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Show The President Refuses the Senate. Washington, January 29. The Attorney-' Attorney-' General has sent a letter to the Senate in ' answer to a resolution calling for ''all documents docu-ments and papers in relation to the management manage-ment and conduct of the office of United States Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama," in which, after acknowledging the receipt of the resolution in question, he says: . "In response to said resolution, the President Presi-dent of the United States directs me to say that the papers whioh were in this Department Depart-ment relating to the fitness of J. D. Bennett, recently nominated to said office, having been already sent to the Judiciary committee of the Senate, and the papers and documents which are mentioned in said resolution and still remaining in the custody of this Department, De-partment, have exclusive reference to the suspension by the President of George M. Dustin, late incumbent of the office of District Dis-trict Attorney of the United States for the Southern District of Alabama.' It is not considered con-sidered that the public interest will be promoted pro-moted by compliance witn said resolution and the transmission of the documents and papers therein mentioned, to the Senate in executive session. Very respectfully, A. H. Gabland, Attorney General. |