Benjamin Harrison actually said...

"I earnestly recommend that a further act be passed to enable the conference to continue its sessions for a period of two months from January 1, 1890."

"In consideration of the many important questions now under discussion by the conference, which should if possible be satisfactorily determined before the final adjournment, I earnestly recommend that ..."

"The existence of so large an actual and anticipated surplus should have the immediate attention of Congress, with a view to reducing the receipts of the Treasury to the needs of the Government as clos..."

"Our people will await with interest and confidence the results to flow from so auspicious a meeting of allied and in large part identical interests."