Ben Harrison: “I will respond to his request to say a word to you.”

That event is interesting in itself, but its interest to me is in the fact that this ship is the type and precursor of many others.

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…

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.