Benjamin Harrison actually said...

"It is ordered,That the office of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries be, and the same is hereby, classified as a part of the classified departmental service"

"no person shall be admitted to any place not excepted from examination by the civil-service rules in any of the classes above designated until he or she shall have passed an appropriate examination un..."

"Shall it rise with stately progress, without check or tardiness, until the capstone is set amid the plaudits of the liberal and patriotic citizens of this great city?"

"I am glad to see here what seems to me to be adequate assurance that this work, so nobly started upon, will be speedily consummated."