Grover Cleveland actually said...

"I transmit herewith the report of the Secretary of State on the subject."

"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 transferred or appointed to any place in the classified service witho..."

"Any person in the classified departmental service may be transferred and appointed to any other place therein upon the following conditions:"

"It is sufficient that I should call the earnest attention of Congress to the circumstance that the statute makes no provision whatever for the somewhat numerous class of Chinese persons who, retaining..."