Ben Harrison: “No orator, however gifted, can overpraise General Grant.”

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

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.

I transmit herewith the fifth special report of the Commissioner of Labor.

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.