Executive Order
07/12/1898
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I renew the recommendation made in my annual message to the Congress on December 3, 1900, that in accordance with preced...
It became inevitable; and the Congress at its first regular session, without party division, provided money in anticipat...
The said appointment to be made by the Military Governor thereof, subject to the approval of the Secretary of War.
Then I felt constrained to convene the Congress in extraordinary session to devise revenues to pay the ordinary expenses...