At the convening of the divided (Republican and Democratic) 50th Constitutional Congress (elected in accordance with Article I, Section 3 [Clause 1]), Democratic (constitutionalist) President Cleveland devotes his entire annual message to the need to reduce tariffs in an effort to reduce the embarrassingly high federal treasury surplus.

       [restored 5/15/2022]

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References:

Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 230.

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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