The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1859-03-18

above tickets are composed of the@yery bes
men in the Borough, and should receive tn,
Esupport of men Of aIlparties who desire gooc
officers.
MORE BLACK REPUBLICAN ECONOMY
MESSRS. WILLIAMS AND sWALkER VOTE
TO INCREASE THE EXPENSES OF THE
LEGISLATURE.
The $7oo salary quite palatable to
the Black Repub lican "reformers."
The Lower House of our State Legislature
passed on the 9Th inst, an appropriation bill
the fourth section of which reads as follows
''Sec. 4. For the payment of the expenses O
''the Legislature, including the pay and mile.
sage of the members, clerks and officer.
''and the amount authorized by law for satione.
cry, newspapers and lights, the sum of one
| 'sdundred and fifty thousand dollars"
I When this section was read, Mr.. Hottenstrne
moved to amend by inserting $l23,400 and
striking out $4,000 also by s.adding
that SO much ofthe act passed 2lst April, 1858,
increasing the salary from $500 to $500 be and
the same is hereby repealed"
To this Mr.. HamersIy offered the following
| amendment
That in lieu of the mileage now allowed
BY law, il shall be the duty OF each lrnpmber of
the Legislature TO make detailed statement
under oath of bis actual necessary expenses in
h
ment, and file the same IN the Office of. the
State Treasurer; whereupon it shall be the dJty-
OF the said Treasurer to pay such member the
end OF, tire session trre purpose or derraying
his expenses home. That the compensation of
Wembers of the Legislature, shall be one dollar
eand fifty cents for every day on which they
shall be in actual attendance upon their legsla-
tive duties, and that the daily pay of the Speak
er shall be two dollars. That all laws or parts
Of laws inconsisten! herewith be and the same
are hereby repealed
On Mr.. Hamerslv's amendment, the yeas and
nays stood as follows:
YEAs-Messrs. Acker, Ballet, Barlow, Bay
ard, Beytolet, Bryson, Buriey, Church, Custer,
Evans, Fearon,.. Fisher, Fleming, Foster, Glatz,
Good, Gray, Gritman, Hamersly, Kinney, Me-
hafey, Matthews, Mcclure, M'Curdy, Miller,
RamsdeIl, Rose, Sheppard Smead. Smith, Berks,
TAYLOR, Wagonseller, WALKER, Whitman,
Wiley, WILLIAMS, (Bedford,) Wilson With
row, Wolf, Woodring, Zoler, and Lawrence,
Speaker-48.
Nays -Messrs Abbott, Barnsley, Boyer,
{Cleariitld,) Boyer, (Schuylkill,) Chase, Dis
mant, Dodds, Durboraw, Eckman, Galley,
Goepp, Graham, Gratz, Green, Harding, Hill,
II
Lawrence, tWashington,) Mann, Mil, Palm,
Pinkerion, Proudfoot, Pughe, Rohrer, Shafer,
Shields, Stephens, Stoneback, Styer, Thomp-
son, Thorn, Walborn, Warden, Wigton, Will
cox, Williams, Bucks and Wiliston-4l.
So the question was determined in thea Erma-
tive. On Mr.. Hottenstine's amendment as
amended by the adoption of Mr.. Hamersly's
proposition, the vote stood
YEAs-Messrs. Ackpr, Ballet, Barnsley,
Barslow, BertoIet, Boyer, tScbuyIkill,) Church,
Caster, Evans, Fearon, Fisher, Glaiz, Gray,
Gfitman, Hamersly, Jackson, Mphaffey,
MClurr, Miller, NealI. Mil, Oaks, Pennell,
Peirce, Price, Quigley, Ramsdrll, Rose, Shep-
pard, Smead, Smith, (Berks,) Wagenseller,
WALKER, Whitman, Wigton, WILLIAMS,
lBedtord,l Wolf and Lawrence, Speaker 49,
NAYs-NIessrs Abbott, Bayard Bryson, Bur-
ley, Campbell, Chase, Dismant, Dodds, Durbo-
raw, Eckman, Fleming, Foster, Galley, Goepp,
Good, Graham, Gratz, Green, Harding, Hill.
Hotienstine, Keneagy, Ketchum, Kinney, Law
renee. tWashington.l Mann, Matthews, Nc
Cardy. Palm, Pink-rtou, Proudfoot, Pughe,
Rohrpr, Shafer, Shields, Stephens, Stoneback,
Siyer. TAYLOR, Thompson, Thorn, Waborn,
Warden. Wilcox, Wiley, Williams, Bucks
FWilIiston, Wilson, Wilbrow, Woodring, and
Z1lhr-5l.
So the question was determined in the mega
tive, aud the House refused TO repeal the Extra
Pay Law OF the last session.
Il requires but small amount of shrewdness,
to detect the trickery OF which Messrs. VIII
liarns and Walker, the representatives from this
district, along with large number Of their po-
litical brethren, were guilty in voting upon
/ ihe proposition TO reduce the salary of members
Of the Legislature. They had soemnly and
repeatedly pledged themselves to the people,
that ifthey were elected they would do their
uymossio have the pay of members reduced, and
| yet, in delisrrse of all their promises and their
pledges, we here find them voting foF Hamer-
sly's amendment, which, as every sensible
| man in The Legislature must have known, was