Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1838-06-20

GLIDING presents to the mental off1cers
and servants OF tbs Court, and others,
ON his presentation, and at Christmas,
s2.O95 So, in the space OF about
yearl The like expenses oil nearly
all our other foreign missions are 10
corresponding ratio.
Profession. grade of our For
eien Ministers was 10 be reduced 70
somc cases, especially that at Madrlo,
10 a Charge, with a salary of 4,ooo
dollars.
Praetice. "A Minister Plenipoten-
tiary has been kept at Madrid con-
stantly, and John II. Eaton IS now
there on salary Of 5000 dollars,
having also received his outfit OF the
same amount. And during the last
session of Congress an attempt was
made to increase the salaries OF al
our Foreign Ministers J Who could
have anticipated this from an Admins
,ration that proclaimed on this iioor,
lat least one of its most powerful ana
influential supporters, the late mr,
Randolph, who joined 10 the cry OF
retrenchment here proclaimed, and
what he said received the full oppro-
baton Of "the party"
I" So long as members OF Congress,
and not of this House only or chiefly,
will bow, and crnge, and duck, ana
fawn, and get out of the way at
pinchinr vote, or lend n helping hand,
at pinching vote. TO obtain these
places, never will consent to enlarge
the salary attached to them. We are
told they live at St. Petersburg ana
London, and that living there is very
extensive. Well, sir, who sent them
therel Were they impressed, sir !
Were they taken by press gang Oh
Tower-hil, knocked down, handcuffed,
chucked on board of tender, and
told tina. they must take the pay and
rations which His Majesty was pleased
to allow r.
Now appeal to you, Mr.. Speaker,
If tho moral application of those re-
marks has not been justly felt IN
Congress, and not in this House only
or chiefly" under the retrenchmeni
and reform Administration
Another precept ofthe reforming re-
mort. The comintte thought the mode
of appointing and compensatlng bea-
rers of dispatches liable to strong OBJ
jections, promo to degenerate INTO
species of iavoriiism little short OF
convenient mode of sending favorlies
abroad TO travel for their pleasure,
health. or instruction, out of the public
Golfers" :.
Praciicc. The President and his /
Secretary of State, both Jackson re- S
ormers, now take iavorlte clerk oil !
he State Department, whose larry at
he time was at the rate of l760 dol
ars per year, send him as bearer OF
dispatches to Mexico, and, for about
hree months service, pay him l2l2 S
dollars 80 cents, aud suffer him also to t
RAW his clerks salary for the period T
If his absence For this | refer you c
q the case of Robert Greenhow, who q
> the translating clerk of that Depart S
nent all the facts of the case being
stated in the reports Of the Secretary.
He excuses this transaction, by saying
hat the TRANSACTIONS which were re-
1uired during Mr.. Greenhow' absence
were made at his expense. 1t might
be well 20 inquire whether any trans
Ia.ions were required durlng that perl
cd, and why also it would not have
been quito us well to discontinue the
salary for the time, and let the govern
men, pay for any translations which
were needed. But do we not here
realize what the retrench-
ment report condemned in these words;
.. that am actual incumbent is consider
ed to have such sort Of property in
the office as to enable him to farm out
lis duties, and TO receive part OF its
revenues for doing nothing"
Another illustration oil this conve-
n,cnt mode of sending favorites a.
broad" 7" out of the public Golfers"
is found in the same list Of contingent
expenses of foreign intercourse. | al
lude to the case of Mr.. Charles Blddle,
who, when nominated by Gen. Jack
son for judgeship in Florida, was re-
lec.ed by the Senate.
After this rejection Mr.. Biddlc was
despatched by the Executive 10 Cen
trail America and New Grenada
What service he rendered we know
not; but it appears that for this mis-
sion an allowance of ST, ~ 90 has
been made. Mr.. Charles Bidde is the
same gentleman who had controver-
sly with Mr.. Senator Grundy, in which
the devotion ofthe latter to Gen. jack
son was questioned. We learn by
one of the printed documents, occa-
stoned by that dispute, that the Sena-
tor, for the purpose of proving himself
10 be what is called whole hog !