William McKinley: “This enlightened practice is, so far as possible, to be adhered to on the present occasion.”

We should not permit our great prosperity to lead us to reckless ventures in business or profligacy in public expenditures.

The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to enlist in the Insular Forte United States Navy, which is hereby established, not to exceed five hundred (500) Filipinos in the following ratings at the rates of pay indicated.

In his death the country has been deprived of one of its greatest citizens.

Then I felt constrained to convene the Congress in extraordinary session to devise revenues to pay the ordinary expenses of the Government.