Ben Harrison: “Shall it rise with stately progress, without check or tardiness, until the capstone is set amid the plaudits of the…”

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

No provision is made for a continued discharge of the duties of marshal and district attorney by the present incumbents.

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.