Grover Cleveland: “I return without my approval House bill No. 4956, entitled 'An act directing the coinage of the silver bullion held in…”

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.

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 and supplies unsatisfactory evidence of desirable citizenship or a proper apprehension of the…

This requirement proceeds upon the assumption that the foreign relatives coming here are in every case, by reason of poverty, liable to become a public charge unless the immigrant is capable of their support.

I am unable to discover any principle which justifies her restoration to that relationship upon the death of her second husband.