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On the recordAugust 10, 1894
The authority attempted by the bill to be given to the President to thus make an appointment to the office of paymaster in the Navy without the interposition of the Senate appears to be inadmissible under that clause of the Constitution.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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