Ben Harrison: “We should not collect revenue for the purpose of anticipating our bonds beyond the requirements of the sinking fund.”

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

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

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…