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On the recordMarch 2, 1881
Believing that a measure for refunding the national debt is not necessarily connected with the national banking law, and that any refunding act would defeat its own object if it imperiled the national banking system or seriously impaired its usefulness.
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Rutherford B. Hayes
Republican · Ohio

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