Ben Harrison: “We are happy in our great national isolation.”

An examination of the records of the Attorney-General's office as to the amount of business in the courts in these districts leads me to believe that two districts would provide amply for the disposition of all public and private cases.

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

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

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.