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Grover Cleveland: “The fact of this payment and important information bearing upon the validity of some of the other claims mentioned in…”

On the recordAugust 16, 1886
The fact of this payment and important information bearing upon the validity of some of the other claims mentioned in the bill could have been easily obtained by application to the Third Auditor.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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