The peace which we are pledged to leave to the Cuban people must carry with it the guaranties of permanence.
Now they are sufficient for all public needs, and we have a surplus instead of a deficit.
Whatever remains unfulfilled is a continuing obligation resting with undiminished force upon the Executive and the Congress.
None exists now.
Considering it a matter entirely between that gentleman and his tenants, Messrs. Gardiner and Atkinson, I at that time refused to take any a...
Under the circumstances of this case I do not feel at liberty to approve the bill.
I return herewith, without approval, House bill No. 321.
To single out for payment a few claims of this large class to the exclusion of all others would, in my judgment, be unjust.
The measure of governmental liability is fulfilled by the passage of the act of March 3, 1891, and the prompt payment of the judgments rende...
There is no legal obligation on the part of the United States, and no promise, express or implied, for the payment of such claims.
I am constrained to withhold my approval from the bill.
Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and declare that an extraordinary occasio...
I transmit herewith, for the information of the Congress and with a view to its publication in suitable form, if such action is deemed desir...
invite attention to the recommendation of the Board
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 th...
I recommend that, following our national precedents, especially that in the case of Admiral Dewey and the Asiatic Squadron, the thanks of Co...
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 f...
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 Tre...
