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Grover Cleveland: “Wise and prudent safeguards which have been incorporated in other legislation relating to the disposition of arid public…”

On the recordJanuary 13, 1895
Wise and prudent safeguards which have been incorporated in other legislation relating to the disposition of arid public lands and their irrigation seem to have been to such an extent overlooked.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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