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Ben Harrison: The law creates two new officers, whose aggregate compensation may be $12,000 per annum, without, it seems to me, a…

On the recordFebruary 26, 1893
The law creates two new officers, whose aggregate compensation may be $12,000 per annum, without, it seems to me, a justifying necessity.
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Ben Harrison
Republican · Indiana

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Message to the House of Representatives Returning Without Approval \An Act to Prescribe the Number of District...\

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