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including those printed in Document No. 186, Senate, Fifty-fifth
Congress, second session.
WILLIAM McKINLEY.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 17, 1899_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:
It will be remembered that in the month of October, 1897, reports were
received here of the probable loss of the whaling fleet in the Arctic
regions, and of the likelihood that nearly 300 men, composing the
officers and crews of the fleet, would perish from hunger unless succor
could reach them early in the spring.
The revenue cutter _Bear_ was known to be _en route_ from the
Arctic Ocean to Puget Sound, Washington. Her arrival was anxiously
awaited, as no other suitable Government vessel could be made available
for Arctic work. That ship arrived at Seattle, Wash., on the 6th of
November, after a six-months' cruise in the Arctic, and I at once
ordered an expedition prepared for the relief of the imperiled whalemen.
The preparation of the _Bear_ was commenced on the 11th of
November, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury.


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