Whereas public interests require that the Senate should be convened at
12 o'clock on the 4th day of March next to receive such communications
as may be made by the Executive:
Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, do
hereby proclaim and declare that an extraordinary occasion requires the
Senate of the United States to convene at the Capitol, in the city of
Washington, on the 4th day of March next, at 12 o'clock noon, of which
all persons who shall at that time be entitled to act as members of that
body are hereby required to take notice.
[SEAL.]
Given under my hand and the seal of the United States, at Washington,
the 26th day of February, A.D. 1889, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the one hundred and thirteenth.