Grover Cleveland: “I venture to urge upon the Congress the propriety of making from the public Treasury prompt and reasonable pecuniary…”

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

A radical departure from our national policy relating to immigration is here presented.

When we consider these provisions of the bill in connection with our long northern frontier and the boundaries of our States and Territories, often but an imaginary line separating them from the British dominions, and recall the friendly…

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.