Veto Message to the House of Representatives
05/15/1898
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The result of this battle was the freeing of our Atlantic coast from the possibilities to which it had been exposed from...
I did all that in honor could be done to avert the war, but without avail.
Whatever remains unfulfilled is a continuing obligation resting with undiminished force upon the Executive and the Congr...
Now I have the satisfaction to announce that the Congress just closed has reduced taxation in the sum of $41,000,000.