Rutherford Hayes actually said...

"The constitutional authority to regulate the Congressional elections which belongs to the Government of the United States, ought to be enforced by appropriate legislation."

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

"The objections to the practice of tacking general legislation to appropriation bills, especially when the object is to deprive a coordinate branch of the Government of its right to the free exercise o..."

"I am directed by the President to say that the several Departments of the Government will be closed on Friday, the 30th instant, in remembrance of those who fell in defense of the nation, and to enabl..."