No person shall be examined for the position of letter carrier if under 21 or over 40 years of age, and no person shall be examined for any other position in the classified postal service if under 18 years of age.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, June 6, 1893.

The foregoing amendments are hereby approved.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, June 16, 1893.

In accordance with section 16 of the act of Congress approved April 25, 1890, and entitled “An act to provide for celebrating the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus by holding an international exhibition of arts, industries, manufactures, and the product of the soil, mine, and sea in the city of Chicago, in the State of Illinois,” the designations of the following-named persons as members of the board of control and management of the Government exhibit at the World’s Columbian Exhibition are hereby approved: 

W.W.  Rockhill, chief clerk of the Department of State, to represent that
Department, vice William E. Curtis.

Lieutenant-Commander E.D.  Taussig, United States Navy, to represent the
Navy Department, vice Captain R.W.  Meade, United States Navy.

Frank W. Clark, chemist, United States Geological Survey, to represent the Department of the Interior, vice Horace A. Taylor.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

SPECIAL SESSION MESSAGE.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, August 8, 1893.

To the Congress of the United States: 

The existence of an alarming and extraordinary business situation, involving the welfare and prosperity of all our people, has constrained me to call together in extra session the people’s representatives in Congress, to the end that through a wise and patriotic exercise of the legislative duty, with which they solely are charged, present evils may be mitigated and dangers threatening the future may be averted.

Our unfortunate financial plight is not the result of untoward events nor of conditions related to our natural resources, nor is it traceable to any of the afflictions which frequently check national growth and prosperity.  With plenteous crops, with abundant promise of remunerative production and manufacture, with unusual invitation to safe investment, and with satisfactory assurance to business enterprise, suddenly financial distrust and fear have sprung up on every side.  Numerous moneyed institutions have suspended because abundant assets were not immediately available to meet the demands of frightened depositors.  Surviving corporations and individuals are content to keep in hand the money they are usually anxious to loan, and those engaged in legitimate business are surprised to find that the securities they offer for loans, though heretofore satisfactory, are no longer accepted.  Values supposed to be fixed are fast becoming conjectural, and loss and failure have invaded every branch of business.