Ben Harrison: “The use of the mails by these companies is a prostitution of an agency only intended to serve the purposes of a…”

The law creates two new officers, whose aggregate compensation may be $12,000 per annum, without, it seems to me, a justifying necessity.

That event is interesting in itself, but its interest to me is in the fact that this ship is the type and precursor of many others.

A serious question would be raised as to whether these officers were not at once legislated out of office and vacancies created.

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…