The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-08-31

teach French or Latin, other languages, diff
hcu 10 be Obtained that there is fear that competent per
sons cannot be secured unless we pay them two thou
sand dollars Ii the committee had proposed, when the,
changed the mode OF communication 10 direct sum. L
keep the salaries where they had been should not have
objected But here is proposition 10 increase. II il
IN keeping with every bill making appropriations tha
we have had. The constant tendency is TO enlarge
the expenditures II has become increase ht
compensation of employees OF the government in almos
any appropriation bill that comes before us. We have
gone so far in lavish expenditure that we have
this startling Tact, that while IN 1880 the expenses of The
government fourteen millions OF dollars, being
about one dollar or little 10 each nhabitan the
appropriations asked for the present session by the Sec
fetary OF the Treasury his estimate to forty
FIVE millions OF dollars. OF this sum more than thirty
i've millions to the identical expenses paid by
fourteen millions me appropriations will greatly ex
ceed the estimates. II we do not begin somewhere il is
hopeless 10 expect TO get the expenses OF the
within any reasonable limits We know tha, in this
country we have State governments whose proper PROV
ince il is TO discharge OF the ordinary duties o! gov
ernment yet Notwithstanding this, the central govern
ment, instituted for few specific objects. has gone
increasing lis expenditures until they have now sweed
to such enonous amount that il is time TO call atten-
ton 10 the subject agree with The senator from New
York [Mr DcKINsoNl that it is to large expenditures to
which we should chiefly direct our attention. Bot do
not choose Tor one, whatever may be the views of the
honorable senator, unnecessarily go on with this sys-
TEN of increasing IN small matters Let US, at any rate,
keep within the old limits when we can,
Mr.. DAVIS, OF Mississippi. The senator from Maine
has made very good speech, if had been appended 10
something TO which it had application but it is wholly
napplcabe here The whole increase OF salary is only
about 300 Tor these proessors and of them has his
salary diminished. having been accidentally higher than
the others The proposition is 10 put the principal pro-
fessos upon the grade The senator has not in.
quiIei into the case, or am sure he woald not have
made the opposition he has made or at least not for the
he has given He supposes we can get men any
where in the country for this amount OF money. lie re-
minds me OF the argument made by Cobbet against a
certain allowance TO the Crown He said that he could
get an ableboded to perform all the duties OF the
Crown lor ESQ year. am sure the senator could get
h<lta tal
Point at almost any price; hut would ne get competent
men The instruction in a military academy is OF pc
cuar character Military engineering, for instance, is
cessary be filled BY officers OF the army. OF the requisite
attannents BY entering upon the duties OF professor
sho, they lose all chance OF future promotion, and OF
professional distinction. II is only those who are devoted
to scence and who have the highest degree OF capacity,
who qualified Tor the Office The senator was never
more mistaken than in suPposng that their saaesare now
above those gwen IN other Institutions They are greatly
below what either of these professors would obtain in
other institutions. if they would deign to go into them
But they have PRIDE il the institution with which they
have grown up One of them has been professor there
Tor more than twenty years, and another about twenty
four years They have grown old in the institution, and
II IS that attachment 10 II which binds them to i.
Again, the senator is mistaken in supposng that these
professors have not complained Of their salaries, io they
have. The place is where it is very expensive
live Tney obliged 10 enerain great deal oil CON-
pany, and their salaries barely support Them In places
where they could live foi much less, they could obtain
much higher salaries than they now receive in the Mill
tary Academy That academy has afforded fruits TO the
country Is ii the and the mortar which have done
this Ors il these professors, whose salaries It is now
attempted 10 cut DOWN. The proposition OF the commit
tee is not greatly TO increase the expense OF the academy
but TO put II on basis in which the allowance shall be
direct instead OF being Indirect Persons not knowing
what the allowance amounted to imagined that they
were receiving extraordinary salaries. But place The
matter fairly before the country and demagog VIII no
longer make this handle for their purposes. Fix the
salaries 50 that every one may know the amount they
receive, and then measure the compensation with the
raI tn. fhuE SflnArr rH
below that paid The highest colleges OF The country
These men, think, entitled to the gratitude OF the
country for all they hive bestowed upon that academy for
through their efficiency that has given those fruits to
the army and spread them BROADCAST through The coun-
Try isa poor return we are making THESE professors
cav at few hundrd dollars IN relation 70 men saa
ries regret that this has occurred, when should have
expected every that the proposition merely
TO change the mode OF compensation expected 10 see the
proposition adopted at once, and never again 10 near .ns
cry rased until some raised Tor the increase Oh Tue
salaries and believe an increase they should nave
Mr. BRADBURY Mr. President, the style OF remark
OF the senator from Mississippi par'akes more OF the
camp than the Senate He undertakes 10 decide er ca
edrd whether my remarks were applicable 10 The ques
lion or not That senator must permit me TO Judge.
do not choose, when he undertakes 10 pronounce upon
the applicability of my remarks, TO submit to his deer
sion | Judge Of that matter and whether they are
pertinent to the subject before the Senate not and not
the senator II he sees ht 10 call me TO order 10 lhal
mode of testing the point, will cbeehuly submit
made the suggestion here, proposition 10 increase
salaries without necessity, disclosed TO the Senate |
h to call the attention OF the Senate 70 ihe SUBJECT,
because every hand indications OF the increase
OF eypenditure remarked | thought IT proper 10 call
attention the subject, whether j was IN large or small
cases This is great maiter but as involves not
only change in the mode OF compensation, but an IN
crease OF compensation have done my duty by noticing
the fact. think we should look INTO every case, and
that the expenditures OF the government are not un-
necessarily increased leave the matter with the Sen,
ate Il is Of itself OF but little consequences, aud VIII
no, further time about il, remarklns only that
is time TO stop the increase OF the expenditures OF lhe
government
Mr. DAVIS. Of Mississippi II | had ever supposed
was to gain anything BY leeturlng the senator from
Maine should give up and come TO The conclu,
sion that he is unieachable. The senator's remarks,
sad were not applicable the question, because they
had relation To state OF facts that dad not exist He
takes issue with me because | told him have a
night to Judge and every other man has right To Judge
when he looks into the case. whether the statements are
applicabe or not Whether my manners belong TO the
camp or the forum, hope that my argument will always
be governed by truth The senator committed an error
in fact for ii he did not commit an error, he must have
known that the state OF facts upon which he was arsu
ne did not exist and shartaby supposed him TO have
committed an error and to have supposed state OF iact'
which did not exist and therefore to have come to con-
cusions which the facts did not justify II lbe senator
takes issue upon that, he s welcome TO make tne mos
OF IT,
He winds up this argument which he has himself IN
troduced with the declaration that, having stated his op
position TO the amendment oi the committee ne ~ouu
leave 10 tue Senate Then he leaves itwhere he ouHd
Z! IT. think il probable that he has changed The opinion
OF no one. He has given basis Tor his own And u
the senator considered II matter OF such small import
ance Is agea pity that he could not have saved the
time OF the Senate in The debate which he has introduced
Inc question being taken upon the amendment IL was
agreed To-
| The other amendments were then agreed 10.