Rutherford Hayes actually said...

"Whereas the final adjournment of the Forty-fifth Congress without making the usual and necessary appropriations...presents an extraordinary occasion requiring the President to exercise the power veste..."

"The very ample and generous contributions which the foreign nations made to the splendor and usefulness of the exhibition and the cordiality with which their representatives took part in our national ..."

"I express, I believe, the general judgment of the Country, as well as my own, in assigning to this exhibition a measure of success gratifying to the pride and patriotism of our people and full of prom..."

"It gives me great pleasure to commend to your attention and that of the people of the whole country the laborious, faithful, and prosperous performances of their duties which have marked the administr..."