Rutherford Hayes actually said...

"The supervision of the elections will be reduced to a mere inspection, without authority on the part of the supervisors to do any act whatever to make the election a fair one."

"If the bill contained no other provisions, no objection to its approval would be made."

"This money is needed to keep in operation the essential functions of all the great departments of the Government--legislative, executive, and judicial."

"The object of the bill is to destroy any control whatever by the United States over the Congressional elections."