The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-08-16
PAY OF CONGRESS,


the session he received nothing Of his pay, although
the members generally keep pretty nigh even with
their accounts by drawing sums OF hundred, fifty,
or twenty five dollars at a time When he asked
the Sergeant alarms for a settlement, that officer
computed an item of nearly five hundred dollars
for mileage. Mr.. Smith produced memorandum
of his expenses In coming to Washington which,
together with eight dollars day for the time,
amounted to less than forty five dollars. He dou.
bled this amount to pay for his return home and
refused to receive more thus turning back into the
pocket of Uncle Sam about four hundred dollars
Mr.. Smith may think this right, but do not. II
rich men all act thus, men OF spirit care not how
poor they are, may wish to do SO too; and poor
men may, through this means, be excluded from all
participation in Congressional labors and Congress
sional onors"- Washington Correspondence Of the
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Most people will agree that Mr.. Smith was
right, and that it would have been little less
than robbery if he had acted otherwise. As
to poor men being excluded from Congress,
if they are not allowed to commit robbery,
why no honest poor man would want to go to
Con gress, or any where else, upon such con-
ditions. But it is an absurdity to contend
that eight dollars day and the actual mile
age are not enough for members of Congress.
Board can be obtained in Washington from
$40 to $40 per week, and it is not intended,
we presume, that members of Congress shall
make money
We agree with New York paper that it
would be great deal better to have a fixed
salary of say $1,000 year, the actual expense
of travel by the shortest route, and a deduc-
ton Of the per diem for each day member
fails to attend. We should then have men
in Congress whose services are worth more
than their salaries, short sessions, and hard
work.
GALLiPoLIs, JACKSON AND CHiLL1corHE
RAiLRoAD.-WHArO OHIO THINKS OF THE Co.
vlxeroS RoAp.-The report of Judge Nash,
President Of this Company, to the stockhold.
ers, which we find in the Kanawha Republi.
can, gives the present condition and future
prospects of work which Is designed to no
the connecting link between one of the main
termini of the great Central Virginia Road
on the Ohio river, with the whole system q,
Railroads in Ohio. The following extrac,
will show the high opinion entertained bv tbe
sagacious and practical business men If oh;o
OF the Covington and Ohio Railroad:
Inc directors have NO doubt but hat tbis yo.d
must be built 1t is Natures line for sor.; s ROAD
ncction between Ohio and the entire W. con
water and the East through the vai,s, an9 az a ~
Great kanawha and Central Virpin,. - 49, ~ tne
and Norfolk This route win be tonrS 80. niaono
ct one between Cincinnati and tids 1870 10 caeaP
even between Cincinnati and Nev Yoyt Ta, sno
shipped from Richmond to New York n, ss eu =
per BARREL and ten cents would place II ~ ~
efn end of the road on the Ohio river tn Va :.
MA road win have NO grades exceeding "a. .g ga
feet while there are miles of the Balm are 49,
with grades exceeding one hundred, and some !, |;
believed, high one hundred and sixteen s !,
twenty. The charge for q barrel of Aour FROM
Wheeling to Baltimore was eighty cents last winter
and Il 10 believed that sixty cents over such roar
as the Virginia, would be a. good a. eighty on n.
Bsl1more. Such being the case, barrel of fiou
BY this route can be carried from Cincinnati n
Richmond Tor seventy cents. and to New York foI
nlnsy I've cents. These calculations show that IN
vgtsis route win Be able 70 compete for the carrv
Ing era1e OF the West with any other line owe,
the mounfaiDs. These and other facts shov ths,
thu Virginia road must be made, uuless the ,.eocs
Of VirEInta are determined 70 cut fbemse,rss ~
fro9 Ill connecttcn with the mighty tide nj ~.
poeeing from the vast valley Of the Obio - "a.
water and the East For foreign shinm.ns -.
rouee VIA have the decided advansase oysr Al. IN
e. Freight can be shipped for Europe from No,snl
just - ebssp - h can be from New York Rs.;Sa.
this rosas will remain unobssructed With snow A.,
ing tts wtsts, from 10 greater southern ietituds
watea = notstdisG consideration, when h q knovn
that Wel9n produces seaks its outlet 10 the go
ssrssg sats vssy sesscs, more tAan any other.