None exists now.

We are reunited.

Sectionalism has disappeared.

We will not leave the destiny of the loyal millions the islands to the disloyal thousands who are in rebellion against the United States.

Now they are sufficient for all public needs, and we have a surplus instead of a deficit.

It is the constitutional method of ascertaining the public will.

The Republic has marched on and on, and its step has exalted freedom and humanity.

Existing problems demand the thought and quicken the conscience of the country.

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.

Strong hearts and helpful hands are needed, and, fortunately, we have them in every part of our beloved country.

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.

Now I have the satisfaction to announce that the Congress just closed has reduced taxation in the sum of $41,000,000.

Then I felt constrained to convene the Congress in extraordinary session to devise revenues to pay the ordinary expenses of the Government.

We should not permit our great prosperity to lead us to reckless ventures in business or profligacy in public expenditures.

Whatever remains unfulfilled is a continuing obligation resting with undiminished force upon the Executive and the Congress.

The peace which we are pledged to leave to the Cuban people must carry with it the guaranties of permanence.

Under the circumstances of this case I do not feel at liberty to approve the bill.

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.