Feeling as our people feel, and speaking in their name, I at once sent a message to Commodore Dewey thanking him and his officers and men for their splendid achievement and overwhelming victory and informing him that I had appointed him an acting rear-admiral.
Special Message to the Congress on the Conduct of the War in the Philippines
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To the House of Representatives: I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State in response to the resolution of the House of Representatives of February 19, 1901.
Whatever remains unfulfilled is a continuing obligation resting with undiminished force upon the Executive and the Congress.
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