Grover Cleveland: “It seems to me that the language of the bill under consideration...is equivalent to a new grant to that company.”

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.

I have not thought it compatible with the public interest that the correspondence referred to in the resolution should be communicated pending the public and exhaustive investigation about to be instituted.

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

There is a further objection to granting this pension.