The rejection was clearly right, unless the Government is to be held as an insurer against every fatal casualty incurred by those who have served in the Army, without regard to the manner of its occurrence.
Grover Cleveland: “The rejection was clearly right, unless the Government is to be held as an insurer against every fatal casualty incurred…”
On the recordFebruary 3, 1887
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