Grover Cleveland: “The existing situation is injurious to the health of our entire body politic.”

A careful examination of this bill has convinced me that for the reasons given and others not specifically stated its provisions are unnecessarily harsh and oppressive.

I do hereby make known and proclaim that there is hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a public reservation all those certain tracts, pieces, or parcels of land lying and being situate in the States of Idaho and…

An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to repeal the timber-culture laws, and for other purposes.'

The time is quite within recent memory when the same thing was said of immigrants who, with their descendants, are now numbered among our best citizens.