Executive Order
09/17/1899
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We should not permit our great prosperity to lead us to reckless ventures in business or profligacy in public expenditur...
Now I have the satisfaction to announce that the Congress just closed has reduced taxation in the sum of $41,000,000.
Considering it a matter entirely between that gentleman and his tenants, Messrs. Gardiner and Atkinson, I at that time r...
It is the constitutional method of ascertaining the public will.