Ben Harrison: “The correspondence which accompanies the treaty will put the Senate in possession of all the facts known to the…”

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.

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

I believe we have reached an epoch in our development when we may successfully begin the work of carrying our share of the world's commerce upon the seas.