Ben Harrison: “To the Senate: I transmit, in reply to the resolution of the Senate passed in executive session on March 14, 1892, a…”

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

It gives me pleasure to consummate here to-day, by the act of lifting this flag, the efforts in support of a principle to which I give my hearty support.

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.

But the most serious objection to the legislation is that it creates at once upon the taking effect of the law the offices of district attorney and marshal for each of the three districts, and the effect, it seems to me, must be to abolish…