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Rutherford B. Hayes: “I submit the subject to your favorable consideration and recommend that a suitable appropriation be made to enable this…”

On the recordJanuary 9, 1881
I submit the subject to your favorable consideration and recommend that a suitable appropriation be made to enable this Government to accept the foregoing invitation by appointing one or more delegates to attend the congress in question.
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Rutherford B. Hayes
Republican · Ohio

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