Grover Cleveland: “Ordered,That noncompetitive examinations to test fitness for the following-designated places in the classified…”

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.

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 overcrowds our land.

all extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene at the Capitol

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 the State of Montana.