The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-28 00:00:00

A DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.

The recent report in the Congressional proceedings, that
the House had taken up and passed a bill to establish a
department of justice, gave little idea of what that mea-
sure was, and how important a change it proposed to
effect. Under the present organization of the Government
the law office is almost an anomaly. The Attorney-
General is the authorised representative of the administra-
tion and its exponent on general questions of law. Below
the Attorney-General, but in a great measure
independent of him and of one another, are the
district attorneys and the solicitors for the several
departments. The bill in question, which Mr. Jenckes of
Rhode Island with his keen eye for practical abuses and
their remedies has perfected, proposes to consolidate these
various irregular and irresponsible officials into a
harmonious system in connection with the law office which
is to be elevated to the dignity of a department. The
Attorney General is to be at the head, with the solicitors
of the departments as advisers on their respective sub-
jects. But all decisions must emanate finally from him
in order to have the force of executive law. There is to be
one general solicitor, whose duty it shall be to represent
the government in all suits in which an officer
from the department shall be thought necessary.
A competent body of assistants will exist in the district
attorneys, who are to be made directly responsible to the
department of justice. In short, Mr. Jenckes's plan is to
substitute for the existing system, with its irresponsible
officers and and anomalous features, a department similar
to the other departments, in which there may be a proper
gradation of powers with a general subordination to ,one
chief officer. The reform is urged in the interest of
economy as well as uniformity in practice. It appears
that the amount paid since 1864 for special counsel fees
was over seven hundred thousand dollars. The ap-
pointment of a solicitor-general would, of course,
put an . end to the necessity for any such out-
lay. Besides, the waste and extravagance are
always much greater in a loose, ill-defined system
than in a compact and well-organised one. But one new
officer is authorised—the Solicitor-General--and against
his salary is to be offset the retrenchment which will be
effected. In short, the bill seems to be a wise one in
every respect, and it is to be hoped that the facility with
which it passed the House is indicative of its speedy adop-
tion by the Senate. Some of the defects of the present
system are due to the war, which suddenly demanded
many. new officers in every department to meet emergen-
cies. Their powers were never well defined, and each
officer has been left to shift for himself. In the general
work of clearing up irregularities, the department of justice
seems to be one of 'the reforms most urgently demanded.
—Boston Advertiser.

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BIRTHS.
On the 26th inst., at 50, Gloucester-crescent, Hyde-park,
the wife of B. A. Heywood, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 25th inst., at Penge, the wife of G. B.Wheeler, Esq.,
solicitor, of a son.

MARRIAGES. •
On the 25th inst., at New Brentford, Alexander Thomas, of
Laleston, Glamorganshire, to Maria, youngest daught('r
of Salem Cross, Esq., of Now Brentford.
On the 24th inst., at St. Luke's, Chelsea, Frederick
Lasebrey, of the Heath House, Uttoxeter, Staff° dshire,
to Louisa Jan,', socond daughter of Thos. Oakley, Esq.t
of 107, Fulham-road, Brompton.
DEATHS.
On the 25th inst., at St. David's, Lower Tulso-hill, Thomas
Cree, Esq., formerly of Gray's-inn, aged 87.
On the 24th inst., at Highgate, John Phelps, Esq., aged
88.

London: Printed and Published by ANDREWS'
of No. 112, Straud,Priuter, at THE SUN Office, No. 11'
Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of
Middlesex.—Saturday, May 28, 1870.,