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allowed the compensation of two offices In other words
be is perfectly willing receive the compensation o. ne
higher oice-tbat Of acting Secretarysubject 10 hs Se
auctions Of the amount which he has already
in conformity with the wish OF Mr. Dckns, 10 amero tns
bill by striking out ill ater the enacng clause ana insert
ing az substituts the following;
That the proper accounting officers Of the Treasury De
be- they hereby required TO account with
allow Asbuy Dickens late chief clerk In the Treasury
Department and late chief clerk n me
Treasury Department, Secretary OF the Department Oh
State BY appointment from President Jackson the same
received By the sid A.Suy bcfns clerk Of either
Of sh0ss o., during .0s same ss to be
pristsd, and In ,ail of all desnsnds therefor
The smendrens which offer is in the precise terms
the bill. from the Senate by which il is proposed to COM
ton Of the last line have chosen to add the words nd
in full of all demands therefor that there shall be
claim hereafter for any part Of the compensation claimed
and not allowed. beg leave to state that this bill
has passed the Senate as been referred in this House
to the Committee of Claims, and that the Committee Of
Claims have agreed to report the Senate bill and will as
understand report II they have opportunity
to Co under the rules of the House, that the chief
and perhaps the only obstacle TO the redress which Mr.
Dickins asks Is removed BY his waving the claimtol
double ray which has been made the subject of so much
remark.
wish to ask the attention of the House to precedent
OF this kind before take my seat refer to hn act tc
compensate NJ
eth Congress an" which may be found page 759 of the
ninth vol.me of the Statutes at Large 1t approved
February !, lsi9, and reads thus
Thst the proper accounting officers of the Treasury De
70 account With and allow to John NJ Moore late chief os
OF the General Land Ocs FOR the tmo he discharged the
allowed by law TO the Commissioner for those duties
be paid out Of moneys In the treasury not otherwise
deducng hersrom the compensation received
by said Moore during the said time chief clerk
will hat hal y,f lie o1p
ideneal With that Of my amendment and ID In substance
| exactly the same.
In the case Of MeoFe, the Commissioner of the Lame
Office received his GALAXY during the time for which
the chief clerk allowed the salary Of Commissioners
deducting his salary es clerk Ard ore than that, ou
statutes are full of instances in which Congress has given
to an officer performing he duties of two distinct Offices
the higher salary deducng the lower. Such is the cas-
in which he may have exercised the various acts for thu
relief Of charges dafaires od intsrm We have already
during the present Congress- ii recoileet rightly passed
bills OF that character, and darng thh last Congress th
same thing was done. THE principle which my amend
ent Is based has been recognised repeatedly and uniform
conormable to The practice to whssh REFER and satsac
tory to the caimart hope the amendment will be adopt
ed and that ia the amended shape the bill may pass
Mr. LETCHER. With regard to the precedent referred
to by the gentleman from New Jersey ii rightly in
formed there person in the higher office who hat
drawn the same salary paid to the temporary
pant OF the commssonershp. There Ia hercfote, mate
| rial difference between tisst case and this.
M. WAbkER | would remind the gentleman from
Virginia and the House Of the bill passed by Congress du
ring the last session. for the benefit of Mr. Pendleon WHIT
held subordinate diplomatic post in one of the Soutl
American States He instructed to preceed to dsan
point beyond the sphere Of his duties and there make
treaty and Congress o. Its last session, passed bill
giving him additional compensation for that service
Mr. LErCHER. did not vote for that BILL SO the gen
tlemans remark does not hit me- DESIRE before taxi
my seat to suggest an amendment to the amendment
the gentleman from New Jersey and that is to add at tn
close of his amendment these words
Provided That the sum paid T. ny Dckns be charges