truth. The time limit during which it was possible to reinstate any individual soldier in accordance with the terms of this order has, however, expired. I therefore recommend the passage of a law extending this time limit, so far as the soldiers concerned are affected, until a year after the passage of the law, and permitting the reinstatement by direction of the President of any man who in his judgment shall appear not to be within the class whose discharge was deemed necessary in order to maintain the discipline and morale of the Army. THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

THE WHITE HOUSE, March 11, 1908.
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MEMORIAL REMONSTRATING AGAINST CONSTRUCTION OF FOUR NEW BATTLE SHIPS.

Mr. HALE presented the following

MEMORIAL OF SUNDRY CITIZENS OF NEW YORK CITY, REMONSTRATING AGAINST THE GREAT ADDITION TO THE NAVY INVOLVED IN THE PLAN OF AUTHORIZING AT ONCE THE CONSTRUCTION OF FOUR NEW BATTLE SHIPS.

MARCH 11, 1908.-Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed.

To the Representatives and Senators in Congress:

We, the undersigned, citizens of New York City, voicing, as we believe, the sentiments of many thousands of American citizens, earnestly protest against the extravagant demand for an addition of over $60,000,000 in the form of four new battle ships, cruisers, etc., to the naval budget of last year, inasmuch as no danger threatens the country not known last April when President Roosevelt told the world: "We are no longer enlarging our Navy. We are simply keeping up its strength. The addition of one battle ship a year barely enables us to make good the units which become obsolete."

Sixty-five per cent of the national income is now expended on war past and present. The increase of our naval budget has recently been used in the French Assembly as a reason for increasing its own; is largely responsible for the increase of armaments among Asiatic nations; and is well-nigh certain to retard that reduction in the armaments of the world for which we have so long been waiting.

The growing discontent throughout the world at the appalling increase of waste of national resources must be heeded. We feel that this protest is the more necessary inasmuch as there are various new and effective methods now available for promoting international friendship and rationally settling difficulties, which these new demands seem to ignore.

Andrew Carnegie, Robert Fulton Cutting, Robert C. Ogden,
George Haven Putnam, Oswald Garrison Villard, Horace
White, Samuel J. Barrows, Fanny Garrison Villard, Marcus
M. Marks, Anna Garlin Spencer, Hamilton Holt, Robert
Erskine Ely, George Foster Peabody, Spencer Trask, John
Martin, Prestonia Mann Martin, E. Stillman Doubleday,
Miriam Finn Scott, Leroy Scott, William G. Choate, Mrs.
William G. Choate, Alfred J. Boulton, Francis Lynde

Stetson, Morrill Goddard, A. Harport, jr., A. Lueder,
Robt. Walker, Cecil K. Leavitt, Evelyn G. Leavitt, Isabella
McDonald, Anna Benner, C. B. Smith, W. C. Demorest,
William A. Smith, William Henry Knox, John W. McAvoy,
Joseph V. Land, P. B. Land, Sarah E. Gardner, John Ash,
Martha Nixon, Melissa Sutton, Endora Magill, E. A. Eck-
hardt, George S. Baldwin, Gudron Halmith, Sarah Potter
Paine, Alice Burns, Lee W. Beattie, Mrs. Ferdinand Herman,
Albert G. Lawson, Martha Knight Lawson, Albert Lawson
Frost, Anna T. Frost, William M. Frost, Isaac Yankauer,
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arine Donegham, Hannah L. Wingate, James Purdy, Susan-
nah Jarman, Edith K. Purdy, John B. Bogart, L. R. Green-
berg, Kate Daniels, Fannie Dublin, Meyer Greenberg, Max
Scott, Martha R. White, A. W. Howells, A. E. White,
Marion R. Tabor, Samuel H. Bishop, Richard P. Messiter,
James Thornton, S. Priester, Mrs. G. A. Harrington,
George A. Dows, Annie Dows, Virginia Ostrom, Mrs.
Francis J. Garrison, Janette Lylle, Mrs. Oswald G. Vil-
lard, Alice Morgan Harrison, Ellen Theresa Morgan,
Jessie M. de Gagarza, W. G. Kains, G. W. Wenner, R. G.
H. Cooper, R. E. Smythe, Mrs. C. Smith, E. G. Arm-
strong, H. Mason, Henry Mottet, F. D. Veiller, Mrs. W. C.
Waters, Mrs. Leo Stein, James S. Dennis, Henry Feld-
mann, Gustav J. Voss, Frederick Kanter, E. F. Bockmann,
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Anna G. Du Bois, Louise Whitin, John E. Nichollans,
Alfred Bosson.

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Despard, Flora Harrison, Margaret S. Sutton, Margaret
Bates, Gwendaren Despard, Maria Barton, Richard S. Col-
lins, Sarah W. Collins, Stephen W. Collins, Sarah C.
Isham, Annie Fellows Nold, Edward A. Grossmann, Mrs.
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than Holtz, R. A. Theodora Bliss, Mrs. B. B. Wilbur,
M. R. Yost, K. Müller, Ruth Keir, Stephen S. Wise, L. J.
Waterman, Louise E. Philips, Emilie F. Leach, Laeta E.
Leach, Ludwig Rothenbild, Jacob J. Koch, John H. Haw-
ley, Edward Heath, jr., Isaac H. Cohen, C. I. Hobson,
Ellen Collins. Joseph E. Wisner, John Bauer, Elizabeth
Kewe, Mary Collins, R. B. Queimelt, Mrs. M. G. Preston,
May Preston Slosson, Mary Hess Brown, A. J. Joffe, E. E.
Olcott, Silas Gerkes, Edwin Donaldson, Solomon Schwartz,
B. C. Hammond, William M. Schumann, George Marshall,
Philip F. Nolan, David H. Scott, William Schmidt, Mary
E. Crygier, Albert Crygier, Arthur Constant, R. W. Dol-
son, Jonathan Pierce, Thomas Locken, W. W. Passage,
Percy Russell, William de Voce, George W. Waldron,
Sydney H. Cox, Joseph A. Wells, Herbert Vandebeck,
John H. Washburn, Mrs. H. C. Havens, Miss C. Marsh,
H. Collin Havens, Willinore Marsh, Mrs. W. W. Jones,

Albert Adler, Arthur B. Goodkind, Augusta L. Wetmore, Francis J. Potter, Etta Potter, L. D. Austin, Mary W. Somerville, Liela Chevalier, Clarissa V. Prescot, John E. Roeser, John C. Bliss, Mrs. L. C. Wagner, Dr. L. Lambert. Gottheil Pach, Francis Poch, Teresa A. Egan, Edward D. Page, Homer G. Ostrom, Denis T. S. Denison, Camille Solomon, Robert C. Wey, Victor Baar, Mary R. Davis, Lillie Benedict, James J. Bixby, C. P. Bixby, John D. Long, John S. Festerson, D. J. Meserole, Louis W. Pfaus, E. V. Alford, A. M. Callender, William M. Jackson, Anna M. Jackson, Jane M. Carpenter, Louis E. Thompson, Edward Palmer, James Ferguson, William Stift, Mrs. William Stift, Mrs. James Ferguson, Helen Matthews, Harry C. Abbe, Hubert Howson, L. Lippmann, C. Schulhafer, Harry Samuelson, M. S. Perser, Paul J. Marks, Robert D. von Rentsch, Abraham Cofo, J. Budwig, Henry Dilg, Helen McDowell, Isabella Waters, Howard Bradstreet, Henry Moskowitz, Robert Cabmovit, Lydia M. Storey, Dwight N. Graham, William K. Austin, William K. Austin, jr:, Thomas B. Austin, William K. Austin, Henry W. Hardon, Cora Burr Hardon, Adolph Spiegel, Orrin S. Wood, Mrs. Orrin S. Wood, Matilda Woodrow, George Edgar, Thomas C. Edgar, Joachin Elmendorf, David Black, Dennis H. Cox, Florence Ida Hacket, H. E. Ployer, C. B. Eaton, Isabelle B. Eaton, Isabelle S. Whitin, Jessie Morris., C. A. Morris, Harold A. Content, B. A. Sullivan, J. L. MacDonald, Stanhope Wheatcroft, Marjorie A. Content, Jennie D. Frank, M. B. Cleveland, Annette B. Collins, John W. T. Nichols. Horace J. Jaquith, Jas. C. Bany, Charles G. Bliss, Stephen S. Haight, J. J. Falvey, H. L. Clark, N. M. Nielsen, E. Osterwalder, A. D. Banston, Jacob Ropbach, Thomas P. Ryan, Michael Raphael, C. F. Watkins, W. B. Veneam, William Kranth, Charles Wiesman, William Bandom, George Dambert, Sophie Kranth, W. G. Creamer, H. C. Creamer, Joseph R. Dorman, Julius Libeman, Joseph M. Guinness, Cynthia T. Meeker, Maude Arundel Colliver, J. A. L. Gardner, J. G. B. Heath, C. F. F. Hall, Mrs. Thompson, L. Strachey, G. C. Levis, M. A. Beament, George Beament, W. Stevenson, Mrs. R. A. Todd, R. A. Todd. Mrs. J. H. Blanchard, Margaret J. Sexton, John T. Sexton, Alice Caffrey, Alex Pargiter, W. A. Steremun, John Mead Howells, Fred L. Stearns, Louise A. Stearns, Albert S. Bard, Charles Henry Davis, Robert R. White, Michael Kley, Bernard Kisch, Anna A. Short, Charles W. Snow, Rosa Welt Straus, Nellie Straus, Josiah C. Pumpelly, W. H. Straight, Robert G. Boville, William O. McDowell, William E. Stark, Percy Waxman, C. L. Armstrong, Katharine Dubois McKnight, J. R. Winchester, W. D. Schaffer, Anna R. Brewster, Charlotte H. Simpson, Florence Van Wyck, Robert Baker, Richard F. George, Edmund Corkill, Peter Aiken, John Fehner, S. Grace Royce, Florence H. Holden, Alice G. Raymond, Hannah D. Sharps, Mary Root, Fanny Finn Miller, William

Miller, E. B. Grannis, S. L. Kibbe, S. C. Hazen, M. L.
Woodberry, Mrs. Raymond, Panouyota Alexandrakis, A.
P. Hazen, Augustus White, Stephen Loines, Henry B.
Hathaway, R. H. Loines, Mary H. Loines, Oliver E. Say-
lor, Mrs. George Place, M. A. Livar, Frederick A. Camp,
Lynn Camp, Amzi Camp, C. C. Mead, Kate C. Carpenter,
L. W. Robbins, Bailey B. Burritt, K. Richards, M. L.
Reid, Arthur Dow.

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