Article December 13, 1900 Issue

The President's Message

William McKinley

Shortly after the opening of the second session of the Fifty-sixth Congress on December 3, 1900, President McKinley's message was received and read. Foreign affairs received the fullest consideration and the trouble in China was the leading theme. The President carefully reviewed the circumstances which led up to the trouble, stated what had been the policy of the administration, and expressed a hope of immediate and satisfactory settlement. The situation in the Philippines was also considered at length and favorable progress reported.

We make the following excerpts from the message:—

To the Senate and House of Representatives:—At the outgoing of the old and the incoming of the new century you begin the last session of the Fifty-sixth Congress with evidence on every hand of individual and national prosperity and with proof of the growing strength and increasing power for good of republican institutions. Your countrymen will join with you in felicitation that American liberty is more firmly established than ever before, and that love for it and the determination to preserve it are more universal than at any former period of our history.

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