Executive Order
12/20/1898
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There is no legal obligation on the part of the United States, and no promise, express or implied, for the payment of su...
Then I felt constrained to convene the Congress in extraordinary session to devise revenues to pay the ordinary expenses...
We are reunited.
I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 3141, Revised St...