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Show FEW PARDONS till ANTED. Reesevell llss Heeled Mere Tbaa Any President foe Vsara. .lameB F.a.hy Smith, pardon attorney In the department of j.talice, baa rendered ren-dered to the attorney -general blare-port blare-port of pardon work , during the yrar ending June tutli luat. The report shows that 7uo oaaea ware handled. The majority of them were reported adversely hy district atUirneye and Judgee and not cousidcred by the preal-dent. preal-dent. The president acted nn 11 rnaea. of which he denied 111 and exercised executive ex-ecutive clemency in some form in 1114. He granted sixty pardon, three conditional con-ditional pardoua, twculy-oine pardons to restore civil rli;hu, and commuted tl-irty-six sentence. From the report It appear thnt President 'osev,dl has granted fewer pnnlona and denied more, proportionately, proportion-ately, thau any president for tnuuy vrs. |