Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-12-12

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50 per day.
Secretary Of the Navy, $1,000, which is
, $i2 81 per day.
Foreign Ministers, $4,000. which is s24
; % per day, besides I'LL OUTFIT of ., 900 dol
lars
i Chief Justice $4,000, which, allowing
the lime occupied ia travelling and aites-
dance 10 be four months. or TO DAYS IN
each year. is SOB 80 per day
| Associate Judges, s., 500. which is, for
100 DAYS, S29 10 per day.
Post-Master-General, $1,000 per an
! mum.
Comptroller ofthe Treasury, 81. 500 per
| annuIu.
Treasurer, $4,000 per annum.
Auditor OF The Treasury, $4,000 per
annun.
Register of Tie Treasury, ss,e05 per
| aunaIi.
Commissioner OF tue General Land
| Once, So, 900 per annum.
Commissioners of internal Revenue, &c.
| 600 per annum.
Superintendent General Of Siiliiary Sup
| plies, So 900 per annum.
Attorney General, sa.ooo per an
| mum.
Pay Master General, $500 Per an
! mum.
l = 4
partmenis, each 5000 dollars per an
mum.
And about thirty clerks in ihe different
Offices, from 1900 to 1000 dollars per an
NUM-.
Il, Tiyginie Judges of the Court Of
Appeals, $4,000 per annum, which, al
lowing A months, or 100 days for the
whole time occupied i'll a year, is $50 s3
per day.
Judges of the District Courts, 81 SOD
per annum, which, for 5 months, or 80
days, the extent of the time occupied, is
SIG 66 per day.
Ia PenLsyiraaia-The Judges Of the SUI
preme Court receive $1,000 per annuni,
which, for 100 days, the extent of the
time occupied in year, is SIG GO per
day, besides travelling expences.
The Presidents Of the Courts of Com
mon Pleas, $1,000 per annum, which, al
lowing five months for the time occupied,
Is $40 60 per day, besides travelling ex-
penses: and I'll the officers in peDnsylva-
MIA, from the constable upwards, have re-
ceIved an increase of COMPENSATION,
within ten years, OF at least fifty per
cent.
Bat its said. the Judges arc commits
stoned, and, of course, il is implied that
they are III service the whole year.-lSuf,
by the same implication or legal intend
incnt, Il member ofCong~ess Is III. service
also the whole year. II, in fact, a member
OF Congress is In session as many days az
ajudgei IN the year, his actual service is as
great. In vacation, he is supposed to he
employed, as it is his duty, in reading 81
study. The same remark Will apply TO Il
member OF Congress, and if he is pre-
sumed 70 he as faithful as Judge, lie
will read as much and study as much, &,
would ask If it should be less necessary
for the legislature to be enlightened, that
controuls every branch ofthc government,
than the Judiciary or executive depart
ments But the duties of Judge dis
qualify him from being lawyer, and lie
has no time TO superintend his farm, or
practice medicine, &c. In this respect,
Tie member osCongress must give up his
practice at ihe bar, and in the case ofthe
farmer or the doctor, the Judge has
greatly the advantage, because the ser
vice he performs, only separates him from
these avocations for short Intervals
These Disqualification will not apply 70
state legislatures, for there the term of
service is at period when the neighbors
are healthy, the farmer only attending 10
his stock, the courts of justice closed -
the term OF service so short, and the dis
lance so inconsiderab!e, that the sacrifice
cannotbe compared to a six months sicge.
cannot speak as TO other members, bnt
as to myself, | am as much engaged in
the public service during The recess, as I
am al the city OF Washington the only
difference is, that Lam a good part of my
| time, upon my own farm, and not at The
expence incurred fromt. This measure,
which has excited so mvch discomfort, in
wolves feeling, and not principle and,
~, g. 4 ~
signing, the nature of the measure was
. well calculated TO arouse the jealousy OF
| thc people, by our increasing our own
| compensation: but they should recolleCt
that they have given us that power, and
| no other branch of the government can
| take hold of it. The constitution vests
us with that power, and perhaps there is
not man III iiie Uaited States Of imerI-
ca who can suppose, for a moment, ilat
the present compensation alludc TO, the
SIX dollars per day, can remain perna-
nent as tic laws OF The Modes and Per-
SLAMS, while there is a gradual deprccia-
ton of money, and proporfionable IN
crease of lie cost ofdiet, Of cloiIing, and
! allihe neccssarics Of life: and 20 give
| memorable example Of the Performance Of
Congress TO touch 'his subject, until dri-
ven 10 It By necessity, tie compensation
has been six dollars per diem. from iie
origin OF tie government, upwards oi %
| years ago, and il '9G the sergeant at arms
and the door-kecper received three dol.
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