Proclamation 538

By the President of the United States of America A PROCLAMATION. Whereas public interests require that the Senate of the United States be convened at 12 o’clock on the 4th day of March next, to receive such communications as may be made by the Executive: NOW THEREFORE, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and declare that an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene at the Capitol in the city of Washington on the 4th day of March next, at 12 o’clock noon, of which all persons who shall at that time be entitled to act as members of that body are hereby required to take notice. GIVEN under my hand and the seal of the United States at Washington, the 23rd day of February in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth. Theodore Roosevelt By the President: John Hay, Secretary of State.