Ben Harrison: “The great ships — the fastest upon the sea — which are now in peace profiting by our trade, are, in a secondary sense…”

It gives me pleasure to consummate here to-day, by the act of lifting this flag, the efforts in support of a principle to which I give my hearty support.

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.

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