Executive Order
07/03/1898
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The advance in the general efficiency of our consular service in promoting trade was even more marked than last year.
We should not permit our great prosperity to lead us to reckless ventures in business or profligacy in public expenditur...
I am constrained to withhold my approval from the bill.
The result of this battle was the freeing of our Atlantic coast from the possibilities to which it had been exposed from...