seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington, this twentieth day of August,
one thousand nine hundred and one, and of the Independence of
the United States the one hundred and twenty-sixth.

[SEAL.]

WILLIAM MCKINLEY.

By the President:
JOHN HAY,
_Secretary of State_.

At a meeting of the Commission held on October 15, 1901, the following
resolution relative to the lamented death of President McKinley was
unanimously adopted by the Commission:

Resolution.

Since this Commission last convened the President of the United
States has met a tragic death.

The manner of his death was a blow at republican institutions
and felt by every patriotic American as aimed at himself. It can
truly be said that of all our Presidents William McKinley was
the best beloved; no section of the country held him as an alien
to it. Partisan differences never led to partisan hatred of him;
party faction did not touch him. Nearly half the people differed
with him on public questions, but his opponents accorded to him