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Grover Cleveland: As her application to the Pension Bureau was quite lately favorably acted upon, it is supposed this special bill for her…

On the recordJuly 15, 1888
As her application to the Pension Bureau was quite lately favorably acted upon, it is supposed this special bill for her relief was passed by the Congress in ignorance of that fact.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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