William McKinley said...

Any authority heretofore exercised in the premises by the Naval Officer in command is hereby ratified as if said power t...

I hereby empower the Naval officer in command at the Island of Guam to act as Collector of Customs for said Island.

It is not deemed compatible with the public interest to transmit the report to the Senate at this time.

The result of this battle was the freeing of our Atlantic coast from the possibilities to which it had been exposed from...