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Grover Cleveland: The necessity of such supplemental legislation is so obvious that I hope it will receive the immediate action of the…

On the recordJune 18, 1886
The necessity of such supplemental legislation is so obvious that I hope it will receive the immediate action of the Congress.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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