The ability to read and write, as required in this bill, in and of itself affords, in my opinion, a misleading test of c...
In my opinion, it is infinitely more safe to admit a hundred thousand immigrants who, though unable to read and write, s...
A radical departure from our national policy relating to immigration is here presented.
When we consider these provisions of the bill in connection with our long northern frontier and the boundaries of our St...
To the Senate:I transmit herewith, in response to the resolution of the Senate of February 24, 1897, a report from the S...
The time is quite within recent memory when the same thing was said of immigrants who, with their descendants, are now n...
A careful examination of this bill has convinced me that for the reasons given and others not specifically stated its pr...
I have not thought it compatible with the public interest that the correspondence referred to in the resolution should b...
Her pensionable relation to the Government terminated with her remarriage.
Our pension laws should deal with soldiers' widows.
To the Senate: In response to the resolution of the Senate of the 24th ultimo, I transmit herewith a report from the Sec...
A departure from this rule, even in aid of cases of hardship, can not fail to establish precedents inviting the abandonm...
No feature of our pension laws is so satisfactory and just as a fair allowance to the widows of our soldiers who have di...
I herewith return without approval House bill No. 1299, entitled 'An act to pension Harriet Woodbury, of Windsor, Vt.'
I am unable to discover any principle which justifies her restoration to that relationship upon the death of her second ...
I indorse the recommendation of the Secretary of State that Congress authorize the printing of a special edition of 10,0...
To the Senate and House of Representatives:I transmit herewith, for the information of the Congress, a communication fro...
I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of State, covering the report of the joint commission on behalf o...
