Executive Order
07/07/1898
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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...
The result of this battle was the freeing of our Atlantic coast from the possibilities to which it had been exposed from...
The Republic has marched on and on, and its step has exalted freedom and humanity.