I haven't detailed information.

I have never been to the Philippines, nor am I a particular student of them, but I get the general impression that they are making very good progress there—very encouraging progress.

As soon as that can be done, we will then feel at liberty to withdraw.

That has never come to my attention.

I haven't any present intention of leaving Washington.

I notice some of the representatives of the press take advantage of the opportunity to sit down.

It is rather ineffectual to start on a trip and have to cancel it.

I should doubt very much the suggestion here, that the War Department has made a recommendation.

Any of you that wants can have my chair.

I should try to deal justly with it, as I should with any other request for a pardon.

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…

these tracts having been found better adapted to agricultural than forest purposes

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…

It is hereby ordered that upon Tuesday the ninth (9th) instant...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…

The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to enlist in the Insular Forte United States Navy, which is hereby established, not to exceed five hundred (500) Filipinos in the following ratings at the rates of pay indicated.

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…

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…

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…