Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-06-26
''THE SEVENTEEN ASSISTANT AT
TORNEY GENERALS.,s
Senator Voorhees, MisfnfOrmed.
WHAT ATTORNEY GENERAL BREWSTER SAYS.

In the matter of the suit Of Hallet Kilbourn
agt. ex-Sergeant-at-Arms Jno G. Thompson for
damages for alleged false Imprisonment Senator
voorhees,, Of counsel for plaintiff in court yester-
day uttered the following in regard to the force in
the Department OF Justice:
'The Department Of Justice is an organized body Of
subject to the order Of the Attorney General at any
moment to attend to any specific business have their
names nam here and the payroll amounts to $50. 600
nmss
eighteen legal officers in the employ of the
at this hor or their
them to be- in this District and within one mile Of this
those sentlenen who at this time % are
In tine
psSs Sy he Of 1w S
assessment therefor"
In reply to the above the Attorney General said
to-day to reporter Of TIE STAR: "The indiana
subject of the service required of the seventeen
Assistant Attorney Generals as he calls them
There are only four Assistant Attorney GeDerals:
but suppose he included the solicitor general as
sstant attorneys and law clerks In his list Each
or these seventeen men has special duties to per-
torm , IN the work OF the department proper which
for nothing else The solicitor general and one Of
the Assistant Attorney Generals have charge of
and have to write opinions In addition Another AS.
sStant Attorney General has charge OF the govern
menus interests IN the Court OF Claims, and to aid
him In the laboriOuS work required of him the six
assistant attorneys OF the department are as
signed him. These men at times are required to
travel from court to court for purpose of TAX.
Ing depOSitionS The third Assistant ATTORNEY
General is by law assigned exclusively to the De-
partment OF the Interior to look after the law part
OF that vast department The fourth Assistant
Attorney General Is assigned to the Post ONCE de-
partment to do similar work. Then, from the sew.
enteen assistants must be taken the solicitor
OF the Treasury, the solicitor OF internal revenue
and the examiner OF claims In the Department of
State. Three OF the four have clerks In the de-
partment One has exclusive charge OF the ex-
animation OF titles to property sold to the govern
ment for public use, and is required to make the
annual digest OF the Attorney Generals Opinions
Another has charge OF the auditing OF the accounts
OF all marshals, district attorneys assistant at
torneys, clerks OF courts, q. =. commissioners and
other like on1c1als. third has charge OF ali an
plications for the pardon of criminals a place
which keeps him busy day and night The fourth
one Is kept busy answering correspondence of a
legal nature. Now II the Indiana Senator and ad-
vocate can show me how / can conscientiously
ask those seventeen assistants to go about the
country and try all manner Of cases in which the
government Is party, will try to accommodate
him. 1t is physical impossbillty. The law un-
der which they hold their positions does not re-
quire 1t OF them, and they are not paid to do So
When Mr. voorhees, looks into the matter Carefully
his keen sense of what Is right will cause him to
retract what he has said"