mar 3, 1891 - Signs the Immigration Act of 1891 (26 Stat 1084) excluding many classes of aliens from admission to the US: "All idiots, insane persons, paupers or persons likely to become a public charge, persons suffering from a loathsome or a dangerous contagious disease, . . . "
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mar 3, 1891
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