Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1828-02-06
Natto,1aI Congress.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 9
'sJd,e on Mr.. Chiiion's Rcsoiutions-Co Continue


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
THURSDAY, JANUARY pa.
Debate on Mr.. Chiions Rcsotfiions-C Continued.
MIR. RANDOLPH said, this thing was 10 be entered
into having at last paid for DAu,ere property,
from being in the middle of the session. or as he had
hoped. thirds through it, lie believed we had scarce.
ly begun it. Notwithstanding all that yet remained
undone, he thought, having passed appropriation
bill 1t would be better if we only remain to pass the
other, and then return. As, however, we have go
on, he would vote against the menincnt of the gentle.
man from New York, but he did not by that vote in.
tend 10 pledge himself 10 vote ultimately for the
luton ITSELF He would not vote send this subject
to the committee of ways and means, the chairman
of that committee had told that it would be sending
them voyage of discovery, to find out some terra
ineognita; but he would willingly 20 with the gentle
man from North Carolina (iir Cupcper) in sending
tito select committee. He knew that s',ch commit
ter would be constituted according The usage of the
House. If the subject of reform is to be brought up,
he hoped 1t would be pushed, in the only way in which
1t could be efectually pushed. by discussion this
floor, in the first places and it the fear discus
sfon, which must of necessity be protracted, which
induced him 10 ove with his usual success to lay the
resolution on the table. AS in the OF his motion
the resolution offered by his colleague, (AIr. Bar
bour on the subject of the Bank which only sup
ported by about nine he had ex,ected his motion
this to meet with the same fate
He would not hesitate to here in his place, that
the expenses Of the government too hig and that
they should be reduced; and TO reduce them as
practicable, he would join the gentleman from Ken
tncty heart and hand. lie would specify case or two
The salary of the President of the United States and
he hoped one would understand him wishing to
be raised had remained what it for forty years.
What other salary is there which raised when
by the mprovdence and incapacity Of the men who
at the head of the Treasury, and the counsels
pursued under their auspices, the whole country was
deluged with paper; when the people brought TO
that pass when they exchanged these notes bnto ned
every foot of land, and every shilling of IA.
Dor, bearing interest, for the OF
which bore interest; and agreed 10 allow 5oxsls
he mi N-afir t,iDi.
in cases. exceeded twenty per cent; when the
country flooded with this paper; when tobacco was
worth forty dollars per cw and cotton thirty dollars,
and common netd slave brought 200 dollars; when
land was at price exorbtant TO beggar ali be.
lief if il had not been paid in that trash, aad, after
all, was cheaper than il is nov?
He would point TO case-aJst incidtn-that of
the Attorney General He formerly paid 800
dollars year that being thought great reuunera.
ton for the duties Of the Office How had that salary
boen subsequently raised-he knew not hoy ofien?-
All the salaries have been raised. Have any been re-
dmcea? Not 1t is easy 10 talk ola certain style
of living and Of the dignity which belongs TO official
station In what does true dignity consist? Not In
gorgeous spendor sir. No. sir; we may swell till we
burst like the frog in the fable, but can never ri
val the splcndor and otentaion of the rich people on
the other side of tire water lie hoped should
equal it, We never could until country should
exhibit similar picture of misery. True dignity con
sfsts IN adopting expenditures TO means. II
does not consist in style and pagcantry, ia govern
ment protesting TO be republican. Dignity like han.
fNiDd-In
there you cannot confer il by station by salary.
There much true dignity in FabrcitIs-aDd
i:5re is much in Fabricus in any mona; ch; as
tjefe in Louis II V. who never got out of his bed
who was never seen, even by his valet, without tie
paraphernalia of his enormous wig-incorpfis Cm.ium
'capRlis There much true dignity in our Gu.
rins-in Roger Sherman-the Den.atrs of orr Coun-
fry, AS in any Ambassador sent here by his most
Christian Majesty, when were his goud and dear
allies
Wimn money is peny-w,cD they who manrsc this a E
fair food the county with paper-nnd every thing rails
Ell to very high price, salaries raised Agai,yhen
every tbns has experienced depreciation Of from, 10 to
perhaps so per cent the tro: being bad afford good
and sufficient why salaries should be raised So
that happens here, which happens in every other nsu-
t"n where the Stockholders at the Of the drec
torsiie people the stockholders this great concern
and all have to look at in public man--it is my
to sone, rcig ion-i, whether he IS for the s'ockol-
the directory. When money plenty,
ries raised: when times hard the salaries also
raised So hat TO speak in familiar sngma GIN the Ian
gIaga in which lie always wished the people
u resembles the oldishioned game OF CrOss win, Pile
vdu LOSE He wished knew if the public Offices were
BITTER hlcd than formetly-if there less able
in the public service, wien Jefferson the hcad
oi The State Depa tnrentwhea Hamilton presided over
t''c Treasury, and Knox was in the War Department..
there Navy Department tbcm-and when we had
Il Bradford for an Attorney ticncrap Were tioso Of
fees filed then than they no"o Yet the sala-
res only little exceeded alfte salaries nov maid
Does the Chief Justicche ahOnt unrivaled-
I'll his ligh oice wi'h dignity now that lie
5000 dollars year than Ire did when ne only received
10002 Or do his Associates exhibit dignity they
have 1000 dulias an they did when they had only 3003
No they still. the performing their impor
tact duties with The same inr gritty and usefulness.
lie nod not intended to speak this sLhcct to-day, bot
he had been betrayed into it by the ulness Of his heart.
That part OF the country in which he vcd is sometimes
better oif-that is, quite badly Of SOME other
parts, because il is little father off from that Pandora
hcxa Bank-alih0ug some share of il; blessings still
reached there. There is hardly man who possesses
land, who make per omi of W and where
is ore there are twenty vino make noilg bot whose
PROFIT and loss stands the wrong side Of
they keep ledger. The country in state
now as has been in BEFORE lie remembered when
my Lord Coruwas passed thorough county, Carving
al before him, but then it bad. was
not so bad at the restoration of peace in 1885,