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Grover Cleveland: “To the Congress: I transmit herewith copies of certain dispatches lately received from our minister at Hawaii, together…”

On the recordMarch 6, 1894
To the Congress: I transmit herewith copies of certain dispatches lately received from our minister at Hawaii, together with copies of the inclosures which accompanied such dispatches.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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