Grover Cleveland: “No feature of our pension laws is so satisfactory and just as a fair allowance to the widows of our soldiers who have…”

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

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 return herewith without my approval House bill No. 9469.

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.