05/17/1888
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"I return herewith without approval, and with a statement of my objections thereto, Senate bill No. 150."
"Every possible question that can be raised, or at least that ought to be raised, in any suit relating to these lands has been determined by the highest judicial authority in the land."
"If a law of Congress could, in the manner contemplated by the bill, change, under the Constitution, the existing rights of any of the parties claiming interests in these lands, it hardly seems that an..."
"If it be true that these are public lands, the declaration that they are so by enactment is entirely unnecessary;"