Under the circumstances of this case I do not feel at liberty to approve the bill.
There is no legal obligation on the part of the United States, and no promise, express or implied, for the payment of such claims.
The measure of governmental liability is fulfilled by the passage of the act of March 3, 1891, and the prompt payment of the judgments rende...
I am constrained to withhold my approval from the bill.
To single out for payment a few claims of this large class to the exclusion of all others would, in my judgment, be unjust.
Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and declare that an extraordinary occasio...
invite attention to the recommendation of the Board
I transmit herewith, for the information of the Congress and with a view to its publication in suitable form, if such action is deemed desir...
That in addition to the usual number, there be printed 15,000 copies: 2,000 copies for the use of the Senate, 3,000 copies for the use of th...
The result of this battle was the freeing of our Atlantic coast from the possibilities to which it had been exposed from Admiral Cervera's f...
I recommend that, following our national precedents, especially that in the case of Admiral Dewey and the Asiatic Squadron, the thanks of Co...