Foreign Affairs and Domestic Obstacles: Speech of Hon. William Alden Smith, of Michigan, in the House of Representatives, Tuesday, February 6, 1900 (Classic Reprint)
Foreign Affairs and Domestic Obstacles: Speech of Hon. William Alden Smith, of Michigan, in the House of Representatives, Tuesday, February 6, 1900 (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Foreign Affairs and Domestic Obstacles: Speech of Hon. William Alden Smith, of Michigan, in the House of Representatives, Tuesday, February 6, 1900 Many suggestions have been made by members of the commit tee and others during its preparation, looking to the improvement of the foreign service; and I have no doubt whatever, but for the rule which prex ents new legislation on general appropriation bills, some of these suggestions might have met with favor. Notice was given to the committee of my desire to ...
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Excerpt from Foreign Affairs and Domestic Obstacles: Speech of Hon. William Alden Smith, of Michigan, in the House of Representatives, Tuesday, February 6, 1900 Many suggestions have been made by members of the commit tee and others during its preparation, looking to the improvement of the foreign service; and I have no doubt whatever, but for the rule which prex ents new legislation on general appropriation bills, some of these suggestions might have met with favor. Notice was given to the committee of my desire to incorporate a new provision in the bill authorizing a minister resident to the Orange Free State and the South African Republic, not for the purpose of adding to our perplexities, but because of the growing importance of our relations to those countries and the desire to afford to the President, whenever he might think. Proper, this Wider latitude for diplomatic relationship. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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