, 1843-05-20


was every assurance CT the three dollars
a day from the public crib,-and let me
remind you that for four months during
the past cold and hard winter, you and
each of you received three dollars per
day of the peoples money, either for
work or for play, while many ofyour con-
%stituents who are as good by nature as
you are (though l would not presume 10
say they were by practice, } made their
own fires, fed their own stock, baked
and eat their own bread, and then did
not make three cents per months, while
each Of you must have received from the
State Treasury, including your mileage
and per diem, at least 500 per month.
Now take the whole session, and | make
each of your salaries $3S4,00. Now
deduct from hat sum $;84 for your ex-
penses which would be $21 per month,
Ga fair estimate | think for boad, washing
and horse feed, in this country,) then
you have left the snug little sum Of $500,
all Of the hard stuff too, or its equiva-
lent. Now out of that sum 4 person
might reasonably suppose that you would
spare a few dollars to dcfray the expense
of lay ing before your constituents a faith
full account of your stewardship; and By
so doing you will oblige many voters Of
Pike county, and more particularly a CT
tizen of GAINESVILLE.
N. B.-NIr. Givens, your attention is
particularly called to the following cx-
tract, taken from the Missouri Republic
can of the 9th January:
Mr.. jackson went for representation
according TO population. He was here
notified that he wa; out of order by Mr..
Speaker, and begged leave 10 withdraw
lis shccch. After several others had
spoken the vote was ia ken On Tie pas
sage of the resolutions, as follows:
Ayes: Messrs. Aberncthy. Allen, An
derson, Andrews, Arnold, Barkhurst,
Bast, Bay, Burden, Carson, Chiffon,
Crawford. Ddggett, Donovan, Edwards
of Ray, English, Garrison, Given. CO.
forth, Grant, Harrison. Hough, Howell,
Hudson of st, Louis, Huston, Jackson,
jenkins. Lands, Lindsey, Lucas. Mauls-
by, McClannahan. McGhency, McMinn,
Miller. Minor of Cole, Minor. of St.
Louis, Montgomery, Moss, Murphy,
Qucsenberry, Rowland, Sayers, Shelton.
Shields, Smart, Smith ofBoonc, SNYDER.
Tate. Tiliery. Wash. Wellman, Wells,
Wheaton. White-5I.
Noes: Messrs. Alexander. Ballard.
Bell. Cofiman, Coles, Compton. Cowan.
Cameron. Ellison. Griffin of Macon,
Given, Hudson Of Ozark, liver, Johns,
Landers, Long, Lusk. Marshall, Me
Henry, Mullegcn, Paris. Price of J,hn-
son, Rogers, Scott. Slack, Smith. ofClin-
Ton, Warren, West, Whipplc, Williams
Of Howard, Wilson, and Mr.. Speaker
81.
Inc SpeakcrSaid that two-thlrds not
voting in the affirmative the amendment
was lost.
Thus was disposed of a proposition TO
amend the Constitution, making an ap-
proach towards equal representation, but
defeated by a majority Of a minority
This is not the last that will be heard of
amendments 10 the Constitution at the
present session. The same proposition,
| understand, will be r~e-introduced in
another FORM"
1t will be seen from the above, that
Mr.. Givcns' name is recorded for and
against the same resolution, which is 4
very striking Illustration of his consis-
tency.
To remove the county scat, he lent his name,
hnd 10 show consistency, signed it back again.
c.