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On the recordMarch 10, 1886
If a law of Congress could, in the manner contemplated by the bill, change, under the Constitution, the existing rights of any of the parties claiming interests in these lands, it hardly seems that any new questions could be presented to the courts.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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