I have felt that it was not only essential as a matter of national defense, but that there was a prestige and influence for peace and good neighborhood between the nations of the earth in the completion and equipment of these great ships that nothing else could furnish.
Remarks on Receiving the Riggin Statuette
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The law creates two new officers, whose aggregate compensation may be $12,000 per annum, without, it seems to me, a justifying necessity.
No provision is made for a continued discharge of the duties of marshal and district attorney by the present incumbents.
As these vacancies could not be filled immediately, the business of the courts would seriously suffer.
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.
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