Grover Cleveland actually said...

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

"The supposition should not be indulged that Congress...intended to make its protection depend upon the performance of conditions which it was physically impossible to perform."

"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 the somewhat numerous class of Chinese persons who, retaining..."