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1st Session.

No. 131.

COMPENSATION OF DISTRICT ATTORNEYS, MARSHALS, AND CIRCUIT COURT COMMISSIONERS.

LETTER

FROM

THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL,

RECOMMENDING

A change in the mode of compensating district attorneys, marshals, and circuit court commissioners.

MARCH 21, 1382.-Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be

printed.

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE,
Washington, March 18, 1882.

SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith a copy of a letter of the 7th instant, addressed to me by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, and the documents referred to therein.

The Commissioner recommends a change in the mode of compensating district attorneys, marshals, deputy marshals, and circuit court commissioners, viz, to pay them by fixed salaries rather than by fees. The subject is very important, and I have the honor to ask for it the earnest consideration of Congress.

BENJAMIN HARRIS BREWSTER,

Hon. J. W. KEIFER,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Attorney-General.

TREASURY DEPARMENT,

OFFICE OF INTERNAL REVENUE,

Washington, March 7, 1882.

SIR: I have the honor to inclose herewith a report of Revenue Agent Thos. J. Kenney, giving a list of over one hundred and forty revenue cases brought before United States commissioners in the northern district of New York during the year 1881, upon complaint of persons other than internal-revenue officers, and dismissed by the commissioners for want of evidence.

The institution of criminal prosecutions under the internal-revenue

laws for trivial and technical offenses, where no frauds were committed or intended, is a constant cause of complaint in various parts of the United States, and is continually productive of irritation in the enforcement of the laws. These prosecutions are usually instituted upon the complaints of professional informers, and are a great source of revenue to witnesses, commissioners, marshals, and district attorneys. The abuses thus perpetrated are the legitimate and natural outgrowth of the law which compensates these officers for their services by fees, and I am satisfied that it will be impossible, by any system of administration, to prevent these wrongs until district attorneys, marshals, deputy marshals, and commissioners are paid fixed salaries like the great majority of other officers of the government.

I respectfully call your attention to the observations upon this subject at page 9 of my last annual report (a copy of which is inclosed), and I have the honor of submitting whether it would not be wise to bring this matter prominently to the attention of Congress.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

Hon. BENJAMIN HARRIS BREWSTER,

GREEN B. RAUM,

Attorney-General.

Commissioner.

List of internal revenue cases brought before United States court commissioners in the northern district of New York, during the year 1881, upon complaint of persons other than internal-revenue officers, and discharged by said commissioners for want of sufficient evidence. BEFORE J. A. MURREY, COM'R, BUFFALO.

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9 United States vs. Chas. Scherms.. Failing to destroy stamp on empty beer keg.

BEFORE J. C. STRONG, COM'R, BUFFALO.

10 United States vs. Benj. Logan.. D. M. T.

BEFORE J. E. POUND, COM'R, LOCKPORT.

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List of internal revenue cases brought before United States court commissioners in the northern district of New York, during the year 1881, &c.—Continued.

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24 United States vs. C. F. Kennfel.
25 United States rs. Thos. O'Shaugh.

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26 United States rs. August Drees
27 United States rs. Rosa McBride..
28 United States vs. Geo. Wiesser
29 United States es. Wm. R. Cones ..
30 United States vs. Mrs. Henry
Smith.

31 United States vs. Gorham Snyder
32 United States cs. John T. Hetzel
33 United States vs. Emil Niggle
34 United States ra. Carrie Rice.
35 United States vs. H. T. Farquhar
36 United States vs. Peter Shelden
37 United States vs. Wm. Ayrees...
28 United States vs. Philip Bergman
39 United States vs. Joseph A. Nunn.
40 United States vs. Eliza Warren...
41 United States rs. Doratha Schle-

cher.

42 United States vs. Isaac Hooper
43 United States vs. Chas. H. Barker
& Albert Defendorf.

44 United States rs. G. W. Parshall
45 United States vs. Anthony Miller
46 United States vs. Michael Fitz-
gerald.

47 United States vs. Jane Voorhes
48 United States vs. Hiram Cansal &
J. W. Boyd.

49 United States vs. George Woodcock
50 United States vs. Conrad Wees-

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51 United States rs. J. P. Hoyd
52 United States vs. Samuel É. Skin-

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BEFORE N. B. SYLVESTER, COM'R, TROY AND SARATOGA.

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