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Grover Cleveland: The absolute necessity, in the interest of good administration, of limiting all public officers to authorized…

On the recordJanuary 15, 1889
The absolute necessity, in the interest of good administration, of limiting all public officers to authorized expenditures, constrain me to withhold my approval from this bill.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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