THE MESSAGE
TO CONGRESS.
4
Affairs of Government Reviewed
By President McKinley,
MOST SALIENT FEATURES
The Cuban Question and Portion
Relative to Currency Reform.
To the Sen.it® and House of Represen
tatives:
It gives me p ensure to extend greet
-lug to the Fifty.fifth congress assem
b.ed in regular session at the seat of ,
government, with many of whose sen
ators and representatives I have been
associated ‘m the legislative ser
vice. Iheir meeting occurs under fe
licitou* conditions, justifying sincere
congratulation ami calling for our grate
ful acknowledgement to a beneficent
providence, which has so signally blessed ,
aud prospered us as a nation. Peace
and good will with all the nations of
the earth continue unbroken.
A matter of great satisfaction is the
growing feeling of fraternal regard ami
unification of all sections > f our couu
try, the incompleteness of which has too
long delayed realization of the highest
blessing of the Union. The spirit of
patriotism is universal aud is ever in
creasing iu fervor. Tne puniie questions
which now most engross us are lifted
far above either partisanship, prejudices
or former sec tional differences. They
affect every part of our common country
alike and permit of no division on anci
ent lines. Question* of foreign policy,
of revenue, the soundness of the cur
r< i,< y, the iinioi.ibi.ify of notion,J obli
gatums. the improvement oi! the pubi c
service, appeal to the individual con
science of every ", earnest citizen to what
ever party , . he belongs . ■ whatever i
1 or m
sect . • on ot / the „, country , i lie may reside.
^ he exit a ses.-ion ol this congress
wmch closed during Jmy, last, enacted
lmportant legislation, and w ine its tu
•effect lias not yet been realized, what it
has already accomplished assutes us ot
its tnnetintt.'S mm wisuom. ii> tost its
permanent value further time wnl >e
lequiinu atm the P“e. satisfied with
its operation and lesults thus tai. are
iu no mind to withhold from it a an
tr,a •
Tanff legislation , having . been settled ... ,
by the extra session of congress, the
question next pressing for considera
tion is that of the currency.
The work of putting our finances upon
a sound basis, difficult as it may seem,
will appear easier when we recall the
financial operations of the government
since I860. Oa June 16 oE that year we
had outstanding demand liabilities in
the sum of $728,868,447 41. On Jun. 1.
1879, these liabilities had been reduced
to $44J'889,495.88. Of our interest bear
ing obligations, ithe figures are even
more striking. On July 1, 1866, the
principal of the interest bearing debt of
the government was $2,332,331,208. On
July 1, 1893, this sum had been reduced
to $585,037,100, or au aggregate reduc
tion of $1,747,264.108. The interest bear
ing debt of tiie United on Dec. 1, 1897,
was $847,365,620. The government
sists money of now outstanding (Doc. 1) con
$346,681,016 of United States
notes, $!07.793, 2$0 of treasury notes is
sued by authority of the law of 1890,
$344,963,504 of silver certificates, and
$61,286,701 of standard silver dollars.
No Time to Hesitate.
With the great resources of the gov
ernment and with honorable example
of the past before us, we ought not to
hesitate to enter upon a currency re
vision which wil. make our demand ob
ligations less onerous to the govern
ment and relieve our fiuaucial laws
from ambiguity and doubt.
The brief review of what was accom
plished from the close of the war to
181-3 makes unreasonable and grouud
ability'or less auv aistrust, either of our financial
soundness; while the situatiou
from 1898 to 1897 must admonish con
cress of the immediate necessity of so
legislating as to make the return of the
conditions then prevailing impossible.
There are many plans proposed as a
remedy for the reai evil. It is not that
our currency of every kind is not good,
for every dollar of it is good—good be
cause the government’s pledge is out to
keep it so, and that pledge will not be
broken. However, tlie guaranty of our
purpose to keep the pledge will be best
showm by advancing toward its fulfill
m ent.
The evil of the present system is
found iu the great cost to the govern
meut of maintaining the parity of our
different forms of mouey, that is, keep
iug all of them at par wdtli gold. We
surely cannot be longer heedless of the
burden this imposes upou the people,
ever under fairly prosperous conditious,
while the past four years have demon
strated that it is not only and expen
sive ciiarge upon the government, but
a dangerous menace to the national
Credit.
It is manifest that wo must devise
some plan to protect the government
against bond issues for repeated re
demptions. We must either curtail
the opportunity for speculation, made
easy by the multiplied redemptions of
our demand obligations, or increase the
gold reserve for their redemption. We
have $'300,000,000 of curreucy which the
government undertaken to'keep by solemn enactment has
Nobody at par with gold,
is obliged to redeem in gold but
the govermneut. The banks are not
required to redeem in gold. The gov
eminent is obliged to keep equal with
gold all its outstanding curreucy and
coin outstanding, while its receipts are
not required to be paid iu gold. They
are paid in every kind of money but
gold, aud the only means by which the
government can with certainty get gold
is by borrowing. It can get it in uo
■other way when it most needs it. The
government without any fixed gold
revenue is pledged to maintain gold re
demption, which it has steadily and
faithfully done, aud which, under the
authority now given, it will continue
to do.
Tbo law which requires the govern
ment, after having redeemed its United
States notes, to pay them out agaiu as
current funds, demands a constant re
is plenishment of the gold reserve. of This
especially so in times business
panic nun when tne the revenues are in
sufficient to meet expenses of the
govern mean At such times the gov
ernment has no other way to supply its
deficit and maintain redemption but
through the increase of its bonded debt,
j as during the administration of my
predecessor, when $202,815,400 of 4 %
per cent bonds were issued aud sold and
the proceeds used to pay the expenses
of the government in excess of the rev
eiiuos and sustain the gold reserve,
While it is true that the greater part of
the proceeds of these bonds were used
to supply deficient revenues, a consul
prabi « P orrio » was requited to maintain
With our revenues equal to our ex
penses. there would be no deficit requir
ing the issuance of bouds. But if the
f old reserve falls below $100,000,300
how will it bo replenished except bv
sel i iuff more bonds? Is there any other
way practicable under existing law?
The serious question then is. shall we
continue tiie policy that has been pur
sued in the past; that is, that when the
government reserve reaches the point of
danger, issue more bonds aud supply
the needed gold, or shall we provide
other means to prevent those recurring
drains upon the gold reserve? If no
further legislation is had and the policy
of selling ... bonds is to be continued, then
congress should give the secretary of the
treasury authority to sail bonds at long
or short periods, bearing a less rate of
interest than is now authorized by law.
to Vuiteii State* Notas*
I earnestly recommend as soon as the
receipts of the government are quite
su g^ clen { to pay a ^ expenses of the
gnV0r n m ent that when any of the
[T V mted llitpd state* ^ tate9 notes notes are are nresenfed presented for for re- re
uemptiou in gold and are redeemed in
^ gold, . such notes shall be kept P and , set
^ Qply paid OQ( . , u ex hang6 for
go j d This is au obvious dutv.
If the bolder of the United States pre
^ ers tbe j d aud gets f rotn the gov
ernme.it he should not receive back
fyom the government a United States
JJO $0 without paying gold iu exchange
for if. The reason for this is made all
j b0 more apparent when the govern
mt , nt I8sues a u interest bearing debt to
1)Vovld0 gold for the redemption of
United States notes—a noninterest bear
ing debt. Surely it should not pay
them out again except on demand and
for gold. If they are put out in any
otner way. they return again to be tol
lowed by another bond issue to redeem
them another interest bearing debt to
redeem a noninterest bearing debt.
In my view it is of the utmost impor
t.vnoe that the government should be
goffiTeJffired“ to?ex°cha P ngIs and
export the’government This resnonsibilitv is aloiie bo ne
usual^lud bv necessary^^ankffig without auv Kwers of the
noif to
help srrsliof* itself The <T,)i(i banks do feel the
gfraiu the resS mioii rodemnrion *h?f?vernment Tne
whole
and the size of the eold reserve in the
treasury has come to be with nr with
out reason the signal of danger or of
security This ou-ht to be stopped if
we are to have an era of prosperity in
tho country. With sufficient receipts
for the expenses of the government we
may feel no immediate embarrassment
from our present currency, but the dan
ger still exists, and will be ever present,
menacing us so long as the existing sys
tern continues. And besides, it is in
time of adequate revenues and business
tranquility that the government should
prepare for the worst. We cannot avoid
without serious consequences the wise
consideration and prompt solution of
tnis question.
The secretary of the treasury has out
lined a plan in great detail for the pur
pose of removing the threatened recur
rence of a depleted gold reserve aud
save us from future embarassment on
that account. To this plan I invite
your careful consideration
1 concur with the secretary of the
treasury in his recommendation that
national banks be allowed to issue notes
to the face value of the bonds which
they have deposited for circulation, aud
that the tax on circulating notes se
cured by deposit of such bonds here
duced one-half of 1 per cent per annum,
I also join him in recommending that
authority be given for the establishment
of national banks with a mini mum cap
ital of $25,000. This will enable the
smaller villages and agricultural regions
of the country to be supplied with cur
rency to meet their needs.
I recommend that the issue of na
tional bank notes be restricted to the
denomination of $10 aud upwards. If
the suggestions I have herein made shall
have the approval of congress, then I
would recommend that national banks
be required to redeem their notes in
gold.
. CUBAN _ _
N'-' INTERFERENCE, r
Pre.ide..t M«Rii.i«r Follow* )» tb. root
»t«p* of m» i reiieoeMot,
The most important problem with
which this government is now called
upon to deal pertaining to its foreign
relations concerns its duty toward Spain
and to the Cuban insurrection. Prob
lems and conditions more or less iu corn
mon with those now existing have con
fronted this government at various
times ill the past. The story of Cuba
for many years has been one of unrest;
growing discontent; an effort toward a
larger enjoyment of liberty and self con
tro1 ! of organized resistance to the
mother country; of depression after dis
tress and warfare aud of ineffectual set
tlemeut to this by renewed revolt. For
no enduring period since the eufrau
chisement of the continental possessions
of Spain in the western continent has
the epuditiou of Ouba or the policy of
Spain toward Ouba uot caused conceru
to tbo United States.
COUNTY NEWS
The prospect from time to time that
the weakness of Spain’s hold on the
island and the political vicissitude* and
embarrassments of the home govern
ment might lead to the transfer of Cuba
to a continental power called fortli be
tween 1828 and I860 various emphatic United
declarations of the policy of the
States to permit no disturbance of Cu
ba’s connection with Soain unless in
the direction of independence or acqui
sition by us through purchase; nor has
there been any change of this declared
policy since upon tne part of the govern
ment. .
The present insurrection broke out in
February. 1895. It is not my purpose
at this time to recall its remarkable in
crease or to characterize its tenacious
resistance against the enormous forces
massed against it by Spain. The revolt
and the effortss to subdue it carried de
struction to every quarter of the island,
developing wide proportions and defy
ing the efforts of Spain for its suppres
sion. The civinzid code was regarded
no less so by the Spaniards than by the
Cubans.
The existing conditions cannot but
flil this government aud the American
people with the grave-it apprehension.)
There is no desire on the part of our
people to profit by the misfortunes of
Spain. We have only the desire to see
the Cubans prosperous and oontented,
enjoying that measure of self control
which is th9 inalienable right of man,
protected in their right to reap the ben
efit of the exhausrless treasures of their
country.
Tho cruel policy of concentration was
initiated Feb. 16. 1830. The productive
districts controlled by the Spanish ar
mies were depopulated. The agricult
ural inhabitants were herded in and
about the garrison towns, tneir laud*
laid waste and their dwellings de
stroyed. This policy of tho late cabinet
of Spain was justified as a neoessary
measure of war and as a means of cut
ting off supplies from the insurgents.
It has utterly failed as a war measure.
It was not civilized warfare. It was
extermination.
Against this abuse of the rights of
war, I have felt constrained ou re
peated occasions to enter the firm aud
earnest protest of this government.
There svus much of public condemna
tion of American citizens by alleged
arrests aud long imprisonment, await
ing trial or pending judicial proceed
ings. I felt it my first duty to make
instant demands for the release or
speedy trial of all American citizens
under arrest. Beiore the change of tho
Spaish cabinet iu October last 22 pris
suers, citizens of the United State*, had
oeeu given their freedom,
Mr. Woodford’* Instructions.
The ine instructions luscruccions given given to to our jur new iew
“^his‘ ™ " 1 'J? post 5 vJ™ directed Sincere him to impress
J wi.h
lhe Ulu J^ j ed Stttle , to i eu d its aid to
t e ()t - tlje war iu Cuba by
reacbdl J „ a peaceful ami lasting result,
j ust aI1 honorable alike to Spain and
*
to ^ ^ Cuban people. P j
r iT t0 0 r uote was received OI1
Oct. 23. is iu the direction of a bet
ter understanding. It appreciates the
friendly purposes of this government,
I« admits that our country is deeply
affected l> y the war 111 Ouba and that its
desires for peace are just. It declares
that the present Spanish government is
bound by every consideration to a
change of policy that should sasisfy the
Umted States and pacify Ouba within
a reasonable time. To this end Spain
has decided to put into effect the poiiti
cal reforms heretofore advocated by the
P reseut Premier without halting for
consideration m the path which, in
J£ s judgment, leads to peace 1 he mil
itai- y Operations, it is said, will con
« UU0 ‘ but will be humane and con
dacted wlth a11 regard for private
rights being accompanied by political
action leading to the autonomy of Cuba,
^hilo This it guarding is claimed, Spanish will result sovereignty, in invest
Cuba with a uistmct personality;
tb e island to be governed by au execu
tlV0 reserving a,ld to a bpam } ocal council the control or chamber, of the
foreffi 11 relations, the army and navy
nnu the judicial administration, loac
complish this the present government
proposes to modify existmg legislation
by decree, leaving the Spanish cortes,
wltb a ' d ^ aban seua ^ BaG \ 00 P*
utl es, to solve the economic ^ problem
aild P ro P eid y distribute the existing
debt -
lu the . , , , .
absence er a declaration or the
measures that the government proposes
to take in carrying out its proffer of
good offices it suggests that bpain be
left free to couu act military operation*
aac * Braat P oiltlcal retorms, while the
United btatesi for its part shall enforce
us ueutrM ooligatmus and cutoff the
assistance which it is asserted the lusur
K eu ts receive from this country, lhe
supposition ot an indefiiiite prolongation
of the war is denied. It is asserted that
tne western provinces are already well
reclaimed; that the piautiug of
tobacco therein lias been resumed and
tbat b ^ toi 'ce of arms a,nd new and am
pie reforms very early aud complete
pacification is hoped for.
Discussion of the question of interna- j
tional . duties and responsibilities of the
united States as Jspaiu understands
tliem is presented with au apparent uis- j
position to charge us with failure in this
regard, lliis charge is without any
basis m fact. It couui not have been
made if bpain had been cognizant of
the constant efforts tins government lias
made at the cost ot millions and by tho
employment of the administrative ma
chinery of tho nation at command to
perforin its full duty under the law of
nations. That it has successfully pre- j
vented the departure of a single miii
tary expedition or armed vessel from
our shores in violation of our laws would
seem to be a sufficient end. i
Throughout all these horrors and dan
£ ers to our own peace, this government
has never iu any way abrogated its sov
ereign prerogative of reserving to itself
tbo de termination of its policy aud
course according to its own high sense
^ ri 8 b « and iu consonance with the
dearest interests aud convictions of our
own people should the prolongation of
tbe strife so demand.
Of the untried measures there remain
only recognition of the insurgents as
belligerents; recognition of the inde
pendence of Cuba; neutral intervention
to end the war by imposing a rational
compromise between the contestants,
and intervention m favor of one or the
other party. I speak not of forcible an
nexation, for that cannot be thought of.
That by our code of morality would be
srimiual aggression.
Opposed to Recognition.
I regard , the , recognition , . of . the ., . bel- .
ligereucy of the Cuban insurgents as
now unwise aud therefore inadmissible.
Should thaj step hereafter be aeemed
wise as a measure of right and duty the
executive will take it.
Intervention upon humanitarian
grounds has been frequently suggested
aud has not failed to receive my most
anxious and earnest consideration. But
should such a step be now taken when
It is apparent that a hopeful change has
supervened in the policy of Spain to
ward Cuba? A new government liaB
taken office in the mother country. It
is pledged in effort itavauce the to the declaration
that all the in world cannot
suffice to maintain peace in (Juba by the
bayonet; that vague promises of reform
after subjugation afiord no solution of
the insular problem, that with a substi
tution of commanders must come a
ch <uge of the past system of warfare
for one in harmony with a new policy
which shall not longer aim to drive the
Cubans to the ‘'horrible alternative of
taking to the thicket or succumbing in
misery, 1 ' that the reforms must be in
stituted in accordance with the needs
aud circuuistauoaa of the time aud that
these reforms, while dasigued to give
full autonomy to the colony and to ere
ate a virtual , , , entity and self con ro ,
administration, shall vet conserve and
affirm the sovereignty of Spain y a ]us
distribution of powers and burdens upon
a basis of mutual interest uutain ;e y
methods of Bel fish expediency.
It is honestly due to Spain and to our
friendly relations with Spam that she
should be given a reasonable chance to
realize her expectations and to prove
the asserted efficacy of the new order of
things to which she stands irrevocably
committed She has recalled the com
raauder whose brutal orders inflamed
the American mind and shocked the
civilized world. She has modified the
horrible order of concentration and un
dertaken to care for the helpless aud
permit those who desire to resume the
cultivation of their fields to do so. and
assures them of the protection of the
equations. Spanish govermneut in their lawful oc
She has just released the
••Competitor” prisoners, heretofore sen
tenced to death, and who have been the
subject of repeated uiolomatic corres
poudence po during f both this aud the pre- v
. . ri
Not arrest a single American citizen is now
under or in Sonfiuemeuc iu Cuba
of whom this government has any
knowledge. The near future will dem
ou-strate whether the indispensable cou
ditiou of a righteous peace, just alike
to th 9 Cubans and to Spain as well as
equIt ablo to all our interests so inti
mately involved in the welfare of Cuba,
is likely to be attained. If not, the ex
igency of further aud other action by
the United States will remain to be
taken. When that time comes that ac
tiou will be determined in tne line of
indisputable right aud duty. It will be
faced without misgiving or hesitancy
in the light of the obligation this gov
eminent owes to itself, to the people
of who^have their interests confined und to honor it the aud pro^' action to hu
inanity.
Sure of the right, ...... keeping free from ,
m
all offense ourselves actuated on y by
upright and patriotic consiaeratious,
moved neither by passion oi selfishness,
the government will continue its watch
ful care over the rights and property of
American citizens and wnl abate none
ot its efforts to bring about by peaceful
agencies a peace which shall be honor.
able and euauring. If it shall here
after appear to be a duty imposed by
our obligations to ourselves, to civihza
non and humanity to intervene with
torce it shall be without au t on out
part, and only because the necessi y o
such action will be so clear as to com
ma, ‘ d fcbe support aud approval of the
civilized world.
THE HAWAIIAN u ... „ diicctiom QUESTION,
, " "" _ * .. 0,1 ea . y
rBe * y le r ““ e,,t '
By a special message dated June 16,
] as t ( I laid bo fore the senate a treaty
signed that day by the plenipotentiaries
of the United States and of the republic
of Hawaii, having for its purpose the
incorporation of the Hawaiian islands
as an integral part of the United States
and under its sovereignty. The senate
having removed the injunction of se
crecy, although the treaty is still pend
ing before that body, the subject may
be properly referred to iu this message
because the necessary action of the cou
gre-s is required to determine by legis
l a tion many details of the eventuaL
union, should the fact of annexation be
accomplished, as I belive it siiould be.
While cousisrently disavowing from a
very early period any aggressive policy
0 f absorption iu regard to the Hawaiian I |
group, a long series of declarations j
through three-quarters of a century has
proclaimed the vital interest of the
United States in the independent life of
the islands aud their intimate cominer- |
ciai depeudeu a e upon this country. At j
the same tim * it lias been repeatedly j
assorted that in no event could the eu- |
tity of Hawaii statehood cease hv the j
passage of too islands under the domi
natiou or influence or power tiiuu the
United States. Under these ciroum
stances the logic of events required that
annexation, therefore offered but de
chned, should in the ripeness of time
come about as the natural result of the
strengthening ties that bind us to those
islands, and be realized by the free will
of the Hawaiian state.
That treaty was unanimously ratified
without amendment bv the seuate aud
president of the republic of Hawaii on
gepc. io. last, and only awaits the fa
vorable action of the American senate
to affect the complete absorption of the
islands into the uomaiu of the United
Status Wliat the conditions of such
umou shall be. the political relation
thoreof to the United States, the char,
aotej of the local administration tne
quality and the degree of the elective f r au.
chise of inhabitants, the extension
of the federal laws to the territory
the enactment of special laws 0 r
to tit the 3
peculiar condition therefor, and the
regulation, if need be, of the labor svs
tern therein, the treaty has wisely dele
gated to congress. If the treaty is com
firmed, as every consideration of dignitv
aud honor requires, the wishes of on.,
jr r e SS will see to it that, avoidiua a h.
ra p t assimilation of elements perha,™
] lar j| y y ec fit to share in the highest
f,.a due UC regard hises of citizenship the and havuj
the to geographical ooudi.
t j OUS( most just provisions for g»if
rule m local mat ters with the West
polltlcal liberties aud au integral oar
o( our na tion will be accorded to the
Hawaiiaus. No less is due to a peoule
w ho, after nearly five years of demon,
stratad capacity to fulfill the obligations
t>f aelf governing statehood, come of
tbe i r f ree will to merge their destinies
iu our body politic.
The questions which have arisen be
tween Japan and Hawaii by reason of
tho treatmout of Japanese laborers erai.
cra ting to the islands under the Ha
waiian- Japanese convention of 1888 are
iu a satisfactory stage of settlement by
negotiation.
YELLOW FEVER EPIDEMIC.
Necessity of A tunnillng I.iw, to Make >’ a .
tionul ottloerj I'ttramoUuc.
^ bG receilt . prevalence , ot yellow ,, fever
. nber and
111 a “ u, ot cities towns through
ouctbe soat x bas resulted in much drs
turbance of commerce aud demonstrated
t be necessity of such amendments to
unr quarantine laws as wnl make the
regulations of the national quarantine
aut borities paramount. The secretary
0 £ tde treasury> j u the portion of his re
^ port reiatiug to the operation of the
ariue hosoltal service> call8 attention
tQ th<J defe( : t8 ia the present ^ quarantine
Uiws ftijd recommeuds a tndmeats
thereto which wlll lVt) the treasury de
tment clia requislt8 ^ authority to pre
Veu t £hQ mvasi( oi epidemic £ diseases
from forei couutrias ud iu times of
0 ® iike lhat o( the past sum .
mer, will ... add ,, to . the .. effi cie ncy of tl
Janitary measures for the protection of
the people and at the same time proven
unnecessary restriction of commerce. I
concur m his recommendation.
11 u r
. the United TT j(. 0 i States by bv yellow
fever, the importance of the discovery
the exact cause of the disease, which,
U P to th « P^seut time, has been unde
termmed, is obvious, and to t ns eud a
systematic bacteriological investigation
should oe made. I theretore recommend
that congress authorize the appoint
meat of a commission by the president,
to insist of four expert bacteriologists,
0110 M -be selected from the medical oft
‘-ers of the marine hospital ser ic ,
to be appointed from civi life, one tob
detailed trom the medical officess of the
^ from the officers
«>< the navy,
cp SPECIAL pr|A| MONEY ENVOYS.
Vresident SHU Hopeful of Securing an
I uternuttounl .Agreement.
Under the provisions of the act of
congress, approved March 3. 1897, for
the promotion of an international agree
ment respecting bimetallism. I ap
p [j oiuted , ou Apr u u, lb 97, H^u .Edward
Woioott of Colorado. H.ln. A.ilai E.
Stevenson of Illinois, and lion. Charles
j Paine of Massachusetts, as special
ouvoys to represeu fc the United State*,
They have been diligent iu their effort*
to secure the concurrence and co-opera
cion of European couutries in the inter
ua tioual settlement of the question, but
up to this time have not been able to
secure au agre emeu6 contemplated by
their missiojl .
The gratifying action of our great sis
t6r r e Dnb lic of France in joining this
coutlt r y in the att empt to bring about
an agr0 e ra ent among 'the principal com
luereia i nations of Europe whereby a
fixed and relative value between gold
aud sl i vor sbad be secured, furnishes
assurance that we are not alone among
the larger nations of the world iu will
izing the international character of the
problem and in the do*ire of reaching
some wise aud practical solution of it
Our special envoys have not made fhoir
final report, as further negotiations
between the representatives of this gov
srn ment aud the governments of othet
countries are pending aud in coutera
placion. Thev believe that doubts whu-li
have been recommended iu certain
quarters respecting the question oi
maintaining tho stability or the parity
between the metals end kindred qu® s ‘ A
tions may yet be solved by further ne
gotiations.
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Under the head of the navy, t .i.^nres- i
ident points to the necessity tor sp
legislation to procure the armor ^
three^ would battleships be otherwise now useless. building |jra
in terms of praise of the quality
ships and thinks that the time ^
arrived when the increase to w i^
country is committed should tot ‘ ,
take the form of increased ac
commensurate with the increase ot f
naval vessels. He refers to the a '
docks, aud urges that three or
f be largest docks be provided ^ on
lan tic, at least one on the a ?i >r rlier0
a floating dock in provision the gu •
should also be ample 1 ^
nicions of war and an increase o 1
and enlisted men. Additions a thore
necessary to navy yards aud, as fl _
are now on the docks live large r0 .
ships, it is recommenced that au ir^
priatiou be made but for one mo a )
tleship on tho Pacific coast. -
torpedo boats are also necessary
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