Ben Harrison: “International intercourse must always proceed upon the basis of mutual respect and a yielding of mutual right.”

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.

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.

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…