Ben Harrison: “It would be of great advantage if these reports could have an alternative perusal by every member of Congress and by all…”

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.

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.

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…