Ben Harrison: “This limitation is, I am sure, unwise, and necessarily involves in such a case as that now presented undue haste and…”

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.

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

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…

No provision is made for a continued discharge of the duties of marshal and district attorney by the present incumbents.