Nor did the civil disabilities weigh heavily upon the Jews.

On the contrary, they felt so happy in Russia that even the Jewish emigrants in America dreamt of returning to their homeland.
4.

THE PROTEST OF AMERICA The same attitude of double-dealing was adopted by the smooth-tongued Russian diplomats toward the Government of the United States.

Aroused over the inhuman treatment of the Jews in Russia, and alarmed by the effects of a sudden Russian-Jewish immigration to America, which was bound to follow as a result of this treatment, the House of Representatives adopted a resolution on August 20, 1890, requesting the President-- To communicate to the House of Representatives, if not incompatible with the public interests, any information in his possession concerning the enforcement of proscriptive edicts against the Jews in Russia, recently ordered, as reported in the public press; and whether any American citizens have, because of their religion, been ordered to be expelled from Russia, or forbidden the exercise of the ordinary privileges enjoyed by the inhabitants.
In response to this resolution, President Harrison laid before Congress all the correspondence and papers bearing on the Jewish question in Russia.

[1] [Footnote 1: The material was printed as _Executive Document_ No.