Executive Order
02/03/1879
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The full appreciation of the opportunities which our front on the Pacific Ocean gives to commerce with Japan, China, and...
We should be more prompt and anxious because they are weak and we are strong.
I transmit herewith, for the consideration of the Senate, two treaties* signed at Peking on the 17th of November, 1880, ...
by virtue of the authority in me vested by law, do hereby declare and proclaim that the foreign discriminating duties of...