The Evansville Daily Journal

A New Executive Department.—A scheme is on foot to erect Caleb Cushing's office into a department of the executive branch of government, under the name of Law Department. Mr. Adams, of Mississippi, lately introduced a bill in the Senate having this object. Mr. Cushing is to be provided with an Assistant Attorney General, who, we suppose, is to do the work, leaving his principal at leisure to attend to party politics. The Solicitor's office is to be transferred to it from the State Department. There is, of course, to be a suitable number of clerks, which will furnish opportunities for conferring offices upon those who have deserved them, by the support of measures hateful to the people. That the head of the Department may appear to have something to do, he is to attest all judicial commissions, &c., issued by the President.

Here, therefore, is another proposal to increase the patronage and influence of the Executive.