Yes. sir. for this reason: The law now fixes no fee for the naturalization of aliens in the United States circuit or district courts. and in one instance the clerk of a circuit court retained for the year 1884 over $30.000 of fees which he received in that way. and refused to include those fees in his emolument account. The law fixed his salary by law at $3.500. to be taken out of the fees received by him. but he put those fees in his pocket. refusing to account for them. We are endeavoring to bring about a reform of the law by which such things can not take place. I certainly think that provision of the amendment is germane to the clause making appropriation for the compensation of clerks.
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