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Grover Cleveland: A convention between the United States and certain other powers for the protection of submarine cables was signed at…

On the recordDecember 5, 1886
A convention between the United States and certain other powers for the protection of submarine cables was signed at Paris on March 14, 1884, and has been duly ratified and proclaimed by this Government.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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Second Annual Message (first term)

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