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Ben Harrison: “It is urgently necessary that Congress should at once, by joint resolution or otherwise, continue the laws of Nebraska…”

On the recordDecember 22, 1890
It is urgently necessary that Congress should at once, by joint resolution or otherwise, continue the laws of Nebraska in force, and save pending criminal arrests and prosecutions at least.
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Ben Harrison
Republican · Indiana

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