William McKinley: “Consular court fees and fines imposed and collected by consular courts are hereby declared to be official.”

Whatever remains unfulfilled is a continuing obligation resting with undiminished force upon the Executive and the Congress.

We are now at peace with the world, and it is my fervent prayer that if differences arise between us and other powers they may be settled by peaceful arbitration and that hereafter we may be spared the horrors of war.

In his death the country has been deprived of one of its greatest citizens.

Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested, do hereby declare and make known that the Executive Orders dated December 27, 1875, and December 29, 1891, are so far modified as to…