Ben Harrison: “I have endeavored without wavering or weariness, so far as the direction of public affairs was committed to me, to carry…”

As these vacancies could not be filled immediately, the business of the courts would seriously suffer.

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

I herewith transmit, for the information of Congress, a communication from the Acting Secretary of State, forwarding certain bulletins of the Bureau of the American Republics.

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