In other words, I want to render you a service without having you compromise your political standing, and without making the slightest change in your party affiliations.

However, recognizing as you must the delicacy of the situation resulting from the position I occupy and the relation that I sustain to the administration, you will, I know, refrain from saying and doing anything that will place me in an embarrassing position before the public and before the administration with which I am identified.

The office to which I refer is that of special agent of public lands.

The salary is fifteen hundred a year and expenses.

The place is worth from two thousand to two thousand five hundred a year.