10/31/1888
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"This statue of a distinguished citizen, who in his life and services combined all these things and more, which challenge admiration in American character."
"The beneficiary named in this bill was granted a pension on the 17th day of November, 1886."
"Upon the whole it does not appear, as a business proposition, that the building proposed should be undertaken."
"The Government is not an almoner of gifts among the people, but an instrumentality by which the people's affairs should be conducted upon business principles, regulated by the public needs."