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 State of the “Union” (nation) address 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:

$40,439,546,016,039

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