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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· May 23, 1887

it be vacated whenever the interest of the Indians shall require it, upon notice to that effect to the Secretary of War.

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· May 23, 1887

the use and occupancy of the land in question be subject to such right, title, and interest as the Indians have in and to the same

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· May 11, 1887

This statue of a distinguished citizen, who in his life and services combined all these things and more, which challenge admiration in American character.

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· May 11, 1887

If from this hour our admiration for the bravery and nobility of American manhood and our faith in the possibilities and opportunities of American citizenship be renewed, the dedication of the statue to the people of the United States will…

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· May 11, 1887

Monuments and statues multiply throughout the land, fittingly illustrative of the love and affection of our grateful people.

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· Feb 25, 1887

It is further stated in a communication from the promoter of this bill that--There is not a Federal public building in the State of Ohio east of the line drawn on the accompanying map from Cleveland through Columbus to Cincinnati.

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· Feb 25, 1887

I should consider myself, in favor of his widow, bound by the act of the Pension Bureau in allowing him a pension.

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· Feb 25, 1887

The Government is not an almoner of gifts among the people, but an instrumentality by which the people's affairs should be conducted upon business principles, regulated by the public needs.

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· Feb 25, 1887

I herewith return without approval Senate bill No. 2210, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Anna Wright.'

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· Feb 25, 1887

Upon the whole it does not appear, as a business proposition, that the building proposed should be undertaken.

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· Feb 25, 1887

The beneficiary named in this bill was granted a pension on the 17th day of November, 1886.

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· Feb 25, 1887

She is now under the general law receiving precisely the pension which she would receive under the bill herewith returned if the same should be approved.

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· Feb 24, 1887

I return herewith the bill (H. R. 367) to amend section 536 of the Revised Statutes of the United States.

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· Feb 23, 1887

I think it will hardly be claimed that the patient investigation of the accounting officers should be lightly discredited in this case.

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· Feb 23, 1887

I do not suppose that it was intended by the Congress to entirely relieve these sureties if a condition exists such as is above set out, which results in an indebtedness to the Government.

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