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On the recordJuly 30, 1886
The trouble and expense incurred by the Pension Bureau to ascertain the truth and to deal fairly by this claimant, and the entire absence of any suspicion of bias against the claim in that Bureau, ought to give weight to its determination.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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