William McKinley: “Without such restraint there can be no free constitutional government.”

these tracts having been found better adapted to agricultural than forest purposes

I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 3141, Revised Statutes of the United States, hereby order that the States of North Dakota and South Dakota, now part of the Internal…

The sum of six thousand dollars is hereby allotted and set apart from the appropriation made for the benefit and Government of Puerto Rico by the Act of March 24, 1900 (131 Stat., p. 51) to be expended by the Treasurer of Puerto Rico upon…

We will not leave the destiny of the loyal millions the islands to the disloyal thousands who are in rebellion against the United States.