Whereas an act of Congress was approved on the 25th day of April,
1898,[27] entitled "An act declaring that war exists between the United
States of America and the Kingdom of Spain;" and
Whereas by an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for
temporarily increasing the military establishment of the United States
in time of war and for other purposes," approved April 22, 1898, the
President is authorized, in order to raise a volunteer army, to issue
his proclamation calling for volunteers to serve in the Army of the
United States:
Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by
virtue of the power vested in me by the Constitution and the laws, and
deeming sufficient occasion to exist, have thought fit to call forth,
and hereby do call forth, volunteers to the aggregate number of 75,000
in addition to the volunteers called forth by my proclamation of the 23d
of April, in the present year,[28] the same to be apportioned, as far as
practicable, among the several States and Territories and the District
of Columbia according to population and to serve for two years unless
sooner discharged. The proportion of each arm and the details of
enlistment and organization will be made known through the War
Department. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused
the seal of the United States to be affixed.
[SEAL.]
Done at the city of Washington, this 25th day of May, A.D. 1898, and of
the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-second.
WILLIAM McKINLEY.
By the President:
WILLIAM R. DAY,
_Secretary of State_.
[Footnote 27: See p. 201.]
[Footnote 28: See pp. 203-204.]