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Grover Cleveland: I can discover no just ground for reversing this determination and making a further discrimination in favor of this…

On the recordJune 18, 1886
I can discover no just ground for reversing this determination and making a further discrimination in favor of this pensioner.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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