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Show .1 TTOII XEY.GLS IJi.l LS' S it Kl'O H T A Itevlew of the Justice Department of the ;ivc I'liiiit'il' . Wasiiino ion, Dec. Id. The annual report nf attorney-general Miller wus submitted to congress today. It reviews Ihe business of thu I'nited States supreme court and devotes u chapter to the circuit court, of appeals v. hieh he suys haf been organized in each circuit and is ready for business, although the additional circuit judge in each circuit have not yet been appointed. Mention is made of the heavy increase ill the hu-im -s of the court of claims ami the roe meiula- tiiui is made that Ihe working folio of the court be legally increased. He says it i- ai-o 1 1 . - e.-sai y that some provision he made for the repri sentalion of Ihu interests of the government beforu Hit: board of appraisers in eii.-toins eases appealed ap-pealed from the collector to Ihe board of appraisers, ap-praisers, lie invited attention to it special report, on the subject of Indian depredation claims, and shows Ihu importance of u change in the conduct of llial business. The claims iiggregale :.'0,K10. On the subject of I'nited States prisons thu attorney geni i ul says: "In pursuance of Ihe rcconnncndiUiiins m Ihe annual report of this department a hill was passed by the hist congress authorizing the coiislrucl ion of three United Slates prisons, to he located one north and another south of the thirty-ninth thirty-ninth degree of north latitude Mini east of Ihu 11... ki.-s and tliu third west of the Km ki"s, but congress by evident inadvertence failed to make any appr.ipriiiti.ni tm the purchase of Kin li sites and the erection of such build. ings. I re nuiend that the appropriations evidently contemplated by Unit art he made, so this work may go forward. Afler speaking of the well. known tlilliciil-ties tlilliciil-ties iu the enforcement of Ihe Chinese exclusion ex-clusion act he says: "If it is desired that these laws shall he made cll'eelive, tin y should be so changed that they cannot be misunderstood. To arrest and try such per sons and as a result simply .-cud them back across the British line is shown to bean idle expenditure. 'Ionic of labor and money by the fact that as 1 might well be expected the same piisons haio to he arre.strd and tried over and ov. r again. Moreover, it is ipiite uncertain whether thu order requiring Uu Chinese prisoners sent back ii.lolhe Hriti-h dominions domin-ions could be made elTeetive. 'I his subject de;;. -mis pronipl eonsiiler.il ion." From inlorinatiou olllcial and uiiollirial in regard In the iidniiiiistral ion of tic laws in Alaska Ihe attorney general is impressed that such administration i not salistai tory ; and Hull it t an only be made satisfactory hy new legislation. The attorney general culled ii.ieiition to Ihe evils of the lee system, and advised as a siiislilule stipulated salariis iu all i a.-es. II" reviews Ihe Icgi'l proei .-dings in the rase of (In- Cliilrau slrainrr Hutu, and sums up as follow I': ''Upon the trial of this indictment it was held by Ihe district court that thr-e proceed, ings were nut jn violation of Ihe no ul i nitty lawsof the I'niled Slabs, tirsl, because the enti rprise was a legitimate ei iniinriial i transaction, and second, because tli eon-grrssioii.il eon-grrssioii.il pui I v of Chile, not luiv .ng reieived re-ieived rccogiiilioii from Ihe government of the I nib d Stales cither a a government ,' jmr or us belligerents, the acts done bv the i . pr.-senlui ives of and the inb're-t of that puny in Ihe way of hostilith s against the Chilean government were not ill violation of tin statute of Ihe 1 nib -1 SL.tes. Ill short that il is only in the interest of the government recognized us such (A' .'"' or as belligerent that the in ulrulitv statute of the United Slates can be nolulcd." . . . |