Inaugural Address
03/03/1901
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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...
Then I felt constrained to convene the Congress in extraordinary session to devise revenues to pay the ordinary expenses...
The Republic has marched on and on, and its step has exalted freedom and humanity.
Now I have the satisfaction to announce that the Congress just closed has reduced taxation in the sum of $41,000,000.