Ben Harrison: “The bill is somewhat obscure, but I have, I think, correctly stated the legal effect of it.”

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…

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

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