Ben Harrison: “Severe and effective legislation should be promptly enacted to enable the Post-Office Department to purge the mails of…”

An examination of the records of the Attorney-General's office as to the amount of business in the courts in these districts leads me to believe that two districts would provide amply for the disposition of all public and private cases.

I transmit herewith the fifth special report of the Commissioner of Labor.

I herewith transmit, for the information of Congress, a communication from the Acting Secretary of State, forwarding certain bulletins of the Bureau of the American Republics.

The law should at least have contained a provision for the continued discharge of their duties by the incumbents until the new officers were appointed and qualified.