Grover Cleveland actually said...

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 transferr...

The hardship has in some cases been remedied by the action of the courts.

This anomalous feature of the act should be reformed as speedily as possible...

It is sufficient that I should call the earnest attention of Congress to the circumstance that the statute makes no provision whatever for t...