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Grover Cleveland: I am constrained to interpose an objection to a measure which proposes to suspend general and wholesome laws for the…

On the recordMarch 9, 1886
I am constrained to interpose an objection to a measure which proposes to suspend general and wholesome laws for the purpose of granting what appears to me to be an undeserved gratuity.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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