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Grover Cleveland: It is also proper to inform you that on Monday, the 28th instant, the occasion of the communication of the note of the…

On the recordJanuary 29, 1889
It is also proper to inform you that on Monday, the 28th instant, the occasion of the communication of the note of the Prince Chancellor, the Secretary of State was given to understand by the German minister that a proposition from his Government to that of the United States for a conference on the Samoan subject was on its way by mail.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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