Grover Cleveland actually said...

"The death of the son of the beneficiary is far from being satisfactorily established."

"I can not spell out any principle upon which the bounty of the Government is bestowed through the instrumentality of the flood of private pension bills that reach me."

"This course of special legislation operates very unfairly."

"I can not see how the cause of death can be connected with his service or with the incapacity for which he was placed upon the retired list."