Special Message
02/28/1886
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recommend that appropriate legislation to fulfill that treaty promise of this Government be provided without further delay.
I return without approval Senate bill No. 1397.
I also recommend that the sum of $100,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be appropriated for the expenses of making such survey.
There are many cities in the different States having larger populations than Springfield, and fully as much entitled, upon every ground pres...