I transmit herewith, in reply to the resolution of the Senate of January 23, 1897, a report from the Secretary of State, accompanied by copies of the correspondence therein request...
To the Senate:I transmit herewith, in response to the resolution of the Senate of February 24, 1897, a report from the Secretary of State, i...
When we consider these provisions of the bill in connection with our long northern frontier and the boundaries of our States and Territories...
I have not thought it compatible with the public interest that the correspondence referred to in the resolution should be communicated pendi...
It is not claimed, I believe, that the time has come for the further restriction of immigration on the ground that an excess of population o...
The time is quite within recent memory when the same thing was said of immigrants who, with their descendants, are now numbered among our be...
A radical departure from our national policy relating to immigration is here presented.
In my opinion, it is infinitely more safe to admit a hundred thousand immigrants who, though unable to read and write, seek among us only a ...
A careful examination of this bill has convinced me that for the reasons given and others not specifically stated its provisions are unneces...
The ability to read and write, as required in this bill, in and of itself affords, in my opinion, a misleading test of contented industry an...
This requirement proceeds upon the assumption that the foreign relatives coming here are in every case, by reason of poverty, liable to beco...