Executive Order
04/05/1899
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Then I felt constrained to convene the Congress in extraordinary session to devise revenues to pay the ordinary expenses...
This order to take effect on the first day of May, 1901.
Existing problems demand the thought and quicken the conscience of the country.
To single out for payment a few claims of this large class to the exclusion of all others would, in my judgment, be unju...