Benjamin Harrison’s four annual messages to Congress, from December 1889 to December 1892, report on the business of the federal government: tariffs and the treasury surplus, pensions, the navy, Indian affairs, the admission of new states, and foreign relations, including the 1891 crisis with Chile after American sailors were attacked in Valparaiso.
Primary sources for the Gilded Age presidency, useful to students of American politics. Download the free EPUB.