That right,
if he had it at all, he got under the statute under which
he and the Senate were acting.
On the 17th of July, 1885, the President issued an order
suspending George M. Duskin of Alabama, from the office of
Attorney of the United States, by virtue of the authority
conferred upon him by Sec. 1768 of the Revised Statutes,
which is a reenactment of the law of which I have just spoken.
On the 14th of December, 1885, the President nominated to
the Senate John D. Burnett, vice George M. Duskin, suspended.
The Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary, as had been
usual in such cases, addressed a note to the Attorney-General,
asking that all papers and information in the possession of
the Department touching the conduct and administration of
the officer proposed to be removed, and touching the character
and conduct of the person proposed to be appointed, be sent
to the Committee for its information. To this the Attorney-
General replied that he was directed by the President to say
that there been sent already to the Judiciary Committee all
papers in the Department relating to the fitness of John D.
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