Grover Cleveland actually said...

"I consider them in no proper sense as upon the files of the Department."

"I do not suppose that 'the public offices of the United States' are regulated or controlled in their relations to either House of Congress by the fact that they were 'created by laws enacted by themse..."

"I believe the power to remove or suspend such officials is vested in the President alone by the Constitution."

"That the exclusion of Chinese labor is demanded in other countries where like conditions prevail is strongly evidenced in the Dominion of Canada."