Ben Harrison: “Notice, moreover, is hereby given that it is by law enacted that until said lands are opened to settlement by…”

As these vacancies could not be filled immediately, the business of the courts would seriously suffer.

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.

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…