Achievements in Washington Departments Since 1897
Summary notes pledges kept and promises fulfilled with unprecedented results in every department of the government since March 4 1897.
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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1900
Page
7
Four-Year Fulfillment of McKinley Platform Pledges
The article asserts that the three pledges of the 1896 Republican platform have all been faithfully fulfilled: monetary reform a firm money system, tariff reform to protect capital and labor, and full Monroe Doctrine assertion with American control of Hawaii, plus a steady foreign policy.
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McKinley
Hawaiian Islands
State Department Record of Four Years of Global Actions
The Department of State’s four year record covers the Spain–America War era, the Samoan Hawaiian and Alaskan incidents, the South African war, and China’s open door. It notes peace preliminaries of Aug 12 relinquishing Cuba and Puerto Rico, Guam and the Ladrones island, plus Philippine acquisition and Hawaiian annexation. It discusses Alaskan boundary defense and a Japan Britain Italy Russia accord on China trade. It cites McKinley’s Dec 5 1899 message on war avoidance and US neutrality in avoiding entangling alliances.
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Department of State
Spain
China
Cuba
Porto Rico
West Indies
Ladrones
United States
Philippines
Hawaiian Islands
Guam
Congress
McKinley
Great Britain
Dingley Tariff and McKinley Reforms Steer 1897–1900
The Treasury highlights the Dingley tariff as the lead reform, followed by currency reform and the 1898 war loan. It notes rapid passage in Congress, savings from refunding the national debt, a $150 million gold reserve, and the Pacific Railroad settlement yielding $124.4 million, with broad benefits to farms, factories, and banking.
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T Dingley
House of Representatives
Dingley
Maine
Committee On Ways and Means
Committee On
Ways and Means
McKinley
Congress
Senate
House
United States
Secretary of the Treasury
Treasury
Manila
Santiago
Pacific Railroad
Executive Departments
War and Navy Departments mobilize vast wartime forces
The war in Cuba and the Philippines expanded the departments workload to organize arm, train, discipline and move volunteers. They mustered 223235 volunteers and enlisted 35000 United States volunteers across 25 regiments, with 64k regulars and 35k volunteers remaining. 400806 telegrams and about 2 million written communications were processed. 102 ships were bought for 17956850 dollars, add 15 revenue cutters and 4 lighthouse tenders. Navy strength rose to 128 ships with 24000 enlisted men and hundreds of officers mobilized or appointed.
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Cuba
Philippines
General Recruiting Service
United States
Philippine Islands
Regular Army
National Defense
New Orleans
Albany
Navy
Revenue
Treasury Department
International Navigation Company
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
Naval Establishment
Department of Agriculture records progress in animal diseases and exports
The department reports vaccines reducing cattle mortality in infected districts from ten to fifteen percent annually to about one half of one percent. Results in sheep, hogs, butter and eggs exports to England and Asia are noted, with pork inspections rising sharply. Research highlights include chicory home production efforts and resistant alfalfa from Turkestan.
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Department of Agriculture
England
Asia
Turkestan
Russia
Porto Rico
Philippines
United States
Cuba
Rural free mail delivery expands postal service nationwide
The piece credits Republican leadership for pioneering and expanding rural free delivery from 1900 onward. It notes growth from 1,200 rural services and 2,000 applications to $1,750,000 appropriations for 1900 1901, with universal adoption across states and calls for further expansion.
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House OF Representatives
Fortythird
Congress
North Carolina
Committee ON
Post Offices and Postroads
Bissell
Wilson
Jones
Cleveland
Perry
Heath
Union
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WAR and Navy Departments
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