The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1852-02-26
Correspondence Of The Southern STANDARD.
WAsu,ScTox Fob l6 1880

Correspondence Of tie Southern Standard.
WAsuNGToN, Feb lG, 1852.
This being resolution day in lhc House,
no regular business was transacted.
Mr.. Orr introduced resolution, calling
upon the President to inform the House
weethcr Prosper NJ. Wetmoro, late Navy
Agent, at New York, was a defaulter p
what is the amount of the dcfalcation
and what steps have been taken to cnforc,
the collection of the same? The gossip
here is that WctmOrc was dcfautcr to
the amount of SlsO,OOO, and that he was
liable to indictment under the sub-trcaa
ry law that he compromised the matter
with the President, through Wing lawyers,
and agreed TO Ny whatever balance was
found due: : that he has paid 1OO, 900 dol
lars, which still leaves $4,000 due the Go
mernment. The case, however, should not
be preIjudged until the President furnish
cs the llousc-with the information called
for in tholaeseiution. The Committee on
sro,a Mssfs S cns allowing Io"% I'd the .,s. as
mileage allowed to all the other members
and de!SEtes. Itsccnis when the Terri
torial GovernmCntwas Sgmized, that
section WIS introduced into the bill, res
tricting the mileagA to $500 Iollars. The
committee OonsilSiS it invidious to res
trict but one delegate or membcr, and the
bill reported was in footing with every o
thcr member. 1t led to "a long debate in
which various notifications and reforms
were suggested, but the House had come
to no definite conclusion on the subject
when it adjourned.
The debate was participated in by Hen
dirk, Robinson, Stephens, of Georgia, Mar
shall, TOombs, Woodward, and Others.
Mr.. Woodward made a capital speech,
and gave some home thrusts 70 that dem
agogueism in the House which would re-
ducc its own compensation. He said that
every department Of the Government was
better paid than the Senate and House,
and quoted figures to prove it. lie fur
thcr stated that the only way to keep the
| House Independent of the President, was
u pay its members wcll-libcralIy for
their er,;:cs. lie spoke of the influence
which tho President exercised in the ap-
pointmcnt of mere subordmatcs ard heads
of bureaus. Their salaries were better than
members of Congress and he had known
Senators and Representatives to leave their
respective HouscS-quit the service oftheir
constitucnts-to accept these subordinate
positions, because the salaries were better.
Pay your members literally, and you will
thereby keep them removed from tempta-
tion. He was in favor of allowing the de-
lcgate from Oregon the same mileage rs
tho members from California, and the de-
legates from Mexico, Minnesota, and Utah.
Mr.. Marshall, Of California, made rare
speech. lie said from the tine California
applied to this Government for admission
into the Union, down to the present pc
Rod, she had been neglected and stinted
by it. He said their feelings Of resent
mcnt were already aroused, and they
would give vent to them in no mild terms.
When three ounces Of gold were found in
Georgia and North Carolina, ,nints were
at once built; but California, producing
one hundred millions of gold, annually,
could not even get blacksmith shop
they did not want any thing better They
would take cabin, or shanty, and coin
their gold, If Congress would give them
authority. Hesaid his mileage, although
it amounted to 10000, was not too much
that it would not reimburse him for his
expenses in swimming his seat" lie had
TO ride mule over mountains and through
valleys; that the feeding cost fifty cents a
pound and that the expense of the mule
was, therefore, not less than five dollars
per day and, said he, " Mr.. SpealeE, be-
sides that, let me tell you that we hayeto
pay twenty-five cents drink for our r.
quor, and the boys use it in our parts, We
ry freely during election times u IL was
a rare speech. He isa brother Of Hon.
Thomas F.Marsbal, Of Kentucky, who fig
ured here some years ago.
The weather .s again bsd--bad--bad !
It Is showing pretty hriskly while ] write.