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Grover Cleveland: The objection to piers in the river for the purpose of supporting bridges is in any event so serious that...should not…

On the recordJanuary 19, 1894
The objection to piers in the river for the purpose of supporting bridges is in any event so serious that...should not in such an indirect manner as is done by this bill be applied to a like structure at Twenty-third street.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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