, in the islands, and +the instructions clearly show the principles which will guide the +Executive until the Congress shall, as it is required to do by the +treaty, determine "the civil rights and political status of the native +inhabitants." The Congress having added the sanction of its authority to +the powers already possessed and exercised by the Executive under the +Constitution, thereby leaving with the Executive the responsibility for +the government of the Philippines, I shall continue the efforts already +begun until order shall be restored throughout the islands, and as fast +as conditions permit will establish local governments, in the formation +of which the full co-operation of the people has been already invited, +and when established will encourage the people to administer them. The +settled purpose, long ago proclaimed, to afford the inhabitants of the +islands self-government as fast as they were ready for it will be +pursued with earnestness and fidelity. Already something has been +accomplished in this direction. The Government's representatives, civil +and military, are doing faithful and noble work in their mission of +emancipation and merit the approval and support of their countrymen. +The most liberal terms of amnesty have already been communicated to the +insurgents, and the way is still open for those who have raised their +arms against the Government for honorable submission to its authority. +Our countrymen should not be deceived. We are not waging war against the +inhabitants of the Philippine Islands. A portion of them are making war +against the United States. By far the greater part of the inhabitants +recognize American sovereignty and welcome it as a guaranty of order and +of security for life, property, liberty, freedom of conscience, and the +pursuit of happiness. To them full protection will be given. They shall +not be abandoned. We will not leave the destiny of the loyal millions in +the islands to the disloyal thousands who are in rebellion against the +United States. Order under civil institutions will come as soon as those +who now break the peace shall keep it. Force will not be needed or used +when those who make war against us shall make it no more. May it end +without further bloodshed, and there be ushered in the reign of peace +to be made permanent by a government of liberty under law! +</p> +<p> +MARCH 4, 1901. +</p> + +<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div> + +<h2> + PROCLAMATIONS. +</h2> +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. +</h3> +<h4> +A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +Whereas public interests require that the Congress of the United States +should be convened in extra session at twelve o'clock on the 15th day of +March, 1897, to receive such communication as may be made by the +Executive: +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States of +America, do hereby proclaim and declare that an extraordinary occasion +requires the Congress of the United States to convene in extra session +at the Capitol in the city of Washington on the 15th day of March, 1897, +at twelve o'clock, noon, of which all persons who shall at that time be +entitled to act as members thereof, are hereby required to take notice. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Given under my hand and the seal of the United States at Washington the +6th day of March in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and +ninety-seven, and of the Independence of the United States the one +hundred and twenty-first. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + JOHN SHERMAN, <br /> + <i>Secretary of State</i>. +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. +</h3> +<h4> +THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +In remembrance of God's goodness to us during the past year, which has +been so abundant, "let us offer unto Him our thanksgiving and pay our +vows unto the Most High." Under His watchful providence industry has +prospered, the conditions of labor have been improved, the rewards of +the husbandman have been increased, and the comforts of our homes +multiplied. His mighty hand has preserved peace and protected the +nation. Respect for law and order has been strengthened, love of free +institutions cherished, and all sections of our beloved country brought +into closer bonds of fraternal regard and generous cooperation. +</p> +<p> +For these great benefits it is our duty to praise the Lord in a spirit +of humility and gratitude and to offer up to Him our most earnest +supplications. That we may acknowledge our obligation as a people to +Him who has so graciously granted us the blessings of free government +and material prosperity, I, William McKinley, President of the United +States, do hereby designate and set apart Thursday, the twenty-fifth +day of November, for national thanksgiving and prayer, which all of +the people are invited to observe with appropriate religious services +in their respective places of worship. On this day of rejoicing and +domestic reunion let our prayers ascend to the Giver of every good and +perfect gift for the continuance of His love and favor to us, that our +hearts may be filled with charity and good will, and we may be ever +worthy of His beneficent concern. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of +the United States to be affixed. +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington this 29th day of October, in the year of +our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, and of the +Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-second. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + JOHN SHERMAN, <br /> + <i>Secretary of State</i>. +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. +</h3> +<h4> +A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +Whereas satisfactory proof has been given me that vessels of the United +States in ballast which proceed to Mexico with the object of devoting +themselves to pearl fishery and fishing on the Mexican coasts or for the +purpose of receiving and carrying passengers and mail or of loading +cattle, wood, or any other Mexican product and which shall go directly +to ports open to general commerce so that thence they may be dispatched +to their destination, and steam vessels of the United States are +exempted from tonnage duties in Mexican ports; +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States of +America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the act of Congress +approved July 24, 1897, entitled "An act to authorize the President to +suspend discriminating duties imposed on foreign vessels and commerce," +do hereby declare and proclaim that from and after the date of this, my +proclamation, Mexican vessels in ballast which proceed to the United +States with the object of fishing on the coast thereof or for the +purpose of receiving and carrying passengers and mail or of loading +cattle, wood, or any other product of the United States and which shall +go directly to ports open to general commerce so that thence they may be +despatched to their destination, and Mexican steam vessels shall be +exempted from the payment of the tonnage duties imposed by section 4219 +of the Revised Statutes of the United States. +</p> +<p> +And this proclamation shall remain in force and effect until otherwise +ordered by the President of the United States. +</p> +<p> +In witness whereof I have set my hand and caused the seal of the United +States to be hereunto affixed. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington this 12th day of November, in the year +of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, and of the +Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-second. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + JOHN SHERMAN, <br /> + <i>Secretary of State</i>. +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. +</h3> +<h4> +A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +Whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the act of Congress, +approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled "An act +to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes," "That the +President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and +reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, +in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or +undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, +and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the +establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof;" +</p> +<p> +And whereas, the public lands in the Territory of Arizona, within the +limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it +appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and +reserving said lands as a public reservation; +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by +virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid +act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there is hereby +reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation +all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being +situate in the Territory of Arizona, and within the boundaries +particularly described as follows, to wit: +</p> +<p> +Beginning at the northeast corner of Section twelve (12), Township +thirteen (13) North, Range three (3) West, Gila and Salt River Meridian, +Arizona; thence southerly along the range line to the point for the +southeast corner of Section twenty-five (25), said Township; thence +westerly along the unsurveyed section line to the point for the +southwest corner of Section twenty-eight (28), said Township; thence +northerly along the unsurveyed section line to the point for the +northwest corner of Section nine (9), said Township; thence easterly +along the unsurveyed and surveyed section line to the northeast corner +of Section twelve (12), said Township, the place of beginning. +</p> +<p> +Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which +may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or +covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States +Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant +to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing +of record has not expired; and all mining claims duly located and held +according to the laws of the United States and rules and regulations not +in conflict therewith; +</p> +<p> +Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any +particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant +continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, +settlement, or location was made. +</p> +<p> +Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to enter or make +settlement upon the tract of land reserved by this proclamation. +</p> +<p> +In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of +the United States to be affixed. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington this 10th day of May, in the year of +our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, and of the +Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-second. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + WILLIAM R. DAY, <br /> + <i>Secretary of State.</i> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. +</h3> +<h4> +A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +Whereas it is provided by section twenty-four of the act of Congress +approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, "An +act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes," "That the +President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and +reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, +in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or +undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, +and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the +establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof;" +</p> +<p> +And whereas it is further provided by the act of Congress, approved June +fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled, "An act making +appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the +fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, +and for other purposes," that "The President is hereby authorized at any +time to modify any executive order that has been or may hereafter be +made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may +reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may +vacate altogether any order creating such reserve;" +</p> +<p> +And whereas the public lands in the Territory of New Mexico, within the +limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it +appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and +reserving said lands as a public reservation; +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by +virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid acts of Congress, do +hereby make known and proclaim that the boundary lines of the Forest +Reservation in the Territory of New Mexico, known as "The Pecos River +Forest Reserve," created by proclamation of January eleventh, eighteen +hundred and ninety-two, are hereby so changed and enlarged as to include +all those certain tracts, pieces, or parcels of land lying and being +situate in the Territory of New Mexico, and within the boundaries +particularly described as follows, to wit: +</p> +<p> +Beginning at the southwest corner of Township seventeen (17) North, +Range thirteen (13) East, New Mexico Principal Meridian, New Mexico; +thence easterly along the Fourth (4th) Standard Parallel North, to its +intersection with the west boundary line of the Las Vegas Grant; thence +northerly along the west boundary lines of the Las Vegas and Mora Grants +to the point of intersection with the southeast boundary line of the +Rancho del Rio Grande Grant; thence along the boundary line of said +grant in a southwesterly direction to the most southerly point thereof; +thence southerly to the line of the Santa Barbary Grant; thence +southeasterly and southerly to the southeast corner thereof; thence +westerly along the south boundary line of said grant to the southwest +corner thereof, and continuing westerly to the east boundary line of the +Las Trampas Grant; thence in a general southwesterly direction following +the boundary lines of the Las Trampas, Las Truchas, and San Fernando +Santiago Grants to the point of intersection with the unsurveyed range +line between Ranges ten (10) and eleven (11) East; thence southerly +along the range line to the point for the southwest corner of Section +eighteen (18), Fractional Township sixteen (16) North, Range eleven (11) +East; thence easterly along the unsurveyed section line to the point for +the southeast corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence +northerly along the range line to the northeast corner of Township +seventeen (17) North, Range eleven (11) East; thence easterly along the +township line to the southeast corner of Township eighteen (18) North, +Range twelve (12) East; thence southerly along the range line to the +southwest corner of Township seventeen (17) North, Range thirteen (13) +East, the place of beginning. +</p> +<p> +Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which +may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or +covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States +Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant +to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of +record has not expired; and all mining claims duly located and held +according to the laws of the United States and rules and regulations not +in conflict therewith; +</p> +<p> +Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any +particular tract of land unless the entry man, settler, or claimant +continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, +settlement, or location was made. +</p> +<p> +Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to enter or make +settlement upon the tract of land reserved by this proclamation. +</p> +<p> +In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of +the United States to be affixed. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington, this 27th day of May, in the year of +our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, and of the +Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-second. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + J.B. MOORE, <br /> + <i>Acting Secretary of State</i>. +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. +</h3> +<h4> +A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +Whereas pursuant to section 3 of the act of Congress approved July 24, +1897, entitled "An Act to provide revenue for the Government and to +encourage the industries of the United States," the Governments of the +United States and of the French Republic have in the spirit of amity, +and with a desire to improve their commercial relations, entered into +a Commercial Agreement in which reciprocal and equivalent concessions +have been in the judgment of the President secured according to the +provisions of said section, whereby the following articles of commerce, +being the products and manufactures of the United States, are to be +admitted into France on and after the 1st day of June, 1898, at the +minimum rate of duty, not exceeding the rates respectively appearing +in the following table, namely: +</p> + +<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" summary="Duty Rates, France"> +<tr><td></td><th align="center"> Francs per<br /> 100 kilogs. </th></tr> +<tr><td> Canned meats </td><td align="center">15 </td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2"> Table fruits, fresh: </td></tr> +<tr><td> Lemons, oranges, cedrats and their varieties not mentioned </td><td align="center"> 5 </td></tr> +<tr><td> Mandarin oranges </td><td align="center">10 </td></tr> +<tr><td> Common table grapes </td><td align="center"> 8 </td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2"> Apples and pears: </td></tr> +<tr><td> For the table </td><td align="center"> 2 </td></tr> +<tr><td> For cider and perry </td><td align="center"> 1.50 </td></tr> +<tr><td> Other fruits except hothouse grapes and fruits </td><td align="center"> 3 </td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2"> Fruits dried or pressed (excluding raisins): </td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2"> Apples and pears: </td></tr> +<tr><td> For the table </td><td align="center">10 </td></tr> +<tr><td> For cider and perry </td><td align="center"> 4 </td></tr> +<tr><td> Prunes </td><td align="center">10 </td></tr> +<tr><td> Other fruits </td><td align="center"> 5 </td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr> +<tr><td> Common woods, logs </td><td align="center"> 0.65 </td></tr> +<tr><td> Sawed or squared timber 80 mm. or more in thickness </td><td align="center"> 1 </td></tr> +<tr><td> Squared or sawed lumber exceeding 35 mm. and less than 80 mm. in thickness </td><td align="center"> 1.25 </td></tr> +<tr><td> Wood sawed 35 mm. or less in thickness </td><td align="center"> 1.75 </td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr> +<tr><td> Paving blocks </td><td align="center"> 1.75 </td></tr> +<tr><td> Staves </td><td align="center"> 1.75 </td></tr> +<tr><td> Hops </td><td align="center">30 </td></tr> +<tr><td> Apples and pears crushed, or cut and dried </td><td align="center"> 1.50 </td></tr> +<tr><td> Manufactured and prepared Pork meats </td><td align="center">50 </td></tr> +<tr><td> Lard and its compounds </td><td align="center">25 </td></tr> +</table> + +<p> +Therefore, in further execution of the provisions of said section it is +hereby declared that on and after the 1st day of June, 1898, and during +the continuance in force of the Agreement aforesaid, and until otherwise +declared, the imposition and collection of the duties heretofore imposed +and collected upon the following named articles, the products of France, +by virtue of said act are hereby suspended, and in place thereof the +duties shall be imposed and collected thereon according to the +provisions of said section 3 as follows: +</p> +<p> +On argols, or crude tartar, or wine lees, crude, five <i>per centum ad +valorem</i>. +</p> +<p> +On brandies, or other spirits manufactured or distilled from grain or +other materials, one dollar and seventy-five cents per proof gallon. +</p> +<p> +On paintings in oil or water colors, pastels, pen and ink drawings, and +statuary, fifteen <i>per centum ad valorem</i>. +</p> +<p> +It is further declared that the rates of duty heretofore imposed and +collected on still wines and vermuth, the product of France, under the +provisions of the United States Tariff Act of 1897 are conditionally +suspended, and in place thereof shall be imposed and collected on and +after the 1st day of June next as follows, namely: +</p> +<p> +On still wines and vermuth, in casks, thirty-five cents per gallon; in +bottles or jugs, per case of one dozen bottles or jugs containing each +not more than one quart and more than one pint, or twenty-four bottles +or jugs containing each not more than one pint, one dollar and +twenty-five cents per case, and any excess beyond these quantities found +in such bottles or jugs shall be subject to a duty of four cents per +pint or fractional part thereof, but no separate or additional duty +shall be assessed upon the bottles or jugs. +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, be it known that I, William McKinley, President of the +United States of America, have caused the above stated modifications of +the customs duties of the respective countries to be made public for the +information of the citizens of the United States of America. +</p> +<p> +In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of +the United States to be affixed. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington this 30th day of May, one thousand eight +hundred and ninety-eight, and of the Independence of the United States +of America the one hundred and twenty-second. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + WILLIAM R. DAY, <br /> + <i>Secretary of State</i>. +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. +</h3> +<h4> +A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +Whereas the public lands in the State of California, within the limits +hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears +that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving +said lands as a public reservation; +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by +virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid acts of Congress, do +hereby make known and proclaim that the boundary lines of the Forest +Reservation in the State of California, known as "the Pine Mountain +and Zaca Lake Forest Reserve," created by proclamation of March second, +eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, are hereby so changed and enlarged as +to include all those certain tracts, pieces, or parcels of land lying +and being situate in the State of California, and within the boundaries +particularly described as follows, to wit: +</p> +<p> +Beginning at the northwest corner of fractional Township twelve (12) +North, Range thirty (30) West, San Bernardino Base and Meridian, +California; thence southerly along the range line to the southwest +corner of said fractional township; thence westerly along the township +line to the northwest corner of Section three (3), Township eleven (11) +North, Range thirty-one (31) West; thence southerly along the section +line to the southwest corner of Section twenty-two (22), said township; +thence westerly along the section line to the northwest corner of +Section thirty (30), said township; thence southerly along the range +line between Ranges thirty-one (31) and thirty-two (32) West, to +the northern boundary of the rancho Sisquoc; thence in a general +southeasterly direction along the boundaries of the ranchos Sisquoc, La +Laguna, Cañada de los Pinos or College Rancho, Tequepis, San Marcos, and +Los Prietos y Najalayegua, to the range line between Ranges twenty-four +(24) and twenty-five (25) West; thence southerly along said range line +to the southeast corner of Township five (5) North, Range twenty-five +(25) West; thence easterly along the township line between Townships +four (4) and five (5) North, to the western boundary of the rancho +Temascal; thence along the western, northern, and eastern boundary of +said rancho to its intersection with the northern boundary of the rancho +San Francisco; thence along the northern and eastern boundary of said +rancho to its southeast corner and continuing southerly to the northern +boundary of the Ex Mission de San Fernando Grant; thence along the +northern boundary of said grant to its intersection with the range line +between Ranges fourteen (14) and fifteen (15) West; thence northerly +along said range line to the northeast corner of Section twenty-four +(24), Township four (4) North, Range fifteen (15) West; thence easterly +along the section line to the southeast corner of Section thirteen (13), +Township four (4) North, Range thirteen (13) West; thence northerly +along the range line to the southwest corner of Township five (5) North, +Range twelve (12) West; thence easterly along the township line to the +southeast corner of said township; thence northerly along the range line +to the northeast corner of Section twelve (12) of said township; thence +westerly along the section line to the northwest corner of Section seven +(7), said township; thence northerly along the range line to the First +(1st) Standard Parallel North; thence westerly along the First (1st) +Standard Parallel North to the southeast corner of Township six (6) +North, Range thirteen (13) West; thence northerly along the range line +to the northeast corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence +westerly along the section line to the northwest corner of Section +thirteen (13), Township six (6) North, Range fourteen (14) West; thence +northerly along the section line to the northeast corner of Section two +(2), said township; thence westerly along the township line to the +northwest corner of Section four (4), said township; thence northerly +along the section line to the northeast corner of Section five (5), +Township seven (7) North, Range fourteen (14) West; thence westerly +along the township line to the northwest corner of fractional Section +one (1), Township seven (7) North, Range seventeen (17) West; thence +northerly along the section line to the intersection with the southern +boundary of the rancho La Liebre; thence northwesterly along the +boundaries of the ranches La Liebre and Los Alamos y Agua Caliente to +the township line between Townships eight (8) and nine (9) North; thence +westerly along said township line to the southeast corner of Township +nine (9) North, Range twenty-two (22) West; thence northerly along the +township line to the northeast corner of said township; thence westerly +along the township line to the intersection with the southern boundary +of the rancho Cuyama; thence westerly and northwesterly along the +southern boundaries of the ranches Cuyama to the Eighth (8th) Standard +Parallel South; thence westerly along said parallel to the northwest +corner of fractional Township twelve (12) North, Range thirty (30) West, +the place of beginning. +</p> +<p> +Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all irrigation +rights and lands lawfully acquired therefor and all lands which may have +been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered +by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land +Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to +law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of +record has not expired; and all mining claims duly located and held +according to the laws of the United States and rules and regulations not +in conflict therewith; +</p> +<p> +Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any +particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant +continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, +settlement, or location was made. +</p> +<p> +Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to enter or make +settlement upon the tract of land reserved by this proclamation. +</p> +<p> +In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of +the United States to be affixed. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington, this 29th day of June, in the year of +our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, and of the +Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-second. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + J.B. MOORE, <br /> + <i>Acting Secretary of State.</i> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. +</h3> +<h4> +A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +Whereas satisfactory proof has been given to me that no tonnage or +light-house dues or any equivalent tax or taxes whatever are imposed +upon vessels of the United States in the port of Copenhagen, in the +Kingdom of Denmark; +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States of +America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section eleven of +the act of Congress, entitled "An Act to abolish certain fees for +official services to American vessels, and to amend the laws relating +to shipping commissioners, seamen, and owners of vessels, and for other +purposes," approved June nineteenth, one thousand eight hundred and +eighty-six, and in virtue of the further act amendatory thereof, +entitled "An act to amend the laws relating to navigation and for +other purposes," approved April four, one thousand eight hundred and +eighty-eight, do hereby declare and proclaim that from and after the +date of this, my Proclamation, shall be suspended the collection of the +whole of the tonnage duty which is imposed by said section eleven of the +act approved June nineteenth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, +upon vessels entered in the ports of the United States directly from the +port of Copenhagen, in the Kingdom of Denmark. +</p> +<p> +Provided, that there shall be excluded from the benefits of the +suspension hereby declared and proclaimed, the vessels of any foreign +country in whose ports the fees or dues of any kind or nature imposed on +vessels of the United States, or the import or export duties on their +cargoes, are in excess of the fees, dues, or duties imposed on the +vessels of such country or on the cargoes of such vessels; but this +proviso shall not be held to be inconsistent with the special regulation +by foreign countries of duties and other charges on their own vessels, +and the cargoes thereof, engaged in their coasting trade, or with the +existence between such countries and other States of reciprocal +stipulations founded on special conditions and equivalents, and thus not +within the treatment of American vessels under the most favored nation +clause in treaties between the United States and such countries. +</p> +<p> +And the suspension hereby declared and proclaimed shall continue so long +as the reciprocal exemption of vessels belonging to citizens of the +United States and their cargoes, shall be continued in the said port of +Copenhagen and no longer. +</p> +<p> +In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of +the United States to be affixed. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington, this 19th day of July, in the year of +our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, and of the +Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-third. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + WILLIAM R. DAY, <br /> + <i>Secretary of State.</i> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. +</h3> +<h4> +A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +Whereas in the opening of the Cherokee Outlet, pursuant to section ten +of the act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and +ninety-three, the lands known as the Eastern Middle, and Western Saline +Reserves, were excepted from settlement in view of three leases made +by the Cherokee Nation prior to March third, eighteen hundred and +ninety-three, under authority of the act of Congress, approved August +seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-two; +</p> +<p> +And whereas it appears that said leases were never approved as provided +by law; +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by +virtue of the power in me vested by section ten of said act of March +third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, do hereby declare and make +known that all the lands in said saline reserves, as described in a +proclamation dated August nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, +are hereby restored to the public domain and will be disposed of under +the laws of the United States relating to public lands in said Cherokee +Outlet, subject to the policy of the Government in disposing of saline +lands. +</p> +<p> +In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of +the United States to be affixed. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington this 27th day of July, in the year +of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, and of the +Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-third. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + WILLIAM R. DAY, <br /> + <i>Secretary of State.</i> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. +</h3> +<h4> +A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +Whereas it is provided by section twenty-four of the act of Congress, +approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled "An +act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes," "That the +President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and +reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, +in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or +undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, +and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the +establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof;" +</p> +<p> +And whereas it is further provided by the act of Congress, approved June +fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled, "An act making +appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the +fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, +and for other purposes," that "The President is hereby authorized at any +time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be +made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may +reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may +vacate altogether any order creating such reserve;" +</p> +<p> +And whereas, the public lands in the States of South Dakota and Wyoming, +within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with +timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting +apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation; +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by +virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid acts of Congress, do +hereby make known and proclaim that the boundary lines of the Forest +Reservation in the State of South Dakota, known as "The Black Hills +Forest Reserve," created by proclamation of February twenty-second, +eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, are hereby so changed and enlarged as +to include all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and +being situate in the States of South Dakota and Wyoming, and within the +boundaries particularly described as follows, to wit: +</p> +<p> +Beginning at the southeast corner of Township five (5) South, Range five +(5) East, Black Hills Meridian, South Dakota; thence northerly to the +northeast corner of said township; thence easterly to the southeast +corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township four (4) South, Range six +(6) East; thence northerly to the southeast corner of Section nine (9), +said township; thence easterly to the southeast corner of Section twelve +(12), said township; thence northerly along the range line to the +northeast corner of Section thirteen (13), Township one (1) North, Range +six (6) East; thence westerly to the northwest corner of said section; +thence northerly to the northeast corner of Section two (2), said +township; thence westerly to the northwest corner of said section; +thence northerly to the northeast corner of Section twenty-two (22), +Township two (2) North, Range six (6) East; thence westerly to the +southeast corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence +northerly to the northeast corner of said section; thence westerly to +the northwest corner of said section; thence northerly to the southeast +corner of Section thirty (30), Township three (3) North, Range six (6) +East; thence easterly to the southeast corner of Section twenty-seven +(27), said township; thence northerly to the northeast corner of Section +twenty-two (22), said township; thence westerly to the northwest corner +of said section; thence northerly to the northeast corner of Section +sixteen (16), said township; thence westerly to the northwest corner of +said section; thence northerly to the northeast corner of Section eight +(8), said township; thence westerly to the northwest corner of said +section; thence northerly to the northeast corner of Section nineteen +(19), Township four (4) North, Range six (6) East; thence westerly to +the northwest corner of said section; thence northerly to the northeast +corner of Section twelve (12), Township four (4) North, Range five (5) +East; thence westerly to the northwest corner of said section; thence +northerly to the northeast corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township +five (5) North, Range five (5) East; thence westerly to the northwest +corner of said section; thence northerly to the northeast corner of +Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence westerly to the +northwest corner of said section; thence northerly to the northeast +corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence westerly to +the southeast corner of Section thirteen (13), Township five (5) North, +Range four (4) East; thence northerly to the northeast corner of said +section; thence westerly to the northwest corner of said section; thence +northerly to the northeast corner of Section two (2), said township; +thence westerly to the northwest corner of Section four (4), said +township; thence southerly to the southwest corner of said section; +thence westerly to the southeast corner of Section two (2), Township +five (5) North, Range three (3) East; thence northerly to the northeast +corner of said section; thence westerly to the southeast corner of +Section thirty-five (35), Township six (6) North, Range two (2) East; +thence northerly to the northeast corner of Section twenty-six (26) said +township; thence westerly to the southeast corner of Section twenty-four +(24), Township six (6) North, Range one (1) East; thence northerly to +the northeast corner of said section; thence westerly along the section +line to its intersection with the boundary line between the States of +South Dakota and Wyoming; thence southerly along said State boundary +line to its intersection with the section line between Sections +twenty-eight (28) and thirty-three (33), Township fifty-two (52) North, +Range sixty (60) West, Sixth (6th) Principal Meridian, Wyoming; thence +westerly to the northwest corner of Section thirty-six (36), Township +fifty-two (52) North, Range sixty-one (61) West; thence southerly along +the section line to its intersection with the Twelfth (12th) Standard +Parallel North; thence easterly along said parallel to its intersection +with the boundary line between the States of Wyoming and South Dakota; +thence southerly along said State boundary line to its intersection with +the section line between Sections eighteen (18) and nineteen (19), +Township three (3) South, Range one (1) East, Black Hills Meridian, +South Dakota; thence easterly to the northwest corner of Section +twenty-two (22), said township, thence southerly to the southwest corner +of Section thirty-four (34), said township; thence easterly to the +southeast corner of said township; thence southerly to the southwest +corner of Section thirty (30), Township four (4) South, Range two (2) +East; thence easterly to the southeast corner of Section twenty-seven +(27), said township; thence southerly to the southwest corner of Section +eleven (11), Township five (5) South, Range two (2) East; thence +easterly to the northwest corner of Section eighteen (18), Township five +(5) South, Range four (4) East; thence southerly to the southwest corner +of said township; thence easterly to the southeast corner of Township +five (5) South, Range five (5) East, the place of beginning; excepting +and excluding from reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or +parcels of land lying and being situate within the boundaries +particularly described as follows, to wit: +</p> +<p> +Beginning at the northeast corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township +five (5) North, Range three (3) East, Black Hills Meridian; thence +westerly to the northwest corner of Section nineteen (19), said +township; thence southerly to the northwest corner of Section thirty-one +(31), said township; thence westerly to the northwest corner of Section +thirty-six (36), Township five (5) North, Range two (2) East; thence +southerly to the southwest corner of Section thirteen (13), Township +four (4) North, Range two (2) East; thence easterly to the southeast +corner of Section fifteen (15), Township four (4) North, Range three (3) +East; thence northerly to the southwest corner of Section two (2), said +township; thence easterly to the southeast corner of said section; +thence northerly to the northeast corner of said section; thence +easterly to the southeast corner of Township five (5) North, Range three +(3) East; thence northerly to the northeast corner of Section +twenty-four (24), said township, the place of beginning. +</p> +<p> +Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which +may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or +covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States +Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant +to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of +record has not expired; and all mining claims duly located and held +according to the laws of the United States and rules and regulations not +in conflict therewith; <i>Provided</i>, That this exception shall not +continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, +settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the +entry, filing, settlement, or location was made. +</p> +<p> +Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to enter or make +settlement upon the tract of land reserved by this proclamation. +</p> +<p> +In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of +the United States to be affixed. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington, this 19th day of September, in the year +of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, and of the +Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-third. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + ALVEY A. ADEE, <br /> + <i>Acting Secretary of State.</i> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. +</h3> +<h4> +A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +Whereas by joint resolution "to provide for annexing the Hawaiian +Islands to the United States," approved July 7, 1898, the cession by the +Government of the Republic of Hawaii to the United States of America, of +all rights of sovereignty of whatsoever kind in and over the Hawaiian +Islands and their dependencies, and the transfer to the United States +of the absolute fee and ownership of all public, Government, or crown +lands, public buildings, or edifices, ports, harbors, military +equipment, and all other public property of every kind and description +belonging to the Government of the Hawaiian Islands, was duly accepted, +ratified, and confirmed, and the said Hawaiian Islands and their +dependencies annexed as a part of the territory of the United States and +made subject to the sovereign dominion thereof, and all and singular the +property and rights hereinbefore mentioned vested in the United States +of America; and +</p> +<p> +Whereas it was further provided in said resolution that the existing +laws of the United States relative to public lands shall not apply to +such lands in the Hawaiian Islands, but the Congress of the United +States shall enact special laws for their management and disposition; +and +</p> +<p> +Whereas it is deemed necessary in the public interests that certain lots +and plats of land in the city of Honolulu be immediately reserved for +naval purposes; +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by +virtue of the authority in me vested, do hereby declare, proclaim, and +make known that the following described lots or plats of land be and the +same are hereby reserved for naval purposes until such time as the +Congress of the United States shall otherwise direct, to wit: +</p> +<p> +1st. The water front lying between the Bishop Estate and the line of +Richards Street including the site of prospective wharves, slips, and +their approaches. +</p> +<p> +2d. The blocks of land embracing lots No. 86 to 91, 100 to 131, +including Mililani Street to the intersection of Halekauwali Street; and +the Government water lots lying between the Bishop Estate and Punchbowl +and Allen Streets. +</p> +<p> +In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of +the United States to be affixed. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington, this 2d day of November, in the year one +thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, and of the Independence of the +United States the one hundred and twenty-third. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + JOHN HAY, <br /> + <i>Secretary of State.</i> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +HAWAIIAN CABLE CONCESSION. +</h3> +<p> +<i>To all to whom these presents shall come; greeting</i>: +</p> +<p> +Know ye, that: Whereas, by an Indenture made the 2d day of July, in the +year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight between +Sanford B. Dole, President of the Republic of Hawaii for and in behalf +of the Hawaiian Government of the one part and the Pacific Cable +Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the +State of New York of the United States of America, of the other part, +there was granted, conceded, and confirmed unto the party of the second +part and its successors and assigns the right and privilege to lay, +construct, land, maintain and operate telegraphic and magnetic lines or +cables from a point or points on the Pacific Coast of the United States +to a suitable landing place or places to be selected by the party of the +second part in the Hawaiian Islands with terminus at Honolulu, Island of +Oahu, and from and beyond the Hawaiian Islands to Japan and any islands +or places necessary for stations for such cables between the Hawaiian +Islands and Japan that lie north of the tenth degree or parallel of +north latitude in the North Pacific Ocean, as an exclusive right and +privilege together with an exemption from duties, charges, and taxes +for and during the term of twenty years from the date expressed in +said Indenture, to wit, the 21st day of June, A.D. 1898,—said right, +privilege, and exemption being subject to the terms and conditions set +forth in said Indenture; +</p> +<p> +And whereas among said terms and conditions it is declared and agreed by +said Indenture that the party of the second part within two years from +the approval (within eighteen months from the date of said contract) of +an act by the Congress of the United States authorizing the party of the +second part to construct and operate a submarine cable line between the +United States and the Hawaiian Islands shall construct, lay in proper +working order, and establish a submarine telegraph cable from a point or +points on the Pacific coast of the United States to a landing place or +places in the Hawaiian Islands with terminus at Honolulu, Island of +Oahu, according to the specifications of said Indenture, and further, +within three years from the approval of such act by the Congress of the +United States, shall in like manner construct, lay in proper working +order, and establish a submarine telegraph cable from a point or points +at or near said Honolulu to Japan; +</p> +<p> +And whereas it is provided by said Indenture that the contract therein +made and set forth shall not take effect, if at any time within six +months from the date thereof, to wit, the 2d day of July, A.D., 1898, +"the United States State Department" shall express its disapproval +thereof; +</p> +<p> +And whereas, pursuant to a Joint Resolution of the Senate and House of +Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, +approved July 7, 1898, to provide for annexing the Hawaiian Islands to +the United States, the sovereignty of the said Hawaiian Islands was +yielded up to the United States on the 12th day of August, A.D., 1898, +becoming thenceforth vested in the United States of America. +</p> +<p> +And whereas, in view of the provisions of said Joint Resolution for the +determination by the Congress of the United States of all matters of +municipal legislation concerning the Hawaiian Islands, and because the +subject matter and provisions of said Indenture are deemed to be proper +subjects for the consideration and determination of the Congress of the +United States, it is deemed expedient and necessary that the Congress of +the United States consider and adopt such legislation, especially in +regard to grants and contractual obligations to be controlled by and +rest upon the United States of America as vested with sovereignty over +said Hawaiian Islands, without let or hindrance by reason of any action +of the Government of the Republic of Hawaii in respect to such grants +and contractual obligations initiated by the said Government of the +Republic of Hawaii prior to and incomplete at the time of the yielding +up of the sovereignty of the Hawaiian Islands to the United States; +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, I, John Hay, Secretary of State of the United States, do +hereby express on the part of "the United States State Department" its +disapproval of the contract stipulated in the said Indenture to the end +that the same shall not take effect. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Given under my hand and the seal of the Department of State of the +United States, in the city of Washington, D.C., this thirty-first day of +December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and +ninety-eight. +</p> +<p class="r"> +JOHN HAY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. +</h3> +<h4> +A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +Whereas it is provided by section twenty-four of the act of Congress, +approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, "An +act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes," "That the +President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and +reserve in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in +any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or +undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, +and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the +establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof;" +</p> +<p> +And whereas it is further provided by the act of Congress, approved June +fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled, "An act making +appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the +fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, +and for other purposes," that "The President is hereby authorized at any +time to modify any executive order that has been or may hereafter be +made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may +reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may +vacate altogether any order creating such reserve;" +</p> +<p> +And whereas the public lands in the State of California, within the +limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it +appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and +reserving said lands as a public reservation; +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by +virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid acts of Congress, do +hereby make known and proclaim that the boundary lines of the Forest +Reservation in the State of California, known as "The Trabuco Cañon +Forest Reserve," created by proclamation of February twenty-fifth, +eighteen hundred and ninety-three, are hereby so changed and enlarged as +to include all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and +being situate in the State of California, and within the boundaries +particularly described as follows, to wit: +</p> +<p> +Beginning at the northeast corner of Section thirteen (13), Township +five (5) South, Range six (6) West, San Bernardino Base and Meridian, +California; thence westerly along the section line to the southeast +corner of Section nine (9), said township; thence northerly along the +section line to the northeast corner of Section four (4), said township; +thence westerly along the township line to the northwest corner of +Section three (3), Township five (5) South, Range seven (7) West; thence +southerly along the section line to the southwest corner of Section +thirty-four (34), said township; thence easterly along the township +line to the southeast corner of said township; thence southerly +along the range line between Ranges six (6) and seven (7) West, to its +intersection with the northern boundary of the Rancho Mission Viejo or +La Paz; thence along the northern and eastern boundary of said rancho +to its intersection with the northern boundary of the Rancho Santa +Margarita y Las Flores; thence along the northern boundary of said +rancho to its intersection with the range line between Ranges four +(4) and five (5) West; thence northerly along said range line to its +intersection with the southern boundary of the Rancho Santa Rosa; thence +in a northwesterly and northeasterly direction along the southern and +western boundary of said rancho to its intersection with the township +line between Townships six (6) and seven (7) South; thence westerly +along said township line to the southeast corner of Township six (6) +South, Range six (6) West; thence northerly along the range line to the +northeast corner of Section thirteen (13), Township five (5) South, +Range six (6) West, the place of beginning. +</p> +<p> +Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which +may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or +covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States +Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant +to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of +record has not expired; <i>Provided</i>, that this exception shall not +continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, +settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the +entry, filing, or settlement was made. +</p> +<p> +Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement +upon the tract of land reserved by this proclamation. +</p> +<p> +In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of +the United States to be affixed. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington, this 30th day of January, in the year of +our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, and of the +Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-third. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + JOHN HAY, <br /> + <i>Secretary of State.</i> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. +</h3> +<h4> +A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +Whereas satisfactory proof has been given to me by the Government of +Mexico that no discriminating duties of tonnage or imposts are imposed +or levied in the ports of Mexico upon vessels wholly belonging to +citizens of the United States, or upon the produce, manufactures, or +merchandise imported in the same from the United States, or from any +foreign country: +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States +of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section four +thousand two hundred and twenty-eight of the Revised Statutes of the +United States, do hereby declare and proclaim that, from and after +the date of this, my proclamation, so long as vessels of the United +States and their cargoes shall be exempt from discriminating duties as +aforesaid, any such duties on Mexican vessels entering the ports of the +United States, or on the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported +in such vessels, shall be suspended and discontinued, and no longer. +</p> +<p> +In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of +the United States to be affixed. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington, the 9th day of February, in the year +of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, and of the +Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-third. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + JOHN HAY, <br /> + <i>Secretary of State.</i> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. +</h3> +<h4> +A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +Whereas it is provided by section twenty-four of the act of Congress, +approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled "An +act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes," "That the +President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and +reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, +in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or +undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, +and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the +establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof;" +</p> +<p> +And whereas the public lands in the State of Montana, within the limits +hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears +that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving +said lands as public reservations; +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by +virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid +act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby +reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as Public Reservations +all those certain tracts, pieces, or parcels of land lying and being +situate in the State of Montana and particularly described as follows, +to wit: +</p> +<p> +Sections fourteen (14), twenty-four (24), twenty-six (26), and +thirty-six (36), Township three (3) South, Range five (5) East; Sections +two (2), twelve (12), fourteen (14), twenty-four (24), twenty-six (26), +and thirty-six (36), Township four (4) South, Range five (5) East; +Sections two (2), twelve (12), fourteen (14), and twenty-four (24), +Township five (5) South, Range five (5) East; Sections fourteen (14), +sixteen (16), eighteen (18), twenty (20), twenty-two (22), twenty-four +(24), twenty-six (26), twenty-eight (28), thirty (30), thirty-two (32), +thirty-four (34), and thirty-six (36), Township three (3) South, Range +six (6) East; Sections two (2), four (4), six (6), eight (8), ten (10), +twelve (12), fourteen (14), sixteen (16), eighteen (18), twenty (20), +twenty-two (22), twenty-four (24), twenty-six (26), twenty-eight (28), +thirty (30), thirty-two (32), thirty-four (34), and thirty-six (36), +Township four (4) South, Range six (6) East; Sections two (2), four (4), +six (6), eight (8), ten (10), twelve (12), fourteen (14), sixteen (16), +eighteen (18), twenty (20), twenty-two (22), and twenty-four (24), +Township five (5) South, Range six (6) East; Sections eighteen (18), and +thirty (30), Township three (3) South, Range seven (7) East; Sections +six (6), eighteen (18), and thirty (30), Township four (4) South, Range +seven (7) East; and Sections six (6) and eighteen (18), Township five +(5) South, Range seven (7) East, Principal Meridian, Montana. +</p> +<p> +Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which +may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or +covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States +Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant +to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of +record has not expired; <i>Provided</i>, that this exception shall not +continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, +settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the +entry, filing, or settlement was made. +</p> +<p> +Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement +upon the tracts of land reserved by this proclamation. +</p> +<p> +In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of +the United States to be affixed. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington, this 10th day of February, in the year +of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, and of the +Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-third. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + JOHN HAY, <br /> + <i>Secretary of State.</i> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. +</h3> +<h4> +A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +Whereas it is provided by section twenty-four of the act of Congress, +approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, "An +act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes," "That the +President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and +reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, +in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or +undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, +and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the +establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof;" +</p> +<p> +And whereas the public lands in the State of Utah, within the limits +hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears +that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving +said lands as a public reservation; +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by +virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid +act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there is hereby +reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation +all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being +situate in the State of Utah and within the boundaries particularly +described as follows, to wit: +</p> +<p> +Beginning at the northeast corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township +twenty-four (24) South, Range two (2) East, Salt Lake Base and Meridian, +Utah; thence southerly along the range line to the northeast corner of +Section thirteen (13), Township twenty-five (25) South, Range two (2) +East; thence easterly along the section line to the northeast corner of +Section eighteen (18), Township twenty-five (25) South, Range three +(3) East; thence southerly along the section line to the Fifth (5th) +Standard Parallel South; thence westerly along said parallel to the +northeast corner of Township twenty-six (26) South, Range two (2) East; +thence southerly along the range line to the southeast corner of said +township; thence westerly along the township line to the southwest +corner of Section thirty-five (35), Township twenty-six (26) South, +Range one (1) East; thence northerly along the section line to the Fifth +(5th) Standard Parallel South; thence easterly along said parallel to +the southwest corner of Township twenty-five (25) South, Range two (2) +East; thence northerly along the range line to the northwest corner of +Section nineteen (19), Township twenty-four (24) South, Range two (2) +East; thence easterly along the section line to the northeast corner of +Section twenty-four (24), said township, the place of beginning. +</p> +<p> +Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which +may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or +covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States +Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant +to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of +record has not expired; <i>Provided</i>, that this exception shall not +continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, +settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the +entry, filing, or settlement was made. +</p> +<p> +Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement +upon the tract of land reserved by this proclamation. +</p> +<p> +In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of +the United States to be affixed. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington this 10th day of February, in the year +of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, and of the +Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-third. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + JOHN HAY, <br /> + <i>Secretary of State.</i> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. +</h3> +<h4> +A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +Whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the act of Congress, +approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, "An +act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes," "That the +President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and +reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, +in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or +undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, +and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the +establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof;" +</p> +<p> +And whereas, the public lands in the Territory of New Mexico, within the +limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it +appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and +reserving said lands as a public reservation; +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by +virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid +act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there is hereby +reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation +all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being +situate in the Territory of New Mexico and within the boundaries +particularly described as follows, to-wit: +</p> +<p> +Beginning at a point on the boundary line between New Mexico and Arizona +where it is intersected by the north line of Township five (5) South, +Range twenty-one (21) West, New Mexico Principal Meridian, New Mexico; +thence easterly along the township line to the northeast corner of +Township five (5) South, Range sixteen (16) West; thence southerly along +the range line between Ranges fifteen (15) and sixteen (16) West, to the +southeast corner of Township eight (8) South, Range sixteen (16) West; +thence easterly along the township line to the northeast corner of +Township nine (9) South, Range fifteen (15) West; thence southerly along +the range line to the southeast corner of said township; thence easterly +along the township line to the northeast corner of Township ten (10) +South, Range ten (10) West; thence southerly along the First Guide +Meridian West, between Ranges nine (9) and ten (10) West, to its +intersection with the Third (3rd) Standard Parallel South, between +Townships fifteen (15) and sixteen (16) South; thence westerly along the +said Third (3rd) Standard Parallel South to the southwest corner of +Township fifteen (15) South, Range sixteen (16) West; thence northerly +along the range line to the northwest corner of said township; thence +westerly along the township line to the northeast corner of Township +fifteen (15) South, Range nineteen (19) West; thence southerly along the +range line to its intersection with the Third (3rd) Standard Parallel +South; thence westerly along the Third (3rd) Standard Parallel South to +its intersection with the boundary line between New Mexico and Arizona; +thence northerly along said boundary line to the point where it +intersects the north line of Township five (5) South, Range twenty-one +(21) West, the place of beginning. +</p> +<p> +Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which +may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or +covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States +Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant +to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of +record has not expired; <i>Provided</i>, that this exception shall not +continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, +settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the +entry, filing or settlement was made. +</p> +<p> +Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement +upon the tract of land reserved by this proclamation. +</p> +<p> +In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of +the United States to be affixed. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington this second day of March, in the year +of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, and of the +Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-third. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + JOHN HAY, <br /> + <i>Secretary of State.</i> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. +</h3> +<h4> +A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +Whereas by a proclamation of the President of the United States, dated +the second day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety one, upon proof +then appearing satisfactory that no tonnage or lighthouse dues or other +equivalent tax or taxes were imposed upon American vessels entering the +ports of the Island of Tobago, one of the British West India Islands, +and that vessels belonging to the United States of America and their +cargoes were not required in the ports of the said Island of Tobago to +pay any fee or due of any kind or nature, or any import due higher than +was payable by vessels from ports or places in the said Island of +Tobago, or their cargoes, in the United States, the President did +therefore declare and proclaim, from and after the date of his said +proclamation of December second, eighteen hundred and ninety one, the +suspension of the collection of the whole of the duty of three cents per +ton, not to exceed fifteen cents per ton per annum, imposed upon vessels +entered in the ports of the United States from any of the ports of the +Island of Tobago by section 11 of the act of Congress approved June +nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty six, entitled "An act to abolish +certain fees for official services to American vessels and to amend the +laws relating to shipping commissioners, seamen, and owners of vessels +and for other purposes." +</p> +<p> +And whereas the President did further declare and proclaim in his +proclamation of December second, eighteen hundred and ninety one, that +the said suspension should continue so long as the reciprocal exemption +of vessels belonging to citizens of the United States and their cargoes +should be continued in the said ports of the Island of Tobago and no +longer; +</p> +<p> +And whereas it now appears upon satisfactory proof that tonnage or +light-house dues, or a tax or taxes equivalent thereto, are in fact +imposed upon American vessels and their cargoes entered in ports of +the Island of Tobago higher and other than those imposed upon vessels +and their cargoes entered in ports of the Island of Tobago, or +their cargoes, entered in ports of the United States, so that said +proclamation of December second, eighteen hundred and ninety one, in its +operation and effect contravenes the meaning and intent of said section +11 of the act of Congress approved June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and +eighty-six; +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States of +America, by virtue of the aforesaid section 11 of the act aforesaid, as +well as in pursuance of the terms of said proclamation itself, do hereby +revoke the said proclamation of December second, eighteen hundred and +ninety-one suspending the collection of the whole of the duty of three +cents per ton, not to exceed fifteen cents per ton per annum (which is +imposed by the aforesaid section of said act) upon vessels entered in +the ports of the United States from any of the ports of the Island of +Tobago; this revocation of said proclamation to take effect on and after +the date of this my proclamation. +</p> +<p> +In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of +the United States to be affixed. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington, this 13th day of March, in the year +of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, and of the +Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-third. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + JOHN HAY, <br /> + <i>Secretary of State.</i> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. +</h3> +<h4> +A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +Whereas by a proclamation of the President of the United States, +dated April seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-five upon proof then +appearing satisfactory that upon vessels of the United States arriving +at the Island of Trinidad, British West Indies, no due was imposed by +the ton as tonnage or as light money and that no other equivalent tax on +vessels of the United States was imposed at said island by the British +Government, the President did declare and proclaim from and after the +date of his said proclamation of April seventh, eighteen hundred and +eighty-five, the suspension of the collection of the tonnage duties of +three cents per ton, not to exceed fifteen cents per ton per annum, +imposed upon vessels entered in ports of the United States from any of +the ports of the Island of Trinidad by section 14 of the act of Congress +approved June twenty-six, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, entitled +"An act to remove certain burdens on the American merchant marine and +encourage the American foreign carrying trade and for other purposes;" +</p> +<p> +And whereas it now appears upon satisfactory proof that tonnage or +light-house dues, or a tax or taxes equivalent thereto, are in fact +imposed upon American vessels and their cargoes entered in ports of the +Island of Trinidad higher and other than those imposed upon vessels from +ports in the Island of Trinidad or their cargoes entered in ports of the +United States, so that said proclamation of April seventh, eighteen +hundred and eighty-five, in its operation and effect contravenes the +meaning and intent of section 14 of the act of Congress approved June +twenty-six, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as amended by section 11 +of the act of Congress approved June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and +eighty-six, entitled "An act to abolish certain fees for official +services to American vessels and to amend the laws relating to shipping +commissioners, seamen, and owners of vessels and for other purposes;" +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States of +America, by virtue of the aforesaid section 14 of the act of Congress +approved June twenty-six, eighteen hundred and eighty-four as amended by +the aforesaid section 11 of the act approved June nineteenth, eighteen +hundred and eighty-six, do hereby revoke the said proclamation of April +seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, suspending the collection of +the whole of the duty of three cents per ton, not to exceed fifteen +cents per ton per annum (which is imposed by the aforesaid sections of +said acts), upon vessels entered in the ports of the United States from +any of the ports of the Island of Trinidad; this revocation of said +proclamation to take effect on and after the date of this my +proclamation. +</p> +<p> +In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of +the United States to be affixed. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington, this 13th day of March, in the year +of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, and of the +Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-third. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + JOHN HAY, <br /> + <i>Secretary of State.</i> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. +</h3> +<h4> +A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +Whereas, it is deemed necessary in the public interests that certain +lands lying to the eastward of the city of San Juan, in Puerto Rico, be +immediately reserved for naval purposes; +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by +virtue of the authority in me vested, do hereby, declare, proclaim, and +make known that the following-described lands be and the same are hereby +reserved for naval purposes until such time as the Congress of the +United States shall otherwise direct, to wit: +</p> +<p> +1st. The public land, natural, reclaimed, partly reclaimed, or which +may be reclaimed, lying south of the Caguas Road, shown on the U.S. +Hydrographic Map No. 1745 of July, 1898, and for 250 feet north of said +Caguas Road, to be bounded on the west by a true north and south line +passing through the eastern corner of the railway station shown on said +map, on the south by the shore of the harbor, and to extend east 2,400 +feet, more or less, to include 80 acres. +</p> +<p> +2nd. The entire island lying to the southward of the above-described +land, and described on the U.S. Hydrographic Map No. 1745, of July, +1898, as Isla Grande, or Manglar. +</p> +<p> +The Military Governor of the Island of Puerto Rico will make this +transfer through the representative of the Navy, the Commandant of the +United States Naval Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico, who will present +this proclamation. +</p> +<p> +<i>March 29, 1899.</i> +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + JOHN HAY, <br /> + <i>Secretary of State.</i> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. +</h3> +<h4> +A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +Whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the act of Congress, +approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, "An +act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes," "That the +President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and +reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, +in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or +undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, +and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the +establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof;" +</p> +<p> +And whereas, the public lands in the State of California, within the +limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it +appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and +reserving said lands as a public reservation; +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by +virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid +act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there is hereby +reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation +all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being +situate in the State of California and particularly described as +follows, to wit: +</p> +<p> +Townships eleven (11), twelve (12) and thirteen (13) North, Range +sixteen (16) East, Mount Diablo Base and Meridian, California; Townships +eleven (11), twelve (12) and thirteen (13) North, Range seventeen (17) +East; and so much of Township eleven (11) North, Range eighteen (18) +East, as lies west of the summit of the Sierra Nevada Range of mountains +in El Dorado County, California. +</p> +<p> +Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which +may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or +covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States +Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant +to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of +record has not expired; <i>Provided</i>, that this exception shall not +continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, +settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the +entry, filing or settlement was made. +</p> +<p> +Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement +upon the tract of land reserved by this proclamation. +</p> +<p> +The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Lake Tahoe +Forest Reserve. +</p> +<p> +In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of +the United States to be affixed. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington this 13th day of April, in the year +of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, and of the +Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-third. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + JOHN HAY, <br /> + <i>Secretary of State.</i> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. +</h3> +<h4> +A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +Whereas, by the provisions of an act approved February 20, 1895, +entitled "An act to disapprove the treaty heretofore made with the +Southern Ute Indians to be removed to the Territory of Utah, and +providing for settling them down in severalty where they may so elect +and are qualified and to settle all those not electing to take lands +in severalty, on the west forty miles of present reservation and in +portions of New Mexico, and for other purposes, and to carry out the +provisions of the treaty with said Indians June fifteenth, eighteen +hundred and eighty," the agreement made by the commissioners on the part +of the United States with the Southern Ute Indians of Colorado bearing +date November thirteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, was +annulled and the treaty made with said Indians June fifteenth, eighteen +hundred and eighty, was directed to be carried out as therein provided +and as further provided by general law for settling Indians in +severalty; and +</p> +<p> +Whereas it was further provided by said act that within six months +after the passage thereof, the Secretary of the Interior should cause +allotment of land, in severalty, to be made to such of the Southern Ute +Indians in Colorado, as might elect and be considered by him qualified +to take the same out of the agricultural lands embraced in their present +reservation in Colorado, such allotments to be made in accordance with +the provisions of the act of Congress approved June fifteenth, eighteen +hundred and eighty, entitled "An act to accept and ratify the agreement +submitted by the confederated bands of Ute Indians in Colorado for the +sale of their reservation in said State and for other purposes, and to +make the necessary appropriations for carrying out the same," and the +amendments thereto, as far as applicable, and the treaties theretofore +made with said Indians; and +</p> +<p> +Whereas it was further provided that for the sole and exclusive use of +such of said Indians as might not elect or be deemed qualified to take +allotments in severalty as provided, there should be set apart and +reserved all that portion of their reservation lying west of the range +line between ranges thirteen and fourteen west of the New Mexico +Principal Meridian, and also all of townships thirty-one and thirty-two +of ranges fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen west of the New Mexico +Principal Meridian and lying in the Territory of New Mexico, subject +to the right of the Government to erect and maintain agency buildings +thereon, and to grant rights of way through the same for railroads, +irrigation ditches, highways and other necessary purposes; and +</p> +<p> +Whereas under the provisions of section four of said act it was made the +duty of the President of the United States to issue his proclamation +declaring the lands within the reservation of said Indians except such +portions as might have been allotted or reserved under the provisions of +the preceding sections of said act, open to occupancy and settlement, +said unallotted and unreserved lands to be and become a part of the +public domain of the United States and to become subject to entry, under +the desert, homestead, and townsite laws and the laws governing the +disposal of coal, mineral, stone and timber lands, but providing that no +homestead settler should receive a title to any portion of such lands at +less than one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, and such settlers +should be required to make a cash payment of fifty cents per acre at the +time filing is made upon any of said lands; and providing that before +said lands should be open to public settlement the Secretary of the +Interior should cause the improvements belonging to the Indians on the +lands then occupied by them to be appraised and sold at public sale to +the highest bidder, except improvements on lands allotted to the Indians +in accordance with this act; and providing that no sale of such +improvements should be made for less than the appraised value and that +the several purchasers of said improvements should, for thirty days +after the issuance of the President's proclamation have the preference +right of entry of the lands upon which the improvements purchased by +them should be situated, but that the said purchase should not exceed +one hundred and sixty acres and that the proceeds of such improvements +should be paid to the Indians owning the same; and +</p> +<p> +Whereas it is further provided that the provisions of said act should +take effect only upon the acceptance thereof and consent thereto by a +majority of all the male adult Indians then located or residing upon the +reservation, which acceptance should be at once obtained under such +regulations as the Secretary of the Interior might prescribe; and +</p> +<p> +Whereas allotments have been made as provided for in said act, and +all the other terms and considerations as required therein have been +complied with, precedent to opening the unallotted and unreserved +lands in said reservation to settlement and entry, except the sale of +improvements on the NE ¼ NW ¼, S ½ NW ¼ and NW ¼ SW ¼ Sec. +1, T. 33 N., R. 9 W., belonging to Ignacio, an Indian, but said sale +will be immediately ordered and the rights of the purchaser thereof will +be protected for thirty days from date of this proclamation, as provided +by the act, by instructions to the register and receiver of the local +land office having jurisdiction over the same, and as this exception is +not considered a bar to the opening of the unallotted and unreserved +lands to settlement; and +</p> +<p> +Whereas I issued a proclamation on the 29th day of March, last, intended +to open the lands to settlement and entry as authorized in said act, but +as some question has arisen as to the boundaries proclaimed being +sufficiently definite to cover the lands intended to be opened, +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, +for the purpose of removing any doubt and making the boundaries of said +lands more definite, by virtue of the power in me vested by said act, +do hereby issue this, my second proclamation, and do hereby declare and +make known that all of the lands embraced in said reservation, saving +and excepting the lands reserved for and allotted to said Indians, and +the lands reserved for other purposes in pursuance of the provisions of +said act, will, at and after the hour of twelve o'clock noon (mountain +standard time) on the 4th day of May, A.D., eighteen hundred and +ninety-nine, and not before, be open to settlement and entry under the +terms of and subject to all the conditions, limitations, reservations +and restrictions contained in said act, and the laws of the United +States applicable thereto. +</p> +<p> +The lands to be opened to settlement and entry are described as lying +within the following boundaries: Beginning at the point established by +S.S. Gannett, Special Indian Agent, in June, 1897, at the intersection +of the 107th meridian and the 37th parallel of latitude; thence north +15 miles along the eastern boundary of the reservation; thence westerly +along the north boundary of the Southern Ute Indian Reservation to its +intersection with the range line between ranges thirteen and fourteen +west of the New Mexico Principal Meridian; thence south fifteen miles on +said range line to the south boundary of the State of Colorado; thence +easterly along the south boundary of the State of Colorado to the place +of beginning. +</p> +<p> +The survey of the east boundary of the above tract through townships 32, +33, and 34 N., R. 1 W., and of that part of the north boundary in Tps. +34 N., Rs. 1 and 2 W., being in process of correction owing to errors +found in said survey, notice is hereby given to all parties who may +elect to make entries of lands adjoining the boundary lines subject to +correction, that their entries will be at their own risk, and subject +to such changes as to the boundaries of the several tracts so entered +as may be found necessary in the progress of the correction of the +erroneous survey, and that without recourse to the United States for +any damage that may arise as the result of the correction survey. +</p> +<p> +The lands allotted to the Indians are for greater convenience +particularly described in the accompanying schedule entitled "Schedule +of lands within the Southern Ute Indian Reservation allotted to the +Indians and withheld from settlement and entry by proclamation of the +President dated April 13, 1899," and which schedule is made a part +thereof. +</p> +<p> +An error having been made in 1873 in the survey and location of the +eastern boundary of the reservation hereby opened to settlement and +entry whereby certain lands constituting a part of the reservation were +erroneously identified as being outside of the reservation, by reason +of which several persons in good faith settled upon said lands under +the belief that the same were unappropriated public lands open to +settlement, and have since improved and cultivated, and are now residing +upon the same with a view to the entry thereof under the public land +laws, notice is hereby given that in so far as said persons possess the +qualifications required by law, and maintain their said settlement and +residence up to the time of the opening herein provided for, they will +be considered and treated as having initiated and established a lawful +settlement at the very instant at which the lands become open, and as +having the superior right and claim to enter said lands, which right +must be exercised within three months from the time of said opening. +</p> +<p> +In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of +the United States to be affixed. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington, this 13th day of April, in the year of +our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, and of the +Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-third. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + JOHN HAY, <br /> + <i>Secretary of State.</i> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<center> +SCHEDULE OF LANDS WITHIN THE SOUTHERN UTE INDIAN RESERVATION ALLOTTED +TO THE INDIANS AND WITHHELD FROM SETTLEMENT AND ENTRY BY PROCLAMATION +OF THE PRESIDENT DATED APRIL 13, 1899. +</center> + +<p class="c"> +<i>In Township 32 North, Range 3 West.</i> +</p> +<p> +Southwest quarter of southwest quarter of section 4; south half of +southeast quarter and southeast quarter of southwest quarter of section +5; north half of northeast quarter, east half of northwest quarter, east +half of southwest quarter and southwest quarter of southwest quarter of +section 8; north half of northwest quarter and southeast quarter of +northwest quarter of section 9; southeast quarter of southwest quarter +and south half of southeast quarter of section 10; southwest quarter of +southwest quarter of section 11; northwest quarter of northwest quarter +of section 13; north half of northeast quarter and north half of +northwest quarter of section 14; northeast quarter of northeast quarter +of section 15; northwest quarter of northwest quarter of section 17; and +northeast quarter of northeast quarter of section 18. +</p> +<p class="c"> +<i>In Township 33 North, Range 3 West.</i> +</p> +<p> +East half of section 3; northeast quarter, south half of northwest +quarter and west half of southwest quarter of section 10; south half of +southeast quarter and south half of southwest quarter of section 19; +east half of northeast quarter, southeast quarter, east half of +southwest quarter and southwest quarter of southwest quarter of section +20; northwest quarter and north half of southwest quarter of section 21; +west half of northwest quarter of section 28; east half, east half of +northwest quarter and northwest quarter of northwest quarter of section +29; north half of northeast quarter and north half of northwest quarter +of section 30; and northeast quarter of section 32. +</p> +<p class="c"> +<i>In Township 34 North, Range 3 West.</i> +</p> +<p> +Southwest quarter of southwest quarter of section 22; northwest quarter +of northwest quarter, south half of northwest quarter and southwest +quarter of section 27; and north half of northwest quarter, southeast +quarter of northwest quarter, southwest quarter of northeast quarter and +southeast quarter of section 34. +</p> +<p class="c"> +<i>In Township 32 North, Range 4 West.</i> +</p> +<p> +Southwest quarter of southeast quarter of section 10; southwest quarter +of southwest quarter of section 13; south half of southeast quarter, +south half of southwest quarter and northwest quarter of southwest +quarter of section 14; west half of northeast quarter, south half of +northwest quarter, west half of southeast quarter and southwest quarter +of section 15; south half of section 16; south half of northeast +quarter, south half of northwest quarter, north half of southeast +quarter and north half of southwest quarter of section 17; south half of +northeast quarter, north half of southeast quarter, southeast quarter of +northwest quarter and northeast quarter of southwest quarter of section +18; north half and north half of southeast quarter of section 21; north +half, north half of southeast quarter and north half of southwest +quarter of section 22; north half, north half of southeast quarter and +north half of southwest quarter of section 23; and west half of +northwest quarter and northwest quarter of southwest quarter of section +24. +</p> +<p class="c"> +<i>In Township 33 North, Range 4 West</i>. +</p> +<p> +South half of northeast quarter, northwest quarter, north half of +southeast quarter, southeast quarter of southeast quarter and northeast +quarter of southwest quarter of section 23; south half of section 24; +and north half of northeast quarter of section 25. +</p> +<p class="c"> +<i>In Township 34 North, Range 4 West.</i> +</p> +<p> +All of section 7; all of section 8; north half of section 9; all of +section 10; north half, southwest quarter, north half of southeast +quarter and southwest quarter of southeast quarter of section 11; +northwest quarter and northwest quarter of southwest quarter of section +12; west half of northwest quarter and northwest quarter of southwest +quarter of section 13; all of section 14; east half, east half of +northwest quarter, and southwest quarter of section 15; south half of +southeast quarter of section 16; north half of northeast quarter, north +half of northwest quarter, southwest quarter of northwest quarter, and +southwest quarter of section 18; west half of section 19; east half of +southeast quarter of section 20; east half, east half of northwest +quarter, and southwest quarter of section 21; north half of northeast +quarter, north half of northwest quarter, southwest quarter of northwest +quarter and northwest quarter of southwest quarter of section 22; north +half of the northwest quarter of section 28; and northeast quarter of +northeast quarter of section 29. +</p> +<p class="c"> +<i>In Township 32 North, Range 5 West.</i> +</p> +<p> +South half, south half of northeast quarter and south half of northwest +quarter of section 9; south half of northwest quarter, and southwest +quarter of section 10; west half of northwest quarter and west half of +southwest quarter of section 14; all of section 15; east half, northwest +quarter and north half of southwest quarter of section 16; northeast +quarter of southeast quarter of section 19; north half of southeast +quarter and north half of southwest quarter of section 20; and northeast +quarter, south half of northwest quarter, northwest quarter of southeast +quarter and north half of southwest quarter of section 21. +</p> +<p class="c"> +<i>In Township 33 North, Range 5 West.</i> +</p> +<p> +West half of northeast quarter, northwest quarter and northwest quarter +of south-west quarter of section 1; east half, east half of northwest +quarter, and southwest quarter of section 2; east half of southeast +quarter and southwest quarter of southeast quarter of section 3; east +half of southeast quarter and southwest quarter of southeast quarter of +section 9; northeast quarter, east half of northwest quarter, southwest +quarter of northwest quarter, northwest quarter of southeast quarter, +and southwest quarter of section 10; northwest quarter of northeast +quarter, and northwest quarter of section 11; west half of northwest +quarter and west half of southwest quarter of section 15; east half, +east half of northwest quarter and east half of southwest quarter of +section 16; north half, north half of southeast quarter and north half +of southwest quarter of section 21; west half of section 28; east half +of section 29; north half of northeast quarter of section 32; and north +half of northwest quarter of section 33. +</p> +<p class="c"> +<i>In Township 34 North, Range 5 West.</i> +</p> +<p> +East half, east half of northwest quarter and south half of southwest +quarter of section 12; east half of northeast quarter, northwest quarter +of northeast quarter and west half of northwest quarter of section 13; +east half of northeast quarter of section 14; west half of section 25; +south half of northeast quarter, southeast quarter and east half of +southwest quarter of section 26; and east half of section 35. +</p> +<p class="c"> +<i>In Township 32 North, Range 7 West.</i> +</p> +<p> +West half of northwest quarter, west half of southeast quarter, and +southwest quarter of section 3; all of section 4; east half of northeast +quarter and east half of southeast quarter of section 5; east half of +northeast quarter and east half of southeast quarter of section 8; all +of section 9; west half, west half of northeast quarter, and southeast +quarter of section 10; west half, west half of northeast quarter and +west half of southeast quarter of section 15; east half, east half of +northwest quarter, northwest quarter of northwest quarter and east half +of southwest quarter of section 16; northeast quarter of northeast +quarter of section 17; northeast quarter of section 21; and northwest +quarter of section 22. +</p> +<p class="c"> +<i>In Township 33 North, Range 7 West.</i> +</p> +<p> +South half of northeast quarter, south half of northwest quarter, and +south half of section 1; south half of northeast quarter, and southeast +quarter of section 2; northwest quarter of northeast quarter, and +northwest quarter of section 4; all of section 5; all of section 6; +north half and northeast quarter of southeast quarter of section 7; all +of section 8; west half of northeast quarter, west half of southeast +quarter, and west half of section 9; east half of section 11; all of +section 12; all of section 13; east half of section 14; southwest +quarter of southwest quarter of section 15; southeast quarter of +northeast quarter, west half of northeast quarter, northwest quarter and +south half of section 16; north half, southeast quarter, north half of +southwest quarter and southeast quarter of southwest quarter of section +17; east half of northeast quarter, southwest quarter of northeast +quarter and north half of southeast quarter of section 18; northeast +quarter, and east half of northwest quarter of section 20; north half, +southeast quarter, east half of southwest quarter and northwest quarter +of southwest quarter of section 21; west half of northwest quarter, and +southwest quarter of section 22; east half of section 23; all of section +24; all of section 25; northeast quarter of section 26; west half of +section 27; east half, east half of northwest quarter, southwest quarter +of northwest quarter, and southwest quarter of section 28; south half of +northeast quarter, and southeast quarter of section 29; east half of +northeast quarter and east half of southeast quarter of section 32; west +half of northeast quarter, west half of southeast quarter, and west half +of section 33; south half of northeast quarter, and southeast quarter of +section 35; and all of section 36. +</p> +<p class="c"> +<i>In Township 34 North, Range 7 West.</i> +</p> +<p> +All of section 10; all of section 11; west half of northeast quarter, +west half of southeast quarter, and west half of section 12; north half +and southwest quarter of section 13; all of section 14; all of section +15; north half, southeast quarter, and east half of southwest quarter of +section 21; all of section 22; all of section 23; north half and +southwest quarter of section 24; northwest quarter of section 25; north +half, west half of southeast quarter, and southwest quarter of section +26; all of section 27; northeast quarter, east half of northwest +quarter, east half of southeast quarter, northwest quarter of southeast +quarter and northeast quarter of southwest quarter of section 28; east +half, and south half of southwest quarter of section 32; all of section +33; north half of northeast quarter, southwest quarter of northeast +quarter, northwest quarter and south half of section 34; and west half +of northeast quarter, northwest quarter, and west half of southwest +quarter of section 35. +</p> +<p class="c"> +<i>In Township 34 North, Range 8 West.</i> +</p> +<p> +East half, east half of northwest quarter and east half of southwest +quarter of section 7; west half and southeast quarter of section 8; west +half of section 17; east half of section 18; east half and southwest +quarter of section 19; west half of section 20; northwest quarter and +south half of section 25; south half of section 26; west half of section +29; east half, east half of northwest quarter and east half of southwest +quarter of section 30; all of section 31; west half of northwest quarter +and west half of southwest quarter of section 32; north half and +southeast quarter of section 35; and all of section 36. +</p> +<p class="c"> +<i>In Township 33 North, Range 9 West.</i> +</p> +<p> +Southwest quarter of northeast quarter, south half of northwest quarter, +southeast quarter, east half of southwest quarter and northwest quarter +of southwest quarter of section 2; south half of northeast quarter, +southeast quarter of northwest quarter, north half of southeast quarter, +southwest quarter of southeast quarter, and southwest quarter of section +3; southeast quarter and south half of southwest quarter of section 4; +east half and southwest quarter of section 8; north half of northwest +quarter of section 9; west half of southeast quarter, and west half of +section 17; east half of southeast quarter, and southwest quarter of +section 18; east half of northeast quarter, northwest quarter, and +southwest quarter of southwest quarter of section 19; northwest quarter, +and east half of southwest quarter of section 20; west half of section +29; east half, south half of northwest quarter, northwest quarter of +northwest quarter, and southwest quarter of section 30; east half, east +half of northwest quarter, and southwest quarter of section 31; and west +half of northwest quarter of section 32. +</p> +<p class="c"> +<i>In Township 34 North, Range 9 West.</i> +</p> +<p> +All of sections 12, 13, 24, 25 and 36. +</p> +<p class="c"> +<i>In Township 33 North, Range 10 West.</i> +</p> +<p> +All of section 1; west half of section 12; west half and southeast quarter +of section 13; east half of section 24; and east half of section 25. +</p> +<p class="c"> +<i>In Township 34 North, Range 10 West.</i> +</p> +<p> +South half of section 13, and all of sections 24, 25 and 36. +</p> +<p class="c"> +<i>In Township 34 North, Range 11 West.</i> +</p> +<p> +East half of northeast quarter, and southeast quarter of section 7; +north half, southeast quarter and east half of southwest quarter of +section 8; west half of northwest quarter and west half of southwest +quarter of section 9; west half of northeast quarter and east half of +northwest quarter of section 17; and west half of section 18. +</p> +<p class="c"> +<i>In Township 33 North, Range 12 West.</i> +</p> +<p> +West half of northwest quarter, south half of southwest quarter and +northwest quarter of southwest quarter of section 4; east half, east +half of southwest quarter and southwest quarter of southwest quarter of +section 5; northeast quarter, south half of northwest quarter and north +half of southwest quarter of section 7; north half of northeast quarter +and north half of northwest quarter of section 8; south half of +northwest quarter and west half of southwest quarter of section 18; east +half and northwest quarter of section 19; east half of section 30; and +east half of section 31. +</p> +<p class="c"> +<i>In Township 34 North, Range 12 West.</i> +</p> +<p> +Southeast quarter and east half of southwest quarter of section 13; +southeast quarter of southeast quarter of section 22; east half of +northeast quarter, southwest quarter of northeast quarter, southeast +quarter of northwest quarter, and south half of section 23; north half, +west half of southeast quarter, and southwest quarter of section 24; +northwest quarter of northeast quarter and north half of northwest +quarter of section 25; north half of northeast quarter, north half of +northwest quarter and southwest quarter of northwest quarter of section +26; east half, south half of northwest quarter, and southwest quarter of +section 27; southeast quarter of section 28; all of section 33; and +north half of northeast quarter, southwest quarter of northeast quarter, +northwest quarter, and north half of southwest quarter of section 34. +</p> +<p class="c"> +<i>In Township 33 North, Range 13 West.</i> +</p> +<p> +Southeast quarter of northeast quarter and east half of southeast +quarter of section 12; and east half of northeast quarter, southwest +quarter of northeast quarter and east half of southeast quarter of +section 13. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. +</h3> +<h4> +A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +Whereas it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, +approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, "An +act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes," "That the +President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and +reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, +in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or +undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, +and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the +establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof;" +</p> +<p> +And whereas the public lands in the State of California, within the +limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it +appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and +reserving said lands as a public reservation; +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by +virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid +Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there is hereby +reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation +all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being +situate in the State of California and particularly described as +follows, to wit: +</p> +<p> +Beginning at a point where the northwestern boundary of the rancho Santa +Ana intersects the township line between Townships four (4) and five (5) +North, Range twenty-three (23) West, San Bernardino Base and Meridian, +California; thence westerly along the township line to the southwest +corner of Township five (5) North, Range twenty-four (24) West; thence +northerly along the range line to the southeast corner of the rancho Los +Prietos y Najalayegua; thence in a general northwesterly direction along +the southern boundaries of the ranchos Los Prietos y Najalayegua, San +Marcos, Tequepis, Lomas de la Purificacion and Nojoqui to the eastern +boundary of the rancho Las Cruces; thence in a general southerly +direction along the eastern boundary of the said rancho Las Cruces to +the northern boundary of the rancho Nuestra Señora del Refugio; thence +in a general southeasterly direction along the northern boundaries of +the ranchos Nuestra Señora del Refugio, Cañada del Corral, Los Dos +Pueblos, La Goleta, Pueblo and Mission Lands of Santa Barbara and the +rancho El Rincon (Arellanes) to its most eastern point; thence in a +southwesterly direction along the southern boundary of said rancho to +the point where it intersects the township line between Townships three +(3) and four (4) North, Range twenty-five (25) West; thence easterly +along the township line to the western boundary of the rancho Santa Ana; +thence northeasterly along the western boundary of said rancho to its +intersection with the township line between Townships four (4) and five +(5) North, Range twenty-three (23) West, the place of beginning. +</p> +<p> +Excepting from the force and effect of this Proclamation all lands which +may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or +covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States +Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant +to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of +record has not expired: <i>Provided</i>, that this exception shall not +continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, +settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the +entry, filing or settlement was made. +</p> +<p> +Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement +upon the tract of land reserved by this proclamation. +</p> +<p> +The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Santa Ynez +Forest Reserve. +</p> +<p> +In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of +the United States to be affixed. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington this 2d day of October, in the year of +our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, and of the +Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-fourth, +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + DAVID J. HILL, <br /> + <i>Acting Secretary of State.</i> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. +</h3> +<h4> +A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +Whereas it is provided by section 13 of the act of Congress of March 3, +1891, entitled "An Act to amend title sixty, chapter three, of the +Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to copyrights," that +said act "shall only apply to a citizen or subject of a foreign state or +nation when such foreign state or nation permits to citizens of the +United States of America the benefit of copyright on substantially the +same basis as its own citizens; or when such foreign state or nation is +a party to an international agreement which provides for reciprocity in +the granting of copyright, by the terms of which agreement the United +States of America may, at its pleasure, become a party to such +agreement;" +</p> +<p> +And whereas it is also provided by said section that "the existence of +either of the conditions aforesaid shall be determined by the President +of the United States by proclamation made from time to time as the +purposes of this act may require;" +</p> +<p> +And whereas satisfactory official assurances have been given that in the +Republic of Costa Rica the law permits to citizens of the United States +of America the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as +to the citizens of that Republic: +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States of +America, do declare and proclaim that the first of the conditions +specified in section 13 of the act of March 3, 1891, now exists and is +fulfilled in respect to the citizens of the Republic of Costa Rica. +</p> +<p> +In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of +the United States to be affixed. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington, this 19th day of October, one thousand +eight hundred and ninety-nine and of the Independence of the United +States the one hundred and twenty-fourth. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + JOHN HAY, <br /> + <i>Secretary of State.</i> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. +</h3> +<h4> +A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +Whereas it is provided by section twenty-four of the act of Congress, +approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled "An +act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes," "That the +President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and +reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, +in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or +undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, +and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the +establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof;" +</p> +<p> +And whereas it is further provided by the act of Congress, approved June +fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled "An act making +appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the +fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, +and for other purposes," that "The President is hereby authorized at any +time to modify any executive order that has been or may hereafter be +made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may +reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may +vacate altogether any order creating such reserve;" +</p> +<p> +And whereas the public lands in the Territory of Arizona, within the +limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it +appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and +reserving said lands as a public reservation; +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by +virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid acts of Congress, do +hereby make known and proclaim that the boundary lines of the Forest +Reservation in the Territory of Arizona, known as "The Prescott Forest +Reserve," created by proclamation of May tenth, eighteen hundred and +ninety-eight, are hereby so changed and enlarged as to include all those +certain tracts, pieces, or parcels of land lying and being situate in +the Territory of Arizona, and within the boundaries particularly +described as follows, to wit: +</p> +<p> +Beginning at the northeast corner of township thirteen (13) north, range +one (1) west, Gila and Salt River Meridian, Arizona; thence southerly +along the Gila and Salt River Meridian to the southeast corner of said +township; thence easterly along the Third (3d) Standard Parallel north +to the northeast corner of township twelve (12) north, range one (1) +east; thence southerly along the range line to the southeast corner of +township nine (9) north, range one (1) east; thence westerly along the +township line to the southwest corner of township nine (9) north, range +one (1) west; thence northerly along the range line to the northwest +corner of said township; thence westerly along the township line to the +southwest corner of township ten (10) north, range two (2) west; thence +northerly along the range line to the southeast corner of township +twelve (12) north, range three (3) west; thence westerly along the +township line to the southwest corner of said township; thence northerly +along the range line to the northwest corner of said township; thence +westerly along the township line to the southwest corner of section +thirty-five (35), township thirteen (13) north, range four (4) west; +thence northerly along the section line to a point due west of the +northwest corner of township fourteen (14) north, range three (3) west; +thence easterly to the northeast corner of said township; thence +southerly along the range line to the northwest corner of section +nineteen (19), township thirteen (13) north, range two (2) west; thence +easterly to the northeast corner of section twenty-four (24), said +township; thence northerly to the northwest corner of township thirteen +(13) north, range one (1) west; thence easterly to the northeast corner +of said township, the place of beginning. +</p> +<p> +Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which +may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or +covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States +Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant +to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of +record has not expired; <i>Provided</i>, that this exception shall not +continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, +settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the +entry, filing, or settlement was made. +</p> +<p> +Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement +upon the tract of land reserved by this proclamation. +</p> +<p> +In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of +the United States to be affixed. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington, this 21st day of October, A.D. 1899, and +of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and +twenty-fourth. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + JOHN HAY, <br /> + <i>Secretary of State.</i> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. +</h3> +<h4> +THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +A national custom dear to the hearts of the people calls for the setting +apart of one day in each year as an occasion of special thanksgiving to +Almighty God for the blessings of the preceding year. This honored +observance acquires with time a tenderer significance. It enriches +domestic life. It summons under the family roof the absent children to +glad reunion with those they love. +</p> +<p> +Seldom has this nation had greater cause for profound thanksgiving. No +great pestilence has invaded our Shores. Liberal employment waits upon +labor. Abundant crops have rewarded the efforts of the husbandmen. +Increased comforts have come to the home. The national finances have +been strengthened, and public credit has been sustained and made firmer. +In all branches of industry and trade there has been an unequaled degree +of prosperity, while there has been a steady gain in the moral and +educational growth of our national character. Churches and schools have +flourished. American patriotism has been exalted. Those engaged in +maintaining the honor of the flag with such signal success have been in +a large degree spared from disaster and disease. An honorable peace has +been ratified with a foreign nation with which we were at war, and we +are now on friendly relations with every power of earth. +</p> +<p> +The trust which we have assumed for the benefit of the people of Cuba +has been faithfully advanced. There is marked progress toward the +restoration of healthy industrial conditions, and under wise sanitary +regulations the island has enjoyed unusual exemption from the scourge of +fever. The hurricane which swept over our new possession of Puerto Rico, +destroying the homes and property of the inhabitants, called forth the +instant sympathy of the people of the United States, who were swift to +respond with generous aid to the sufferers. While the insurrection still +continues in the island of Luzon, business is resuming its activity, and +confidence in the good purposes of the United States is being rapidly +established throughout the archipelago. +</p> +<p> +For these reasons and countless others, I, William McKinley, President +of the United States, do hereby name Thursday, the thirtieth day of +November next, as a day of general thanksgiving and prayer, to be +observed as such by all our people on this continent and in our newly +acquired islands, as well as those who may be at sea or sojourning in +foreign lands; and I advise that on this day religious exercises shall +be conducted in the churches or meeting-places of all denominations, in +order that in the social features of the day its real significance may +not be lost sight of, but fervent prayers may be offered to the Most +High for a continuance of the Divine Guidance without which man's +efforts are vain, and for Divine consolation to those whose kindred and +friends have sacrificed their lives for country. +</p> +<p> +I recommend also that on this day so far as may be found practicable +labor shall cease from its accustomed toil and charity abound toward the +sick, the needy and the poor. +</p> +<p> +In witness whereof I have set my hand and caused the seal of the United +States to be affixed. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington this 25th day of October, A.D. 1899, and +of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and +twenty-fourth. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + JOHN HAY, <br /> + <i>Secretary of State.</i> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. +</h3> +<h4> +A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +Whereas by joint resolution "to provide for annexing the Hawaiian +Islands to the United States," approved July 7, 1898, the cession by the +Government of the Republic of Hawaii to the United States of America, of +all rights of sovereignty of whatsoever kind in and over the Hawaiian +Islands and their dependencies, and the transfer to the United States +of the absolute fee and ownership of all public, Government, or +crown lands, public buildings, or edifices, ports, harbors, military +equipment, and all other public property of every kind and description +belonging to the Government of the Hawaiian Islands, was duly accepted, +ratified, and confirmed, and the said Hawaiian Islands and their +dependencies annexed as a part of the territory of the United States and +made subject to the sovereign dominion thereof, and all and singular the +property and rights hereinbefore mentioned vested in the United States +of America; and +</p> +<p> +Whereas it was further provided in said resolution that the existing +laws of the United States relative to public lands shall not apply to +such lands in the Hawaiian Islands, but the Congress of the United +States shall enact special laws for their management and disposition; +and +</p> +<p> +Whereas it is deemed necessary in the public interests that certain lots +and plats of land in the city of Honolulu be immediately reserved for +naval purposes; +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by +virtue of the authority in me vested, do hereby declare, proclaim, and +make known that the following described lots or plats of land be and the +same are hereby, subject to such legislative action as the Congress of +the United States may take with respect thereto, reserved for naval +purposes, to wit: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + 1st. Esplanade lots Nos. 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, and 99. Beginning at the + south corner of Richards street and Halekauwila street, which point is + S. 30° 25' E., 343.6 feet from the east corner of the Hawaiian Electric + Company building and run by the true Meridian: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + S. 30° 25' E. 304.50 feet along Halekauwila street. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + S. 56° 49' W. 100.12 feet along Mililani street. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + N. 30° 25' W. 300.60 feet along Government Lots Nos. 112-100. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + N. 54° 34' E. 100.38 feet along Richards street to the initial point. + Area, 30,255 square feet. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + 2d. Esplanade lots Nos. 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, and 68. Beginning at the + north corner of Alakea street and Allen street, as shown on Government + Survey's Registered Map No. 1867, and running by true bearings: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + N. 30° 25' W. 200 feet along the northeast side of Allen street. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + N. 59° 35' E. 150 feet along the southeast side of Kilauea street. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + S. 30° 25' E. 200 feet along lots 62 and 69. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + S. 59° 35' W. 150 feet along the northwest side of Alakea street to the + initial point. Area, 30,000 square feet. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + 3d. Lot at east corner of Mililani and Halekauwila streets. Beginning at + the east corner of Halekauwila and Mililani streets, as shown on + Government Survey's Registered Map No. 1955, and running by true + bearings: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + N. 56° 49' E. 110.5 feet along Mililani street. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + S. 3° 52' E. 69.5 feet along inner line of Waikahalulu water lots. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + S. 56° 49' W. 79.5 feet along Bishop Estate land. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + N. 30° 25' W. 60.5 feet along Halekauwila street to the initial point. + Area, 5,728 square feet. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + 4th. A plat of land in Kewalo-uka. Beginning at a point on the upper + side of Punchbowl Drive, which is 863 feet south and 2,817 feet east of + Puowaina Trig. Station, as shown on Government Survey's Registered Map + 1749, and running: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + N. 00° 10' W. true 630 feet along Punchbowl Drive. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + S. 57° 00' W. true 694 feet along Punchbowl Drive. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Thence along Punchbowl Drive in a northeasterly direction 900 feet; + thence due east 840 feet (more or less) to the boundary of the land of + Kalawahine; thence along boundary of the land of Kalawahine 1040 feet + (more or less) to south angle of said land; thence S. 78° 30' W. true + 397 feet (more or less) to Punchbowl Drive: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + N. 84° 50' W. true 245 feet along Punchbowl Drive to initial point. Area + 20 acres (more or less). +</p> +<p class="quote"> + 5th. Lots on Punchbowl Slope, Nos. 608, 609, and 610. Beginning at a + point on the east side of Magazine street, 351.5 feet above the concrete + post marking the east corner of Spencer and Magazine streets, as shown + on Government Survey's Registered Map No. 1749, and runs: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + N. 18° 10' E. true 150.0 feet along Magazine street. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + N. 49° 12' E. true 226.7 feet along Government land. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + S. 24° 11' E. true 91.0 feet along Government Road Reserve. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + S. 77° 21' E. true 179.5 feet along same. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + S. 13° 45' E. true 109.8 feet along Government land to north angle of + Gr. 3813 to Dr. Wood. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + S. 73° 30' W. true 121.3 feet along Gr. 3814 to H.M. Dow. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + S. 76° 15' W. true 250.0 feet along Grs. 3999 and 4000. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + N. 71° 50' W. true 102.5 feet along Gr. 4000 to initial point. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Area, 83,588 square feet. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + 6th. Portion of reef of Kaakaukukui. Beginning at the Government Survey + Station known as the "Battery" [delta] from which, Punchbowl [delta] + bears N. 48° 18' 30" E. true and the lighthouse vane. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + N. 56° 14' W. distant 1608.1 feet and running as follows: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + N. 37° 40' W. true 760 feet along on the reef of Kaakaukukui. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + S. 39° 00' W. true 3100 feet along the southeast side of main channel to + a depth of 20 feet of water (more or less). +</p> +<p class="quote"> + S. 9° 25' W. true 987 feet along the reef in about 20 feet of water. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + N. 52° 23' E. true 3585 feet along on the reef to a point on the + seashore at high-water mark. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + N. 35° 00' W. true 182 feet along the shore at high-water mark. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + N. 5° 35' W. true 446 feet along Allen street extension to the southeast + corner of the Battery wall. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + S. 87° 20' W. true 120 feet to the initial point. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Area, 76-25/100 acres. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + 7th. Punchbowl street from Halekauwila street to Allen street. Beginning + at the southwest corner of Halekauwila and Punchbowl streets, as shown + on the Government blue print, and running in a westerly direction along + the U.S. Naval Reservation 572 feet to Allen street, thence along Allen + street 50 feet, thence in an easterly direction along the United States + Naval Reservation 480 feet to land belonging to the Bishop Estate, + thence 110 feet to the initial point. +</p> +<p> +In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of +the United States to be affixed. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington, this 10th day of November, A.D. 1899, +and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and +twenty-fourth. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + JOHN HAY, <br /> + <i>Secretary of State.</i> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. +</h3> +<h4> +A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +Whereas it is provided by section 13 of the act of Congress of March 3, +1891, entitled "An act to amend title sixty, chapter three, of the +Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to copyrights," that +said act "shall only apply to a citizen or subject of a foreign state +or nation when such foreign state or nation permits to citizens of the +United States of America the benefit of copyright on substantially the +same basis as its own citizens; or when such foreign state or nation is +a party to an international agreement which provides for reciprocity in +the granting of copyright, by the terms of which agreement the United +States of America may, at its pleasure, become a party to such +agreement;" and +</p> +<p> +Whereas it is also provided by said section that "the existence of +either of the conditions aforesaid shall be determined by the President +of the United States by proclamation made from time to time as the +purposes of this act may require;" and +</p> +<p> +Whereas satisfactory official assurances have been given that in the +Kingdom of the Netherlands and in the Netherlands' possessions the law +permits to citizens of the United States of America the benefit of +copyright on substantially the same basis as to subjects of the +Netherlands: +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States of +America, do declare and proclaim that the first of the conditions +specified in section 13 of the act of March 3, 1891, now exists and is +fulfilled in respect to the subjects of the Netherlands. +</p> +<p> +In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of +the United States to be affixed. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington, this 20th day of November, A.D. 1899, +and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and +twenty-fourth. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + JOHN HAY, <br /> + <i>Secretary of State.</i> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. +</h3> +<h4> +A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +<i>To the People of the United States</i>: +</p> +<p> +Garret Augustus Hobart, Vice-President of the United States, died at his +home in Paterson, New Jersey, at 8:30 o'clock this morning. In him the +Nation has lost one of its most illustrious citizens and one of its most +faithful servants. His participation in the business life, and the +law-making body of his native State was marked by unswerving fidelity +and by a high order of talents and attainments; and his too brief career +as Vice-President of the United States and President of the Senate +exhibited the loftiest qualities of upright and sagacious statesmanship. +In the world of affairs he had few equals among his contemporaries. His +private character was gentle and noble. He will long be mourned by his +friends as a man of singular purity and attractiveness whose sweetness +of disposition won all hearts, while his elevated purposes, his +unbending integrity and whole-hearted devotion to the public good +deserved and acquired universal respect and esteem. +</p> +<p> +In sorrowing testimony of the loss which has fallen upon the country, +I direct that on the day of the funeral the Executive Offices of the +United States shall be closed and all posts and stations of the Army +and Navy shall display the national flag at half-mast, and that the +representatives of the United States in foreign countries shall pay +appropriate tribute to the illustrious dead for a period of thirty days. +</p> +<p> +In witness whereof I have set my hand and caused the seal of the United +States to be affixed. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington, this 21st day of November, A.D. 1899, +and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and +twenty-fourth. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + JOHN HAY, <br /> + <i>Secretary of State.</i> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. +</h3> +<h4> +A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +Whereas The Olympic Forest Reserve, in the State of Washington, was +established by proclamation dated February 22d, 1897, under and by +virtue of section twenty-four of the act of Congress, approved March +3rd, 1891, entitled, "An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for +other purposes," which provides, "That the President of the United +States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or +Territory having public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or +undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, +and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the +establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof;" +</p> +<p> +And whereas it is further provided by the act of Congress, approved June +4th, 1897, entitled, "An act making appropriations for sundry civil +expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1898, +and for other purposes," that "The President is hereby authorized at any +time to modify any executive order that has been or may hereafter be +made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may +reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may +vacate altogether any order creating such reserve;" +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, +by virtue of the power vested in me by the aforesaid act of Congress, +approved June 4th, 1897, do hereby make known and proclaim that there +are hereby withdrawn and excluded from the aforesaid Olympic Forest +Reserve and restored to the public domain all those certain tracts, +pieces or parcels of land particularly described as follows, to wit: +</p> +<p> +Townships twenty-eight (28) north, ranges thirteen (13) and fourteen +(14) west, Willamette Base and Meridian, Washington; fractional township +twenty-eight (28) north, range fifteen (15) west; sections one (1) to +eighteen (18), both inclusive, townships twenty-nine (29) north, ranges +three (3), four (4) and five (5) west; sections four (4), five (5), +six (6), seven (7) and the north half of section eight (8), township +twenty-nine (29) north, range twelve (12) west; all of township +twenty-nine (29) north, range thirteen (13) west, except sections +thirteen (13), twenty-three (23), twenty-four (24), twenty-five (25) and +twenty-six (26); township twenty-nine (29) north, range fourteen (14) +west; fractional township twenty-nine (29) north, range fifteen (15) +west; sections one (1) to twelve (12), both inclusive, township thirty +(30) north, range nine (9) west; sections twenty-seven (27) to +thirty-four (34), both inclusive, township thirty (30) north, range ten +(10) west; sections twenty-five (25) to thirty-six (36), both inclusive, +township thirty (30) north, range eleven (11) west; sections seventeen +(17) to thirty-six (36), both inclusive, township thirty (30) north, +range twelve (12) west; townships thirty (30) north, ranges thirteen +(13) and fourteen (14) west; and township thirty (30) north, range +fifteen (15) west. +</p> +<p> +That the lands hereby restored to the public domain shall be open to +settlement from date hereof, but shall not be subject to entry, filing +or selection until after ninety days notice by such publication as the +Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. +</p> +<p> +In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of +the United States to be affixed. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington, this 7th day of April, A.D. 1900, and of +the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-fourth. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + JOHN HAY, <br /> + <i>Secretary of State.</i> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. +</h3> +<h4> +A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +Whereas by section one of the act of July 1, 1892 (27 Stat., 62), +entitled "An act to provide for the opening of a part of the Colville +Reservation, in the State of Washington, and for other purposes" it is +provided: +</p> +<p> +"That subject to the reservations and allotment of lands in severalty to +the individual members of the Indians of the Colville Reservation in the +State of Washington herein provided for, all the following described +tract or portion of said Colville Reservation, namely: Beginning at a +point on the eastern boundary line of the Colville Indian Reservation +where the township line between townships thirty-four and thirty-five +north, of range thirty-seven east, of the Willamette meridian, if +extended west, would intersect the same, said point being in the middle +of the channel of the Columbia river, and running thence west parallel +with the forty-ninth parallel of latitude to the western boundary line +of the said Colville Indian Reservation in the Okanagon river, thence +north following the said western boundary line to the said forty-ninth +parallel of latitude, thence east along the said forty-ninth parallel +of latitude to the northeast corner of the said Colville Indian +Reservation, thence south following the eastern boundary of said +reservation to the place of beginning, containing by estimation one +million five hundred thousand acres, the same being a portion of the +Colville Indian Reservation, created by executive order dated July +second, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, be, and is hereby, vacated and +restored to the public domain, notwithstanding any executive order or +other proceeding whereby the same was set apart as a reservation for any +Indians or bands of Indians, and the same shall be open to settlement +and entry by the proclamation of the President of the United States +and shall be disposed of under the general laws applicable to the +disposition of public lands in the State of Washington," +</p> +<p> +and +</p> +<p> +Whereas it is provided by section three of said act, +</p> +<p> +"That each entry man under the homestead laws shall, within five +years from the date of his original entry and before receiving a final +certificate for the land covered by his entry, pay to the United States +for the land so taken by him in addition to fees provided by law the sum +of one dollar and fifty cents per acre, one third of which shall be paid +within two years after the date of the original entry; but the rights +of honorably discharged Union soldiers and sailors, as defined and +described in sections twenty-three hundred and four and twenty-three +hundred and five of the Revised Statutes of the United States, shall not +be abridged, except as to the sum to be paid as aforesaid," +</p> +<p> +and +</p> +<p> +Whereas by section six of said act it is provided: +</p> +<p> +"That the land used and occupied for school purposes at what is known +as Tonasket school, on Bonaparte creek, and the site of the sawmill, +gristmill, and other mill property on said reservation, is hereby +reserved from the operation of this act, unless other lands are selected +in lieu thereof: <i>Provided</i>, That such reserve lands shall not +exceed in the aggregate two sections, and must be selected in legal +subdivisions conformably to the public surveys, such selection to be +made by the Indian Agent of the Colville Agency, under the direction of +the Secretary of the Interior and subject to his approval: <i>Provided, +however</i>, That said Indians may, in lieu of said sites, or either of +them, select other lands of equal quantity, for such purposes, either +on the vacated or unvacated portions of said reservation, the same +to be designated in legal subdivisions by said Indian Agent, under +the direction of and subject to the approval of the Secretary of the +Interior, in which case said first-designated tracts shall not be exempt +from the operation of this act; such selection to be made and approved +within six months after the survey of said lands and the proclamation of +the President," +</p> +<p> +and +</p> +<p> +Whereas in a clause in the Indian Appropriation Act of July 1, 1898 (30 +Stat., 571), it is provided: +</p> +<p> +"That the mineral lands only in the Colville Indian Reservation, in the +State of Washington, shall be subject to entry under the laws of the +United States in relation to the entry of minerals lands: <i>Provided</i>, +That lands allotted to the Indians or used by the Government for any +purpose or by any school shall not be subject to entry under this +provision," +</p> +<p> +and in another clause that, +</p> +<p> +"The Indian allotments in severalty provided for in said act shall be +selected and completed at the earliest practicable time and not later +than six months after the proclamation of the President opening the +vacated portion of said reservation to settlement and entry, which +proclamation may be issued without awaiting the survey of the unsurveyed +lands therein. Said allotments shall be made from lands which shall +at the time of the selection thereof be surveyed, excepting that any +Indian entitled to allotment under said act who has improvements upon +unsurveyed land may select the same for his allotment, whereupon the +Secretary of the Interior shall cause the same to be surveyed and +allotted to him. At the expiration of six months from the date of the +proclamation by the President, and not before, the non-mineral lands +within the vacated portion of said reservation which shall not have been +allotted to Indians as aforesaid, shall be subject to settlement, entry +and disposition under said act of July first, eighteen hundred and +ninety-two: <i>Provided</i>, That the land used and occupied for school +purposes at what is known as Tonasket school, on Bonaparte creek, and +the site of the sawmill, gristmill and other mill property on said +reservation, are hereby reserved from the operation of this act, unless +other lands are selected in lieu thereof as provided in section six of +the aforesaid act of July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-two," +</p> +<p> +and +</p> +<p> +Whereas, all the terms, conditions and considerations required by said +acts of July 1, 1892, and July 1, 1898, precedent to the issuance of the +Proclamation provided for therein, have been, as I hereby declare, +complied with: +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by +virtue of the power in me vested by the statutes hereinbefore mentioned, +do hereby declare and make known that all of said lands hereinbefore +described, restored by the said act of July 1, 1892, will, at and after +the hour of twelve o'clock noon (Pacific standard time) six months from +date hereof, to wit: the 10th day of October, nineteen hundred, and not +before, be open to settlement and entry under the terms of and subject +to all the conditions, limitations, reservations and restrictions +contained in the statutes above specified, and the laws of the United +States, applicable thereto, saving and excepting such tracts as have +been or may be allotted to or reserved or selected for, the Indians, or +other purposes, under the laws herein referred to. +</p> +<p> +Sections sixteen and thirty-six in each township will be subject to +such right of the State of Washington thereto as may be ascertained and +determined by the land department in the administration of the grant of +lands in place to that State for the support of common schools. +</p> +<p> +The lands which have been allotted to the Indians are for greater +convenience particularly described in the accompanying schedule, +entitled "Schedule of lands allotted to the Indians in restored portion +of Colville Reservation, Washington, and withheld from settlement and +entry by proclamation of the President, dated April 10, 1900," and which +schedule is made a part hereof. +</p> +<p> +Notice, moreover, is hereby given that it is by law enacted that at +the expiration of six months from the date of the proclamation by the +President, and not before, the non-mineral lands within the vacated +portion of said reservation which shall not have been allotted to or +reserved or selected for the Indians, or for other purposes, shall be +subject to settlement, entry and disposition under said act of July 1, +1892; and all persons are hereby warned from attempting to make +settlement on any of said lands prior to the date fixed for the opening +hereof. +</p> +<p> +In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of +the United States to be affixed. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington, this 10th day of April, A.D. 1900, and +of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and +twenty-fourth. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + JOHN HAY, <br /> + <i>Secretary of State.</i> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="quote"> + SCHEDULE OF LANDS ALLOTTED TO THE INDIANS IN RESTORED PORTION OF + COLVILLE RESERVATION, WASHINGTON, AND WITHHELD FROM SETTLEMENT AND + ENTRY BY PROCLAMATION OF THE PRESIDENT, DATED APRIL 10, 1900. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 35 North, Range 31 East</i>. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + A tract of land described as follows: Beginning at a large fir tree + blazed on N. side being S.E. Cor. thence due N. 20 chains set post and + made a mound thence due west 40 chains set post and made mound thence S. + 20 chains set post being S.W. Cor. thence due E. 40 chains to point of + beginning, in section 11 or 12. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + A tract of land described as follows: Beginning at N.W. Cor. of 198 due + W. 40 chains set post being S.E. Cor. thence due N. 20 chains set post + thence due W. 40 chains set post thence due S. 20 chains set post thence + due E. 40 chains to point of beginning, in section 10 or 11. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + A tract of land described as follows: Beginning at a post and mound at + N.W. Cor. thence due S. 20 chains set post thence due E. 40 chains set + post S.E. Cor. thence due N. 20 chains set post thence due W. 40 chains + to point of beginning, in section 6 or 7. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + A tract of land described as follows: Beginning at S.W. Cor. of 200 + thence due S. 20 chains set post thence due E. 40 chains set post thence + due N. 20 chains, being N.E. Cor. thence due W. 40 chains to point of + beginning, in section 6 or 7. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + A tract of land described as follows: Beginning at S.E. Cor. of 201 + thence due S. 40 chains being S.W. Cor. thence due E. 40 chains set post + thence due N. 20 chains thence due W. 40 chains set post thence due S. + 20 chains to point of beginning, in section 7 or 8. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 35 North, Range 32 East</i>. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + A tract of land described as follows: Set post and made mound for N.E. + Cor. thence due S. 20 chains set post thence due W. 40 chains set post + and made mound thence due N. 20 chains set post made a mound thence due + E. 40 chains to point of beginning, in section 7 or 8. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 35 North, Range 36 East.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + SE ¼, Sec. 24; NE ¼ NW ¼, NW ¼ NE ¼, Sec. 25. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 35 North, Range 37 East.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + E ½ SE ¼, Sec. 9; lots 3, 4 and 5 of Sec. 10; lots 1 and 2 of Sec. + 15; NE ¼ SW ¼ and lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 of Sec. 16; E ½ NE ¼, + of Sec. 19; W ½ NW ¼, W ½ SW ¼, SE ¼ SW ¼ and lots 2, 3 and + 4 of Sec. 20; NW ¼, W ½ SW ¼ and lots 1, 2 and 4 of Sec. 29; E. NE + ¼, NW ¼ and S. ½ Sec. 30; NE ¼ and lots 1 and 2 of Sec. 31; NE + ¼ NW ¼, lots 1, 2, 3 and 4 of Sec. 32. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 36 North, Range 28 East.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + A tract of land described as follows: Beginning at a mound and stake run + due north 20 chains thence due west 40 chains set post thence due S. 20 + chains set post thence due E. 40 chains to point of beginning. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + A tract of land described as follows: Beginning at NE Cor. of 188 run + due N. 20 chains set post thence due W. 40 chains set post thence due + S. 20 chains to N.W. Cor. 188 thence due E. 40 chains to point of + beginning. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + A tract of land described as follows: Beginning at N.W. Cor. of 188 + thence due W. 40 chains set post thence due N. 20 chains set post thence + due E. 40 chains to N.W. Cor. of 189 thence due S. 20 chains to the + point of beginning. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + A tract of land described as follows: Beginning at N.W. Cor. of 190 + thence due N. 20 chains set post thence due E. 40 chains set post thence + due S. 20 chains to N.E. Cor. of 190 thence due W. 20 chains to point of + beginning. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + A tract of land described as follows: Beginning at N.W. Cor. of 191 + thence due N. 20 chains set post thence due E. 40 chains set post thence + due S. 20 chains to N.E. Cor. of 191 thence due W. 40 chains to point of + beginning. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + A tract of land described as follows: Beginning at N.W. Cor. 190 thence + due W. 20 chains set post thence due N. 40 chains set post thence due E. + 20 chains to N.W. Cor. 192 thence due S. 40 chains to point of + beginning. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + A tract of land described as follows: Beginning at S.E. Cor. Sec. 32, + Tp. 37, R. 28 run due S. 20 chains set post thence due E. 40 chains made + rock mound thence due N. 20 chains to quarter Sec. Cor. of Sec. 33 on + Tp. line, thence due W. 40 chains on Tp. line to point of beginning. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 36 North, Range 29 East</i>. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + A tract of land described as follows: Set post and made mound thence due + N. 20 chains set post thence due E. 40 chains set post thence due S. 20 + chains set post thence due W. 40 chains to point of beginning, in + section 9. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + A tract of land described as follows: Beginning on ninth standard + parallel at quarter Cor. of Sec. 33 thence due S. 40 chains set post + thence due W. 20 chains set post thence due N. 40 chains set post thence + due E. on the 9th standard parallel 20 chains to point of beginning. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + A tract of land described as follows: Beginning at S.W. Cor. of 215 on + ninth standard parallel thence due E. 40 chains set post thence due S. + 20 chains set post thence due W. 40 chains set post thence due N. 20 + chains to place of beginning, in section 4 or 5. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 36 North, Range 30 East</i>. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + E ½ of NW ¼, W ½ NE ¼, SE ¼ NE ¼, NE ¼ SE ¼ of Sec. 33; + SW ¼ NW ¼, N ½ SW ¼, W ¼ SE ¼, SE ¼ SE ¼ of Sec. 34. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 36 North, Range 32 East.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + NE ¼, W ½ SE ¼, E ½ SW ¼ of Sec. 1; NE ¼ NE ¼ and N ½ of + SE ¼ of NE ¼ of Sec. 2; E ½ SE ¼ of Sec. 11; NW ¼ and W ½ SW + ¼ of Sec. 12; W ½ NW ¼ and W ½ SW ¼ of Sec. 13; E ½ NE ¼ + and E ½ SE ¼ of Sec. 14; NE ¼ and W ½ SE ¼ of Sec. 23; W ½ + SE ¼ of Sec. 26; E ½ NW ¼ and W ½ SW ¼ of Sec. 35. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 36 North, Range 33 East.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + W ½ of E ½ of NW ¼ and W ½ of NW ¼ of Sec. 1; E ½ of E ½ + of NE ¼ of Sec. 2; NE ¼, N ½ SE ¼, E ½ NW ¼ of Sec. 4; N ½ + NE ¼ and NW ¼ NW ¼ of Sec. 5; N ½ NE ¼; SW ¼ NE ¼ and NW + ¼ of Sec. 6. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 36 North, Range 37 East.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + SW ¼ SE ¼ and lot 4 of Sec. 22; lot 1 of Sec. 26; W ½ NE ¼, W + ½ SE ¼ and lots 1, 2, 3 and 4 of Sec. 27; SE ¼ NE ¼, NE ¼ SE + ¼ of Sec. 33; NW ¼ NE ¼, S ½ NW ¼, SW ¼ and lots 1, 2, 3, 4 + and 5 of Sec. 34; and lot 1 of Sec. 35. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 37 North, Range 27 East.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + E ½ NE ¼, E ½ SE ¼ of Sec. 1; SE ¼ NW ¼ and lots 2, 3 and 4 + of Sec. 3, the E ½ NW ¼ and NE ¼ of Sec. 12, The W ½ of E ½ of + SW ¼ and lots 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 of Sec. 16; Lots 1 and 2 of Sec. 20, W + ½ NW ¼ of Sec. 21. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 37 North, Range 28 East.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + W ½ NE ¼, E ½ NW ¼, E ½ SW ¼, lots 4, 5, 6 and 7 of Sec. 6; + N ½ NW ¼ Sec. 7; NW ¼ NE ¼, NE ¼ NW ¼, Sec. 9; S ½ SE ¼, + SE ¼ SW ¼, Sec. 25; S ½ of Sec. 32; S ½ SW ¼ of Sec. 33, N ½ + NE ¼ and NE ¼ NW ¼ of Sec. 36. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 37 North, Range 29 East.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + N ½ SW ¼ of Sec. 27, lot 4 of Sec. 30, E ½ NE ¼, NW ¼ NE ¼, + NE ¼ NW ¼ and lot 1 of Sec. 31; S ½ NW ¼, N ½ SW ¼ and SE + ¼ of Sec. 32, W ½ SW ¼ of Sec. 33. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 37 North, Range 30 East.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + W ½ NW ¼ of Sec. 1, E ½ NE ¼ of Sec. 2; SE ¼ of Sec. 3; S ½ + NE ¼ of Sec. 8; S ½ NE ¼ and S ½ NW ¼ of Sec. 9; N ½ NE ¼ + and N ½ NW ¼ Sec. 10. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 37 North, Range 33 East.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Lots 8 and 9, Sec. 5; Lots 3, 5, 12 and 13 of Sec. 8; E ½ NE ¼, SE + ¼ SE ¼ and lots 1, 4, 7 and 8 of Sec. 17; NE ¼ NW ¼ and E ½ of + Sec. 20; SW ¼ NW ¼ and NW ¼ SW ¼ of Sec. 21; NE ¼, SE ¼ NW + ¼, N ½ SE ¼, SW ¼ SE ¼, E ½ SW ¼ and SW ¼ SW ¼ of Sec. + 29; SE ¼ SE ¼ of Sec. 30; NE ¼ NE ¼ of Sec. 31; NW ¼ NE ¼, N + ½ NW ¼ and E ½ SE ¼ of Sec. 32; SE ¼ and S ½ SW ¼ of Sec. + 33; E ½ SE ¼ and W ½ SW ¼ of Sec. 34; W ½ SW ¼ of Sec. 35. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 37 North, Range 37 East.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Lots 1, 2, 3 and 4, Sec. 1; SE ¼ NE ¼ and lot 1 of Sec. 2; S ½ SE + ¼ SW ¼ of Sec. 3; NW ¼ SE ¼ and lots 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and + 12 of Sec. 4; SE ¼ NE ¼ and lot 1 of Sec. 5; W ½ SW ¼ and lots + 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 of Sec. 9; N ½ NE ¼, Sec. 10; SW + ¼ of Sec. 13; S ½ NE ¼, SE ¼ and SE ¼ of SW ¼ of Sec. 14; SW + ¼ NW ¼, W ½ SW ¼, SE ¼ SW ¼ of Sec. 15; SE ¼ NE ¼ and NE + ¼ SE ¼ of Sec. 16. S ½ NE ¼, E ½ NW ¼, NW ¼, NW ¼, NE + ¼ of SW ¼ and N ½ SE ¼ of Sec. 22; E ½ NW ¼, SW ¼ NW ¼, + E ½ SW ¼, NW ¼ SW ¼ and lots 1 and 2 and E ½ of Sec. 23; S ½ + SE ¼ and S ½ SW ¼ Sec. 24; N ½ NE ¼ of Sec. 25; N ½ SW ¼ + and lots 9, 10, 11 and 12 of Sec. 26; S ½ NE ¼, N ½ SE ¼, NE ¼ + SW ¼ and lots 9, 10, 12, 13 and 14 of Sec. 27; Lots 1, 5, 7, 8, and 12 + of Sec. 28, W ½ NE ¼, W ½ SE ¼ and lots 2, 3, 4 and 5 of Sec. + 33. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 37 North, Range 38 East.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 of Sec. 18; Lots 1, 3 and 4 of Sec. 19. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 38 North, Range 27 East.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + SW ¼ NW ¼ and lot 6 of Sec. 2; Lots 6, 7, 8, and 9 of Sec. 3; Lots + 4, 5, and 6 of Sec. 11; SE ¼ of NW ¼ and lots 7 and 8 of Sec. 14; + Lot 3 of Sec. 22; W ½ NE ¼ of NW ¼ and lots 3, 4, 5, and 6 of Sec. + 23; SE ¼ SE ¼ and lot 7 of Sec. 27; E ½ NE ¼, E ½ SE ¼ and + lots 5, 6, 7, and 8 of Sec. 34. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 38 North, Range 28 East.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + S ½ SE ¼ and SE ¼ SW ¼ of Sec. 10; SW ¼ of Sec. 11; N ½ NW + ¼ Sec. 14; N ½ NE ¼ and N ½ NW ¼, Sec. 15; NE ¼ NE ¼ of + Sec. 16; SW ¼ of Sec. 26; W ½ NE ¼, E ½ SW ¼ and lots 3 and 4 + of Sec. 31. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 38 North, Range 29 East.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + S ½ NW ¼ and lots 2, 3, and 4 of Sec. 4; NE ¼, S ½ NW ¼, N ½ + SE ¼ and lots 3 and 4 of Sec. 5; E ½ NE ¼ of Sec. 6. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 38 North, Range 30 East.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + E ½ SW ¼ and SW ¼ SW ¼ of Sec. 25; SE ¼ SE ¼ of Sec. 26; E + ½ NE ¼ and E ½ SE ¼ of Sec. 35; W ½ NW ¼ of Sec. 36. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 38 North, Range 32 East.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + E ½ SE ¼ and SW ¼ SE ¼ of Sec. 25; W ½ NE ¼ and SE ¼ NE + ¼ of Sec. 36. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 38 North, Range 33 East.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + W ½ NW ¼ of Sec. 1; S ½ NE ¼ and lots 1 and 2 of Sec. 2; lot 4 + of Sec. 3; lot 1 of Sec. 4; S ½ SE ¼ of Sec. 9; S ½ NE ¼, S ½ + NW ¼, SE ¼ and E ½ SW ¼ of Sec. 15; NE ¼ of Sec. 16; S ½ NE + ¼, SE ¼ and E ½ SW ¼ of Sec. 21; N ½ NE ¼ of Sec. 22; S ½ + SE ¼, Sec. 26; N ½ NW ¼ of Sec. 27; N ½ NE ¼, NE ¼ NW ¼, + SE ¼ and Lot 1 of Sec. 28; SW ¼ SE ¼ of Sec. 30; NW ¼ NE ¼ of + Sec. 31; and N ½ NE ¼ of Sec. 35. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 38 North, Range 37 East.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + S ½ SE ¼ of Sec. 4; SE ¼ SE ¼ of Sec. 5; NE ¼ NE ¼, E ½ SE + ¼, SW ¼ SE ¼ of Sec. 8; Sec. 9; SE ¼ NE ¼, W ½ NW ¼, E ½ + SE ¼, SW ¼ SE ¼ and SW ¼ of Sec. 10; SE ¼ NE ¼ and E ½ SE + ¼ of Sec. 11; S ½ SW ¼ of Sec. 12; E ½ NE ¼, N ½ NW ¼ and + lots 1 and 2 of Sec. 13; E ½ NE ¼, SW ¼ NE ¼, W ½ NW ¼, SE + ¼, E ½ SW ¼ and NW ¼ SW ¼ of Sec. 14; Sec. 15; E ½, NW ¼ + and N ½ SW ¼ of Sec. 16; N ½ NE ¼ of Sec. 17; E ½ NE ¼, N + ½ SE ¼, SW ¼ SE ¼, SE ¼ SW ¼ and lot 5 of Sec. 21; NE ¼, S + ½ NW ¼, NW ¼ NW ¼, N ½ SE ¼, N ½ SW ¼, and SW ¼ SW ¼ + of Sec. 22; N ½ NE ¼, NW ¼ and S ½ SE ¼ of Sec. 23; NW ¼, NW + ¼ SW ¼ and lot 5 of Sec. 25; SW ¼ SW ¼ and E ½ of Sec. 26; SE + ¼ SE ¼ and SW ¼ of Sec. 27; NW ¼ NE ¼, E ½ SE ¼, SW ¼ SE + ¼, SE ¼ SW ¼ and lots 2, 3, 4, and 5 of Sec. 28; SW ¼ NE ¼ and + lots 3, 4, and 5 of Sec. 29; W ½ NE ¼, N ½ SE ¼, SW ¼ SE ¼, + SE ¼ SW ¼ and lots 1, 2, 5, 6, and 8 of Sec. 33; N.E. ¼ NE ¼, + and E ½ SE ¼ of Sec 35; lots 1, 2, and 3 of Sec. 36. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 38 North, Range 38 East.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 of Sec. 8; lot 5 of Sec. 19; and lots 1 and 2 of + Sec. 30. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 39 North, Range 27 East.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Lots 3 and 4 of Sec. 10; N ½ SW ¼ and lots 2, 3, 5, and 6 of Sec. + 15; lots 5 and 6 of Sec. 16; E ½ NW ¼, NE ¼ SE ¼ and lots 6, 8, + 9, 10, and 11 of Sec. 22; SE ¼ and lots 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 of + Sec. 27; lots 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 of Sec. 34. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 39 North, Range 28 East.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + NE ¼ NE ¼, S ½ NE ¼, SE ¼ NW ¼ and SE ¼ of Sec. 1; E ½ + of Sec. 12; and SE ¼ of Sec. 36. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 39 North, Range 29 East.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + W ½ SW ¼ of Sec. 3; SE ¼ and NW ¼ of Sec. 4; N ½ NW ¼ of + Sec. 5; W ½ NW ¼ and SW ¼ of Sec. 6; W ½ NW ¼ of Sec. 7; N + ½, SE ¼ and SE ¼ SW ¼ of Sec. 9; S ½ NW ¼, and SW ¼ of Sec + 10; W ½ SE ¼ and E ½ SW ¼ of Sec 15; S ½ SW ¼ of Sec. 33. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 39 North, Range 30 East.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + S ½ SE ¼ and SW ¼ of Sec. 4; E ½ NE ¼ and E ½ SE ¼ of Sec. + 8; N ½ NE ¼ and N ½ NW ¼ of Sec. 9. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 39 North, Range 31 East.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + A tract of land described as follows: Commencing at a stake marked + "I.A." ran north at variation of 22° 30' E. forty chains and set post at + N.W. corner of claim thence east 20 chains and set N.E. corner thence + south 40 chains setting S.E. corner thence west 20 chains to point of + beginning. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + A tract of land described as follows: Commencing at N.W. corner of No. + 12 thence east 10 chains to S.W. corner of allotment No. 13 thence due + north 20 chains and set post thence due east 10 chains and set post + thence due north 20 chains and set post thence due east 20 chains and + set post thence due south 20 chains and set post thence due west 10 + chains and set post thence due south 20 chains and set post thence due + west 20 chains to S.W. corner of allotment No. 13. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + A tract of land described as follows: Commencing at N.W. Cor. of No. 13, + thence due east 10 chains and set post; thence due N. 20 chains and set + post; thence due E. 10 chains and set post; thence due N. 20 chains and + set post, thence due E. 20 chains and set post; thence due S. 20 chains + and set post thence due W 10 chains and set post thence due S. 20 chains + and set post thence due W. 20 chains to the S.W. corner of allotment No. + 14. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + A tract of land described as follows: Commencing at N.W. corner of No. + 14 thence due north 40 chains and set post thence due east 20 chains and + set post thence due S. 40 chains and set post thence due west 20 chains + on line between Nos. 14 & 15 to place of beginning. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + A tract of land described as follows: Commencing at the N.W. corner of + No. 15, thence due east 10 chains and set post thence due north 40 + chains and set post, thence due east 20 chains and set post, thence due + south 40 chains set post for S.E. corner thence due west 20 chains to + S.W. corner of No. 16. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 39 North, Range 32 East.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + SW ¼ NE ¼, N ½ NW ¼ and SE ¼ NW ¼ of Sec. 2. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 39 North, Range 33 East</i>. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + SW ¼ NE ¼, SE ¼ NW ¼, NW ¼ SE ¼ and NE ¼ SW ¼ of Sec. 2; + lots 1 and 2 of Sec. 9; Lot 1 of Sec. 10; lots 1, 2, 3, and 4 of Sec. + 11; N ½ of S ½ of NE ¼ and lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 of + Sec. 12; N ½ SE ¼ and SW ¼ of Sec. 13; S ½ NE ¼, S ½ NW ¼, + SW ¼ and lots 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 of Sec. 14; SE ¼ SE ¼ and lots 1, + 2, and 4 of Sec. 15; NE ¼ NE ¼ and lots 1, 5, and 6 of Sec. 16; NW + ¼ NE ¼, NE ¼ NW ¼ and lots 6, 7, 8, and 9 of Sec. 17; W ½ Sec. + 23; W ½ Sec. 24; W ½ NE ¼, E ½ NW ¼ and W ½ SE ¼ of Sec. + 26; SW ¼ NW ¼ and NW ¼ SW ¼ of Sec. 29; SE ¼ SE ¼ of Sec. + 33; SW ¼ SW ¼ of Sec. 34; E ½ of Sec. 35. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 39 North, Range 36 East.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + SW ¼ NE ¼, W ½ SE ¼ and SE ¼ SW ¼ of Sec. 11, N. ½ SW ¼ + of Sec. 13; S ½ NE ¼, SE ¼ NW ¼ and NE ¼ SE ¼ of Sec. 14. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 39 North, Range 37 East.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + SE ¼ of Sec 8; S ½ NE ¼, W ½ SE ¼ and SE ¼ SW ¼ of Sec. + 16; SE ¼ NE ¼ and SE ¼ of Sec. 17; N ½ NE ¼, NE ¼ NW ¼, S + ½ NW ¼ and SW ¼ of Sec. 20; NE ¼, NE ¼ NW ¼ and E ½ SE ¼ + of Sec 21; NW ¼ and E ½ SW ¼ of Sec. 29. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 39 North, Range 38 East.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + SW ¼ SW ¼ of Sec. 12; W ½ NW ¼ and NW ¼ SW ¼ of Sec. 13; S + ½ SW ¼ of Sec. 14; NW ¼ of Sec. 23. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 39 North, Range 39 East.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Lots 5, 6, and 7 of Sec. 2; SE ¼ NE ¼ and E ½ SE ¼ of Sec. 7; SW + ¼ NW ¼ and W ½ SW ¼ of Sec 8; SW ¼ SE ¼ and SE ¼ SW ¼ of + Sec. 9; W ½ NE ¼, E ½ NW ¼, SW ¼ NW ¼ and lot 3 of Sec. 16; + E ½ NE ¼, NW ¼ and NW ¼ SW ¼ of Sec. 17; NE ¼ NE ¼, SE + ¼, and E ½ SW ¼ of Sec. 18. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 40 North, Range 27 East.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + E ½ SE ¼ of Sec. 11; SW ¼ NE ¼, SE ¼ NW ¼, W ½ SE ¼ and + SW ¼ of Sec. 12; NW ¼ of Sec. 13; E ½ NE ¼ of Sec. 14; W ½ of + SW ¼ of NE ¼, NW ¼, W ½ of W ½ of SE ¼, E ½ SW ¼, and NW + ¼ SW ¼ of Sec. 15; lot 5 of Sec. 21; NE ¼, N ½ SE ¼, SW ¼ SE + ¼, S ½ SW ¼ and lots 2, 3, and 4 of Sec. 22; W ½ SE ¼ of Sec. + 27. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 40 North, Range 28 East.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + S ½ SE ¼ and lots 3 and 4 of Sec. 19; SW ¼ of Sec. 35. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + A tract of land described as follows: Beginning at a stone monument on + the international line, being the N.W. Cor. of allotment 116, thence + running due east on boundary line 40 chains set post at N.E. Cor. thence + due S. 20 chains set post marked "I.A." being S.E. Cor. thence due W. 40 + chains set post at S.W. Cor. thence due N. 20 chains to the point of + beginning, in section 2 or 3. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + A tract of land described as follows: Beginning at S.W. Cor. of 116 + thence due E. 40 chains to S.E. Cor. of 116 thence due S. 20 chains and + set post being S.E. Cor. of 117 thence due W. 40 chains and set post at + S.W. Cor. of allotment 117 thence due N. 20 chains to place of beginning + being N.W. Cor. of No. 117. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + A tract of land described as follows: Beginning at S.W. Cor. of 117 + thence due E. 40 chains to S.E. Cor. of No. 117 thence due S. 20 chains + to S.E. Cor. No. 118 and set post "I.A." thence due W. 40 chains to S.W. + Cor. of No. 118 and set post "I.A." thence due N. 20 chains to point of + beginning being N.W. Cor. of 118. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + A tract of land described as follows: Beginning at S.W. Cor. 118 thence + due E. 40 chains to S.E. Cor. of 118 thence due S. 20 chains to S.E. + Cor. 119 and set post "I.A." thence due W. 40 chains to S.W. Cor. of 119 + and set post thence due N. 20 chains to N.W. Cor. or point of beginning. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + A tract of land described as follows: Beginning at S.E. Cor. of 116 + thence due E. 40 chains to N.E. Cor. of 122 and set post "I.A." thence + S. 20 chains to S.E. Cor. and set post thence due W. 40 chains to S.E. + Cor. of No. 117 being S.W. Cor. of No. 122 thence due N. 20 chains to + point of beginning, in Sec. 2 or 3. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + A tract of land described as follows: Beginning at S.E. Cor. of 117 + thence due E. 40 chains to S.E. Cor. of 122 thence due south 20 chains + to S.E. Cor. of 123 set post "I.A." thence due W. 40 chains to S.E. Cor. + of 118 thence due N. 20 chains to point of beginning, in section 2 or 3. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + A tract of land described as follows: Beginning at boundary line N.E. + Cor. of No. 116 thence due E. on boundary line 40 chains set post thence + due S. 20 chains to N.E. Cor. of 122 thence due W. on line between 122 & + 222 to N.W. Cor. of 122 thence N. 20 chains to place of beginning, in + section 1 or 2. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + A tract of land described as follows: Beginning at N.E. Cor. of 222 on + boundary line thence due E. 40 chains set post thence due S. 20 chains + set post thence due W. 40 chains to S.E. Cor. of 222 thence due N. 20 + chains to place of beginning, in section 1 or 2. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + A tract of land described as follows: Beginning at S.E. Cor. of 223 + thence due S. 20 chains set post thence due W. 40 chains to N.E. Cor. of + 123 thence due N. 20 chains to N.E. of 122 thence due E. 40 chains + between line of 223 and 224 to place of beginning, in section 1 or 2. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + A tract of land described as follows: Beginning at S.E. Cor. of 224 + thence due S. 20 chains set post thence due W. 40 chains to S.E. Cor. of + 123 thence due N. 20 chains to S.W. Cor. of 224 thence due E. 40 chains + between line 224 & 225 to place of beginning, in section 1 or 2. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + A tract of land described as follows: Beginning at S.E. Cor. of 225 + thence due S. 20 chains set post thence due W. 40 chains set post thence + due N. 20 chains to S.W. Cor. 225 thence due E. 40 chains on line + between 225 & 226 to point of beginning, in section 1 or 2. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + A tract of land described as follows: Beginning on boundary line at N.E. + Cor. of 223 thence on boundary line due E. 20 chains set post thence due + S. 40 chains set post thence due W. 20 chains to S.E. Cor. of 224 thence + due N. 40 chains to place of beginning, in section 1 or 2. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 40 North, Range 29 East.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + A tract of land described as follows: Set post on International boundary + line being N.E. Cor. of 120 thence due S. 20 chains to S.E. Cor. and set + post "I.A." thence due W. 40 chains and set post being S.W. Cor. of 120 + thence due N. 20 chains to boundary line set post "I.A." being N.W. Cor. + thence on boundary line 40 chains to point of beginning, in section 5 or + 6. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + A tract of land described as follows: Beginning at SE ¼ of 120 thence + due S. 20 chains to S.E. Cor. and set post "I.A." thence W. 40 chains to + S.W. Cor. and set post thence due N. 20 chains to N.W. Cor. thence due + East 40 chains to point of beginning, Sec. 5 or 6. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + NE ¼ and S ½ of Sec. 32; S. ½ SE ¼ and S ½ SW ¼ of Sec. 33. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 40 North, Range 30 East.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + E ½ NW ¼ SW ¼ of Sec. 3; W ½ W ½ SW ¼ of Sec. 15; NE ¼ SE + ¼ and all that part of the S ½ of S ½ of N ½ of NE ¼ lying + south and east of Myers creek, all that part of S ½ NE ¼ lying east + of Myers creek, and all that part of the NW ¼ SE ¼ lying east of + Myers creek and all that part of the S ½ SE ¼ lying east of Myers + creek in Sec. 16; W ½ of SW ¼ of NE ¼, W ½ of NW ¼ of SE ¼, + E ½ SW ¼, and all that part of W ½ SW ¼ lying east of Myers + creek except one acre in Reno Quartz claim of Sec. 21; S ½ SE ¼ of + Sec. 25; S 3/4 of W ½ of NE ¼ of NW ¼, S 3/4 of E ½ of NW ¼ of + NW ¼; S 3/4 of E ½ of W ½ of NW ¼ of NW ¼; E 3/4 of N ½ of + SW ¼ of NW ¼, SE ¼ of SW ¼ of NW ¼ and N ½ of NW ¼ of SE + ¼ of NW ¼ of Sec. 28; W ½ SE ¼ SE ¼ of Sec. 29; S ½ NW ¼ + and SW ¼ of Sec. 30; E ½ NE ¼ and W ½ NE ¼ of SE ¼ of Sec. + 32; S ½ NE ¼ of NW ¼, SE ¼ NW ¼, W ½ of W ½ of W ½ of NW + ¼ and NE ¼ SW ¼ of Sec. 33. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 40 North, Range 31 East.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + S ½ NE ¼, W ½ SE ¼ and NE ¼ SW ¼ of Sec. 25. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 40 North, Range 32 East.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + E ½ SE ¼ NE ¼ and E ½ of E ½ of SE ¼ of Sec. 9; SW ¼ NE + ¼ S ½ NW ¼, W ½ SE ¼ and SW ¼ of Sec. 10; W ½ of W ½ of + NE ¼, W ½ of NE ¼ of NW ¼, SE ¼ NW ¼, NE ¼ SW ¼ and SW + ¼ SW ¼ and all that part of W ½ NW ¼ lying east of Kettle river, + and all that part of NE ¼ NW ¼ lying east of Kettle river of Sec. + 15; the E ½ NE ¼ NE ¼ and all that part of SE ¼ SE ¼ lying + east of Kettle river in Sec. 16; lot 5 and all that part of the NW ¼ + SW ¼, W ½ of NW ¼ of NE ¼ of SW ¼, SW ¼ of NE ¼ of SW ¼, + NE ¼ of SW ¼ of SW ¼, and SE ¼ SW ¼ lying east of Kettle river + in Sec. 22; lot 1, W ½ of SE ¼ of NW ¼ of SW ¼, all of NE ¼ of + NW ¼ of NW ¼, SW ¼ SW ¼, and SW ¼ NW ¼ of SW ¼ lying east + of Kettle river in Sec. 26; E ½ of NW ¼, E ½ SW ¼, W ½ SE ¼, + SE ¼ SE ¼ and lots 2, 3, 4, and 5 of Sec. 27; lot 3 of Sec. 30; E + ½ NE ¼, NW ¼ NE ¼, E ½ of SW ¼ of NE ¼, E ½ of NW ¼ of + SE ¼ and E ½ SE ¼ of Sec. 34; W ½ of NW ¼ of NE ¼ of NW ¼, + W ½ of SE ¼ of SW ¼, lots 1, 2, 3 and 4 and all that part of SW + ¼ SW ¼ lying east of Kettle river. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 40 North, Range 33 East.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + SE ¼ SE ¼ of Sec. 12; NE ¼ NE ¼, W ½ NE ¼, NE ¼ NW ¼, N + ½ SE ¼ and SE ¼ SE ¼ of Sec. 13. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 40 North, Range 34 East.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + S ½ NE ¼, SE ¼ NW ¼ and lots 1, 2 and 3 of Sec. 1; E ½ SW ¼ + and lots 3, 6, 7, 8 and 11 of Sec. 3; SW ¼ NE ¼, S ½ NW ¼, N ½ + SW ¼ and lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 of Sec. 4; SE ¼ NE ¼ and NE ¼ + SE ¼ of Sec. 5; SW ¼ SW ¼ of Sec. 7; E ½ SE ¼ of Sec. 8; E ½ + NE ¼, N ½ SE ¼ and lots 1, 4 and 6 of Sec. 9; N ½ NW ¼, SW ¼ + NW ¼ and NW ¼ SW ¼ of Sec. 10; SW ¼ SW ¼ of Sec. 13; S ½ NE + ¼, SE ¼ and SE ¼ SW ¼ of Sec. 14; NW ¼ NE ¼ and NE ¼ NW + ¼ of Sec. 15; E ½ NE ¼ of Sec. 17; NW ¼ NW ¼ of Sec. 18; SW + ¼ NE ¼, SE ¼ NW ¼, NW ¼ SE ¼ and NE ¼ SW ¼ of Sec. 19; N + ½ NE ¼, Sec. 23; NW ¼ NE ¼ and lots 1 and 2 of Sec. 30. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 40 North, Range 35 East.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + N ½ of SE ¼ of NW ¼ and lots 3, 4 and N ½ of lot 5 of Sec. 6. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 40 North, Range 39 East.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + SW ¼ SE ¼, SE ¼ SW ¼ of Sec. 25; SE ¼ NE ¼ and lot 1 of Sec. + 35; NE ¼ NE ¼, SW ¼ NE ¼, NW ¼ and lots 1, 2, 3 and 4 of Sec. + 36. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + <i>Township 40 North, Range 40 East.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + SW ¼ SE ¼ of Sec. 11; NW ¼ NE ¼ of E ½ SE ¼ of Sec. 19; S + ½ NE ¼, S ½ NW ¼ and S ½ of Sec. 20; S ½ NE ¼, SE ¼ NW + ¼, NW ¼ SE ¼, N ½ SW ¼, SW ¼ SW ¼ and lot 1 of Sec. 21; + lots 2 and 3 of Sec. 22, lot 2 of Sec. 28; NE ¼ NW ¼ and lots 1 and + 2 of Sec. 29; E ½ NE ¼, SW ¼ NE ¼, E ½ NW ¼ and lot 1 of + Sec. 30; lots 3 and 4 of Sec. 31. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. +</h3> +<h4> +A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +Whereas it is provided by section twenty-four of the act of Congress, +approved March 3, 1891, entitled, "An act to repeal timber-culture laws, +and for other purposes," "That the President of the United States may, +from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory +having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands +wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of +commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President +shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such +reservations and the limits thereof;" +</p> +<p> +And whereas it is further provided by the act of Congress, approved +June 4, 1897 entitled, "An act making appropriations for sundry civil +expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898, and +for other purposes," that "The President is hereby authorized at any +time to modify any executive order that has been or may hereafter be +made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may +reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may +vacate altogether any order creating such reserve;" +</p> +<p> +And whereas the public lands in the State of Wyoming, within the limits +hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears +that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving +said lands as a public reservation; +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by +virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid acts of Congress, do +hereby make known and proclaim that the boundary lines of the Forest +Reservation in the State of Wyoming, known as "The Big Horn Forest +Reserve," created by proclamation of February 22, 1897, are hereby so +changed and enlarged as to include all those certain tracts, pieces or +parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Wyoming, and +within the boundaries particularly described as follows, to wit: +</p> +<p> +Beginning at the southeast corner of township forty-eight (48) north, +range eighty-four (84) west, sixth (6th) principal meridian, Wyoming; +thence northerly to the northeast corner of said township; thence +easterly along the twelfth (12th) standard parallel north to the +southeast corner of section thirty-three (33), township forty-nine (49) +north, range eighty-three (83) west; thence northerly along the section +line to the northeast corner of section four (4), township fifty (50) +north, range eighty-three (83) west; thence westerly to the northeast +corner of section two (2), township fifty (50) north, range eighty-four +(84) west, thence northerly along the section line, allowing for the +proper offset on the thirteenth (13th) standard parallel north, to the +northeast corner of section fourteen (14), township fifty-three (53) +north, range eighty-four (84) west, thence westerly to the northeast +corner of section fourteen (14), township fifty-three (53) north, range +eighty-five (85) west; thence northerly to the northeast corner of +section two (2), said township; thence westerly to the northeast corner +of section two (2), township fifty-three (53) north, range eighty-six +(86) west; thence northerly to the northeast corner of section two (2), +township fifty-four (54) north, range eighty-six (86) west; thence +westerly to the southeast corner of township fifty-five (55) north, +range eighty-seven (87) west; thence northerly to the northeast corner +of said township; thence westerly to the northwest corner of said +township; thence southerly to the southwest corner of said township; +thence westerly to the northwest corner of township fifty-four (54) +north, range eighty-eight (88) west; thence northerly along the range +line, allowing for the proper offset on the fourteenth (14th) standard +parallel north, to the point of intersection with the boundary line +between the States of Wyoming and Montana; thence westerly along said +state boundary line to its intersection with the range line between +ranges ninety-two (92) west, and ninety-three (93) west; thence +southerly along said range line, allowing for the proper offset on the +fourteenth (14th) standard parallel north, to the northwest corner of +township fifty-four (54) north, range ninety-two (92) west; thence +easterly to the northeast corner of said township; thence southerly to +the southeast corner of said township; thence easterly to the northeast +corner of township fifty-three (53) north, range ninety-one (91) west; +thence southerly to the southeast corner of said township; thence +easterly along the thirteenth (13th) standard parallel north to the +northwest corner of township fifty-two (52) north, range eighty-eight +(88) west; thence southerly along the range line to the northwest corner +of township fifty (50) north, range eighty-eight (88) west; thence +easterly to the northwest corner of section three (3), said township; +thence southerly along the section line to the southwest corner of +section thirty-four (34), township forty-nine (49) north, range +eighty-eight (88) west; thence easterly along the twelfth (12th) +standard parallel north to the northwest corner of township forty-eight +(48) north, range eighty-seven (87) west; thence southerly to the +southwest corner of said township; thence easterly along the township +line to the southeast corner of township forty-eight (48) north, range +eighty-four (84) west, the place of beginning. +</p> +<p> +Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which +may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or +covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States +Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant +to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of +record has not expired; <i>Provided</i>, that this exception shall not +continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, +settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the +entry, filing or settlement was made. +</p> +<p> +Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement +upon the tract of land reserved by this proclamation. +</p> +<p> +In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of +the United States to be affixed. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington, this 29th day of June, A.D. 1900, and of +the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-fourth. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + JOHN HAY, <br /> + <i>Secretary of State.</i> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> + BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. +</h3> +<h4> + A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +Whereas the German Government has entered into a Commercial Agreement +with the United States in conformity with the provisions of the third +section of the Tariff Act of the United States approved July 24, 1897, +by which agreement in the judgment of the President reciprocal and +equivalent concessions are secured in favor of the products of the +United States: +</p> +<p> +Therefore, be it known that I, William McKinley, President of the United +States of America, acting under the authority conferred by said act of +Congress, do hereby suspend during the continuance in force of said +agreement the imposition and collection of the duties imposed by the +first section of said act upon the articles hereinafter specified, being +the products of the soil and industry of Germany; and do declare in +place thereof the rates of duty provided in the third section of said +act to be in force and effect from and after the date of this +proclamation, as follows, namely: +</p> +<p> +"Upon argols, or crude tartar, or wine lees, crude, five <i>per centum +ad valorem</i>. +</p> +<p> +"Upon brandies, or other spirits manufactured or distilled from grain +or other materials, one dollar and seventy-five cents per proof gallon. +</p> +<p> +"Upon still wines, and vermuth, in casks, thirty-five cents per gallon; +in bottles or jugs, per case of one dozen bottles or jugs containing +each not more than one quart and more than one pint, or twenty-four +bottles or jugs containing each not more than one pint, one dollar and +twenty-five cents per case, and any excess beyond these quantities found +in such bottles or jugs shall be subject to a duty of four cents per +pint or fractional part thereof, but no separate or additional duty +shall be assessed upon the bottles or jugs. +</p> +<p> +"Upon paintings in oil or water colors, pastels, pen and ink drawings, +and statuary, fifteen <i>per centum ad valorem</i>" of which the +officers and citizens of the United States will take due notice. +</p> +<p> +In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of +the United States to be affixed. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington this 13th day of July, A.D. 1900, and of +the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and +twenty-fifth. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + JOHN HAY, <br /> + <i>Secretary of State.</i> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. +</h3> +<h4> +A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +Whereas His Majesty the King of Italy has entered into a reciprocal +Commercial Agreement with the United States of America pursuant to and +in accordance with the provisions of section 3 of the Tariff Act of the +United States approved July 24, 1897, which agreement is in the English +text in the words and figures following, to wit: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + The President of the United States of America and His Majesty the King + of Italy, mutually desirous to improve the commercial relations between + the two countries by a Special Agreement relative thereto, have + appointed as their Plenipotentiaries for that purpose, namely: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + The President of the United States of America, the Honorable John A. + Kasson, Special Commissioner Plenipotentiary, etc., and +</p> +<p class="quote"> + His Majesty the King of Italy, His Excellency the Baron S. Fava, Senator + of the Kingdom, his Ambassador at Washington, etc., +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Who being duly empowered thereunto have agreed upon the following + articles: +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + ARTICLE I. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + It is agreed on the part of the United States, pursuant to and in + accordance with the provisions of the third section of the Tariff Act + of the United States approved July 24, 1897, and in consideration of + the concessions hereinafter made on the part of Italy in favor of the + products and manufactures of the United States, that the existing duties + imposed upon the following articles, being the product of the soil or + industry of Italy, imported into the United States shall be suspended + during the continuance in force of this agreement, and in place thereof + the duties to be assessed and collected thereon shall be as follows, + namely: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + On argols, or crude tartar, or wine lees; crude, five <i>per centum ad + valorem</i>. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + On brandies, or other spirits manufactured or distilled from grain or + other materials, one dollar and seventy-five cents per proof gallon. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + On still wines, and vermuth, in casks, thirty-five cents per gallon; + in bottles or jugs, per case of one dozen bottles or jugs containing + each not more than one quart and more than one pint, or twenty-four + bottles or jugs containing each not more than one pint, one dollar + and twenty-five cents per case, and any excess beyond these quantities + found in such bottles or jugs shall be subject to a duty of four cents + per pint or fractional part thereof, but no separate or additional duty + shall be assessed upon the bottles or jugs. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + On paintings in oil or water colors, pastels, pen and ink drawings, and + statuary, fifteen <i>per centum ad valorem</i>. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> ARTICLE II.</p> +<p class="quote"> + It is reciprocally agreed on the part of Italy, in consideration of the + provisions of the foregoing article, that so long as this convention + shall remain in force the duties to be assessed and collected on the + following described merchandise, being the product of the soil or + industry of the United States, imported into Italy shall not exceed the + rates hereinafter specified, namely: +</p> + +<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" summary="FIXME"> +<tr><th> Upon </th><th>lire per quintal.</th></tr> +<tr><td> cotton seed oil </td><td align="right"> 21.50</td></tr> +<tr><td> fish, pickled or in oil, excluding the tunny, preserved in +boxes or barrels, sardines and anchovies </td><td align="right"> 15.00</td></tr> +<tr><td> other fish, preserved </td><td align="right"> 25.00</td></tr> +<tr><td> agricultural machinery </td><td align="right"> 9.00</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2"> detached parts of agricultural machinery:</td></tr> +<tr><td> (1) of cast iron </td><td align="right"> 10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td> (2) of other iron or steel </td><td align="right">11.00</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2"> scientific instruments:</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2"> (a) of copper, bronze, brass, or steel:</td></tr> +<tr><td> (1) with spy-glasses or microscopes, or graduated +scales or circles, spy-glasses for use on land, monocles, binocles, +lenses, detached and mounted </td><td align="right"> 30.00</td></tr> +<tr><td> (2) not provided with any optical instrument, nor +with graduated scales or circles </td><td align="right"> 30.00</td></tr> +<tr><td> (b) of all kinds, in the construction of which iron is evidently predominant </td><td align="right"> 30.00</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2"> dynamo-electrical machines:</td></tr> +<tr><td> (1) the weight of which exceeds 1000 kilograms</td><td align="right"> 16.00</td></tr> +<tr><td> (2) weighing 1000 kilograms or less </td><td align="right"> 25.00</td></tr> +<tr><td> detached parts of dynamo-electrical machines </td><td align="right"> 25.00</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2"> sewing machines:</td></tr> +<tr><td> (1) with stands </td><td align="right"> 25.00</td></tr> +<tr><td> (2) without stands </td><td align="right"> 30.00</td></tr> +<tr><td> varnishes, not containing spirits nor mineral oils </td><td align="right">20.00</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2"> The following articles shall be admitted free of duty:</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2"> Turpentine oil.</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2"> Natural fertilizers of all kinds.</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2"> Skins, crude, fresh, or dried, not suitable for fur; and fur skins</td></tr> +</table> + +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + ARTICLE III. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + This agreement is subject to the approval of the Italian Parliament. + When such approval shall have been given, and official notification + shall have been given to the United States Government of His Majesty's + ratification, the President shall publish his proclamation, giving full + effect to the provisions contained in Article I of this agreement. From + and after the date of such proclamation this agreement shall be in full + force and effect, and shall continue in force until the expiration of + the year 1903, and if not denounced by either party one year in advance + of the expiration of said term shall continue in force until one year + from the time when one of the high contracting parties shall have given + notice to the other of its intention to arrest the operation thereof. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + In witness whereof we, the respective Plenipotentiaries, have signed + this agreement, in duplicate, in the English and Italian texts, and have + affixed thereunto our respective seals. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Done at Washington, this 8th day of February, A.D. 1900. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + JOHN A. KASSON. [SEAL.] +</p> +<p class="quote"> + FAVA. [SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +And whereas said convention has been duly ratified on the part of His +Majesty the King of Italy, official notice whereof has been received by +the President, +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, be it known that I, William McKinley, President of the +United States of America, acting under the authority conferred by said +act of Congress, do hereby suspend during the continuance in force of +said agreement the imposition and collection of the duties mentioned +in the first section of said act and heretofore collected upon the +specified articles of Italian origin as described in said agreement, +and do declare in place thereof the rates of duty provided in the third +section of said act as recited in said agreement to be in full force +and effect from and after the date of this Proclamation, of which the +officers and citizens of the United States will take due notice. +</p> +<p> +In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of +the United States to be affixed. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington, this 18th day of July, A.D. 1900, and of +the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and +twenty-fifth. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + JOHN HAY, <br /> + <i>Secretary of State.</i> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. +</h3> +<h4> +A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +Whereas it is provided by section twenty-four of the act of Congress, +approved March 3rd, 1891, entitled, "An act to repeal timber-culture +laws, and for other purposes," "That the President of the United States +may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory +having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands +wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of +commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President +shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such +reservations and the limits thereof;" +</p> +<p> +And whereas the public lands in the State of Wyoming, within the limits +hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears +that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving +said lands as a public reservation; +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by +virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid +act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there is hereby +reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation +all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being +situate in the State of Wyoming and particularly described as follows, +to wit: +</p> +<p> +Beginning at the northeast corner of township fifteen (15) north, range +seventy-one (71) west, sixth (6th) principal meridian, Wyoming; thence +westerly along the township line to the northwest corner of section +three (3), township fifteen (15) north, range seventy-two (72) west; +thence southerly to the southwest corner section thirty-four (34), said +township; thence easterly to the southeast corner of said section; +thence southerly to the southwest corner of section eleven (11), +township fourteen (14) north, range seventy-two (72) west; thence +easterly to the southeast corner of section twelve (12), said township; +thence southerly to the southwest corner of section thirty (30), +township fourteen (14) north, range seventy-one (71) west; thence +easterly to the southeast corner of section twenty-five (25), said +township; thence northerly along the range line to the northeast corner +of township fifteen (15) north, range seventy-one (71) west, the place +of beginning. +</p> +<p> +Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which +may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or +covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States +Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant +to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of +record has not expired: <i>Provided</i>, that this exception shall not +continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, +settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the +entry, filing or settlement was made. +</p> +<p> +Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement +upon the tract of land reserved by this proclamation. +</p> +<p> +The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Crow Creek +Forest Reserve. +</p> +<p> +In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of +the United States to be affixed. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington this 10th day of October, A.D. 1900, and +of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and +twenty-fifth. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + JOHN HAY, <br /> + <i>Secretary of State.</i> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. +</h3> +<h4> +A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +<i>To the People of the United States</i>: +</p> +<p> +In the fullness of years and honors, John Sherman, lately Secretary of +State, has passed away. +</p> +<p> +Few among our citizens have risen to greater or more deserved eminence +in the national councils than he. The story of his public life and +services is as it were the history of the country for half a century. +In the Congress of the United States he ranked among the foremost in the +House, and later in the Senate. He was twice a member of the Executive +Cabinet, first as Secretary of the Treasury, and afterwards as Secretary +of State. Whether in debate during the dark hours of our civil war, +or as the director of the country's finances during the period of +rehabilitation, or as a trusted councilor in framing the nation's laws +for over forty years, or as the exponent of its foreign policy, his +course was ever marked by devotion to the best interests of his beloved +land, and by able and conscientious effort to uphold its dignity and +honor. His countrymen will long revere his memory and see in him a type +of the patriotism, the uprightness and the zeal that go to molding and +strengthening a nation. +</p> +<p> +In fitting expression of the sense of bereavement that afflicts the +Republic, I direct that on the day of the funeral the Executive Offices +of the United States display the national flag at half mast and that the +Representatives of the United States in foreign countries shall pay in +like manner appropriate tribute to the illustrious dead for a period of +ten days. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington, this 22d day of October, A.D. 1900, and +of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and +twenty-fifth. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + JOHN HAY, <br /> + <i>Secretary of State.</i> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. +</h3> +<h4> +A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +It has pleased Almighty God to bring our nation in safety and honor +through another year. The works of religion and charity have everywhere +been manifest. Our country through all its extent has been blessed with +abundant harvests. Labor and the great industries of the people have +prospered beyond all precedent. Our commerce has spread over the world. +Our power and influence in the cause of freedom and enlightenment +have extended over distant seas and lands. The lives of our official +representatives and many of our people in China have been marvelously +preserved. We have been generally exempt from pestilence and other great +calamities; and even the tragic visitation which overwhelmed the city of +Galveston made evident the sentiments of sympathy and Christian charity +by virtue of which we are one united people. +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, +do hereby appoint and set apart Thursday, the 20th of November next, to +be observed by all the people of the United States, at home or abroad, +as a day of thanksgiving and praise to Him who holds the nations in the +hollow of His hand. I recommend that they gather in their several places +of worship and devoutly give Him thanks for the prosperity wherewith He +has endowed us, for seed-time and harvest, for the valor, devotion and +humanity of our armies and navies, and for all His benefits to us as +individuals and as a nation; and that they humbly pray for the +continuance of His Divine favor, for concord and amity with other +nations, and for righteousness and peace in all our ways. +</p> +<p> +In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of +the United States to be affixed. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington this 29th day of October, A.D. 1900, and +of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and +twenty-fifth. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + JOHN HAY, <br /> + <i>Secretary of State.</i> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. +</h3> +<h4> +A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +Whereas public interests require that the Senate of the United States be +convened at 12 o'clock on the 4th day of March next, to receive such +communications as may be made by the Executive: +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States of +America, do hereby proclaim and declare that an extraordinary occasion +requires the Senate of the United States to convene at the Capitol in +the city of Washington on the 4th day of March next, at 12 o'clock noon, +of which all persons who shall at that time be entitled to act as +members of that body are hereby required to take notice. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Given under my hand and the seal of the United States, at Washington, +the 23d day of February, A.D. 1901, and of the Independence of the +United States the one hundred and twenty-fifth. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + JOHN HAY, <br /> + <i>Secretary of State.</i> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. +</h3> +<h4> +A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, March 14, 1901</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the People of the United States</i>: +</p> +<p> +Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States from 1889 to 1893, +died yesterday at 4:45 P.M., at his home in Indianapolis. In his death +the country has been deprived of one of its greatest citizens. A +brilliant soldier in his young manhood, he gained fame and rapid +advancement by his energy and valor. As a lawyer he rose to be a leader +of the bar. In the Senate he at once took and retained high rank as an +orator and legislator; and in the high office of President he displayed +extraordinary gifts as administrator and statesman. In public and in +private life he set a shining example for his countrymen. +</p> +<p> +In testimony of the respect in which his memory is held by the +Government and people of the United States, I do hereby direct that the +flags on the Executive Mansion and the several Departmental buildings be +displayed at half staff for a period of thirty days; and that suitable +military and naval honors, under the orders of the Secretaries of War +and of the Navy, be rendered on the day of the funeral. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington this 14th day of March, A.D. 1901, and of +the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and +twenty-fifth. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + JOHN HAY, <br /> + <i>Secretary of State.</i> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. +</h3> +<h4> +A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +Whereas The Washington Forest Reserve, in the State of Washington, was +established by proclamation dated February 22d, 1897, under and by +virtue of section twenty-four of the act of Congress, approved March 3d, +1891, entitled, "An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other +purposes," which provides, "That the President of the United States may, +from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory +having public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or +undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, +and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the +establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof;" +</p> +<p> +And whereas it is further provided by the act of Congress, approved June +4th, 1897, entitled, "An act making appropriations for sundry civil +expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1898, +and for other purposes," that "The President is hereby authorized at any +time to modify any executive order that has been or may hereafter be +made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may +reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may +vacate altogether any order creating such reserve;" +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, +by virtue of the power vested in me by the aforesaid act of Congress, +approved June 4th, 1897, do hereby make known and proclaim that there +are hereby withdrawn and excluded from the aforesaid Washington Forest +Reserve and restored to the public domain all those certain tracts, +pieces or parcels of land particularly described as follows to wit: +</p> +<p> +The southwest quarter of section three (3), sections four (4) and five +(5), the east half of section nine (9), the west half of section ten +(10), the south half of section thirteen (13), the south half of section +fourteen (14), section fifteen (15), the north half and southeast +quarter of section twenty-three (23), sections twenty-four (24), +twenty-five (25) and thirty-six (36), all in township thirty-five (35) +north, range twenty (20) east, Willamette Meridian; what will be when +surveyed the south half of township thirty-two (32) north, range +twenty-one (21) east; what will be when surveyed the north half of +township thirty-three (33) north, range twenty-one (21) east; townships +thirty-four (34) and thirty-five (35) north, range twenty-one (21) east; +townships thirty-one (31) to thirty-four (34), both inclusive, range +twenty-two (22) east; what will be when surveyed sections thirty (30), +thirty-one (31) and thirty-two (32) of township thirty-five (35) north, +range twenty-two (22) east. +</p> +<p> +That the lands hereby restored to the public domain shall be open to +settlement from date hereof, but shall not be subject to entry, filing +or selection until after ninety days' notice by such publication as the +Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. +</p> +<p> +In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of +the United States to be affixed. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington this 3rd day of April, A.D. 1901, and of +the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-fifth. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + JOHN HAY, <br /> + <i>Secretary of State.</i> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. +</h3> +<h4> +A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +Whereas, by Executive Order dated December 27, 1875, sections 8 and 9, +township 15 south, range 2 east, San Bernardino meridian, California, +were with certain other tracts of land withdrawn from the public domain +and reserved for the use of the Capitan Grande band or village of +Mission Indians; and +</p> +<p> +Whereas the Commission appointed under the provisions of the act of +Congress approved January 12, 1891, entitled "An act for the relief of +the Mission Indians in the State of California" (U.S. Statutes at Large, +vol. 26, page 712), selected for the said Capitan Grande band or village +of Indians certain tracts of land intentionally omitted and excluded +from such selection the said sections 8 and 9, township 15 south, range +2 east, and reported that the tracts thus omitted included the lands +upon which were found the claims of Arthur F. Head and others; and +</p> +<p> +Whereas, the report and recommendations of the said Commission were +approved by Executive Order dated December 29, 1891, which order also +directed that "All of the lands mentioned in said report are hereby +withdrawn from settlement and entry until patents shall have issued +for said selected reservations and until the recommendations of said +Commission shall be fully executed, and, by the proclamation of the +President of the United States, the lands or any part thereof shall +be restored to the public domain;" and +</p> +<p> +Whereas a patent was issued March 10, 1894, to the said Indians for the +lands selected by the Commission as aforesaid and which patent also +excluded the said sections 8 and 9, township 15 south, range 2 east; and +</p> +<p> +Whereas it appears that the said Arthur F. Head cannot make the +requisite filings on the land occupied by him until it shall have been +formally restored to the public domain, and that no good reason appears +to exist for the further reservation of the said sections for the said +band of Indians; +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by +virtue of the power in me vested, do hereby declare and make known that +the Executive Orders dated December 27, 1875, and December 29, 1891, are +so far modified as to except from their provisions sections 8 and 9 of +township 15 south, range 2 east, San Bernardino meridian, and the said +sections are hereby restored to the public domain. +</p> +<p> +In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of +the United States to be affixed. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington this 16th day of April, A.D. 1901, and of +the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-fifth. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + JOHN HAY, <br /> + <i>Secretary of State.</i> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +PROCLAMATION. +</h3> +<p> +Whereas the act of Congress entitled "An act to ratify and confirm an +agreement with the Muscogee or Creek tribe of Indians and for other +purposes," approved on the 1st day of March, 1901, contains a provision +as follows: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + That the agreement negotiated between the Commission to the Five + Civilized Tribes and the Muscogee or Creek tribe of Indians, at the + city of Washington on the 8th day of March, nineteen hundred, as + herein amended, is hereby accepted, ratified, and confirmed, and the + same shall be of full force and effect when ratified by the Creek + national council. The principal chief, as soon as practicable after + the ratification of this agreement by Congress, shall call an extra + session of the Creek national council and lay before it this agreement + and the act of Congress ratifying it, and if the agreement be ratified + by said council, as provided in the constitution of said nation, he + shall transmit to the President of the United States the act of council + ratifying the agreement, and the President of the United States shall + thereupon issue his proclamation declaring the same duly ratified, and + that all the provisions of this agreement have become law according to + the terms thereof: <i>Provided</i>, That such ratification by the Creek + national council shall be made within ninety days from the approval of + this act by the President of the United States, +</p> +<p> +And whereas the principal chief of the said tribe has transmitted to +me an act of the Creek national council entitled "An act to ratify and +confirm an agreement between the United States and the Muscogee Nation +of Indians of the Indian Territory" approved the 25th day of May, 1901, +which contains a provision as follows: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + That said agreement, amended, ratified and confirmed by the Congress of + the United States, as set forth in said act of Congress approved March + 1, 1901, is hereby accepted, ratified and confirmed on the part of the + Muscogee Nation and on the part of the Muscogee or Creek tribe of + Indians constituting said Nation, as provided in said act of Congress + and as provided in the Constitution of said Nation, and the Principal + Chief is hereby authorized to transmit this act of the National Council + ratifying said agreement to the President of the United States as + provided in said act of Congress. +</p> +<p> +And whereas paragraph thirty-six of said agreement contains a provision +as follows: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + This provision shall not take effect until after it shall have been + separately and specifically approved by the Creek national council and + by the Seminole general council; and if not approved by either, it shall + fail altogether, and be eliminated from this agreement without impairing + any other of its provisions. +</p> +<p> +And whereas there has been presented to me an act of the Creek national +council entitled "An act to disapprove certain provisions, relating to +Seminole citizens, in the agreement between the Muscogee Nation and the +United States, ratified by Congress March 1, 1901," approved the 25th +day of May, 1901, by which the provisions of said paragraph thirty-six +are specifically disapproved: +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, do +hereby declare said agreement, except paragraph thirty-six thereof, duly +ratified and that all the provisions thereof, except said paragraph +thirty-six which failed of ratification by the Creek national council, +became law according to the terms thereof upon the 25th day of May, +1901. +</p> +<p> +In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of +the United States to be affixed. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington, this 25th day of June, A.D. 1901, and of +the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-fifth. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + DAVID J. HILL, <br /> + <i>Acting Secretary of State.</i> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. +</h3> +<h4> +A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +Whereas the Cascade Range Forest Reserve, in the State of Oregon, +was established by proclamation dated September 28, 1893, under and +by virtue of section twenty-four of the act of Congress, approved +March 3, 1891, entitled, "An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and +for other purposes," which provides, "That the President of the United +States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or +Territory having public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or +undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, +and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the +establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof;" +</p> +<p> +And whereas it is further provided by the act of Congress, approved +June 4, 1897, entitled, "An act making appropriations for sundry civil +expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898, +and for other purposes," that "The President is hereby authorized at +any time to modify any executive order that has been or may hereafter +be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may +reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may +vacate altogether any order creating such reserve;" +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, +by virtue of the power vested in me by the aforesaid act of Congress, +approved June 4, 1897, do hereby make known and proclaim that there is +hereby reserved from entry or settlement, and added to and made a part +of the aforesaid Cascade Range Forest Reserve, all those certain tracts, +pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Oregon +and particularly described as follows, to wit: +</p> +<p> +The south half (S. ½) of township one (1) south, townships two (2) +south, three (3) south, and four (4) south, range eleven (11) east, +Willamette Meridian; township five (5) south, ranges nine (9) and ten +(10) east; and so much of township six (6) south, ranges nine (9) and +ten (10) east, as lies north of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation. +</p> +<p> +Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which +may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or +covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States +Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant +to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of +record has not expired: <i>Provided</i>, that this exception shall not +continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, +settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the +entry, filing or settlement was made. +</p> +<p> +Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement +upon the tract of land reserved by this proclamation. +</p> +<p> +In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of +the United States to be affixed. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington this 1st day of July, A.D. 1901, and of +the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-fifth. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + DAVID J. HILL, <br /> + <i>Acting Secretary of State.</i> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. +</h3> +<h4> +A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +Whereas it is provided by section twenty-four of the act of Congress, +approved March 3rd, 1891, entitled "An act to repeal timber-culture +laws, and for other purposes," "That the President of the United States +may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory +having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands +wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of +commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President +shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such +reservations and the limits thereof." +</p> +<p> +And whereas the public lands in the Territory of Oklahoma, within the +limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it +appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and +reserving said lands as a public reservation; +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by +virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid +act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there is hereby +reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a public reservation +all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being +situate in the Territory of Oklahoma and particularly described as +follows, to wit: +</p> +<p> +Beginning at the southeast corner of township three (3) north, range +fourteen (14) west, Indian Meridian, Territory of Oklahoma; thence north +along the township line to the northeast corner of section twenty-four +(24), township three (3) north, range fourteen (14) west; thence east +on the section line to the southeast corner of section thirteen (13), +township three (3) north, range thirteen (13) west; thence north along +the range line between ranges twelve (12) and thirteen (13) west, to +the northeast corner of the southeast quarter of section twelve (12), +township three (3) north, range thirteen (13) west; thence west to +the southwest corner of the northwest quarter of section twelve (12), +township three (3) north, range thirteen (13) west; thence north to the +southwest corner of section one (1), township three (3) north, range +thirteen (13) west; thence west along the section line between sections +two (2) and eleven (11), to the southwest corner of section two (2), +township three (3) north, range thirteen (13) west; thence north along +the section line between sections two (2) and three (3) to the southeast +corner of the northeast quarter of section three (3), township three (3) +north, range thirteen (13) west; thence west along the center line of +sections three (3), four (4), five (5), and six (6), to the southwest +corner of the northwest quarter of section six (6), township three (3) +north, range thirteen (13) west; thence north along the range line +between ranges thirteen (13) and fourteen (14) west to the northeast +corner of section one (1), township three (3) north, range fourteen (14) +west; thence west along the township line between townships three (3) +and four (4) north to the northwest corner of section two (2), township +three (3) north, range fourteen (14) west; thence north to the northeast +corner of section thirty-four (34), township four (4) north, range +fourteen (14) west; thence west to the northwest corner of section +thirty-four (34), township four (4) north, range fourteen (14) west; +thence north to the northeast corner of the southeast quarter of section +twenty-one (21), township four (4) north, range fourteen (14) west; +thence west to the southwest corner of the northwest quarter of section +twenty (20), township four (4) north, range fourteen (14) west; thence +north to the northeast corner of section eighteen (18), township four +(4) north, range fourteen (14) west; thence west to the northwest corner +of section seventeen (17), township four (4) north, range fifteen (15) +west; thence south to the southwest corner of section twenty-nine (29), +township four (4) north, range fifteen (15) west; thence east to the +southeast corner of section twenty-nine (29), township four (4) north, +range fifteen (15) west; thence south to the southwest corner of section +thirty-three (33), township four (4) north, range fifteen (15) west; +thence east to the southeast corner of said section thirty-three (33), +township four (4) north, range fifteen (15) west; thence south to the +southwest corner of the northwest quarter of section ten (10), township +three (3) north, range fifteen (15) west; thence east to the southeast +corner of the northeast quarter of said section ten; thence south to the +southwest corner of section twenty-six (26), township three (3) north, +range fifteen (15) west; thence east to the southeast corner of said +section twenty-six (26); thence south to the southwest corner of the +northwest quarter of section thirty-six (36), township three (3) north, +range fifteen (15) west; thence east to the center of section +thirty-three (33), township three (3) north, range fourteen (14) west; +thence south to the southwest corner of the southeast quarter of said +section thirty-three (33); thence east along the township line between +townships two (2) and three (3) north to the southeast corner of +township three (3) north, range fourteen (14) west, the place of +beginning. +</p> +<p> +Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement +upon the tract of land reserved by this proclamation. +</p> +<p> +The reservation hereby established shall be known as the Wichita Forest +Reserve. +</p> +<p> +In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of +the United States to be affixed. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington this 4th day of July, A.D. 1901, and of +the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-sixth. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + DAVID J. HILL <br /> + <i>Acting Secretary of State</i>. +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. +</h3> +<h4> +A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +Whereas by an agreement between the Wichita and affiliated bands of +Indians on the one part, and certain commissioners of the United States +on the other part, ratified by act of Congress approved March 2, 1895 +(28 Stat., 876, 894), the said Indians ceded, conveyed, transferred and +relinquished, forever and absolutely, without any reservation whatever, +unto the United States of America, all their claim, title and interest +of every kind and character in and to the lands embraced in the +following described tract of country now in the Territory of Oklahoma, +to wit: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Commencing at a point in the middle of the main channel of the Washita + River, where the ninety-eighth meridian of west longitude crosses the + same, thence up the middle of the main channel of said river to the line + of 98° 40' west longitude, thence on said line of 98° 40' due north to + the middle of the channel of the main Canadian River, thence down the + middle of the said main Canadian River to where it crosses the + ninety-eighth meridian, thence due south to the place of beginning. +</p> +<p> +And whereas, in pursuance of said act of Congress ratifying said +agreement, allotments of land in severalty have been regularly made to +each and every member of said Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians, +native and adopted, and the lands occupied by religious societies or +other organizations for religious or educational work among the Indians +have been regularly allotted and confirmed to such societies and +organizations, respectively; +</p> +<p> +And whereas, by an agreement between the Comanche, Kiowa and Apache +tribes of Indians on the one part, and certain commissioners of the +United States on the other part, amended and ratified by act of +Congress, approved June 6, 1900 (31 Stat., 672, 676), the said Indian +tribes, subject to certain conditions which have been duly performed, +ceded, conveyed, transferred, relinquished and surrendered forever and +absolutely, without any reservation whatsoever, expressed or implied, +unto the United States of America, all their claim, title and interest +of every kind and character in and to the lands embraced in the +following described tract of country now in the Territory of Oklahoma, +to wit: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Commencing at a point where the Washita River crosses the ninety-eighth + meridian west from Greenwich; thence up the Washita River, in the middle + of the main channel thereof, to a point thirty miles, by river, west of + Fort Cobb, as now established; thence due west to the north fork of Red + River, provided said line strikes said river east of the one-hundredth + meridian of west longitude; if not, then only to said meridian line, and + thence due south, on said meridian line, to the said north Fork of Red + River; thence down said north fork, in the middle of the main channel + thereof, from the point where it may be first intersected by the lines + above described, to the main Red River; thence down said Red River, in + the middle of the main channel thereof, to its intersection with the + ninety-eighth meridian of longitude west from Greenwich; thence north, + on said meridian line, to the place of beginning. +</p> +<p> +And whereas, in pursuance of said act of Congress ratifying the +agreement last named, allotments of land in severalty have been +regularly made to each member of said Comanche, Kiowa and Apache +tribes of Indians; the lands occupied by religious societies or other +organizations for religious or educational work among the Indians +have been regularly allotted and confirmed to such societies and +organizations, respectively; and the Secretary of the Interior, out of +the lands ceded by the agreement last named, has regularly selected and +set aside for the use in common for said Comanche, Kiowa and Apache +tribes of Indians, four hundred and eighty thousand acres of grazing +lands; +</p> +<p> +And whereas, in the act of Congress ratifying the said Wichita +agreement, it is provided— +</p> +<p class="quote"> + That whenever any of the lands acquired by this agreement shall, by + operation of law or proclamation of the President of the United States, + be open to settlement, they shall be disposed of under the general + provisions of the homestead and townsite laws of the United States: + <i>Provided</i>, That in addition to the land-office fees prescribed by + statute for such entries the entryman shall pay one dollar and + twenty-five cents per acre for the land entered at the time of + submitting his final proof: <i>And provided further</i>, That in all + homestead entries where the entryman has resided upon and improved the + land entered in good faith for the period of fourteen months he may + commute his entry to cash upon the payment of one dollar and twenty-five + cents per acre: <i>And provided further</i>, That the rights of + honorably discharged Union soldiers and sailors of the late civil war, + as defined and described in sections twenty-three hundred and four and + twenty-three hundred and five of the Revised Statutes, shall not be + abridged: <i>And provided further</i>, That any qualified entryman + having lands adjoining the lands herein ceded, whose original entry + embraced less than one hundred and sixty acres, may take sufficient + land from said reservation to make his homestead entry not to exceed + one hundred and sixty acres in all, said land to be taken upon the + same conditions as are required of other entrymen: <i>Provided</i>, That + said lands shall be opened to settlement within one year after said + allotments are made to the Indians. +</p> +<hr> +<p class="quote"> + That the laws relating to the mineral lands of the United States are + hereby extended over the lands ceded by the foregoing agreement. +</p> +<p> +And whereas in the act of Congress ratifying the said Comanche, Kiowa +and Apache agreement, it is provided— +</p> +<p class="quote"> + That the lands acquired by this agreement shall be opened to settlement + by proclamation of the President within six months after allotments are + made and be disposed of under the general provisions of the homestead + and townsite laws of the United States: <i>Provided</i>, That in + addition to the land office fees prescribed by statute for such entries + the entryman shall pay one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre for the + land entered at the time of submitting his final proof: <i>And provided + further</i>, That in all homestead entries where the entryman has + resided upon and improved the land entered in good faith for the period + of fourteen months he may commute his entry to cash upon the payment of + one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre: <i>And provided further</i>, + That the rights of honorably discharged Union soldiers and sailors of + the late civil war, as defined and described in sections twenty-three + hundred and four and twenty-three hundred and five of the Revised + Statutes shall not be abridged: <i>And provided further</i>, That any + person who, having attempted to but for any cause failed to secure a + title in fee to a homestead under existing laws, or who made entry under + what is known as the commuted provision of the homestead law shall be + qualified to make a homestead entry upon said lands: <i>And provided + further</i>, That any qualified entryman having lands adjoining the + lands herein ceded, whose original entry embraced less than one hundred + and sixty acres in all, shall have the right to enter so much of the + lands by this agreement ceded lying contiguous to his said entry as + shall, with the land already entered, make in the aggregate one hundred + and sixty acres, said land to be taken upon the same conditions as are + required of other entrymen: <i>And provided further</i>, That the + settlers who located on that part of said lands called and known as the + "neutral strip" shall have preference right for thirty days on the lands + upon which they have located and improved. +</p> +<hr> +<p class="quote"> + That should any of said lands allotted to said Indians, or opened to + settlement under this act, contain valuable mineral deposits, such + mineral deposits shall be open to location and entry, under the existing + mining laws of the United States, upon the passage of this act, and the + mineral laws of the United States are hereby extended over said lands. +</p> +<p> +And whereas, by the act of Congress approved January 4, 1901 (31 Stat., +727), the Secretary of the Interior was authorized to extend, for a +period not exceeding eight months from December 6, 1900, the time for +making allotments to the Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache Indians and opening +to settlement the lands so ceded by them; +</p> +<p> +And whereas, in pursuance of the act of Congress approved March 3, 1901 +(31 Stat., 1093), the Secretary of the Interior has regularly subdivided +the lands so as aforesaid respectively ceded to the United States by the +Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians and the Comanche, Kiowa, and +Apache tribes of Indians into counties, attaching portions thereof to +adjoining counties in the Territory of Oklahoma, has regularly +designated the place for the county seat of each new county, has +regularly set aside and reserved at such county seat land for a townsite +to be disposed of in the manner provided by the act of Congress last +named, and has regularly caused to be surveyed, subdivided, and platted +the lands so set aside and reserved for disposition as such townsites; +</p> +<p> +And whereas, by the act of Congress last named, it is provided: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + The lands to be opened to settlement and entry under the acts of + Congress ratifying said agreements respectively shall be so opened by + proclamation of the President, and to avoid the contests and conflicting + claims which have heretofore resulted from opening similar public lands + to settlement and entry, the President's proclamation shall prescribe + the manner in which these lands may be settled upon, occupied, and + entered by persons entitled thereto under the acts ratifying said + agreements, respectively; and no person shall be permitted to settle + upon, occupy, or enter any of said lands except as prescribed in such + proclamation until after the expiration of sixty days from the time when + the same are opened to settlement and entry. +</p> +<p> +And whereas, by the act of Congress last named the President was +authorized to establish two additional United States land districts and +land offices in the Territory of Oklahoma to include the lands so ceded +as aforesaid, which land districts and land offices have been +established by an order of even date herewith; +</p> +<p> +And whereas all of the conditions required by law to be performed prior +to the opening of said tracts of land to settlement and entry have been, +as I hereby declare, duly performed; +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States of +America, by virtue of the power vested in me by law, do hereby declare +and make known that all of the lands so as aforesaid ceded by the +Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians, and the Comanche, Kiowa, and +Apache tribes of Indians, respectively, saving and excepting sections +sixteen, thirty-six, thirteen, and thirty-three in each township, and +all lands located or selected by the Territory of Oklahoma as indemnity +school or educational lands, and saving and excepting all lands allotted +in severalty to individual Indians, and saving and excepting all lands +allotted and confirmed to religious societies and other organizations, +and saving and excepting the lands selected and set aside as grazing +lands for the use in common for said Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache tribes +of Indians, and saving and excepting the lands set aside and reserved at +each of said county seats for disposition as townsites, and saving and +excepting the lands now used, occupied, or set apart for military, +agency, school, school farm, religious, Indian cemetery, wood reserve, +forest reserve, or other public uses, will, on the 6th day of August, +1901, at 9 o'clock A.M., in the manner herein prescribed and not +otherwise, be opened to entry and settlement and to disposition under +the general provisions of the homestead and townsite laws of the United +States. +</p> +<p> +Commencing at 9 o'clock A.M., Wednesday, July 10, 1901, and ending at +6 o'clock P.M., Friday, July 26, 1901, a registration will be had at +the United States land offices at El Reno and Lawton, in the Territory +of Oklahoma (the office at Lawton to occupy provisional quarters +in the immediate vicinity of Fort Sill, Oklahoma Territory, until +suitable quarters can be provided at Lawton), for the purpose of +ascertaining what persons desire to enter, settle upon, and acquire +title to any of said lands under the homestead law and of ascertaining +their qualifications so to do. The registration at each office will be +for both land districts, but at the time of registration each applicant +will be required to elect and state in which district he desires to make +entry. To obtain registration each applicant will be required to show +himself duly qualified to make homestead entry of these lands under +existing laws and to give the registering officer such appropriate +matters of description and identity as will protect the applicant and +the government against any attempted impersonation. Registration cannot +be effected through the use of the mails or the employment of an agent, +excepting that honorably discharged soldiers and sailors entitled to the +benefits of section 2304 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, +as amended by the act of Congress approved March 1, 1901 (31 Stat., +847), may present their applications for registration and due proofs of +their qualifications through an agent of their own selection, but no +person will be permitted to act as agent for more than one such soldier +or sailor. No person will be permitted to register more than once or +in any other than his true name. Each applicant who shows himself duly +qualified will be registered and given a non-transferable certificate +to that effect, which will entitle him to go upon and examine the lands +to be opened hereunder in the land district in which he elects to make +his entry; but the only purpose for which he may go upon and examine +said lands is that of enabling him later on, as herein provided, to +understandingly select the lands for which he will make entry. No one +will be permitted to make settlement upon any of said lands in advance +of the opening herein provided for, and during the first sixty days +following said opening no one but registered applicants will be +permitted to make homestead settlement upon any of said lands, and then +only in pursuance of a homestead entry duly allowed by the local land +officers or of a soldier's declaratory statement duly accepted by such +officers. +</p> +<p> +The order in which, during the first sixty days following the opening, +the registered applicants will be permitted to make homestead entry of +the lands opened hereunder, will be determined by drawings for both the +El Reno and Lawton districts publicly held at the United States land +office at El Reno, Oklahoma, commencing at 9 o'clock A.M., Monday, July +29, 1901, and continuing for such period as may be necessary to complete +the same. The drawings will be had under the supervision and immediate +observation of a committee of three persons whose integrity is such as +to make their control of the drawing a guaranty of its fairness. The +members of this committee will be appointed by the Secretary of the +Interior, who will prescribe suitable compensation for their services. +Preparatory to these drawings the registration officers will, at the +time of registering each applicant who shows himself duly qualified, +make out a card, which must be signed by the applicant, stating the land +district in which he desires to make homestead entry, and giving such a +description of the applicant as will enable the local land officers to +thereafter identify him. This card will be at once sealed in a separate +envelope, which will bear no other distinguishing label or mark than +such as may be necessary to show that it is to go into the drawing for +the land district in which the applicant desires to make entry. These +envelopes will be separated according to land districts and will be +carefully preserved and remain sealed until opened in the course of the +drawing as herein provided. When the registration is completed all of +these sealed envelopes will be brought together at the place of drawing +and turned over to the committee in charge of the drawing, who, in such +manner as in their judgment will be attended with entire fairness and +equality of opportunity, shall proceed to draw out and open the separate +envelopes and to give to each enclosed card a number in the order in +which the envelope containing the same is drawn. While the drawings for +the two districts will be separately conducted they will occur as nearly +at the same time as is practicable. The result of the drawing for each +district will be certified by the committee to the officers of the +district and will determine the order in which the applicants may make +homestead entry of said lands and settlement thereon. +</p> +<p> +Notice of the drawings stating the name of each applicant and number +assigned to him by the drawing will be posted each day at the place +of drawing, and each applicant will be notified of his number by a +postal-card mailed to him at the address, if any, given by him at the +time of registration. Each applicant should, however, in his own behalf +employ such measures as will insure his obtaining prompt and accurate +information of the order in which his application for homestead entry +can be presented as fixed by the drawing. Applications for homestead +entry of said lands during the first sixty days following the opening +can be made only by registered applicants and in the order established +by the drawing. At each land office, commencing Tuesday, August 6, 1901, +at 9 o'clock A.M., the applications of those drawing numbers 1 to 125, +inclusive, for that district must be presented and will be considered +in their numerical order during the first day, and the applications +of those drawing numbers 126 to 250, inclusive, must be presented and +will be considered in their numerical order during the second day, +and so on at that rate until all of said lands subject to entry under +the homestead law, and desired thereunder, have been entered. If any +applicant fails to appear and present his application for entry when the +number assigned to him by the drawing is reached, his right to enter +will be passed until after the other applications assigned for that day +have been disposed of, when he will be given another opportunity to make +entry, failing in which he will be deemed to have abandoned his right to +make entry under such drawing. To obtain the allowance of a homestead +entry each applicant must personally present the certificate of +registration theretofore issued to him, together with a regular +homestead application and the necessary accompanying proofs, and with +the regular land office fees, but an honorably discharged soldier or +sailor may file his declaratory statement through the agent representing +him at the registration. The production of the certificate of +registration will be dispensed with only upon satisfactory proof of +its loss or destruction. If at the time of considering his regular +application for entry it appears that any applicant is disqualified from +making homestead entry of these lands his application will be rejected, +notwithstanding his prior registration. If any applicant shall register +more than once hereunder, or in any other than his true name, or shall +transfer his registration certificate he will thereby lose all the +benefits of the registration and drawing herein provided for, and will +be precluded from entering or settling upon any of said lands during the +first sixty days following said opening. +</p> +<p> +Because of the provision in the said act of Congress approved June 6, +1900: "That the settlers who located on that part of said lands called +and known as the 'neutral strip' shall have preference right for thirty +days on the lands upon which they have located and improved," the said +lands in the "neutral strip" shall for the period of thirty days after +said opening be subject to homestead entry and townsite entry only by +those who have heretofore located upon and improved the same, and who +are accorded a preference right of entry for thirty days as aforesaid. +Persons entitled to make entry under this preference right will be +permitted to do so at any time during said period of thirty days +following the opening without previous registration, and without regard +to the drawing herein provided for, and at the expiration of that period +the lands in said "neutral strip" for which no entry shall have been +made will come under the general provisions of this proclamation. +</p> +<p> +The intended beneficiaries of the provision in the said acts of +Congress, approved, respectively, March 2, 1895, and June 6, 1900, which +authorizes a qualified entryman having lands adjoining the ceded lands, +whose original entry embraced less than 160 acres, to enter so much +of the ceded lands as will make his homestead entry contain in the +aggregate not exceeding 160 acres, may obtain such an extension of his +existing entry, without previous registration and without regard to the +drawing herein provided for, only by making appropriate application, +accompanied by the necessary proofs, at the proper new land office at +some time prior to the opening herein provided for. +</p> +<p> +Any person or persons desiring to found, or to suggest establishing +a townsite upon any of said ceded lands at any point not in the near +vicinity of either of the county seats therein heretofore selected and +designated as aforesaid, may, at any time before the opening herein +provided for, file in the proper local land office a written application +to that effect describing by legal subdivisions the lands intended to be +affected, and stating fully and under oath the necessity or propriety of +founding or establishing a town at that place. The local officers will +forthwith transmit said petition to the Commissioner of the General Land +Office with their recommendation in the premises. Such Commissioner, if +he believes the public interests will be subserved thereby, will, if the +Secretary of the Interior approve thereof, issue an order withdrawing +the lands described in such petition, or any portion thereof, from +homestead entry and settlement and directing that the same be held for +the time being for townsite settlement, entry, and disposition only. +In such event the lands so withheld from homestead entry and settlement +will, at the time of said opening and not before, become subject to +settlement, entry, and disposition under the general townsite laws +of the United States. None of said ceded lands will be subject to +settlement, entry, or disposition under such general townsite laws +except in the manner herein prescribed until after the expiration of +sixty days from the time of said opening. +</p> +<p> +Attention is hereby especially called to the fact that under the special +provisions of the said act of Congress approved March 3, 1901, the +townsites selected and designated at the county seats of the new +counties into which said lands have been formed cannot be disposed of +under the general townsite laws of the United States, and can only be +disposed of in the special manner provided in said act of Congress, +which declares: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + The lands so set apart and designated shall, in advance of the opening, + be surveyed, subdivided, and platted, under the direction of the + Secretary of the Interior, into appropriate lots, blocks, streets, + alleys, and sites for parks or public buildings, so as to make a + townsite thereof: <i>Provided</i>, That no person shall purchase more than + one business and one residence lot. Such town lots shall be offered + and sold at public auction to the highest bidder, under the direction + of the Secretary of the Interior, at sales to be had at the opening + and subsequent thereto. +</p> +<p> +All persons are especially admonished that under the said act of +Congress approved March 3, 1901, it is provided that no person shall +be permitted to settle upon, occupy, or enter any of said ceded lands +except in the manner prescribed in this proclamation until after the +expiration of sixty days from the time when the same are opened to +settlement and entry. After the expiration of the said period of sixty +days, but not before, any of said lands remaining undisposed of may be +settled upon, occupied and entered under the general provisions of the +homestead and townsite laws of the United States in like manner as if +the manner of effecting such settlement, occupancy and entry had not +been prescribed herein in obedience to law. +</p> +<p> +It appearing that there are fences around the pastures into which, for +convenience, portions of the ceded lands have heretofore been divided, +and that these fences are of considerable value and are still the +property of the Indian tribes ceding said lands to the United States, +all persons going upon examining, entering or settling upon any of +said lands are cautioned to respect such fences as the property of the +Indians and not to destroy, appropriate, or carry away the same, but +to leave them undisturbed so that they may be seasonably removed and +preserved for the benefit of the Indians. +</p> +<p> +The Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe all needful rules and +regulations necessary to carry into full effect the opening herein +provided for. +</p> +<p> +In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of +the United States to be affixed. +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington this 4th day of July, A.D. 1901, and of +the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-sixth. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + DAVID J. HILL, <br /> + <i>Acting Secretary of State</i>. +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. +</h3> +<h4> +A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +Whereas the Olympic Forest Reserve, in the State of Washington, was +established by proclamation dated February 22, 1897, under and by virtue +of section twenty-four of the act of Congress, approved March 3, 1891, +entitled "An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes," +which provides, "That the President of the United States may, from time +to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public +lands bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part +covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, +as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, +declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof;" +</p> +<p> +And whereas it is further provided by the act of Congress, approved +June 4, 1897, entitled, "An act making appropriations for sundry civil +expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898, and +for other purposes," that "The President is hereby authorized at any +time to modify any executive order that has been or may hereafter be +made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may +reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may +vacate altogether any order creating such reserve;" under which +provision, certain lands were withdrawn and excluded from the said +forest reserve by proclamation dated April 7, 1900; +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, +by virtue of the power vested in me by the aforesaid act of Congress, +approved June 4, 1897, do hereby make known and proclaim that the +boundary lines of the aforesaid Olympic Forest Reserve are hereby +further changed so as to read as follows: +</p> +<p> +Beginning at the northeast corner of township twenty-one (21) north, +range five (5) west, Willamette Meridian, Washington; thence northerly +to the southeast corner of section twenty-five (25), township +twenty-three (23) north, range five (5) west, thence westerly to the +southwest corner of said section; thence northerly to the northwest +corner of said section; thence westerly to the southwest corner of +section twenty-three (23), said township; thence northerly to the +northwest corner of said section; thence westerly to the southwest +corner of section fifteen (15), said township; thence northerly to the +northwest corner of section ten (10), said township; thence easterly +to the northeast corner of section twelve (12), said township; thence +northerly to the northwest corner of township twenty-three (23) north, +range four (4) west; thence easterly to the northeast corner of said +township; thence northerly to the northwest corner of township +twenty-four (24) north, range three (3) west; thence easterly to the +northeast corner of said township; thence northerly to the southwest +corner of township twenty-eight (28) north, range two (2) west; thence +easterly to the southeast corner of the southwest quarter of section +thirty-three (33), said township; thence northerly along the +quarter-section lines to the northeast corner of the northwest quarter +of section twenty-one (21), township twenty-nine (29) north, range two +(2) west; thence westerly along the section lines to the point for the +southwest corner of section eighteen (18), township twenty-nine (29) +north, range five (5) west; thence northerly to the northwest corner +of said township; thence westerly to the southeast corner of township +thirty (30) north, range eight (8) west; thence northerly to the +northeast corner of section twenty-five (25), said township; thence +westerly to the southwest corner of section twenty (20), said township; +thence northerly to the northeast corner of section eighteen (18), said +township; thence westerly to the point for the northeast corner of +section thirteen (13), township thirty (30) north, range ten (10) west; +thence northerly to the northeast corner of said township; thence +westerly to the northwest corner of township thirty (30) north, range +eleven (11) west; thence southerly to the southwest corner of section +nineteen (19), said township; thence easterly to the southwest corner of +section twenty-three (23), township thirty (30) north, range ten (10) +west; thence southerly to the southwest corner of section thirty-five +(35), said township; thence westerly to the northeast corner of section +three (3), township twenty-nine (29), range eleven (11) west; thence +southerly to the point for the northeast corner of section twenty-seven +(27), said township; thence westerly to the point for the northwest +corner of section thirty (30), said township; thence southerly to the +southwest corner of said township; thence westerly to the northwest +corner of township twenty-eight (28), range twelve (12) west; thence +southerly to the southwest corner of said township; thence easterly to +the northeast corner of township twenty-seven (27) north, range eleven +(11) west; thence southerly to the southeast corner of section one (1), +said township; thence westerly to the northwest corner of section ten +(10), township twenty-seven (27) north, range twelve (12) west; thence +southerly to the southwest corner of section fifteen (15), said +township; thence easterly to the southwest corner of section thirteen +(13), said township; thence southerly to the southwest corner of section +twenty-four (24), said township; thence easterly to the northeast corner +of section twenty-five (25), township twenty-seven (27) north, range +eleven (11) west; thence southerly to the southeast corner of said +township; thence westerly to the southwest corner of said township; +thence southerly to the southwest corner of township twenty-five (25) +north, range eleven (11) west; thence easterly to the northeast corner +of township twenty-four (24) north, range eleven (11) west; thence +southerly to the southeast corner of said township; thence westerly +along the township line to its point of intersection with the north +boundary of the Quinaielt Indian Reservation; thence southeasterly along +the north boundary of said Indian Reservation to the eastern point of +said reservation and southwesterly along the east boundary thereof to +the point of intersection with the township line between townships +twenty-one (21) and twenty-two (22) north; thence easterly to the +northeast corner of township twenty-one (21) north, range ten (10) west; +thence southerly to the southeast corner of section one (1), said +township; thence easterly to the southwest corner of section six (6), +township twenty-one (21) north, range eight (8) west; thence southerly +to the southwest corner of section eighteen (18), said township; thence +easterly to the southeast corner of section sixteen (16), said township; +thence northerly to the northeast corner of section four (4), said +township; thence easterly to the northeast corner of section six (6), +township twenty-one (21) north, range seven (7) west; thence southerly +to the southeast corner of said section; thence easterly to the +northeast corner of section twelve (12), said township; thence southerly +to the southeast corner of said section; thence easterly to the +northeast corner of section sixteen (16), township twenty-one (21) +north, range six (6) west; thence northerly to the point for the +northeast corner of section nine (9), said township; thence easterly to +the southwest corner of section six (6), township twenty-one (21) north, +range five (5) west; thence northerly to the northwest corner of said +township; thence easterly to the northeast corner of said township, the +place of beginning. +</p> +<p> +Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which +may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or +covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States +Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant +to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of +record has not expired: <i>Provided</i>, that this exception shall not +continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entry-man, +settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the +entry, filing, or settlement was made. +</p> +<p> +Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement +upon the lands reserved by this proclamation. +</p> +<p> +That the lands hereby restored to the public domain shall be open to +settlement from date hereof, but shall not be subject to entry, filing, +or selection until after ninety days' notice by such publication as the +Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. +</p> +<p> +In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of +the United States to be affixed. +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington, this 15th day of July, A.D. 1901, and of +the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-sixth. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + JOHN HAY, <br /> + <i>Secretary of State</i>. +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +[CESSATION OF TARIFF—PORTO RICO.] +</h3> +<p> +Whereas, by an act of Congress, approved April 12, 1900, entitled +"an Act Temporarily to Provide Revenues and a Civil Government for +Porto Rico and for other Purposes," it was provided that, "whenever +the legislative assembly of Porto Rico shall have enacted and put into +operation a system of local taxation to meet the necessities of the +government of Porto Rico, by this act established, and shall by resolution +duly passed so notify the President, he shall make proclamation thereof, +and thereupon all tariff duties on merchandise and articles going into +Porto Rico from the United States or coming into the United States +from Porto Rico shall cease, and from and after such date all such +merchandise and articles shall be entered at the several ports of +entry free of duty;" and +</p> +<p> +Whereas by the same act it was provided, "that as soon as a civil +government for Porto Rico shall have been organized in accordance with +the provisions of this act, and notice thereof shall have been given to +the President, he shall make proclamation thereof, and thereafter all +collections of duties and taxes in Porto Rico under the provisions of +this act shall be paid into the treasury of Porto Rico, to be expended +as required by law for the government and benefit thereof, instead of +being paid into the Treasury of the United States;" and +</p> +<p> +Whereas the legislative assembly of Porto Rico has enacted and put into +operation a system of local taxation to meet the necessities of the +government of Porto Rico as aforesaid, and has passed and caused to be +communicated to me the following resolution: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + A Joint Resolution of the Legislative Assembly of Porto Rico, notifying + the President of the United States that the Legislative Assembly of + Porto Rico has enacted and put into operation a system of local taxation + to meet the necessities of the Government of Porto Rico, established by + act of Congress, entitled "An act temporarily to provide revenues and a + Civil Government for Porto Rico, and for other purposes," duly approved + April 12th, 1900: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + <i>Be it Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of Porto Rico</i>: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Whereas: A civil government for Porto Rico has been fully and completely + organized in accordance with the provisions of an act of Congress + entitled "An act temporarily to provide revenues and a civil government + for Porto Rico, and for other purposes," duly approved April 12th, 1900, + and: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Whereas: It was provided by the terms of said act of Congress, that + whenever the Legislative Assembly of Porto Rico shall have enacted and + put into operation a system of local taxation to meet the necessities + of the Government of Porto Rico, by the aforesaid act established, and + shall by resolution duly passed so notify the President, he shall make + proclamation thereof, and thereupon all tariff duties on merchandise and + articles going into Porto Rico from the United States, or coming into + the United States from Porto Rico shall cease, and from and after such + date all such merchandise and articles shall be entered at the several + ports of entry free of duty: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Now therefore: The Legislative Assembly of Porto Rico in extraordinary + session duly called by the Governor and held at San Juan, the Capital, + on July 4th, A.D. 1901, acting pursuant to the authority and power in + it vested by the provisions of the said act of Congress above referred + to, does hereby notify the President of the United States that by + virtue of an act of the Legislative Assembly of Porto Rico, entitled, + "An act to provide revenue for the people of Porto Rico, and for other + purposes," duly approved January 31st, A.D. 1901, and of other acts + of the Legislative Assembly duly enacted at the first session of the + Legislative Assembly of Porto Rico, duly held at San Juan, Porto Rico, + commencing December 3rd, 1900, and ending January 31st, A.D. 1901, it + has enacted and put into operation a system of local taxation to meet + the necessities of the Government of Porto Rico, by the aforesaid act + of Congress established. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + The Legislative Assembly of Porto Rico hereby directs that a copy + of this joint resolution be presented to the President of the United + States, and hereby requests the Governor of Porto Rico to deliver the + same to the President, to the end that proclamation may be made by him + according to the provisions of the said act of Congress, and if it + shall seem wise and proper to the President, that such proclamation may + issue on the 25th day of July, the said day being a legally established + holiday in Porto Rico commemorating the anniversary of the coming of + the American flag to the Island. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: right;"> + WILLIAM H. HUNT,<br /> + <i>President of the Executive Council</i>. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: right;"> + MAN. F. ROSSY,<br /> + <i>Speaker of the House of Delegates</i>. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Approved, July 4th, A.D. 1901. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: right;"> + CHAS. H. ALLEN,<br /> + <i>Governor</i>. +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, in +pursuance of the provisions of law above quoted, and upon the foregoing +due notification, do hereby issue this my proclamation, and do declare +and make known that a civil government for Porto Rico has been organized +in accordance with the provisions of the said act of Congress; +</p> +<p> +And I do further declare and make known that the Legislative Assembly of +Porto Rico has enacted and put into operation a system of local taxation +to meet the necessities of the government of Porto Rico. +</p> +<p> +In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of +the United States to be affixed. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington this 25th day of July, A.D. 1901, and of +the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-sixth. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + DAVID J. HILL, <br /> + <i>Acting Secretary of State.</i> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. +</h3> +<h4> +A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +Whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the act of Congress, +approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled "An act +to repeal the timber-culture laws, and for other purposes," "That the +President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and +reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, +in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or +undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, +and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the +establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof;" +</p> +<p> +And whereas, the public lands in the State of Utah, within the limits +hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears +that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving +said lands as a public reservation; +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by +virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid +act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there is hereby +reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation +all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being +situate in the State of Utah and particularly described as follows, +to wit: +</p> +<p> +Beginning at the northeast corner of section four (4), township ten (10) +south, range three (3) east, Salt Lake base and Meridian, Utah; thence +westerly along the township line to the northwest corner of section five +(5), township ten (10) south, range two (2) east; thence southerly to +the northeast corner of section nineteen (19), said township; thence +westerly to the northwest corner of said section; thence southerly along +the range line to the southwest corner of township twelve (12) south, +range two (2) east; thence easterly to the southeast corner of said +township; thence northerly to the northwest corner of section thirty +(30), township eleven (11) south, range three (3) east; thence easterly +to the southeast corner of section twenty-one (21), said township; +thence northerly along the section line to the northeast corner of +section four (4), township ten (10) south, range three (3) east, to the +place of beginning. +</p> +<p> +Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which +may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or +covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States +Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant +to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of +record has not expired: <i>Provided</i>, that this exception shall not +continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, +settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the +entry, filing or settlement was made. +</p> +<p> +Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement +upon the tract of land reserved by this proclamation. +</p> +<p> +The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Payson Forest +Reserve. +</p> +<p> +In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of +the United States to be affixed. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington this 3d day of August, A.D. 1901, and of +the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-sixth. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + ALVEY A. ADEE, <br /> + <i>Acting Secretary of State.</i> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h3> +BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. +</h3> +<h4> +A PROCLAMATION. +</h4> +<p> +Whereas notice has been given me by the Louisiana Purchase Exposition +Commission, in accordance with the provisions of section 9 of the act +of Congress, approved March 3, 1901, entitled "An act to provide for +celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the purchase of the +Louisiana territory by the United States by holding an international +exhibition of arts, industries, manufactures, and the products of the +soil, mine, forest and sea, in the city of St. Louis, in the State of +Missouri," that provision has been made for grounds and buildings for +the uses provided for in the said act of Congress: +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by +virtue of the authority vested in me by said act, do hereby declare and +proclaim that such International Exhibition will be opened in the city +of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, not later than the first day of +May, 1903, and will be closed not later than the first day of December +thereafter. And in the name of the Government and of the people of the +United States, I do hereby invite all the nations of the earth to take +part in the commemoration of the Purchase of the Louisiana Territory, +an event of great interest to the United States and of abiding effect +on their development, by appointing representatives and sending such +exhibits to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition as will most fitly and +fully illustrate their resources, their industries and their progress +in civilization. +</p> +<p> +In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of +the United States to be affixed. +</p> +<p> +Done at the city of Washington, this 20th day of August, A.D. 1901, and +of the Independence of the United States, the one hundred and +twenty-sixth. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + JOHN HAY, <br /> + <i>Secretary of State</i>. + +<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div> + +<h2> + EXECUTIVE ORDERS. +</h2> +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>March 28, 1898.</i> +</p> +<p> +It is hereby ordered that the following described tract of land situate +on Kadiak Island, District of Alaska, be temporarily reserved and set +apart as an experiment station for the use of the Department of +Agriculture: +</p> +<p> +Beginning at a point in the easterly boundary line of the property now +occupied by the Russian Greek Church in the village of Kadiak on Kadiak +Island, Alaska; thence southeasterly to the water front on the Bay of +Chiniak; thence following said water front one-half mile northeasterly +to a point; thence northwesterly one-half mile to a point; thence +southwesterly one-half mile to a point; thence southeasterly to a point +of beginning, embracing 160 acres of land, more or less. +</p> +<p> +Provided that the temporary reservation above described shall not +interfere with any prior rights of the natives or others to land within +said reservation. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>July 27, 1898.</i> +</p> +<p> +It is hereby ordered that the following described land situated on the +Yukon River in the District of Alaska, be and here is reserved and set +apart for the uses and purposes of a townsite, said land to be held +subject to the townsite law or laws that are or may become applicable +to the public lands in the District of Alaska, and so long as this +reservation remains in force to be subject to disposition in no other +manner whatever, to wit: +</p> +<p> +A tract of land commencing at a post on the right or north bank of the +Yukon River, about one-half mile below Mayos Landing, marked U.S.M.R.; +thence north from said post one mile; thence east two miles; thence +south to the bank of the Yukon River; thence southwesterly along the +bank of said river to the place of beginning, containing two square +miles, more or less. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>August 6, 1898.</i> +</p> +<p> +Paragraph 576 of the Consular Regulations is hereby amended so +as to read as follows: +</p> +<p> +576. Consular Agents will be governed by the foregoing requirements in +relation to official services and will render their quarterly reports in +accordance with the prescribed forms to the principal Consular Officer +who will transmit the same to the Auditor for the State and other +Departments. +</p> +<p> +The amounts which may be found due at the Treasury on account of +services rendered to American vessels and seamen will in all cases be +sent by Treasury Warrant to the address of and payable to the order of +the officer entitled thereto. +</p> +<p> +Forms Nos. 190 and 191 are established in full force and authority as +parts of the Consular Regulations of September 30, 1898. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>January 31, 1899.</i> +</p> +<p> +It is hereby ordered that the following described tract of land +situate near the north bank of Cook Inlet, adjoining the town of Kenai +on the north, District of Alaska, be and it is hereby set apart as an +agricultural experiment station, subject to any existing legal rights +thereto, it being more particularly described in the field notes of the +survey thereof, executed by C.C. Georgeson, Special Agent in charge of +investigations, in August, 1898, under the direction of the Secretary +of Agriculture, and shown on his plat of survey, all bearings being +magnetic, to wit: +</p> +<p> +Beginning at a point located near the Russian Parsonage and Church, from +which the nearest log barn belonging to the parsonage bears S. 68° 50' +E. 65 ft.; the spire of the church bearing S. 8° E. to the southeast +corner of the cemetery fence, bearing north 13° W. 361 ft.; thence N. 9° +W. 5,808 ft. to a point for the northeast corner of the tract; thence S. +9° E. 5,808 feet to a point for the southeast corner of the tract; +thence S. 81° W. 2,400 feet to the place of beginning, containing 320 +acres of land, more or less. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>February 3, 1899.</i> +</p> +<p> +I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by virtue of the +authority vested in me by Sections 3141 and 3142 of the Revised Statutes +of the United States, hereby order: +</p> +<p> +That the counties of Alger, Baraga, Chippewa, Delta, Dickinson, Gogebic, +Houghton, Iron, Keweenaw, Luce, Mackinac, Marquette, Menominee, +Ontonagon and Schoolcroft, now a part of the First Internal Revenue +Collection District of Michigan be transferred to and made a part of the +Fourth Internal Revenue Collection District of Michigan. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., April 1, 1899.</i> +</p> +<p> +Under the Provisions of Section 2060, Revised Statutes, the Headquarters +of the new Neech Lake Indian Agency in Minnesota are hereby ordered to +be established on the tracts of land to be reserved for that purpose and +which are known as parts of township 142, range 31 west, 5th Meridian, +as described in the recommendation of the Commission of Indian Affairs, +approved by the Secretary of the Interior. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., April 1, 1899.</i> +</p> +<p> +It is hereby ordered that the Fort Stanton abandoned military +reservation, New Mexico, containing ten thousand two hundred and forty +(10,240) acres, more or less, with the buildings thereon be, and it is +hereby reserved and set apart for the use of the Marine Hospital +Service. +</p> +<p> +Except that the force and effect of this order shall not apply to any +lands to which, prior to the date hereof, valid claims may have been +attached under the Homestead or Mineral Land Laws. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., April 1, 1899.</i> +</p> +<p> +The change in location of the Office of the Humboldt Land District in +California from Humboldt to Eureka is hereby ordered, under the +provision of Section 2251 in the Revised Statutes of the United States. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., April 3, 1899.</i> +</p> +<p> +It is fitting that in behalf of the Nation, tribute of honor be paid to +the memories of the noble men who lost their lives in their country's +service during the late war with Spain. +</p> +<p> +It is more fitting, inasmuch as in consonance with a spirit of our +free institutions, and in obedience to the most exalted prompting of +patriotism, those who were sent to other shores to do battle for their +country's honor, under their country's flag, went freely from every +quarter of our beloved clime; each soldier, each sailor parting from +home ties and putting behind him private interest in the presence of the +stern emergency of unsought war with an alien foe, was an individual +type of that devotion of the citizen to the State which makes our Nation +strong in unity and action. +</p> +<p> +Those who died in other lands left in many homes the undying memories +that attend the honored dead of all ages. It was fitting with the advent +of peace, won by their sacrifice, their bodies should be gathered with +tender care and restored to home and country. This has been done with +the dead of Cuba and Puerto Rico. Those of the Philippines still rest +where they fell, watched over by their surviving comrades and mourned +with the love of a grateful nation. +</p> +<p> +The remains of many brought to our shores have been delivered to their +families for private burial, but for others of the brave officers and +men who perished, there has been reserved interment in the ground sacred +to the soldiers and sailors, and amid tributes of national memories they +have so well deserved. +</p> +<p> +I therefore order: +</p> +<p> +That upon the arrival of the cortege at the National Cemetery at +Arlington, all proper military and naval honors be paid to the dead +heroes; that suitable ceremonies shall attend their interment; that the +customary salute of mourning be fired at the cemetery, and that on the +same day at two o'clock P.M., Thursday, the sixth day of April, the +National ensign be displayed at half staff on all public buildings, +forts, camps and public vessels of the United States, and that at twelve +o'clock noon of said day all the Departments of the Government at +Washington shall be closed. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., April 6, 1899.</i> +</p> +<p> +In accordance with the provision of the Act of Congress approved June 4, +1897 (30 stat., 36), and by virtue of the authority thereby given and +on the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior, it is hereby +ordered that the east half of the northwest quarter and the west half of +the northeast corner of section twenty (20), township ten (10) south, +range five (5) east, Willamette Meridian, Oregon, with the limits of the +Cascade Range Forest Reservation, be restored to the Public Domain after +sixty days' notice hereof by publication, as required by law, these +tracts having been found better adapted to agricultural than forest +purposes. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., May 6, 1899.</i> +</p> +<p> +By virtue of the authority vested in me as Commander-in-Chief of the +Army and Navy of the United States, I hereby order and direct that +during the maintenance of the Military Government of the United States +in the Island of Puerto Rico and all Islands in the West Indies, east +of the 74th degree west longitude, evacuated by Spain, there are hereby +created and shall be maintained the offices of Auditor of the Islands, +one Assistant Auditor for auditing the accounts of the Department of +Customs and one Assistant Auditor for auditing the accounts of the +Department of Postoffices who shall be appointed by the Secretary of War +and whose duty shall be to audit all accounts of the Islands. +</p> +<p> +There is hereby created and shall be maintained the office of Treasurer +of the Islands, which shall be filled by the appointment thereto of an +officer of the regular army of the United States. The Treasurer of the +Islands shall receive and keep all moneys arising from the revenues of +the Islands and shall disburse or transfer the same only upon warrants +issued by the Auditor of the Islands and countersigned by the +Governor-General. +</p> +<p> +All rules and instructions necessary to carry into effect the provisions +of Executive Orders relating to said Islands shall be issued by the +Secretary of War. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., May 6, 1899.</i> +</p> +<p> +By virtue of the authority vested in me as Commander-in-Chief of the +Army and Navy of the United States, I hereby order and direct that +during the maintenance of Military Government of the United States in +the Island of Cuba and all Islands in the West Indies, west of the 74th +degree west longitude, evacuated by Spain, there are hereby created and +shall be maintained the offices of the Auditor of the Islands, one +Assistant Auditor for auditing the accounts for the Department of +Customs, and one Assistant Auditor for auditing the accounts of the +Department of Postoffices who shall be appointed by the Secretary of War +and whose duties shall be to audit all accounts of the Islands. +</p> +<p> +There is hereby created and shall be maintained the office of Treasurer +of the Islands which shall be filled by the appointment thereto of an +officer of the regular army of the United States. The Treasurer of the +Islands shall receive and keep all moneys arising from the revenues of +the Islands and shall disburse or transfer the same only upon warrants +issued by the Auditor of the Islands and countersigned by the +Governor-General. +</p> +<p> +All rules and instructions necessary to carry into effect the provisions +of Executive Orders relating to said Islands shall be issued by the +Secretary of War. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., May 10, 1899.</i> +</p> +<p> +In accordance with the provisions of Act of Congress approved June 4th, +1897 (30 Stat. 36), and by virtue of the authority thereby given and on +recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior, it is hereby ordered +that Baker Lake and the surrounding lands within half mile of the shore +thereof within the limits of the Washington Forest Reserve, State of +Washington, be and they are hereby withdrawn from the operation of the +proclamation dated February 22nd, 1897, creating such reserve are hereby +reserved and set apart for the use of the United States Commission of +Fish and Fisheries for the purpose of a Fish Cultural station. +</p> +<p> +Provided, That the Lake and surrounding land above described shall +again become subject to the operation of the proclamation creating the +Washington Forest Reserve whenever the use thereof for fish cultural +purposes shall be abandoned by the United States Commission of Fish and +Fisheries. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>May 13, 1899.</i> +</p> +<p> +In the exercise of the power conferred upon me by the joint resolution +of Congress, approved by the President on July 7, 1898, entitled "Joint +Resolution to provide for annexing the Hawaiian Islands to the United +States" the President of the United States hereby directs that the +General Election provided for by the constitution of the Republic of +Hawaii to be held on the last Wednesday in September next shall not be +held. All elective officers whose terms of office shall expire before +appropriate legislation shall have been enacted by the Congress of the +United States shall be continued in their offices at the pleasure of the +President of the United States. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +In witness whereof I have caused the seal of the United States to be +hereunto affixed. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., May 23, 1899</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Heads of the Executive Departments and the Public Printer</i>: +</p> +<p> +It is hereby ordered that upon Wednesday, the 24th instant, the +employees of the executive departments and the government printing +office shall be excused from duty at 12:00 o'clock noon to enable them +to participate in the Civic parade and other exercises of the Peace +Jubilee on that day. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>June 10, 1899.</i> +</p> +<p> +Consular court fees and fines imposed and collected by consular courts +are hereby declared to be official. They are to be used to defer the +expenses of consular courts, and detailed accounts of receipts and +expenditures are to be rendered to the Secretary of State on the 30th of +June of each year. Any surplus remaining at the end of the year after +the expenses of the courts have been paid is to be turned into the +Treasury. +</p> +<p> +The portions of the Executive Order of July 29, 1897, and the consular +regulations in conflict with this order are hereby amended. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., June 16, 1899.</i> +</p> +<p> +Officers of the Customs in the Islands of Cuba may authorize the +clearance under a permit for foreign ports, ports of the United States +of vessels owned prior to June 1st, 1899 by residents of Cuba and owned +at the time of clearance by citizens of Cuba under the signal and coast +permit of Cuba. Such vessels may carry the American flag above the +distinctive signal for the purpose of indicating that the Government of +the United States pursuant to treaty has assumed and will discharge the +obligations that may under International law result from the fact of the +occupation of Cuba for the protection of life and property. +</p> +<p> +In granting such clearance under a permit vessels of the customs will +advise masters or owners that clearance under permit and the use of the +flag of the United States hereby authorized do not confer upon such +vessels any rights and privileges which are conferred upon vessels of +the United States by the status of treaties of the United States. The +rights and privileges of such a vessel as to enter clearance dues, +charges, etc., in foreign ports and in ports of the United States will +be determined by the laws of the country in which the port may be +situated. +</p> +<p> +Such vessel upon entering into a port of the United States would be +subject to the provisions of Sections 2497, 4219 and 4225 of the Revised +Statutes and such other laws as may be applicable. +</p> +<p> +The form and manner of the issuance of permits provided for in this +paragraph shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War. +</p> +<p> +Tariff Circular No. 71, dated Washington, May 25th, 1899, is hereby +rescinded. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., June 27, 1899.</i> +</p> +<p> +By virtue of the authority vested in me as Commander-in-Chief of the +Army and Navy, I hereby order and direct that during the maintenance of +the Military Government of the United States in the Island of Cuba and +all islands of the West Indies west of the 74th degree, west longitude, +evacuated by Spain, there are hereby created and shall be maintained, in +addition to the office created by executive order of May 8, 1899, the +office of Assistant Auditor for auditing the accounts of the departments +of Internal Revenue and one Assistant Treasurer in the office of the +Treasurer of the islands, who shall be appointed by the Secretary of +War. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., July 3, 1899.</i> +</p> +<p> +1. Officers of the Customs in the Island of Puerto Rico, ceded to the +United States by Spain, may issue a certificate of protection, entitling +a vessel to which it is issued to the protection and flag of the United +States on the high seas and in all ports, if the vessel is owned by: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + <i>a</i>. A citizen of the United States residing in Puerto Rico. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + <i>b</i>. A native inhabitant of Puerto Rico upon taking oath of + allegiance to the United States. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + <i>c</i>. Resident of Puerto Rico before April 11, 1899, hitherto a + subject of Spain, upon abjuring his allegiance to the crown of Spain and + taking the oath of allegiance to the United States. +</p> +<p> +2. The master and the watch officers of a vessel to which a certificate +of protection is issued shall be citizens of the United States or shall +take the oath of allegiance to the United States, providing that the +general commanding the forces of the United States in Puerto Rico may in +his discretion in special cases waive these requirements in whole or in +part. +</p> +<p> +3. Such certificate of protection shall entitle vessel to the same +privileges and subject it to the same disabilities as are prescribed in +Article XX of the Consular Regulations of 1896 for American or foreign +built vessels transferred abroad to citizens of the United States. +</p> +<p> +4. The form and manner of the issue of certificates of protection +provided for in this order shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., July 3, 1899.</i> +</p> +<p> +1. Officers of the Customs in the Philippine Islands, ceded to the +United States by Spain, may issue a certificate of protection entitling +the vessel to which it is issued to the protection and flag of the United +States on the High Seas and in all ports, if the vessel is owned by: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + <i>a</i>. A citizen of the United States residing in the Philippine Islands. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + <i>b</i>. A native inhabitant of the Philippine Islands upon taking the + oath of allegiance to the United States. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + <i>c</i>. Residents of the Philippine Islands before April 11th, 1899 + hitherto a subject of Spain, upon abjuring his allegiance to the Crown + of Spain and taking the oath of allegiance to the United States. +</p> +<p> +2. The master and watch officer of a vessel to which a certificate of +Protection is issued shall be citizens of the United States or shall +take the oath of allegiance to the United States, providing that the +General commanding the forces of the United States in Philippine Islands +may, in his discretion in special cases, waive this requirement in whole +or in part. +</p> +<p> +3. Such certificate of protection shall entitle the vessel to the same +privileges and subject it to the same disabilities as are prescribed in +Article XX of the Consular Regulations of 1896 for American or foreign +vessels transferred abroad to citizens of the United States. +</p> +<p> +4. The form and manner of the issue of certificates of protection +provided for in this order shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., July 24, 1899</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Secretary of the Treasury</i>: +</p> +<p> +SIR:—It is provided in the "Act making appropriation for sundry civil +expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1900, +and for other purposes" that "The President of the United States is +hereby authorized in case of threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, +yellow fever, smallpox, bubonic plague or Chinese plague or black +death to use the unexpended balance of the sums appropriated and +reappropriated by the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act, approved July 1st, +1898, and the act making appropriation to supply discrepancies in the +appropriations approved July 7th, 1898, and one hundred thousand dollars +($100,000.00) in addition thereto or so much thereof as may be necessary +in the aid of State and local boards or otherwise in his discretion +in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same and in such +emergencies in the execution of any quarantine laws which may be then +in force." +</p> +<p> +You are hereby directed to take charge of this expenditure for the +purpose of enforcing the above provisions, and you are directed to +employ for that purpose the Marine Hospital Service and to provide such +other means as are necessary for the purpose aforesaid and to carry out +such rules and regulations as may have been or shall be made by you in +conformity therewith. +</p> +<p> +You will carefully supervise and examine all expenditures made in +executing the aforesaid law and submit to me from time to time reports +of such expenditures and statements of the work done. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., August 17, 1899</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the People of Cuba</i>: +</p> +<p> +The disorganized condition of your island, resulting from the war +and the absence of any generally recognized authority aside from the +temporary Military Control of the United States, has made it necessary +that the United States should follow the restoration of order and +peaceful industry by giving its assistance and supervision to the +successive steps by which you will proceed to the establishment of an +effective system of self-government. +</p> +<p> +As a preliminary step in the performance of this duty I have directed +that a census of the people of Cuba be taken, and have appointed +competent and disinterested citizens of Cuba as Enumerators and +Supervisors. +</p> +<p> +It is important for the proper arrangement of your new Government that +the information sought shall be fully and accurately given and I request +that by every means in your power you aid the officers appointed in the +performance of their duties. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., September 2, 1899</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Secretary of the Treasury</i>: +</p> +<p> +SIR:—You are directed to transfer an additional sum of five thousand +dollars ($5,000.00) from the appropriation made by the Joint Resolution +approved July 7, 1898, entitled, "Joint Resolution to provide for the +annexation of the Hawaiian Islands to the United States," to be expended +at the discretion of the Executive and for the purpose of carrying that +Joint Resolution into effect for the expenditure and enforcement of the +Chinese Exclusion Laws in the Hawaiian Islands under the clause in said +Resolution restricting the emigration of the Chinese to the Islands. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., September 11, 1899.</i> +</p> +<p> +Hon. JOHN HAY,<br /> + <i>Secretary of State</i> +</p> +<p> +You will notify the President of Hawaii that the Government of Hawaii +has no power to make any sale or dispose of the public lands in the +Islands. That all proceedings taken or pending for such sale or +disposition should be discontinued and that if any sales or agreements +for sale have been made since the adoption of the Resolution of +Annexation the purchasers should be notified that the same are null and +void and any consideration paid to the legal authorities on account +thereof should be refunded. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., September 18, 1899.</i> +</p> +<p> +In the exercise of the power conferred upon me by the Joint Resolution +of Congress, approved by the President on July 7th, 1898, entitled +"Joint Resolution to provide for annexing the Hawaiian Islands to the +United States," the President of the United States hereby directs that +the issue of Registers to vessels by the Authorities of Hawaii entitling +such vessels to all the rights and privileges of Hawaiian vessels in the +ports of Nations or upon the High Seas, shall hereafter cease. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +In witness whereof I have caused the seal of the United States to be +hereunto affixed. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., September 29, 1899.</i> +</p> +<p> +It is hereby ordered that the several Executive Departments, the +Government Printing Office and the Navy Yard and Station at Washington +be closed on Tuesday, October 3rd, to enable the employees to +participate in the ceremonies attending the Reception of Admiral Dewey, +United States Navy, and the presentation of the Sword of Honor to him, +as authorized by a Joint Resolution of Congress, approved June 3rd, +1899. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., November 4, 1899.</i> +</p> +<p> +In furtherance of interchange between those absent in the service of +their country and their families at home, it is hereby ordered that +packages and parcels of mailable matter and containing only articles +desired as gifts and souvenirs, and so marked, and with no commercial +purpose, and not for sale, from Officers, Soldiers and Sailors serving +in the Army and Navy and other persons employed in the Civil Service of +the United States, in Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippine Islands and +Cuba addressed to members of their families in the United States, or +packages of the same personal character addressed from the United States +to Officers, Soldiers, Sailors and others in the Public Service in said +Islands may be sent through the mails, subject only to the domestic +postal regulations of the United States. +</p> +<p> +The details of the execution of this order with all necessary safeguards +will devolve on the Secretary of War and Postmaster-General. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., November 10, 1899.</i> +</p> +<p> +In accordance with the law that prescribes that the Army and Navy +General Hospital at Hot Springs, Ark., "shall be subject to such rules, +regulations, and restrictions as shall be provided by the President of +the United States," the following amendment of the rules and regulations +provided for its government in Executive Order of August 25, 1892, is +authorized: +</p> +<p> +Enlisted men on the active list while under treatment or on duty in the +hospital shall have the usual allowance of rations commuted at the rate +of not to exceed forty cents (40 c.) per day for enlisted men in the army +and thirty cents (30 c.) per day for enlisted men in the navy, to be paid +to the Senior Medical Officer by the proper officers of the War and Navy +Departments upon the receipt of monthly statements of accounts duly +certified by the Surgeon-General of the Army. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>December 1, 1899</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To all to whom these presents shall come; greeting</i>: +</p> +<p> +Know ye, that reposing special trust and confidence in the integrity, +prudence, and ability of John Hay, Secretary of State of the United +States, I have invested him with full and all manner of power and +authority, for me and in the name of the United States, to meet and +confer with any person or persons duly authorized by the Government of +his Imperial Majesty the German Emperor, King of Prussia, and the +Government of her Britannic Majesty being entrusted with like power and +authority, and with them to negotiate, conclude, and sign a convention +to adjust amicably the questions which have arisen between the three +Governments in respect to the Samoan group of islands, the same to be +transmitted to the President of the United States for his ratification +by and with the advice and consent of the Cabinet thereof. +</p> +<p> +In testimony whereof I have caused the seal of the United States to be +hereunto affixed. +</p> +<p> +[SEAL.] +</p> +<p> +Given under my hand at the city of Washington, the 1st day of December, +in the year of our Lord 1899, and of the Independence of the United +States the one hundred and twenty-third. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<p><br /> By the President: <br /> + JOHN HAY, <br /> + <i>Secretary of State.</i> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., January 3, 1900.</i> +</p> +<p> +To prevent the introduction of epidemic diseases, it is ordered that +provisions of the act of Congress, approved February 15, 1893, entitled, +"An act granting additional quarantine powers and imposing additional +duties upon the Marine Hospital Service," and all rules and regulations +heretofore or hereafter prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury +under that act are to be given full force and effect in the Philippine +Islands in so far as they are applicable, and the following additional +rules and regulations are hereby promulgated: +</p> +<p> +The examination in ports of the Philippine Islands of incoming and +outgoing vessels, and the necessary surveillance over their sanitary +condition as well as of cargo, officers, crew and all personal effects +is vested in and will be conducted by the Marine Hospital Service, and +Medical Officers of that service will be detailed by the Secretary of +the Treasury as Quarantine Officers at Ports of Manila and Iloilo +immediately and at other ports in the Philippine Islands as soon as +practicable or necessary. +</p> +<p> +Quarantine Officers shall have authority over incoming vessels, their +wharfage and anchorage in so far as it is necessary for the proper +enforcement of the quarantine regulations, including vessels of the Army +Transport Service and non-combatant vessels of the Navy. +</p> +<p> +Collectors of Customs at ports of entry will not permit entry without +quarantine certificates. +</p> +<p> +Any vessel leaving any port in the Philippine Islands for any port in +the United States or its Dependencies shall obtain a bill of health from +the quarantine officer when such officer is on duty, said bill of health +to correspond to the Consular Bill of Health now required by Treasury +Regulations, and the bill of health shall not be given to the outgoing +vessel unless all quarantine regulations have been complied with. At +ports where no medical officer is detailed, bills of health will be +signed by the Collector of Customs or other officers to whom such duty +has been regularly delegated. Special regulations relating to the bills +of health to be obtained by vessels of the United States Navy will be +promulgated by the Secretary of the Treasury. +</p> +<p> +The Medical Officer detailed under this order as Quarantine Officer +at the Port of Manila shall be the Chief Quarantine Officer for the +Philippine Islands. It shall be his duty to make appointments and +removals from the service in the Philippines (subject to the approval +of the Secretary of the Treasury), and shall authorize necessary +expenditures under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury +may prescribe. +</p> +<p> +The regulations for the government of the Marine Hospital Service shall, +so far as practicable, have force and effect in the management of the +Quarantine service in the Philippine Islands. +</p> +<p> +The expenses of the Quarantine service will be charged against the +revenues of the islands, and a sum not to exceed three hundred thousand +dollars ($300,000.00) in each fiscal year is hereby set aside from the +revenues collected in said islands for this purpose. The expenses shall +be paid therefrom upon a certificate of a detailed quarantine officer +and upon the approval of the Chief Officer for the Philippine Islands. +</p> +<p> +The Chief Quarantine Officer shall render a report on the last day of +each month to the supervising Surgeon General in the Marine Hospital +Service, who will issue to him necessary instructions. +</p> +<p> +The Epidemic Fund will be reimbursed from the revenues of the islands +for the cost of this undertaking, plans and materials ordered to be +forwarded to the islands prior to the date of this order. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., January 5, 1900.</i> +</p> +<p> +By virtue of the authority vested in me by joint resolution of the +Senate and House of Representatives of the United States accepting and +confirming the cession of the Hawaiian Islands to the United States, it +is hereby ordered and directed that out of the Government Reservation +lying to the eastward of the Puowaina or Ruralhouse Hill in the Island +of Ouhu, Hawaiian Islands, seven acres, more or less as hereinafter +described and located, shall be set apart for the use of the United +States Treasury Department as a site for a United States Marine Hospital +for the port of Honolulu. This site shall consist of the seven acres +situated north of the Makiki cemetery and bounded on the north and +east by the sinuosities of the Punch Bowl road; on the south by a +line projecting eastward from the powder magazine to intersect Punch +Bowl road, this line being the southern boundary of the Government +Reservation at that point; and on the west by an arbitrary north and +south line drawn so as to leave seven (7) acres within this designated +tract. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., January 8, 1900.</i> +</p> +<p> +It is hereby ordered that the tract of country lying west of the Navajo +and Moqui Reservations, in the Territory of Arizona, embraced within the +following described boundaries, viz: Beginning at the southwest corner +of the Moqui Reservation and running due west to the Little Colorado +River, thence down that stream to the Grand Canyon Forest Reservation, +thence north on the line of that reserve to the northeast corner +thereof, thence west to the Colorado River, thence up that stream to the +Navajo Indian Reservation, be and the same is hereby withdrawn from sale +and settlement until further order. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., January 19, 1900.</i> +</p> +<p> +In accordance with the law that prescribes that the Army and Navy +General Hospital at Hot Springs, Ark., shall be subject to such rules, +regulations and restrictions as shall be provided by the President of +the United States the following amendment of the rules and regulations +providing for its Government and Executive Order of August 25th, 1892 +is authorized: Enlisted men of the Army and Navy and Marine Corps on +the retired list and honorably discharged soldiers and sailors of the +Regular and Volunteer Army and Navy of the United States, shall pay for +substance at the rate of 40 cents per day. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., February 12, 1900.</i> +</p> +<p> +Authority is hereby granted for the transfer of the sum of four hundred +thousand, seven hundred and seventy-six dollars and sixty-five cents +($400,776.65) from the appropriation "Emergency Fund, War Department" +act of March 13th, 1899, to the appropriation "Substance of the Army +1900" in accordance with the request of the Acting Commissary General of +Subsistence which is approved by the Secretary of War. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>March 7, 1900.</i> +</p> +<p> +It is hereby ordered that the Executive Order of June 8, 1866, reserving +for light-house purposes among other lands a tract described as "twenty +(20) acres at a cape about midway between Destruction Island and +Flattery Rocks, falling within unsurveyed lands as laid down in blue +shade upon diagram number 3 herewith," in the Territory of Washington, +be, and the same is, hereby canceled so far as it relates to the above +described tract, and it is hereby ordered that in lieu thereof, lot one +(1) section six (6), township twenty-eight (28) north, range fifteen +(15) west, Willamette Meridian, Washington, containing, according to the +official plat on file in the General Land Office, approved May 29, 1882, +3.25 acres, be, and it is, hereby reserved for light-house purposes. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>March 20, 1900.</i> +</p> +<p> +It is hereby ordered that the Executive Order of September 11, 1854, +reserving for light-house purposes among other lands the tract at Cape +Shoalwater, Territory of Washington, shaded blue on the diagram +accompanying the order, be, and it is, hereby canceled so far as it +relates to the tract above described. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>March 21, 1900.</i> +</p> +<p> +The Secretary of the Navy is hereby directed to transfer to the +Secretary of War for use in the transport service of the War Department +the vessels <i>Badger</i> and <i>Resolute</i>, purchased by the Navy Department +from the funds allotted from the emergency appropriation, national +defense, act of March 8, 1898, at a cost of $842,000, these vessels +being no longer required in the service of the navy. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>May 1, 1900.</i> +</p> +<p> +The Collector of Customs of Puerto Rico will pay over to the Treasurer +of Puerto Rico the net proceeds of the collections made by him under +the provisions of the act of Congress approved April 12, 1900, entitled +"An act temporarily to provide revenues and a Civil Government for +Puerto Rico, and for other purposes," under such regulations as the +Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>May 14, 1900.</i> +</p> +<p> +It is hereby ordered that the NW ¼ of section 15, in township 23 north, +of range 13 west, Gila and Salt River Base, and principal meridian in +Arizona, conveyed to the United States by quit claim deed of the Santa +Fe Pacific Railroad Company, dated September 12, 1899, be and the same +is hereby set apart, subject to certain exceptions, reservations, and +conditions made by said company, as set forth in the deed aforesaid, for +Indian school purposes, the Hualapai Indians as an addition to section +10 of the township and range above mentioned, set aside by executive +order dated December 22, 1898, and designated therein as the "Hualapai +Indian School Reserve." +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>May 26, 1900.</i> +</p> +<p> +It is hereby ordered that Section 29, Section 30; the N ½, the SW ¼, +the N ½ of the SE ¼, and the SE ¼ of the SE ¼ of Section 31, and +Section 32, Township 13, south, Range one (1) east, Montana, be and they +are hereby reserved and set apart for the use of the United States Fish +Commission of Fish and Fisheries for the purposes of a fish cultural +station. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>May 26, 1900.</i> +</p> +<p> +Under authority of Section 3648 of the Revised Statutes of the United +States, permission is hereby given that needful advances of money be +made of moneys appropriated for the light-house establishment to the +officers of the Army and Navy acting as Engineers or Inspectors, as +Assistants to Engineers or Inspectors of the third light-house district +for disbursement in carrying on the Puerto Rican light-house service. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>June 12, 1900.</i> +</p> +<p> +It is hereby ordered that fractional section 11, township 5 south, range +14 west, Florida, be and it is hereby reserved and set apart for +light-house purposes. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>June 22, 1900.</i> +</p> +<p> +Whereas by the seventy-third section of an act entitled "An act to +provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii," approved April 30, +1900, it was, among other things provided as follows: "That, subject +to the approval of the President, all sales, grants, leases, and other +dispositions of the public domain and agreements concerning the same, +and all franchises granted by the Hawaiian government in conformity with +the laws of Hawaii between the 7th day of July, 1898, and the 28th day +of September, 1899, are hereby ratified and confirmed;" and +</p> +<p> +Whereas it appears by the certificate of Sanford B. Dole, President of +the Republic of Hawaii, which bears date the 23d day of May, A.D., 1900, +that the Hilo Railroad Company organized for the purpose of building and +operating a Railroad or Railroads between and through the districts of +Hilo Puna Hamakua, Kohala, Kona, and Kau, on the Island of Hawaii, +Hawaiian Islands, was incorporated on the 28th day of March, A.D., 1899, +under a charter of incorporation, a copy whereof is attached to said +certificate; and that said incorporating and granting of said charter of +incorporation were made in conformity with the general incorporating +acts of the Republic of Hawaii, and that the granting of the franchise +conferred thereby and all acts and proceedings contained in the premises +were done and taken in conformity with the laws of the Republic of +Hawaii; +</p> +<p> +Now, therefore, in conformity with the provision of the act aforesaid, +the said franchise granted by the Hawaiian government to the Hilo +Railroad Company is hereby approved. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>June 27, 1900.</i> +</p> +<p> +On and after the first day of July, 1900, the classification and pay of +the rating of electrician shall be as follows, but this order shall not +reduce the pay of any enlisted man during his present enlistment below +the pay at which he was enlisted, or which he is now receiving: +</p> + +<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" summary="FIXME"> +<tr><td></td><th> per month.</th></tr> +<tr><td> Electrician, third class </td><td align="right">$30.00</td></tr> +<tr><td> Electrician, 2d class </td><td align="right"> 40.00</td></tr> +<tr><td> Electrician, 1st class </td><td align="right"> 50.00</td></tr> +<tr><td> Chief Electrician </td><td align="right"> 60.00</td></tr> +</table> + +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>June 29, 1900.</i> +</p> +<p> +On and after July 15, 1900, there shall be detailed on the staff of +the Military Governor of the Island of Cuba as Chief of the Quarantine +Service established by Executive Order January 17, 1899, a commissioned +officer of the Marine Hospital service, who shall on the first day of +each month, or at such other periods as may be directed by the Military +Governor, submit to the Military Governor a detailed estimate of the +quarantine expenses of the Island of Cuba. After the approval of such +estimate by the Military Governor the chief quarantine officer shall +make requisition for the funds required in favor of the disbursing +officer or agent, who shall pay the bills and vouchers on account of +the quarantine service upon the certificate of an officer detailed +under the Executive Order of January 17, 1899, and after approval by the +chief quarantine officer. The disbursing officer or agent shall render +his accounts of such disbursments in accordance with the rules and +instructions to carry into effect the Executive Order of May 8, 1899, +relative to the military government of the United States in the Island +of Cuba, during the maintenance of such government. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>August 2, 1900.</i> +</p> +<p> +The Island of Guimaras in the Philippine group is assigned to naval +jurisdiction and control with a view to establishing thereon a naval +base and station upon the strait of Iloilo, opposite the town of that +name. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>August 2, 1900.</i> +</p> +<p> +The sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or so much thereof as may be +necessary, is hereby allotted from the Emergency Fund, Navy Department, +1901, for the purpose of meeting the expenses of a survey of the Island +of Guimaras in sufficient detail to fix the place of the coal wharf and +shed, of the dry dock, and of the fleet anchorages, and to appraise the +land of private ownership, which need to be condemned for the use of the +government for its uses and for the land defense required. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>August 23, 1900.</i> +</p> +<p> +It is hereby ordered that the following lands situate in California, +viz: The north half of the southeast quarter, and the north half of the +southwest quarter, section fourteen (14), in township three (3), south +of range one (1), east of the San Bernardino meridian, being lands +withdrawn from the public domain for the Mission Indians by Executive +Order of August 25, 1877, be and the same are hereby restored to the +public domain. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>September 3, 1900.</i> +</p> +<p> +It is hereby ordered that the following described lands in the State of +Mississippi be and they are hereby reserved for light-house purposes; +viz: +</p> +<p> +Round Island, Mississippi. All of fractional sections three and four of +township nine (9) south, range six (6) west, east of Pearl River, +containing respectively about 16.50 acres and 33.34 acres. +</p> +<p> +Horn Island, Mississippi. All of fractional sections 31 of township nine +(9) south, range five (5) west, and thirty-six (36) of township nine (9) +south, range six (6) west, east of Pearl River, containing, +respectively, about 51.69 and 286.20 acres. +</p> +<p> +Petite Bois Blanc Island, Mississippi. All of fractional section three +(3) of township ten (10) south, range five (5) west, east of Pearl +River, containing approximately 81.27 acres. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>September 19, 1900.</i> +</p> +<p> +In accordance with the provisions of Section 179 of the Revised +Statutes, as amended by an act making appropriations for the +legislative, executive and judicial expenses of the government, approved +August 5, 1882 (22 Stat, 238) Lieutenant-General Nelson A. Miles, +commanding the Army of the United States is authorized and directed to +perform the duties of Secretary of War during the illness or temporary +absence from the seat of government of the Secretary of War whenever +during such illness or absence the Assistant Secretary of War is also +absent; in accordance with the same provisions, Major-General Henry C. +Corbin, Assistant Adjutant-General of the Army is authorized and +directed to perform the duties of Secretary of War whenever during such +illness or absence the Assistant Secretary of War and the +lieutenant-general commanding the Army are also absent. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>September 20, 1900.</i> +</p> +<p> +<i>The Honorable Secretary of the Treasury</i>: +</p> +<p> +SIR:—It is provided in the "Act making appropriations for sundry civil +expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1901, +and for other purposes," approved June 6, 1900, that "The President of +the United States is hereby authorized in case of threatened or actual +epidemic of cholera, yellow fever, smallpox, bubonic plague, or Chinese +plague or black death to use the unexpended balance of the sums +appropriated and reappropriated by the sundry civil appropriation act +approved June 4, 1897, and $500,000 in addition thereto or so much +thereof as may be necessary in aid of constituting local boards or +otherwise in his discretion in preventing and suppressing the spread +of same; and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws +which may be then in force, the same to be immediately available." +</p> +<p> +You are hereby directed to take charge of this expenditure for the +purpose of enforcing the above provisions, and you are directed to +employ for that purpose the Marine Hospital Service and to provide such +other means as are necessary for the purpose aforesaid, and to carry out +such rules and regulations as have been or shall be made by you in +conformity therewith. +</p> +<p> +You will carefully supervise and examine all expenditures made in +executing the aforesaid law and submit to me from time to time reports +of such expenditures and statements of work done. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>October 10, 1900.</i> +</p> +<p> +On and after October 15, 1900, there shall be detailed on the staff +of the Military Governor of the Islands of the Philippine Archipelago +as chief of the quarantine service established by Executive Order of +January 3, 1900, a commissioned officer of the Marine Hospital Service +who shall on the first day of the month, and at such other periods as +may be directed by the Military Governor submit to the Military Governor +a detailed estimate of the quarantine expenses of the said Islands of +the Philippine Archipelago. After the approval of such estimate by the +Military Governor the Chief Quarantine officer shall make requisition +for the funds required in favor of the disbursing officer or agent of +the Treasury Department who shall pay the bills and vouchers on account +of the quarantine service upon the certificate of an officer detailed +under Executive Order of January 3, 1900 (said order being still in +force except as herein mentioned), and after approval by the Chief +Quarantine officer. The disbursing officer or agent shall be appointed +by the Secretary of the Treasury as soon as practicable, and shall +render his accounts of such disbursements in accordance with the rules +and instructions to carry into effect the Executive Order of May 8, +1899, relative to the military government of the United States in the +Islands of the Philippine Archipelago during the maintenance of such +government. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>October 10, 1900.</i> +</p> +<p> +It is hereby ordered that Sections 26, 27, 34 and 35 township 14 south, +range 14 east, Gila and Salt River meridian Territory of Arizona, be and +they are hereby reserved and set apart for the use of the United States +Department of Agriculture for the purposes of an agricultural experiment +station. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>October 13, 1900.</i> +</p> +<p> +By virtue of the authority vested in the President of the United States +by Section 3141, Revised Statutes of the United States, I hereby order +</p> +<p> +That the county of Greer, which was formerly a part of the State of +Texas, and as such was specifically declared a part of the 4th Internal +Revenue District of Texas by Executive Order of June 29, 1881, be +transferred to and made a part of the Internal Revenue District of +Kansas, said county having been declared by the United States Supreme +Court in decision rendered at the October term of 1895 to be a part of +the Territory of Oklahoma, which Territory was added to the District of +Kansas by Executive Order of March 30, 1886, prior to the date of the +judicial decision above cited. +</p> +<p> +This order to take effect on the first day of November, 1900. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>October 29, 1900.</i> +</p> +<p> +It is hereby ordered that lot 5 of the SW ¼ of the NE ¼, section 31, +township 6 south, range 11 west, Florida, be, and it is, hereby reserved +for light-house purposes. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>November 20, 1900.</i> +</p> +<p> +The United States Civil Service Commission is directed to render such +assistance as may be practicable to the Civil Service Board created +under the act of the United States Philippine Commission, for the +establishment and maintenance of a necessary and efficient civil service +in the Philippine Island, and for that purpose to conduct examinations +for the Civil Service of the Philippine Islands upon the request of the +Civil Service Board of said Islands, under such regulations as may be +agreed upon by the said Board and the said United States Civil Service +Commission. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>December 7, 1900.</i> +</p> +<p> +Whenever upon marches, guards, or in quarters, different corps of the +army happen to join or do duty together and an official of the Marine +Corps or the militia shall command the whole pursuant to the 122d +article of war, such officer shall report his action and the operations +of the force under his command through military channels to the +Secretary of War as well as to his superiors in his own branch of the +service. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>December 13, 1900</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Secretary of the Treasury</i>: +</p> +<p> +The sum of $200,000 is hereby allotted and set apart from the +appropriation made for the benefit and government of Puerto Rico by the +Act of March 24, 1900 (31 Stat., p. 51), to be used for the extension of +public education in Puerto Rico, including building and equipping of +school houses in said Island. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>December 14, 1900.</i> +</p> +<p> +By virtue of the authority vested in me as Commander-in-Chief of the +Army and Navy of the United States of America, I hereby empower the +Naval officer in command at the Island of Guam to act as Collector of +Customs for said Island, with authority to appoint a deputy if +necessary. +</p> +<p> +I further direct that any authority heretofore exercised under the +direction of the commandant at said Naval Station in respect to the +collection of customs be approved as if direct mention of such authority +had been included in the Executive Order of February 1, 1900. +</p> +<p> +In case the commandant shall make such appointment from civil life he +shall require of the appointee good and sufficient security for the due +performance of the duties of the office. +</p> +<p> +Any authority heretofore exercised in the premises by the Naval Officer +in command is hereby ratified as if said power to appoint had been +conferred in said Executive Order of February 1, 1900. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>December 19, 1900.</i> +</p> +<p> +It is hereby ordered that the President's Order of January 9, 1884, +transferring the Fort Yuma Military Reservation to the control of the +Department of the Interior to be used for Indian purposes in connection +with the Indian reservations established by the same order, be, and the +same is, hereby revoked as to that part of said military reservation +lying south of the Colorado River. +</p> +<p> +Inasmuch as said land has been abandoned for military purposes, as shown +by executive orders of January 9, 1884, and July 22, 1884, it is further +ordered and directed that the portion of said military reservation lying +south of the Colorado River and being in the Territory of Arizona be, +and the same is, hereby placed under the control of the Secretary of the +Interior for disposition under the provisions of the Acts of Congress +approved July 5, 1884 (23 Stat., p. 103), and August 22, 1894 (28 Stat., +p. 491). +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>February 2, 1900.</i> +</p> +<p> +By virtue of the authority vested in me as Commander-in-Chief of the +Army and Navy of the United States, I hereby order and direct that that +part of Executive Order dated May 8, 1899, relating to the appointment +and creation of the office of Treasurer of the Island of Cuba, be +amended as follows: +</p> +<p> +The office of Treasurer of the Island of Cuba shall on and after April +1, 1901, be placed under the jurisdiction of the Department of Finance +of said Island, and shall be filled by the appointment thereto of a +citizen of Cuba. The said appointment to be made by the Military +Governor thereof, subject to the approval of the Secretary of War. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., March 8, 1901.</i> +</p> +<p> +On recommendation of the Military Governor of Cuba, approved by the +Secretary of War, I hereby order and direct that the export rates of +duty on tobacco, provided on page 50 of the "Customs Tariff for Ports in +the Island of Cuba" promulgated by Executive Order dated March 31, 1900, +shall be abolished on the 1st day of April, 1901. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., March 9, 1901.</i> +</p> +<p> +I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by virtue of the +authority vested in me by Section 3141, Revised Statutes of the United +States, hereby order that the States of North Dakota and South Dakota, +now part of the Internal Revenue District of Nebraska, shall be detached +from said District of Nebraska and constitute one District, to be known +as the Internal Revenue District of Newark, South Dakota. +</p> +<p> +The Internal Revenue District of Nebraska shall comprise the State of +Nebraska. +</p> +<p> +This order to take effect on the first day of May, 1901. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<center> +(ENDORSEMENTS.) +</center> +<p class="r"> +WAR DEPARTMENT, <i>Washington, D.C., March 9, 1901.</i> +</p> +<p> +<i>Secretary of War</i>: +</p> +<p> +Recommends modification of executive order of June 4, 1892, setting +apart a wood reservation for the post of Fort Fill, Oklahoma Territory, +so as to make the eastern boundary coincident with the new 98 meridian +(the boundary line between the Kiowa and Comanche Reservation and the +Chickasaw Nation) as serving a mark, pursuant to act of Congress of June +28, 1898 (30 Stats., 495). +</p> +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., March 11, 1901.</i> +</p> +<p> +The within recommendation is approved. The Secretary of the Interior +will cause this action to be noted on the records of the General Land +Office. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., March 12, 1901.</i> +</p> +<p> +The executive order of May 8, 1899, relating to the Island of Cuba, as +promulgated by the Assistant Secretary of War, May 11, 1899, is hereby +amended by substituting the following: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + By virtue of the authority vested in me as the Commander-in-Chief of + the Army and Navy of the United States, I hereby order and direct that + during the maintenance of Military Government by the United States in + the Island of Cuba there is hereby created and shall be maintained the + office of the Auditor for Cuba, to be filled by appointment of the + Secretary of War, whose duties shall be to receive and audit all + accounts of the island. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + There is hereby created and shall be maintained the office of Deputy + Auditor for Cuba, to be filled by appointment of the Secretary of + War, whose duties shall be to sign, in the name of the Auditor, such + official papers as the Auditor may designate, and perform such other + duties as the Auditor may prescribe. He shall have authority of + his superior as Acting Auditor in case of the death, resignation, + sickness, or other absence of the Auditor. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + There is hereby created and shall be maintained in the office of the + Auditor the office of Chief Clerk, to be filled by appointment of the + Auditor, and the Chief Clerk shall perform such duties as may be + prescribed by the Auditor. +</p> +<p> +All rules and instructions necessary to carry into effect the provisions +of executive orders relating to Cuba shall be issued by the Secretary of +War, and such rules and instructions shall be enforced until the same +are amended or revoked by the Secretary of War. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., March 14., 1901</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Secretary of the Treasury</i>: +</p> +<p> +SIR:—The sum of two hundred thousand dollars is hereby allotted and set +apart from the appropriation made for the benefit and Government of +Puerto Rico by the Act of March 24, 1900 (31 Stat., p. 51) to be +expended in improving and grading of various roads throughout the island +of Puerto Rico such as "Neighboring Roads" between small municipalities. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., March 22, 1901</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Secretary of the Treasury</i>: +</p> +<p> +SIR:—The sum of six thousand dollars is hereby allotted and set apart +from the appropriation made for the benefit and Government of Puerto +Rico by the Act of March 24, 1900 (131 Stat., p. 51) to be expended by +the Treasurer of Puerto Rico upon accounts certified by the Auditor of +the Island for refunding customs duties paid by certain contractors on +materials intended for use under their contracts brought into Puerto +Rico since May 1, 1900. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., March 25, 1901.</i> +</p> +<p> +Counsular officers will hereafter collect any fees for bills of health +and supplemental bills of health issued foreign war vessels. The tariff +of Consular fees is amended accordingly. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., March 26, 1901.</i> +</p> +<p> +It is hereby ordered that the unsurveyed portion of Eliza Island and +Billingham Bay in section five (5), township thirty-six (36) north, +range two (2) East Willamette meridian, Washington be, and it is hereby +reserved for light-house purposes. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., March 30, 1901.</i> +</p> +<p> +It is hereby ordered that the hereinafter described tracts of land in +the District of Alaska be, and they are hereby reserved and set apart +for Reindeer stations, subject to any legal existing rights to any land +in the limits of the reservation hereby established, to wit: +</p> +<p> +1. The entire peninsula of which Cape Denbigh forms the southwestern +extremity, situated in latitude 64 degrees, 30 minutes north, longitude +161 degrees, 30 minutes west from Greenwich, approximately fifteen (15) +miles in length and five (5) miles in width. +</p> +<p> +A tract of land bounded as follows: Beginning at a point about six miles +above the mouth of the Unalaklik river and extending along the north +bank of the Unalaklik river in a generally northeasterly direction ten +miles; thence in a generally northwesterly direction ten miles; thence +in a generally southwesterly direction ten miles; thence in a generally +southeasterly direction to the point of beginning. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., April 2, 1901.</i> +</p> +<p> +It is hereby ordered that all of Amaknam Island, District of Alaska, +except the tract of land reserved for light-house purposes by executive +order of Jan. 13th, 1899, and the tract of land embraced in amended +survey M 58 of the North American Commercial Co. be, and it is hereby +reserved for public purposes. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., April 5, 1901.</i> +</p> +<p> +The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to enlist in the Insular Force +United States Navy, which is hereby established, not to exceed five +hundred (500) Filipinos in the following ratings at the rates of pay +indicated: +</p> + +<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" summary="Pay rates"> +<tr><th> RATES </th><th>MONTHLY PAY</th></tr> +<tr><td> Navy Coxswains </td><td align="right"> $ 15.00</td></tr> +<tr><td> Navy Seamen </td><td align="right"> 12.00</td></tr> +<tr><td> Navy Ordinary Seamen </td><td align="right"> 10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td> Navy Machinists; First-class </td><td align="right"> 28.00</td></tr> +<tr><td> Navy Machinists; Second-class</td><td align="right"> 20.00</td></tr> +<tr><td> Navy Firemen; First-class </td><td align="right"> 18.00</td></tr> +<tr><td> Navy Firemen; Second-class </td><td align="right"> 15.00</td></tr> +<tr><td> Navy Coal Passers </td><td align="right"> 11.00</td></tr> +<tr><td> Navy Sutlers </td><td align="right"> 15.00</td></tr> +<tr><td> Navy Cooks </td><td align="right"> 13.00</td></tr> +<tr><td> Navy Mess-Attendants </td><td align="right"> 8.00</td></tr> +</table> + +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., April 6, 1901.</i>. +</p> +<p> +It is hereby ordered that upon Tuesday the ninth (9th) instant such +employees of the Executive Departments; the Government Printing Office +and the Navy Yard and Station at Washington, as served in the Military +or Naval services of the United States in the late Civil War of +Spanish-American War, shall be excused from duty at one o'clock P.M. for +the remainder of that day to enable them to participate in the exercises +of the unveiling of the statue erected to the memory of the late General +John A. Logan. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., April 15, 1901.</i> +</p> +<p> +In accordance with provisions of act of Congress approved January 4th, +1897 (30 Stat, 34 and 36), and by virtue of the authority thereby given, +and on the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior, it is hereby +ordered that the tracts hereinafter described and situated in township +fifty-eight (58) north, range eighty-nine (89) west, within the limits +of the Big Horn Forest reserve, in the State of Wyoming, be restored to +the public domain after sixty days' notice hereof by publication, as +required bylaw; these tracts having been found better adapted to +agricultural than forest purposes, to wit: +</p> +<p> +What will be, when surveyed, all that portion of sections thirteen (13), +fourteen (14), fifteen (15), sixteen (16), seventeen (17), in said +township and range lying south of the said line between Montana and +Wyoming, and all of sections twenty (20), twenty-one (21), twenty-two +(22), twenty-three (23) twenty-four (24), twenty-five (25), twenty-six +(26), and twenty-seven (27), all of said lands being in the State of +Wyoming. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., April 23, 1901</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Secretary of the Treasury</i>: +</p> +<p> +SIR:—The sum of five hundred thousand dollars is hereby allotted and +set aside from the appropriation made for the benefit and Government +of Puerto Rico by the act of March 24th, 1900 (31 Stat., p. 51), to be +expended for public and permanent improvements in Puerto Rico, under the +supervision and subject to the approval of the Governor and Executive +Council of the Island. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., April 29, 1901.</i> +</p> +<p> +In case of the death, resignation, absence or sickness of the Secretary +of the Navy, the Assistant Secretary of the Navy and the Chief of the +Bureau of Navigation, Rear Admiral Charles O'Neil, U.S. Navy and Chief +of the Bureau of Ordnance is, in pursuance of the provisions of Sections +177 and 179 of the Revised Statutes, hereby authorized and directed to +perform the duties of Secretary of the Navy until a successor is +appointed or until such absence or sickness shall cease. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., June 7, 1901.</i> +</p> +<p> +The following "Classification of Vessels" and "Assignments to man +afloat" are hereby established for the Navy in accordance with an act of +Congress, approved March 3: +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + CLASSIFICATION OF VESSELS. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Torpedo Boat Destroyers: Torpedo boats, tugs, sailing ships and + receiving ships shall not be rated. Other vessels shall be rated by tons + of displacement as follows: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + <i>First Rates</i>: Men of War when of eight thousand tons and above. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + <i>Second Rates</i>: Men of War of four thousand tons and under eight + thousand tons, and Converted and Auxiliary vessels of six thousand tons + and above, except Colliers, Refrigerating ships, Distilling ships, + Tank-steamers, Reporting ships, Hospital ships and other vessels + constructed or equipped for special purposes. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + <i>Third Rates</i>: Men of War from one thousand to four thousand tons + and Converted and Auxiliary Vessels from one thousand to six thousand + tons and Colliers, Refrigerating ships, Supply ships, Distilling ships, + Tank-steamers, Report ships, Hospital ships and other vessels + constructed or equipped for special purposes of four thousand tons and + above. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + <i>Fourth Rates</i>: All other vessels. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., June 7, 1901.</i> +</p> +<p> +Commandants to man the following: +</p> +<p> +An Admiral to man a fleet. +</p> +<p> +Rear-Admiral to man a fleet or squadron. +</p> +<p> +A Captain to man a division, or ship of the first or second rating or a +ship not rated. +</p> +<p> +Commander to man a division or a ship of the second or third rating or +ship not rated. +</p> +<p> +Lieutenant-Commander to man a ship of the third or fourth rating or a +ship not rated. +</p> +<p> +A Lieutenant to man a ship of the fourth rating; a torpedo boat +destroyer, torpedo boat, tug, tender or a ship not rated. +</p> +<p> +A Lieutenant, junior grade, to command a torpedo boat, tug, tender or +ship not rated. +</p> +<p> +An Ensign to man a torpedo boat, tug or ship not rated. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., June 10, 1901</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Secretary of the Treasury</i>: +</p> +<p> +SIR:—The sum of five hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as +remains unexpended, allotted and set aside by order of April 23, 1901, +from the appropriation made for the benefit and Government of Puerto +Rico by the act of March 24, 1900 (31 Stat, p. 51), is to be devoted to +public and permanent improvements in Puerto Rico and other governmental +and public purposes therein, as provided in the said act, and it is to +be expended under the supervision and subject to the approval of the +Government and administrative authorities of the Island. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., June 21, 1901.</i> +</p> +<p> +I hereby order and direct that Executive Order dated May 3, 1899, be +amended so as to authorize the appointment of civilians as Collectors of +Customs in the Philippine Archipelago. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., June 21, 1901</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Secretary of War</i>: +</p> +<p> +SIR:—Pending the cessation of conditions requiring a continuance of +Military Government in the Philippine Islands, you are authorized to +make the following order: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + On and after the 4th day of July, 1901, until it shall otherwise + be ordered, the President of the Philippine Commission will exercise + the Executive Authority in all civil affairs of the Government in + the Philippine Islands, heretofore exercised in such affairs by the + Military Governor of the Philippines, and to that end, the Hon. W.H. + Taft, President of the said Commission is hereby appointed Civil + Governor of the Philippine Islands. Such executive authority will be + exercised under and in conformity to the instructions to the Philippine + Commissioners dated April 7th, 1900, and subject to the approval and + control of the Secretary of War of the United States. The municipal + and Provincial Civil Governments will then, or shall hereafter be + established in said Islands and all persons performing duties pertaining + to the offices of Civil Government in said Islands will, in respect of + such duties report to the said Civil Government. The power to appoint + Civil Officers, heretofore vested in the Philippine Commission or in + the Military Government will be exercised by the Civil Governor with + the advice and consent of the Commissioners. +</p> +<p> +The Military Governor of the Philippines is hereby relieved from the +performance on and after the said fourth day of July of the civil duties +hereinbefore described, but his authority will continue to be exercised +as heretofore in those districts in which insurrection against the +authority of the United States continues to exist or in which public +order is not sufficiently restored to enable the Provincial Civil +Government to be established under the instructions to the Commission +dated April 7th, 1900. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., June 21, 1901.</i> +</p> +<p> +In accordance with the provision in Section 2253 of the Revised Statutes +of the United States, and by virtue of the authority thereby given, it +is hereby ordered that the existing boundary line between Coeur d'Alene +and Lewiston Land Districts, State of Idaho, be and it is hereby changed +and re-established as follows: Beginning on the boundary line between +the States of Idaho and Washington at the northwest corner of +directional township forty-two (42) north, range six (6) west, Boise +meridian, thence east along the boundary line between townships +forty-two (42) and forty-three (43) north, to the crest of the Bitter +Root Mountains. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., June 25, 1901.</i> +</p> +<p> +The executive order of April 5, 1901, is hereby amended by striking out +the word "Filipinos" and inserting in its stead "natives of the Islands +of the Philippines and of the Island of Guam." +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., June 25, 1901.</i> +</p> +<p> +In accordance with the provisions of the act of Congress approved June +4, 1897 (30 Stat, pp. 34-36), and by virtue of the authority thereby +given, and on the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior, it is +hereby ordered that the tracts hereinafter described and situated within +the limits of the Big Horn Forest Reservation in the State of Wyoming +be restored to the public domain after sixty days' notice hereof by +publication as required by law, these tracts having been found better +adapted to agriculture than forest purposes, to wit: What will be, when +surveyed, sections twenty-four (24) to thirty-six (36), both inclusive, +in township fifty-five (55) north, range ninety-two (92) west; what will +be, when surveyed, sections twenty-eight (28) to thirty-three (33), both +inclusive, in township fifty-five (55) north, range ninety-one (91) +west; sections thirty (30), thirty-one (31), thirty-two (32), and what +will be, when surveyed, sections four (4), five (5), six (6), seven (7), +eight (8), nine (9), sixteen (16), seventeen (17), eighteen (18), +nineteen (19), twenty (20), twenty-one (21), twenty-eight (28), +twenty-nine (29), and thirty-three (33), all in township fifty-four (54) +north, range ninety-one (91) west; the southwest quarter remaining +unsurveyed portion of section eighteen (18), all of sections nineteen +(19), thirty (30), thirty-one (31), and what will be, when surveyed, +sections six (6) and seven (7), all in township fifty-three (53) north, +range ninety (90) west. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., June 29, 1901.</i> +</p> +<p> +In accordance with provision of the act of Congress approved June 4, +1897 (30 Stat. 34, 36), and by virtue of authority thereby given, and +on the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior, it is hereby +ordered that township twenty-two (22) south, range nine (9) east, and +township twenty-three (23) south, range nine (9) east, Willamette +meridian, Oregon, within the limits of the Cascade Range Forest +Reservation be restored to the public Domain after sixty days' notice +hereof by publication as required by law, these tracts having been found +better adapted to agriculture than forest purposes. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., July 24, 1901</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>To the Secretary of the Treasury</i>: +</p> +<p> +SIR:—I herewith allot and set apart the funds now remaining in the +Treasury of the United States as a separate fund raised from duties and +taxes collected in the United States under the provisions of the act of +Congress entitled "An act temporarily to provide revenues and a Civil +Government for Puerto Rico and for other purposes" approved April 12th, +1900, for public purposes in Puerto Rico; and these funds hereby +allotted shall be devoted to public and permanent improvements in Puerto +Rico and other Governmental and public purposes therein as set forth in +the act of Congress approved March 24th, 1900 (31 Stat., p. 51), and +shall be expended under the sole supervision and subject to the approval +of the Governor and Administrative heads of the Island. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., August 19, 1901.</i> +</p> +<p> +It is hereby ordered that so much of the Executive Order of December 28, +1898 as fixes the rates at which the Spanish Alphonsino (<i>centem</i>) and +the French Louis shall be accepted in payment of customs, taxes, public +and postal dues in the Island of Cuba is modified to read as follows: +</p> + +<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" summary="Pay rates"> +<tr><td> Alphonsino (25 Peseta Piece) </td><td align="right">$4.78</td></tr> +<tr><td> Louis (20 Frank Piece) </td><td align="right"> 3.83</td></tr> +</table> + +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., August 20, 1901.</i> +</p> +<p> +It is hereby ordered that all tracts and parcels of land belonging to +the United States situated on the Peninsula extending into the harbor +on the south side of the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico, known as Barrio +de la Puntilla, or Puntilla Point, bounded on the north by the south +boundary of the Paseo de la Princesa and on the east, south and west by +the navigable waters of the harbor at such part Warden's line as may be +established by competent authority, be and the same are hereby reserved +for naval purposes. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., August 27, 1901.</i> +</p> +<p> +It is hereby ordered that the Executive Order of Jan. 4th, 1901, reserve +for light house purposes among other tracts of land or cites in the +District of Alaska a tract described as follows: "Scotch Cap beginning +at a point at low water mark, said point being three miles easterly of +point at low water mark opposite Scotch Cap Pinnacle six (6) due north +one mile, thence north seventy-one (71) degrees east true four (4) +miles, thence south thirty-eight (38) degrees true to low water mark; +thence follow the windings of the low water mark to place of beginning," +be and the same is hereby canceled so far as it relates to the above +described tract, and it is hereby ordered that in lieu thereof a tract +described as follows: Scotch Cap beginning at point at low water mark on +Unimak Island, said point being three miles easterly of a point at low +water mark opposite Scotch Cap Pinnacle; thence due north one mile; +thence north seventy-one (71) degrees west true to four miles; thence +south thirty-eight degrees west true to low water mark, thence follow +the windings of the low water mark to place of beginning, be and it is +hereby reserved and set apart for light house purposes, subject to any +legal existing rights thereto. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="r"> +EXECUTIVE MANSION, <i>Washington, D.C., August 29, 1901.</i> +</p> +<p> +In accordance with provisions of Section 179 Revised Statutes as +amended by act approved August 5th, 1882 (22 Stats, at large 238), +Brigadier-General G.S. Gillespie, Corps of Engineers, United States +Army, is authorized and directed to perform the duties of Secretary of +War during the temporary absence from the seat of Government of the +Secretary of War and the Assistant Secretary of War. +</p> +<p class="r"> +WILLIAM McKINLEY. +</p> + + +<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div> + +<h2> + PRESIDENT McKINLEY'S LAST PUBLIC UTTERANCE TO THE PEOPLE, BUFFALO, N.Y., + SEPTEMBER 5TH, 1901. +</h2> +<p> +<i>President Milburn, Director General Buchanan, Commissioners, Ladies +and Gentlemen</i>: +</p> +<p> +I am glad to be again in the city of Buffalo and exchange greetings with +her people, to whose generous hospitality I am not a stranger and with +whose good will I have been repeatedly and signally honored. To-day +I have additional satisfaction in meeting and giving welcome to the +foreign representatives assembled here, whose presence and participation +in this exposition have contributed in so marked a degree to its +interest and success. To the Commissioners of the Dominion of Canada and +the British colonies, the French colonies, the republics of Mexico and +Central and South America and the commissioners of Cuba and Puerto Rico, +who share with us in this undertaking, we give the hand of fellowship +and felicitate with them upon the triumphs of art, science, education +and manufacture which the old has bequeathed to the new century. +Expositions are the timekeepers of progress. They record the world's +advancement. They stimulate the energy, enterprise and intellect of the +people and quicken human genius. They go into the home. They broaden and +brighten the daily life of the people. They open mighty storehouses of +information to the student. Every exposition, great or small, has helped +to some onward step. Comparison of ideas is always educational, and +as such instruct the brain and hand of man. Friendly rivalry follows, +which is the spur to industrial improvement, the inspiration to useful +invention and to high endeavor in all departments of human activity. +It exacts a study of the wants, comforts and even the whims of the +people and recognizes the efficiency of high quality and new pieces to +win their favor. The quest for trade is an incentive to men of business +to devise, invent, improve and economize in the cost of production. +</p> +<p> +Business life, whether among ourselves or with other people, is ever a +sharp struggle for success. It will be none the less so in the future. +Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated +processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long +ago, and the twentieth would be no further advanced than the eighteenth +century. But though commercial competitors we are, commercial enemies we +must not be. +</p> +<p> +The Pan-American exposition has done its work thoroughly, presenting +in its exhibits evidences of the highest skill and illustrating the +progress of the human family in the western hemisphere. This portion of +the earth has no cause for humiliation for the part it has performed in +the march of civilization. It has not accomplished everything from it. +It has simply done its best, and without vanity or boastfulness, and +recognizing the manifold achievements of others, it invites the friendly +rivalry of all the powers in the peaceful pursuits of trade and +commerce, and will co-operate with all in advancing the highest and best +interests of humanity. +</p> +<p> +The wisdom and energy of all the nations are none too great for the +world's work. The success of art, science, industry and invention is an +international asset and a common glory. +</p> +<p> +After all, how near one to the other is every part of the world. Modern +inventions have brought into close relation widely separated peoples and +made them better acquainted. Geographic and political divisions will +continue to exist, but distances have been effaced. Swift ships and +swift trains are becoming cosmopolitan. They invade fields which a few +years ago were impenetrable. The world's products are exchanged as never +before, and with increasing transportation facilities come increasing +knowledge and larger trade. Prices are fixed with mathematical precision +by supply and demand. The world's selling prices are regulated by market +and crop reports. +</p> +<p> +We travel greater distances in a shorter space of time and with more +ease than was ever dreamed of by the fathers. Isolation is no longer +possible or desirable. The same important news is read, though in +different languages, the same day in all Christendom. The telegraph +keeps us advised of what is occurring everywhere, and the press +foreshadows, with more or less accuracy, the plans and purposes of the +nations. +</p> +<p> +Market prices of products and of securities are hourly known in every +commercial mart, and the investments of the people extend beyond their +own national boundaries into the remotest parts of the earth. Vast +transactions are conducted and international exchanges are made by the +tick of the cable. Every event of interest is immediately bulletined. +The quick gathering and transmission of news, like rapid transit, are of +recent origin and are only made possible by the genius of the inventor +and the courage of the investor. It took a special messenger of the +Government, with every facility known at the time for rapid travel, +nineteen days to go from the city of Washington to New Orleans with a +message to General Jackson that the war with England had ceased and a +treaty of peace had been signed. How different now! +</p> +<p> +We reached General Miles in Puerto Rico by cable, and he was able, +through the military telegraph, to stop his army on the firing line with +the message that the United States and Spain had signed a protocol +suspending hostilities. We knew almost instantly of the first shots +fired at Santiago, and the subsequent surrender of the Spanish forces +was known at Washington within less than an hour of its consummation. +The first ship of Cervera's fleet had hardly emerged from that historic +harbor when the fact was flashed to our capital, and the swift +destruction that followed was announced immediately through the +wonderful medium of telegraphy. +</p> +<p> +So accustomed are we to safe and easy communication with distant lands +that its temporary interruption, even in ordinary times, results in loss +and inconvenience. We shall never forget the days of anxious waiting and +awful suspense when no information was permitted to be sent from Pekin, +and the diplomatic representatives of the nations in China, cut off +from all communication, inside and outside of the walled capital, were +surrounded by an angry and misguided mob that threatened their lives; +nor the joy that filled the world when a single message from the +Government of the United States brought through our minister the first +news of the safety of the besieged diplomats. +</p> +<p> +At the beginning of the nineteenth century there was not a mile of steam +railroad on the globe. Now there are enough miles to make its circuit +many times. Then there was not a line of electric telegraph; now we have +a vast mileage traversing all lands and seas. God and man have linked +the nations together. No nation can longer be indifferent to any other. +And as we are brought more and more in touch with each other the less +occasion there is for misunderstandings and the stronger the +disposition, when we have differences, to adjust them in the court of +arbitration, which is the noblest forum for the settlement of +international disputes. +</p> +<p> +My fellow citizens, trade statistics indicate that this country is +in a state of unexampled prosperity. The figures are almost appalling. +They show that we are utilizing our fields and forests and mines and +that we are furnishing profitable employment to the millions of +workingmen throughout the United States, bringing comfort and happiness +to their homes and making it possible to lay by savings for old age +and disability. That all the people are participating in this great +prosperity is seen in every American community, and shown by the +enormous and unprecedented deposits in our savings banks. Our duty +is the care and security of these deposits, and their safe investment +demands the highest integrity and the best business capacity of those +in charge of these depositories of the people's earnings. +</p> +<p> +We have a vast and intricate business, built up through years of +toil and struggle, in which every part of the country has its stake, +and will not permit of either neglect or of undue selfishness. No +narrow, sordid policy will subserve it. The greatest skill and wisdom +on the part of the manufacturers and producers will be required to hold +and increase it. Our industrial enterprises which have grown to such +great proportions affect the homes and occupations of the people and +the welfare of the country. Our capacity to produce has developed so +enormously and our products have so multiplied that the problem of more +markets requires our urgent and immediate attention. Only a broad and +enlightened policy will keep what we have. No other policy will get +more. In these times of marvelous business energy and gain we ought +to be looking to the future, strengthening the weak places in our +industrial and commercial system, that we may be ready for any storm +or strain. +</p> +<p> +By sensible trade arrangements which will not interrupt our home +production we shall extend the outlets for our increasing surplus. +A system which provides a mutual exchange of commodities, a mutual +exchange is manifestly essential to the continued and healthful growth +of our export trade. We must not repose in fancied security that we can +forever sell everything and buy little or nothing. If such a thing were +possible, it would not be best for us or for those with whom we deal. +We should take from our customers such of their products as we can use +without harm to our industries and labor. Reciprocity is the natural +outgrowth of our wonderful industrial development under the domestic +policy now firmly established. What we produce beyond our domestic +consumption must have a vent abroad. The excess must be relieved through +a foreign outlet and we should sell everywhere we can, and buy wherever +the buying will enlarge our sales and productions, and thereby make a +greater demand for home labor. +</p> +<p> +The period of exclusiveness is past. The expansion of our trade and +commerce is the pressing problem. Commercial wars are unprofitable. +A policy of good will and friendly trade relations will prevent +reprisals. Reciprocity treaties are in harmony with the spirit of the +times, measures of retaliation are not. If perchance some of our tariffs +are no longer needed, for revenue or to encourage and protect our +industries at home, why should they not be employed to extend and +promote our markets abroad? Then, too, we have inadequate steamship +service. New lines of steamers have already been put in commission +between the Pacific coast ports of the United States and those on the +western coasts of Mexico and Central and South America. These should be +followed up with direct steamship lines between the eastern coast of the +United States and South American ports. One of the needs of the times is +to direct commercial lines from our vast fields of production to the +fields of consumption that we have but barely touched. Next in advantage +to having the thing to sell is to have the convenience to carry it to +the buyer. We must encourage our merchant marine. We must have more +ships. They must be under the American flag, built and manned and owned +by Americans. These will not only be profitable in a commercial sense; +they will be messengers of peace and amity wherever they go. We must +build the Isthmian canal, which will unite the two oceans and give a +straight line of water communication with the western coasts of Central +and South America and Mexico. The construction of a Pacific cable cannot +be longer postponed. +</p> +<p> +In the furthering of these objects of national interest and concern +you are performing an important part. This exposition would have +touched the heart of that American statesman whose mind was ever alert +and thought ever constant for a larger commerce and a truer fraternity +of the republics of the new world. His broad American spirit is felt +and manifested here. He needs no identification to an assemblage of +Americans anywhere, for the name of Blaine is inseparably associated +with the Pan-American movement, which finds this practical and +substantial expression, and which we all hope will be firmly advanced by +the Pan-American congress that assembles this autumn in the capital of +Mexico. The good work will go on. It cannot be stopped. These buildings +will disappear; this creation of art and beauty and industry will perish +from sight, but their influence will remain to +</p> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<p class="i2"> Make it live beyond its too short living </p> +<p class="i2"> With praises and thanksgiving.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<p> +Who can tell the new thoughts that have been awakened, the ambitions +fired and the high achievements that will be wrought through this +exposition? Gentlemen, let us ever remember that our interest is in +concord, not conflict, and that our real eminence rests in the victories +of peace, not those of war. We hope that all who are represented here +may be moved to higher and nobler effort for their own and the world's +good, and that out of this city may come, not only greater commerce and +trade, but more essential than these, relations of mutual respect, +confidence and friendship which will deepen and endure. +</p> +<p> +Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, +happiness and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the +peoples and powers of earth. +</p> + + +<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div> + +<h2> + DEATH OF PRESIDENT McKINLEY. +</h2> +<h3> + ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE ASSASSINATION. +</h3> +<p class="r"> +<i>Buffalo, N.Y., Sept. 6-7 P.M.</i> +</p> +<p> +The President was shot about 4 o'clock. One bullet struck him on the +upper portion of the breastbone, glancing and not penetrating; the +second bullet penetrated the abdomen five inches below the left nipple +and one and a half inches to the left of the median line. The abdomen +was opened through the line of the bullet wound. It was found that the +bullet had penetrated the stomach. The opening in the front wall of the +stomach was carefully closed with silk stitches, after which a search +was made for a hole in the back wall of the stomach. This was found and +also closed in the same way. The further course of the bullet could not +be discovered, although careful search was made. The abdominal wound was +closed without drainage. No injury to the intestines or other abdominal +organ was discovered. The patient stood the operation well, pulse of +good quality, rate of 130. Condition at the conclusion of operation was +gratifying. The result cannot be foretold. His condition at present +justifies hope of recovery. +</p> +<p class="r"> +GEORGE B. CORTELYOU,<br /> + <i>Secretary to the President.</i> +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<center> +NEWS AT THE WHITE HOUSE. +</center> +<p> +The official announcement of the President's death was received at the +White House at 2:35 o'clock, September 14, 1901, as follows: +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: right;"> + <i>Buffalo, September 14.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + <i>Col. B.F. Montgomery, Executive Mansion, Washington</i>: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + The President died at 2:15 this morning. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: right;"> + GEORGE B. CORTELYOU. +</p> +<p> +Immediately upon receipt of the official dispatch the following was sent +to Secretary Cortelyou: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Members of the executive staff in Washington are deeply affected, and + beg to tender their profound sympathy to Mrs. McKinley. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: right;"> + O.F. PRUDEN,<br /> + <i>Assistant Secretary.</i> +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<center> +PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT OF DEATH BY THE PHYSICIANS. +</center> +<p class="r"> +MILBURN HOUSE, <i>Buffalo, N.Y., Sept. 14.</i> +</p> +<p> +The following report of the autopsy upon the remains of President +McKinley was issued at 5 o'clock: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + The bullet which struck over the breastbone did not pass through the + skin, and did little harm. The other bullet passed through both walls of + the stomach near its lower border. Both holes were found to be perfectly + closed by the stitches, but the tissue around each hole had become + gangrenous. After passing through the stomach the bullet passed into + the back walls of the abdomen, hitting and tearing the upper end of + the kidney. This portion of the bullet track was also gangrenous, the + gangrene involving the pancreas. The bullet has not yet been found. + There was no sign of peritonitis or disease of other organs. The heart + walls were very thin. There was no evidence of any attempt at repair on + the part of nature, and death resulted from the gangrene, which affected + the stomach around the bullet wounds as well as the tissues around the + further course of the bullet. Death was unavoidable by any surgical or + medical treatment, and was the direct result of the bullet wound. +</p> +<p class="quote"><br /> + HARVEY D. GAYLORD, M.D. <br /> + HERMAN G. MATZINGER, M.D. <br /> + P.M. RIXEY, M.D. <br /> + MATTHEW D. MANN, M.D. <br /> + HERMAN MYNTER, M.D. <br /> + ROSWELL PARK, M.D. <br /> + EUGENE WASDIN, M.D. <br /> + CHARLES G. STOCKTON, M.D. <br /> + EDWARD G. JANEWAY, M.D. <br /> + W.D. JOHNSON, M.D. <br /> + W.P. KENDALL, <i>Surgeon, U.S.A.</i> <br /> + CHARLES CARY, M.D. <br /> + EDWARD L. MUNSON, <i>Assistant Surgeon, U.S.A.</i> <br /> + HERMANUS L. BAER, M.D. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<center> +ANNOUNCEMENT TO THE VICE-PRESIDENT. +</center> +<p> +At the residence of Mr. Ansley Wilcox, 641 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, +N.Y., Mr. Root stepped forward and said, with deep emotion: "Mr. +Vice-President, I have been requested on behalf of the Cabinet of the +late President—at least those who are present in Buffalo, all except +two—to request that for reasons of weight affecting the affairs of +Government you should proceed to take the constitutional oath of +President of the United States." +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<center> +THE VICE-PRESIDENT'S REPLY. +</center> +<p> +"I shall take the oath at once in accordance with your request, and in +this hour of deep and terrible national bereavement. I wish to state +that it shall be my aim to continue absolutely unbroken the policy of +President McKinley for the peace and prosperity and honor of our beloved +country." +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<center> +ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE ASSASSINATION TO REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED +STATES ABROAD. +</center> +<p class="c"> +(<i>From the Washington Post, Sept. 15, 1901</i>.) +</p> +<p class="r"> +DEPARTMENT OF STATE, <i>Washington, Sept. 14</i>. +</p> +<p> +<i>Sir</i>: It is my painful duty to announce to you the death of +William McKinley, President of the United States, in the city of +Buffalo, at fifteen minutes past 2 in the morning of to-day, September +14. +</p> +<p> +Laid low by the act of an assassin, the week-long struggle to save his +life has been watched with keen solicitude, not alone by the people of +this country, who raised him from their own ranks to the high office he +filled, but by the people of all friendly nations, whose messages of +sympathy and hope, while hope was possible, have been most consolatory +in this time of sore trial. +</p> +<p> +Now that the end has come, I request you to be the medium of +communicating the sad tidings to the Government of the honored nation +you so worthily represent, and to announce that in obedience to the +prescriptions of the Constitution, the office of President has devolved +upon Theodore Roosevelt, Vice-President of the United States. +</p> +<p> +Accept, sir, the renewed assurance of my highest consideration. +</p> +<p class="r"> +JOHN HAY. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<center> +ANNOUNCEMENT TO THE ARMY. +</center> +<p class="c"> +[GENERAL ORDER No. 13.] +</p> +<p class="r"> HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, <br /> + ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, <br /> + <i>Washington, D.C. Sept. 16, 1901.</i> +</p> + +<p> +With great sorrow, the commanding general announces the death of +William McKinley, President of the United States and, by statute, +Commander-in-Chief of the District of Columbia Militia, which occurred +at Buffalo, N.Y., at 2:15 o'clock A.M. on September 14, 1901. +</p> +<p> +Throughout his tragically terminated administration President McKinley +was actively interested in the welfare of this organization and +frequently gave it evidence of his sincere friendship. His distinguished +services as soldier and civilian must incite to emulation and will +result in purer patriotism and better citizenship wherever his career +is studied. +</p> +<p> +The national flag will be displayed at half-staff on all armories +from sunrise to sunset of each day until sunset of Thursday, the 19th +instant, on which day the remains of the late Commander-in-Chief will +be interred at Canton, Ohio. +</p> +<p> +The officers of the National Guard will wear the usual badge of mourning +upon their swords, and the regimental and battalion colors will be +draped in mourning for a period of thirty days. +</p> +<p> +By command of BRIG.-GEN. HARRIES. +</p> +<p class="r"> +CHARLES H. OURAND,<br /> + <i>Major and Inspector General, Acting Adjutant-General.</i> +</p> +<p> </p> +<p> +By direction of the Acting Secretary of War, the National Guard of +the District of Columbia will assemble for escort and parade duty on +Tuesday, September 17, 1901, to participate in the funeral of William +McKinley, late President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief +of the District of Columbia Militia. +</p> +<p> +The brigade will assemble at 8:30 o'clock A.M., in column of companies, +on Pennsylvania avenue facing east, its right resting on Nineteenth +street northwest. +</p> +<p> +The order of formation, from right to left, will be as follows: +</p> +<p class="c"> + General staff and general non-commissioned staff. <br /> + Brigade Band. <br /> + Engineer Corps. <br /> + Second Regiment of Infantry. <br /> + First Regiment of Infantry. <br /> + Corps of field music. <br /> + First Separate Battalion. <br /> + Signal Corps. <br /> + Naval Battalion. <br /> + Ambulance Corps. +</p> +<p> +Undress uniform, forage caps, leggings, white standing collars, and +white gloves will be worn; the Naval Battalion to be in its prescribed +uniform. +</p> +<p> +All members of the general staff and general non-commissioned staff, and +the field officers and adjutants of regiments will be mounted, and will +wear the prescribed undress mounted uniform. +</p> +<p> +All commanding officers will assemble at the adjutant-general's office +at 9:30 o'clock on the evening of September 16, to receive any special +orders that may be issued. +</p> +<p> +Commanding officers of companies will furnish their battalion adjutants +with "morning reports" immediately after the parade is dismissed, noting +thereon the names of all officers and men absent from the parade without +leave. Commanding officers of regiments, separate battalions, and +separate companies will furnish these headquarters with consolidated +morning reports before 10 o'clock A.M. of the 19th instant; will see +that all enlisted men absent without leave are properly dealt with, and +will report to these headquarters the names of all commissioned officers +so absent. +</p> +<p> +By command of BRIG.-GEN. HARRIES. +</p> +<p class="r"> +CHARLES H. OURAND,<br /> + <i>Major and Inspector General, Acting Adjutant-General.</i> +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<center> +OFFICIAL ORDERS SENT OUT. +</center> +<center> +SALUTES TO BE FIRED AND FLAGS LOWERED AFLOAT AND ASHORE. +</center> +<p> +Secretary of State Hay and Secretary of the Treasury Gage, the only +Cabinet officers in town, held a consultation on the morning of the 13th +as a result of which the following order was issued: +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: right;"> + DEPARTMENT OF STATE, <i>Washington, Sept. 14.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + <i>To the Secretary of the Navy</i>: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Out of respect to the memory of the President, the executive departments + will be closed to-day and on the day of the funeral. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: right;"> + JOHN HAY. +</p> +<p> +A similar order was communicated to all the heads and acting heads of +the executive departments in Washington by government telegraph. They in +turn issued the necessary orders for the closing of their respective +departments, not only in Washington, but throughout the country. In a +short time the large buildings were deserted, except by a few clerks +detailed to aid their chiefs in the promulgation of necessary orders. +</p> +<p> +In addition to issuing the order closing the Navy Department, +Acting Secretary Hackett dispatched the following order to every +commander-in-chief, to every navy yard, and to every United States ship, +stating simply: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + It is with profound sorrow that the department announces to you the + death of President McKinley at 2:15, September 14. +</p> +<p> +The Acting Secretary also issued the following order to the naval branch +of the United States: +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + [SPECIAL ORDER No. 12.] +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: right;"> + NAVY DEPARTMENT, <i>Washington, Sept. 14, 1901.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + The President of the United States died this morning at 2:15, in the + city of Buffalo, N.Y. Officers and men of the navy and Marine Corps need + not to be reminded of the public and private virtues of their late + Commander-in-Chief. The whole people loved William McKinley, for he + loved and trusted them. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + As soldier, statesman, husband, and as a pure-minded, great-hearted + American, his fame now belongs to his country. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Under the Constitution, Theodore Roosevelt, previously Vice-President, + has become President and Commander-in-Chief of the navy and Marine Corps + of the United States. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: right;"> + F.W. HACKETT,<br /> + <i>Acting Secretary</i>. +</p> +<p> +The ceremonies to be observed are provided for in the naval regulations +as follows: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Upon the receipt of official intelligence of the death of the President + of the United States, the senior officer shall direct that on the + following day the ensign and union jack be displayed at half-mast from + sunrise to sunset, and guns fired every half hour from all ships + present. Similar orders shall be given at naval stations. +</p> +<p> +A naval regulation provides that salutes shall not be fired on Sunday +except in cases wherein international courtesy would suffer from the +breach. Therefore the firing of the guns will take place on Monday at +those points where the department's announcement was received yesterday. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<center> +ORDER TO THE ARMY. +</center> +<p> +A dispatch was received at the War Department on the afternoon of the +13th from Secretary Root approving the draft of the order to the army, +announcing the death of President McKinley. It was sent to all officers +in command. The order follows: +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: right;"> + HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,<br /> + ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,<br /> + <i>Washington, September 14.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + <i>General orders</i>: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + 1. The following order of the Secretary of War announces to the army + the death of William McKinley, President of the United States: +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: right;"> + WAR DEPARTMENT, <i>Washington, September 14</i>. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + The distressing duty devolves upon the Secretary of War of announcing to + the army the death of William McKinley, President of the United States, + which occurred at Buffalo, N.Y., at 2:15 o'clock A.M., on the 14th day + of September, 1901. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + The grief into which the nation has been plunged at the untimely death + of its Chief Magistrate will be keenly felt by the army of the United + States, in which, in his early manhood, he rendered distinguished and + patriotic services, and in whose welfare he manifested at all times a + profound and abiding solicitude. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Appropriate funeral honors will be paid to the memory of the late + President and Commander-in-Chief at the headquarters of every military + division and department, at every military port, at the United States + Military Academy, West Point, and at every camp of troops of the United + States in the field. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + The Lieutenant-General of the army will give the necessary instructions + for carrying this order into effect. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: right;"> + ELIHU ROOT,<br /> + <i>Secretary of War</i>. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + 2. On the day after the receipt of this order at the headquarters of + military commands in the field and at each military station and at the + Military Academy, at West Point, the troops and cadets will be paraded + at 10 o'clock, A.M., and the order read to them, after which all labor + for the day will cease. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + THIRTEEN GUNS AT DAWN. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + 3. At dawn thirteen guns will be fired at each military post, and + afterward at intervals of thirty minutes between the rising and setting + sun a single gun, and at the close of the day the salute of the Union of + forty-five guns. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + The national flag will be displayed at half-staff at the headquarters + of the several military divisions and departments, and at all military + posts, stations, forts, and buildings and vessels under the control + of the department until the remains of the late Chief Magistrate are + consigned to their final resting place at Canton, Ohio, on the afternoon + of Thursday, the 19th instant, on which day all labor will be suspended + at all military posts and stations and on all public works under the + direction of the department, and at 12 o'clock meridian twenty-one + minute guns will be fired from all military posts and stations. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + The officers of the army of the United States will wear the usual badge + of mourning on their swords and the colors of the various military + organizations of the army will be draped in mourning for the period of + one month. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + 4. The following officers of the army will, with a like number of + officers of the navy selected for the purpose, compose the guard of + honor, and accompany the remains of their late Commander-in-Chief from + the National Capital to Canton, Ohio, and continue with them until they + are consigned to their final resting place: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + The Lieutenant-General of the Army.<br /> + Maj.-Gen. John R. Brooke.<br /> + Maj.-Gen. Elwell S. Otis.<br /> + Maj.-Gen. Arthur MacArthur.<br /> + Brig.-Gen. George L. Gillespie. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + By command of Lieut.-Gen. Miles. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: right;"> + THOMAS WARD,<br /> + <i>Acting Adjutant-General.</i> +</p> +<p> </p> +<p> +The following order then issued: +</p> + +<p class="quote" style="text-align: right;"> + WAR DEPARTMENT, <i>Washington, Sept. 14.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + The Secretary of War announces to the army that upon the death of + William McKinley, President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, + Vice-President, has succeeded to the office of President of the United + States, by virtue of the Constitution. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: right;"> + ELIHU ROOT, <br /> + <i>Secretary of War.</i> +</p> + +<p> +Secretary Root also gave directions to the officers of the department to +make the necessary arrangements and issue orders for the participation +of the army in the funeral ceremonies, following the Garfield precedent. +</p> +<p> +The following order was issued by the Secretary of the Treasury to the +Revenue Cutter Service: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + The department announces to the service the sad tidings of the death of + the President. The flags of all vessels of the Revenue Cutter Service + will be carried at half-mast until otherwise ordered. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<center> +MR. GAGE ANNOUNCES DEATH. +</center> +<center> +HEAD OF TREASURY PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE LATE PRESIDENT MCKINLEY. +</center> +<p> +Secretary Gage issued the following announcement of the death of +President McKinley: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + It has been thought proper to make sad but official announcement in this + issue of Treasury Decisions of the tragic death of William McKinley, + twenty-fifth President of the United States, and to give some expression + of that tribute which his character and deeds compel. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + It needed not the shadows of death to make the figure of the late + President loom large in the estimate of mankind. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + The republic he loved he lived to broaden and unify as no previous + President had done. Under his prudent and far-seeing statesmanship it + took exalted place in the community of nations. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + From his place as private citizen, on through many and increasing + honors to his final post as ruler of his people, he remained true to + the highest ideals. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + By the people of the nation at large and by the world he was known and + will live in grateful annals as a gentleman of noble heart, an + affectionate husband, a sturdy friend, and a faithful and illustrious + President. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + In a long public life, ever open to his fellows, nothing was ever found, + even by intemperate partisan zeal, that would cast a shade upon his + character. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + The kindly and unselfish attributes which his colleagues knew and loved, + the public felt, and now men of every faith and following join in + reverent acknowledgment of those distinctive virtues and abilities that + lift him among the truly great of all ages. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + The passing of Presidents and Kings usually evokes tributes of praise, + but in William McKinley's life there was an element that made him more + than ruler, and which, in the hour of his death, is above the tribute + of speech and tears. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + The ordinary tributes paid to the memory of the great when they pass + from earth utterly fail to satisfy the mind in an attempted application + of them to our dead President. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: right;"> + L.J. GAGE,<br /> + <i>Secretary.</i> +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<center> +CERTIFICATE OF THE CORONER. +</center> +<center> +FORMAL RECORD OF MCKINLEY'S DEATH FOR BUREAU OF VITAL STATISTICS. +</center> +<p> +The coroner of Erie County issued the following certificate of death of +the late President: +</p> + +<p class="quote" style="text-align: right;"> + CITY OF BUFFALO, <br /> + BUREAU OF VITAL STATISTICS, <br /> + COUNTY OF ERIE, STATE OF NEW YORK. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Certificate and record of death of William McKinley: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + I hereby certify that he died on the 14th day of September, 1901, about + 2:15 o'clock A.M., and that to the best of my knowledge and belief the + cause of death was as hereunder written: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Cause, gangrene of both walls of stomach and pancreas following gunshot + wound. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Witness my hand this 14th day of September, 1901. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + H.R. GAYLORD, M.D. <br /> + H.Z. MATZINGER, M.D. <br /> + JAMES F. WILSON, <i>Coroner</i>. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Date of death—September 14, 1901. <br /> + Age—58 years, 7 months, 15 days. <br /> + Color—White. <br /> + Single, married, etc.—Married. <br /> + Occupation—President of the United States. <br /> + Birthplace—Niles, Ohio. <br /> + How long in the United States, if foreign born— <br /> + Father's name—William McKinley. <br /> + Father's birthplace—Pennsylvania, U.S. <br /> + Mother's name—Nancy McKinley. <br /> + Mother's birthplace—Ohio, U.S. <br /> + Place of death—1168 Delaware avenue. <br /> + Last previous residence—Washington, D.C. <br /> + Direct cause of death—Gangrene of both walls of stomach and pancreas + following gunshot wound. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<center> +OFFICIAL ORDER OF OBSERVANCES. +</center> +<center> +ORDER OF ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE OBSEQUIES AT WASHINGTON CITY OF WILLIAM +MCKINLEY, LATE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. +</center> +<p> +The remains of the late President will arrive in Washington at 8:30 +o'clock P.M. on Monday, the 16th of September, 1901, and will be +escorted to the Executive Mansion by a squadron of United States +Cavalry. +</p> +<p> +On Tuesday, the 17th instant, at 9 o'clock A.M., they will be borne to +the Capitol, where they will lie in state in the rotunda from 10 o'clock +P.M. until 6 P.M. that date. +</p> +<p> +The following morning there will be exercises at the Capitol at 10 +o'clock. At 1 P.M. the remains will be borne to the depot of the +Pennsylvania Railroad, and thence conveyed to their final resting place +at Canton, Ohio. +</p> +<center> +FROM WHITE HOUSE TO CAPITOL. +<br /> +ORDER OF PROCESSION FOR TUESDAY. +</center> + +<p class="c"> + SECTION I. +</p> +<p class="c"> + Funeral Escort, <br /> + Under Command of <br /> + Maj.-Gen. John R. Brooke, U.S.A. <br /> + Artillery Band. <br /> + Squadron of Cavalry. <br /> + Company A, United States Engineers. <br /> + Two Batteries C Artillery. <br /> + Marine Band. <br /> + Battalion of Marines. <br /> + Battalion of United States Seamen. <br /> + Brigade of National Guard, District of Columbia. +</p> + +<p class="c"> + SECTION II. +</p> + +<p class="c"> +Under Command of Chief Marshal, +<br /> +Gen. Henry V. Boynton. +<br /> +Clergymen in Attendance. +<br /> +Physicians who attended the late President. +<br /> +Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. +<br /> +Grand Army of the Republic. +<br /> +Guard of Honor. Guard of Honor. +<br/> +Hearse. +<br /> +Bearers. Bearers. +</p> + +<p> +Officers of the army, Navy and Marine Corps in this city who are not on +duty with the troops forming the escort will form, in full dress, right +in front, on either side of the hearse—the army on the right and the +Navy and Marine Corps on the left—and compose the guard of honor. +</p> +<p class="c"> + Family of the late President. <br /> + Relatives of the late President. <br /> + Ex-President of the United States. +</p> + +<p class="c"> + SECTION III. +</p> +<p class="c"> + THE PRESIDENT. <br /> + The Cabinet Ministers. <br /> + The Diplomatic Corps. <br /> + The Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme + Court of the United States. <br /> + The Senators of the United States. <br /> + Members of the U.S. House of Representatives. <br /> + Governors of States and Territories. <br /> + Commissioners of the District of Columbia. <br /> + The Judges of the Court of Claims, the Judiciary of the District of + Columbia, and Judges of the United States Courts. <br /> + The Assistant Secretaries of State, Treasury, War, Navy, Interior and + Agricultural Departments. <br /> + The Assistant Postmasters General. <br /> + The Solicitor General and the Assistant Attorneys General. <br /> + Organized Societies. +</p> + +<p> +The troops designated to form the escort will assemble on the north side +of Pennsylvania avenue, facing the Executive Mansion, left resting on +the eastern entrance to the grounds, and in inverse order, so that when +the column is formed to the left, the organizations will be in the order +above described. The formation will be completed at 9 A.M. on Tuesday, +the 17th instant. +</p> +<p> +The civic procession will form in accordance with the directions to be +given by the chief marshal. +</p> +<p> +The officers of the army and navy selected to compose the special guard +of honor will be at the Capitol so as to receive the remains upon +arrival there. +</p> +<p> </p> +<center> +WEDNESDAY'S SOLEMN PAGEANT. +</center> +<p> +Order of procession for Wednesday: +</p> +<p> +The military guard will escort the remains from the Capitol to the +railroad station. +</p> +<p> +The troops on that date will assemble on the east side of the Capitol +and form line fronting the eastern portico of the Capitol precisely at +1 o'clock P.M. +</p> +<p> +The procession will move, upon the conclusion of the services at the +Capitol (commencing at 1 o'clock P.M.), when minute guns will be fired +at the navy yard, by the vessels of war which may be in port, and at +Fort Myer, and by a battery of artillery stationed near the Capitol for +that purpose. +</p> +<p> +At the same hour the bells of the several churches, fire engine-houses, +and schoolhouses will be tolled, the firing of the minute-guns and the +tolling of the bells to continue until the departure of the remains of +the late Chief Magistrate for the railroad depot. +</p> +<p> +At 2:30 o'clock P.M. the officers of the army and navy selected to +compose the special guard of honor will assemble at the Pennsylvania +depot in time to receive the body of the late President, and deposit it +in the car prepared for that purpose. +</p> +<p> +As the necessary limits of time do not permit personal communication +with the public officers of the United States and of the several States +enumerated in the foregoing order, they are respectfully requested to +accept the invitation to take part in the exercises conveyed through the +publication hereof, and to send notice of their intention to be present +to the Secretary of War at the War Department in Washington. +</p> +<p> +Organizations and civic societies desiring to take part are requested +to send similar notice at the earliest time practicable to the chief +marshal of the civic procession, Gen. Henry V. Boynton, Wyatt Building, +Washington, D.C. +</p> +<p class="r"> +JOHN HAY,<br /> + <i>Secretary of State</i>. +<br /> +ELIHU ROOT,<br /> + <i>Secretary of War</i>. +<br /> +JOHN D. LONG,<br /> + <i>Secretary of the Navy</i>. +<br /> +HENRY B.F. MACFARLAND,<br /> + <i>President of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia</i>. +</p> +<p> </p> + +<center> +ORDER OF PROCESSION. +</center> +<p> +The procession then started at slow march up Pennsylvania avenue +toward the White House. It moved in the following order: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Four mounted police outriders. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Platoon of forty policemen on foot, Capt. Francis E. Cross, commanding. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Platoon of sixteen mounted policemen abreast, Sergt. Matthews, + commanding. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Cavalry escort from Fort Myer, consisting of Troops I and L, under + command of Maj. Walter L. Finlay. Staff, Maj. Thomas, Fifth Cavalry; + Maj. George L. Davis, surgeon; Chaplain C.E. Pierce, Capt. S.H. Elliott, + adjutant. Troop I, under command of Capt. C.E. Brooks and Second Lieut. + A.S. Fuger, and Troop L, under command of Lieut. W.B. Scales. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Three veteran society representatives, Mr. John McElroy, national senior + vice-commander of the Grand Army of the Republic; Israel W. Stone, + commander of the Department of the Potomac of the Grand Army of the + Republic, and Gen. R.G. Dyrenforth, national commander of the Union + Veteran Union. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Platoon of representatives of veteran organizations, Col. J.T. + Wilkinson, Spanish War Veterans; Col. J. Edwin Browne, Union Veteran + Legion; Chaplain C.E. Stevens, Department of the Potomac, Grand Army of + the Republic; A.M. Daniels, commander Post No. 6, Department of the + Potomac; Past Commander George P. Davis, of Burnside Post; A.R. Greene, + past department commander of Kansas; Grand Commander John M. Meacham, + Department of the Potomac, Union Veterans' Union; Arthur Hendricks, past + commander Department of the Potomac, Grand Army of the Republic; L.K. + Brown, of Burnside Post, Grand Army of the Republic. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Remains of the President. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<center> +ORDERS TO GUARD OF HONOR. +</center> +<p> +The following special order was issued on the 16th: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + The special guard of honor, composed of general officers of the army + and admirals of the navy, will not march in the procession contemplated + for Tuesday. The special guard of honor—general officers of the army, + active and retired; the admirals of the navy, active and retired—not + otherwise instructed will assemble in full dress as follows: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Monday, September 16, 1901, at the White House at 8 P.M. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Tuesday, September 17, 1901, at the east front of the Capitol at + 9:30 A.M. +</p> +<p> +Acting Secretary Hackett has issued the following order to govern the +navy in the funeral ceremonies: +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: center;"> + [SPECIAL ORDER No. 13.] +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: right;"> + NAVY DEPARTMENT, <i>Washington, Sept. 16, 1901.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + All officers on the active list of the navy and Marine Corps on duty + in Washington will assemble in full dress uniform at 7:30 P.M. Monday + evening, September 16, at Pennsylvania Railroad station for the purpose + of meeting the remains of the late President of the United States. They + will again assemble in the same uniform in the grounds of the Executive + Mansion and near the eastern gate at 9 A.M. on Tuesday, September 17, to + march as guard of honor in the procession from the Executive Mansion to + the Capitol. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + The following special guard of honor is hereby appointed: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + The Admiral of the Navy, Rear Admiral A.S. Crowninshield, Rear Admiral + Charles O'Neil, Paymaster-General A.S. Kenny, Brig.-Gen. Charles + Heywood, U.S.M.C. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + The special guard of honor will assemble in special full dress uniform + at the Executive Mansion at 8 P.M. Monday, September 16, to receive + the remains of the late President, and will again assemble in the same + uniform at the Capitol at 10 A.M. Tuesday, September 17, and will thence + accompany the remains of President McKinley to their final resting place + in Canton, Ohio. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + All officers of flag rank will constitute an additional special guard of + honor, and will assemble at the places hereinbefore mentioned for the + special guard of honor. The additional special guard of honor will not, + however, accompany the remains of the late President to Canton. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: right;"> + F.W. HACKETT,<br /> + <i>Acting Secretary</i>. +</p> +<p> </p> +<p> +The following official statement, making important changes in the plans +for the funeral services over the remains of President McKinley in this +city, was made public: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + In compliance with the earnest wishes of Mrs. McKinley that the body + of her husband shall rest in her home at Canton Wednesday night, the + following changes in the obsequies of the late President will be made: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Funeral services in the rotunda of the Capitol will be held Tuesday + morning on the arrival of the escort which will accompany the remains + from the White House. The body of the late President will lie in state + in the rotunda for the remainder of Tuesday, and will be escorted to + the railroad station Tuesday evening. The funeral train will leave + Washington at or about 8 o'clock Tuesday evening, and thus will arrive + at Canton during the day Wednesday. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: right;"> + JOHN HAY,<br/> + <i>Secretary of State</i>. +<br /> + ELIHU ROOT,<br /> + <i>Secretary of War</i>. +<br /> + JOHN D. LONG,<br /> + <i>Secretary of the Navy</i>. +<br /> + H.B.F. MACFARLAND,<br /> + <i>President Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia</i>. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<center> +HOUSE COMMITTEE NAMED. +<br /> +LIST WIRED BY SPEAKER HENDERSON. +</center> +<p> +The following dispatch from Speaker Henderson named the House committee: +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: right;"> + <i>New York, Sept. 15, 1901.</i> +</p> +<p class="quote"> + <i>Hon. Henry Casson, Sergeant-at-arms, House of Representatives, + Washington, D.C.</i>: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + I have appointed the following committee for Presidential funeral and + escort. Notify them at once, requesting answer. Give each date of + funeral and hour of leaving Washington: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Grosvenor, Ohio; Burton, Ohio; Tayler, Ohio; Loud, California; Russell, + Connecticut; Ball, Delaware; Cannon, Illinois; Hitt, Illinois; Hopkins, + Illinois; Steele, Indiana; Hepburn, Iowa; Curtis, Kansas; Burleigh, + Maine; Mudd, Maryland; Gillett, Massachusetts; Corliss, Michigan; + Fletcher, Minnesota; Mercer, Nebraska; Sulloway, New Hampshire; + Loudenslager, New Jersey; Payne, New York; Sherman, New York; Marshall, + North Dakota; Tongue, Oregon; Bingham, Pennsylvania; Grow, Pennsylvania; + Dalzell, Pennsylvania; Capron, Rhode Island; Burke, South Dakota; + Foster, Vermont; Cushman, Washington; Dovener, West Virginia; Babcock, + Wisconsin; Mondell, Wyoming; Richardson, Tennessee; Bankhead, Alabama; + McRae, Arkansas; Bell, Colorado; Sparkman, Florida; Lester, Georgia; + Glenn, Idaho; Smith, Kentucky; Robertson, Louisiana; Williams, + Mississippi; De Armond, Missouri; Edwards, Montana; Newlands, Nevada; + Cummings, New York; W.W. Kitchin, North Carolina; Norton, Ohio; Elliott, + South Carolina; Lanham, Texas; Swanson, Virginia; Bodie, New Mexico; + Flynn, Oklahoma; Smith, Arizona. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Acknowledge receipt of this telegram. I will be at funeral. +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align: right;"> + D.B. HENDERSON. +</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<center> +ACTION OF CONGRESS. +</center> +<p> +Upon the assembly of the Fifty-seventh Congress in its first session +convened, President Roosevelt referred in touching terms to the +assassination of the late President McKinley. (Page 417.) +</p> +<p> +The Senate on December 3, 1901, adopted the following resolution: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + <i>Resolved</i>, That a committee of eleven Senators be appointed on the + part of the Senate, to join such committee as may be appointed on the + part of the House, to consider and report on what token of respect and + affection it may be proper for the Congress of the United States to + express the deep sensibility of the nation to the tragic death of the + late President, William McKinley, and that so much of the message of + the President as relates to that deplorable event be referred to such + committee. +</p> +<p> +The committee on the part of the Senate comprised the following named +gentlemen: Mr. Foraker, Mr. Allison, Mr. Fairbanks, Mr. Kean, Mr. Aldrich, +Mr. Nelson, Mr. Perkins, Mr. Jones of Arkansas, Mr. Morgan, Mr. Cockrell +and Mr. McEnery. +</p> +<p> +The House of Representatives on December 3, passed the following +resolution: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + <i>Resolved</i>, That a committee of one member from each State + represented in this House be appointed on the part of the House to + join such committee as may be appointed on the part of the Senate, to + consider and report by what token of respect and affection it may be + proper for the Congress of the United States to express the deep + sensibility of the nation to the tragic death of the late President, + William McKinley, and that so much of the message of the President as + relates to that deplorable event be referred to that committee. +</p> +<p> +The committee on the part of the House of Representatives comprised the +following named gentlemen: +</p> +<p class="quote"> + Ohio, Charles H. Grosvenor; California, Julius Kahn; Connecticut, + E. Stevens Henry; Delaware, L. Heister Ball; Illinois, Vespasian + Warner; Indiana, James E. Watson; Iowa, Robert G. Cousins; Idaho, + Thomas L. Glenn; Kansas, Justin D. Bowersock; Maine, Amos L. Allen; + Maryland, George A. Pearre; Massachusetts, William C. Lovering; + Michigan, William Alden Smith; Minnesota, Page Morris; Montana, Caldwell + Edwards; Nebraska, Elmer J. Burkett; New Hampshire, Frank D. Currier; + New Jersey, Richard Wayne Parker; New York, John H. Ketcham, North + Dakota, Thomas F. Marshall; North Carolina, Spencer Blackburn; Oregon, + Malcolm A. Moody; Pennsylvania, Marlin E. Olmsted; Rhode Island, + Melville Bull; South Dakota, Eben W. Martin; Utah, George Sutherland; + Vermont, Kittredge Haskins; Washington, Wesley L. Jones; West Virginia, + Alston G. Dayton; Wisconsin, Herman B. Dahle; Wyoming, Frank W. Mondell; + Alabama, Oscar W. Underwood; Arkansas, Hugh A. Dinsmore; Florida, + Robert W. Davis; Georgia, William H. Fleming; Kentucky, James N. Kehoe; + Louisiana, Adolph Meyer; Mississippi, Charles E. Hooker; Missouri, Champ + Clark; South Carolina, W. Jasper Talbert; Tennessee, John A. Moon; + Texas, John L. Sheppard; Virginia, James Hay; Colorado, John F. + Shafroth; Nevada, Francis G. Newlands. +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p> +The following concurrent resolutions were adopted by both Houses of +Congress on January 15th, 1902: +</p> +<p> +Whereas the melancholy event of the violent and tragic death of William +McKinley, late President of the United States, having occurred during +the recess of Congress, and the two Houses sharing in the general grief +and desiring to manifest their sensibility upon the occasion of the +public bereavement: Therefore, +</p> +<p> +<i>Be it resolved by the House of Representatives</i> (<i>the Senate +concurring</i>), That the two Houses of Congress will assemble in the +Hall of the House of Representatives on a day and hour fixed and +announced by the joint committee, to wit, Thursday, February 27, 1902, +and that, in the presence of the two Houses there assembled, an address +on the life and character of William McKinley, late President of the +United States, be pronounced by Hon. John Hay, and that the President of +the Senate pro tempore and the Speaker of the House of Representatives +be requested to invite the President and ex-President of the United +States, ex-Vice-Presidents, the heads of the several Departments, +the judges of the Supreme Court, the representatives of the foreign +governments, the governors of the several States, the Lieutenant-General +of the Army and the Admiral of the Navy, and such officers of the Army +and Navy as have received the thanks of Congress who may then be at the +seat of Government to be present on the occasion, and such others as may +be suggested by the executive committee. +</p> +<p> +<i>And be it further resolved</i>, That the President of the United +States be requested to transmit a copy of these resolutions to Mrs. +Ida S. McKinley, and to assure her of the profound sympathy of the +two Houses of Congress for her deep personal affliction, and of their +sincere condolence for the late national bereavement. +</p> + + +<div style="height: 6em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div> + +<div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 14446 ***</div> +</body> +</html> + |