Proclamation 441—Thanksgiving Day, 1899
10/24/1899
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This order to take effect on the first day of May, 1901.
To the House of Representatives: I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State in response to the resolution ...
It became inevitable; and the Congress at its first regular session, without party division, provided money in anticipat...
Then I felt constrained to convene the Congress in extraordinary session to devise revenues to pay the ordinary expenses...