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In my judgement, the judicial force of the United States can be advantageously increased in the South
I am not quite certain whether a recommendation on the subject would be proper in my official report,
Sir: In answer to your letter of the 8th instant, I have the honor to state that my recollection of what
But my impressions were, and still are, (subject, of course, to be reversed, if they appear incorrect
My opinion against the validity of the transfer of the rights of the Oregon Center Railroad Company,
making Appropriations for the current and Contingent Expenses of the Indian Bureau," by which it is made my
examination and to state that what proceedings, &c. relative to said stocks and investments, are in my
I have no right to give you my opinion upon these questions.
administration of the law, the Dept. of the Treasury establishes the rule it will follow; and it is my
Sir: Referring to my letter of the 3rd instant, enclosing a telegram from the United States Marshal for
were obstructed on the occasion mentioned, which give full particulars of the occurrences mentioned in my
Sir: I have the honor to enclose to you a copy of a letter from my assistant at the Court of Claims,
interests of the Government to incur the small expense suggested in the letter.— There is no fund under my
Sir: On account of my sickness and absence, your letters of September 19th and September 22d instants
to breaches of the Neutrality Laws of the United States, near Brownsville, in Texas, never came to my
You will carry with you my best wishes for your success in life, and my thanks for the efficiency with
Sir: In answer to your letter of the 5th instant, I have to say that I am daily at my office and receive
Yet such is the pressure on my time from the multitude of visitors at this season, and other causes,
Court of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona Terr Sir: I have received your letter of the 10th ultimo, asking my
Marshals—and therefore I cannot answer your letter officially, but I have no hesitation in giving you my
hundred dollars, unless it is given to them by Territorial law, or some law of Congress which has escaped my
Sir: I am sorry to say that it hardly seems to me to belong to my official duty to attempt an answer
you find in the Territory—but fear that it is hardly practicable to remedy it by the transmission of my
Tenn. dated the 8th inst. in relation to his claim for bounty, with your endorsement thereon, asking my
I hope, therefore, that you will excuse me from undertaking a service beyond my official duty.
After my distinct personal announcement to you that such delinquencies must not be repeated, this conduct
to take this step until the present moment, in the hope that your course would enable me to gratify my
Upon a careful consideration of this opinion, I adhere to the position expressed in my letter to you
course by which it can be set at rest, & this is, by instituting prosecution, as I have advised in my
In my interview with a gentleman connected with the New York Times, I gave an outline of my observations
Whether his version of my conversation was accurate in all other particulars, I cannot at this moment
Sir: I have the honor herewith to transmit my opinion as to the proper course to be taken in reference
Tapara, which you have brought to my notice since that opinion was prepared, does not seem to me to authorize
the matter of the Government subsidy to the Union Pacific Railroad in a few days, as I have formed my
In the meantime, the result to which I have come enables me to say that, in my opinion, the conditions
Commissioner in Michigan, which you referred to me, and which bears the endorsement of my clerk.
My department has no control or supervision of the Commissioners, who are officers appointed by the Courts
all cases been obliged to decline approving said accounts; and must therefore in your case adhere to my
I must therefore decline to give you account of my official sanction. Very respectfully, A. T.
My position in reference to the case, as having been consulted in it in my private professional capacity
Attorney for the District of Georgia, by my predecessor, directing him to dismiss all suits and proceedings
undetermined, under the Acts mentioned, I see no reason to doubt that they are embraced by the instructions of my
Senate Sir: In answer to your letter of the 20th inst. requesting my opinion upon the question whether
have the honor to say that the law prescribing the duties of the Attorney General, as expounded by my
ago covered into the Treasury, under subsequent legislation—and is now, therefore, entirely beyond my
see pp. 718 734 ante legality of the claim, (as I am not, however strongly it may address itself to my
addressed to him under the impression that he is now acting as Attorney General—which is not the fact, as my
Wesson has been brought to my attention by several written and verbal communications.
There is an impression upon my mind that it was decided at the Rolls that the United States has legal
capacity to take as a Legatee—but I am unable to verify the accuracy of my recollection by a reference
Patton whom you were authorized in my letter of the 1st instant to prosecute in the State Courts of New
But if authentically advised that no real cause for prosecution exists, the direction in my letter of
compensation allowed to counsel upon employment by this office, I feel that I am scarcely warranted in giving my
the suggestion that you reduce it to the sum I have indicated, which, being done, I will promptly add my
Sir: Your letter of the 26th ultimo submits for my opinion this question: May a Consul retain for his
After an examination of the statutes relating to the subject, and to which you have directed my attention
It would give me great pleasure to render you any assistance in my power in regard to your discharge
of your judicial duties, but as it is not my official duty to do so, and as I am doubtful of its propriety
My letter of the 28th ultimo, addressed to you at Knoxville, in the case of Mr.
repeat that you seem to understand your Commission as requiring a much larger expenditure than was in my
Before undertaking to comply with the requisition upon me of this Resolution, which it would be my pleasure
—It will, therefore, be entirely out of my power to furnish any part of this information concerning convictions
information, sought for the means of comparison between the convictions and pardons, & as it is wholly out of my
to the Senate to submit myself to its direction as to whether the partial information which it is in my
the court to advance it for argument, & named the first Tuesday in February as the earliest day that my
previous engagments in court would permit of my attention to the argument, and as being probably as
I write this to assure you that if it had been in my power to construe the law so as to give you the
But I feel that such a construction would in effect be an enactment, and therefore beyond my power.
awaiting the action of the Executive upon his sentence,"— and your letter of May 4, 1869, again calling my
the important and difficult questions which may arise upon the case, I think it sufficient to express my
Louis Packet Company, is submitted to me for my opinion on the questions of law arising in the premises
of them, and that I would with pleasure consider the questions of law in the case, should he desire my
My purpose at present is, to request that you will send me, if you still have connection with this matter
S. shall be taken in the matter, without communicating with me, and receiving my instructions.
together with a Report thereon by the Examiner of Claims in your Dept., and requesting an expression of my
This reference presents, as I conceive, purely a question of fact for my determination, and such a question
Your return to Illinois for the purpose of settling your private business would meet my entire approval
continuously in them, ready to attend to whatever official duties may present themselves, and that in my
May 21, 1869, from the then Secretary of War to me transmitting those papers, in which he requests my
prohibited by the Act of February 21, 1867, I have to say that, in accordance with your oral request made to my
Although you were informed in my letter of the 23rd of November last that I did not intend to authorize
you to subject the Government to expense in the inquiry directed in my letter of August 30th last, I
Sir: I have received your letter of the 31st ult., calling my attention to your claim as informer in
My only wish is, that your rights to be adjudged informer shall be fully and fairly investigated and
No other course will, in my opinion, be satisfactory to the Department of War, and I do not think it
I have already transmitted to you, with my communication of the 29th November, referred to above, a copy
of my letter of instruction to the District Attorney of this District, which, with the other papers
that the joint resolution passed by Congress is not the resolution of which a copy was enclosed in my
If this cannot be done, I do not feel at liberty to make any other proposal than that contained in my
The only object which my predecessor could have had in referring the subject to the U. S.
Attorney, and to give that officer the instructions contained in my letter to him.
Of course whatever may be my interest as a citizen in the politics of the South generally, and of Alabama
I am unable at this distance, and with my limited information to determine whether the transactions in
such directions respecting the proceedings allowed to as I may deem expedient, or to express to you my
I regard the subject of your letter, and the request for my advice and direction in the premises, as
B. " 25 seq p 155 my duty to pronounce any opinion upon the expediency of issuing a pardon upon such
I can only say that upon a careful examination of all the papers submitted for my consideration, it does
He does not answer my letter directed to him at Salem, and I do not know where he is to be found.
I shall send all the evidence in my power, if any more is found.
The furnishing of professional defence went to the very verge of what I understand to be my authority
To go further, and pay costs out of any funds under my control, seems to me unauthorized.
me of the 1st November 1867,— whereupon the whole matter was treated as having been withdrawn from my
consideration, and all the papers relating to it, were, with my letter of 5th Nov. 1867, transmitted