Grover Cleveland: “I return without approval House bill No. 823, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Hannah C. De Wilt.'”

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 indorse the recommendation of the Secretary of State that Congress authorize the printing of a special edition of 10,000 copies.

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…

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.