To the Senate of the United States:In compliance with a resolution of the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring, I return herewith the bill (S. 2625) entitled \An act to provide for the punishment of offenses on the high seas.\
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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.
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.
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