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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· Apr 25, 1886

The measure under consideration does not with sufficient care specify and limit the officers and the parties who it is proposed to invest with discretion in the disposition of dead bodies.

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· Apr 25, 1886

The laws by which it is permitted should, in deference to a decent and universal sentiment, carefully guard against abuse and needless offense.

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· Apr 25, 1886

But instead of exacting the bond from the medical colleges, such bond is required of 'every physician or surgeon before receiving such dead body.'

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· Apr 23, 1886

It is hereby ordered that the following-described tract of country in the Territory of New Mexico, viz, all those portions of townships 29 north, ranges 14, 15, and 16 west of the New Mexico principal meridian, south of the San Juan River…

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· Apr 21, 1886

The establishment by Federal authority of such a bureau would be a just and sensible recognition of the value of labor and of its right to be represented in the departments of the Government.

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· Apr 21, 1886

The laboring man may well insist, with manly courage and as a right, upon the same recognition from those who make our laws as is accorded to any other citizen.

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· Apr 21, 1886

I am constrained to recommend to Congress legislation upon this serious and pressing subject.

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· Apr 21, 1886

The present condition of the relations between labor and capital is far from satisfactory.

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· Apr 21, 1886

Under our form of government the value of labor as an element of national prosperity should be distinctly recognized.

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· Apr 21, 1886

I am satisfied, however, that something may be done under Federal authority to prevent the disturbances which so often arise from disputes between employers and the employed.

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· Apr 21, 1886

If such a commission were fairly organized, the risk of a loss of popular support and sympathy resulting from a refusal to submit to so peaceful an instrumentality would constrain both parties to such disputes to invoke its interference…

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· Apr 19, 1886

To the House of Representatives: I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of State on the manufacture of milk sugar in Switzerland.

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· Apr 11, 1886

But any person who has for three years last preceding served as a clerk in the office of the President of the United States may be transferred or appointed to any place in the classified service without examination.

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· Apr 11, 1886

Any person in the classified departmental service may be transferred and appointed to any other place therein upon the following conditions:

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· Apr 5, 1886

The supposition should not be indulged that Congress...intended to make its protection depend upon the performance of conditions which it was physically impossible to perform.

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