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On the recordDecember 8, 1891
If this agreement could have been reached earlier in response to the strenuous endeavors of this Government, it would have been more effective; but coming even as late as it did it unquestionably resulted in greatly diminishing the destruction of the seals by the Canadian sealers.
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Benjamin Harrison
Republican · Indiana

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