Grover Cleveland: “Every intelligent man should be charged with the knowledge that as a general rule commercial intercourse with the enemy…”

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.

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.

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.

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.