Grover Cleveland: “Legislation is needed to execute the provisions of our Chinese convention of 1880 touching the opium traffic.”

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.

I return herewith without my approval House bill No. 9469.

I transmit herewith, in reply to the resolution of the Senate of January 23, 1897, a report from the Secretary of State, accompanied by copies of the correspondence therein requested, relating to the Nicaraguan Canal or the Maritime Canal…

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