Grover Cleveland actually said...

"It seems to me that in the consideration of the merits of this bill the necessities of the Government should control the question."

"The information furnished by the report of the committee... absolutely fails to connect the death of Commodore Marchand with any incident of his naval service."

"I am of the opinion that the expenditure of public money for such a purpose should depend upon the necessity of such a building for public uses."

"The evidence recited in the report of the Congressional committee to whom this bill was referred, though it tends to show, if reliable, that when the soldier returned from his service his leg was affe..."