William McKinley: “I fail to see any reason in the facts connected with these claims for granting to these parties relief of this…”

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…

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

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

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…