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Grover Cleveland: No condition ought to exist which would justify the grant of power to a single official, upon his judgment of its…

On the recordDecember 5, 1887
No condition ought to exist which would justify the grant of power to a single official, upon his judgment of its necessity, to withhold from or release to the business of the people money held in the Treasury.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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Third Annual Message (first term)

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