Grover Cleveland actually said...

I nominate James C. Matthews, of New York, to be recorder of deeds in the District of Columbia, in the place of Frederick Douglass, resigned...

I have ventured, therefore, in view of the demonstrated fitness of this nominee, to again submit this nomination to the Senate for confirmat...

Mr. Matthews has now been in occupancy of the office to which he was nominated for more than four months.

I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, in relation to the invitation from Her Britannic Majesty to this Government to par...