Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-09-09

Cincinnati Commercial, yesterday, as its
leader. Should the next Legislature be
Republican, there will be a lively contest
for the Senatorship between Schenck and
Sherman. 1t will be observed that "pub-
lie plunder" is at the bottom of the plot :
ITuE WASHINGTON CLERKS AND THE SENATOR.
Il was not designed by the Ohio Clerks in
the Department at Washington that their nice
little scheme for engineering the next election
OF Unitsd States Senator in Ohio should get
abroad But the vessel in which it was con-
cocted slopped over, and the ingredients are
as we'll known in Ohio as in Washington. They
combined to compass the defeat Of John
Sherman, whose claims to a reelection will
be considered at the proper time. He fell
into dsfavor with these plAee-hoders the
moment he refused to recommend an increase
of their salaries A correspondent Of the
| Cleveland Leader, who comes to the defense
of the clerks, substantially admits that there
ia a combination existing for the purpose al
legged but he denies that they are prom pied
to their present course by any sordid motive,
nasmuch as "the last Congress appropriated
$250,000 for an increase in the salaries OF
clerks According to our recollection, Con-
gress did nothing OF the kind The appro-
priation bill chung fire" in the closing days
OF the session, and had such an item appeared
| in it, the bill would have been defeated The
House did appropriate $25, 900 FOR its officers,
but not one cent of that sum went to the in:
crease of the salaries of clerks in the Depart.
ments.
| The request for an advancement of salaries
was not complied with; the bill for that pur.
pose owing its defeat to the influence of the
Chairman of the Committee on Finance in
the Senate. Had it been successful and the
appropriation been made, the protest of Sena.
tor Sherman would have remained all the
same, and been remembered against him by
the pace-men who now seek his defeat The
motive, therefore, exists, whether the appro-
priation does or does not and the efforts of
the writer to conceal the damaging fact that
the opposition of the Ohio clerks springs from
Senator Sherman's recommendation OF econ
omy in the disbursement Of the peoples money
is not at all surprising
But it is said, these clerks are citizens of
Ohio, participate in it's annual elections, and
should not be regarded as impertinently med
ding If, having Senatorial preferences, they
take occasion to express them. This is
stating the case mildly. Individually, and
outside their official capacities, they have an
unquestionable right to work for whomsoever
they please. The fact is, however, that they
have combined as a clerical body, to bring
their collective official influence to bear upon
the Senatorial questions. 1t was with the
presumtion that the people Of Ohio would so
understand it, that they recently addressed
l MI &c Al
State, asking Of them the names of candi-
dates for the Legislature, and for information
touching the popular feeling for or against
The reelection Of Mr.. Sherman Thew pro.
posed to sit as inquisitors on the legislative
candidates, and, if found favorable to the re-
election of the Senator, then to bring their
influence to bear in the County Conventions
and, if possible, to secure Legislative repre-.
sentatves who would vote for the man of
their choice That was the object OF the cir.
cuars sent out from Washington, and they
were 30 understood by those who received
them. The impertinence and the meddling
OF these clerical place-men lies in the fact
that they have undertaken to pack the Legis-
lature to suit their purposes, and, in manner,
to dictate to the people Of Ohio who shall
be their next representative in the Senate of
the United States
If there is any one of these gentlemen dis
satisfied with this pay and rations, let him re-.
sign, come home, and make the Senatorial
question his individual business Let him
appeal to the people against the reelection Of
John Sherman, on the ground that he de-
cliues to saddle them with extraordinary ex-
penses, by large appropriations for the in
crease OF the salaries OF certain clerks in the
departmental bureaus. and we shall offer no
objection. That is the fair and honorable
way of testing the opinion of the people. 1t
is their money that is to pay the salaries of
these gentlemen, no. John Shermans, and
the appeal should be taken to them direct
ly. II the Ohio clerks are not disposed to do
this, they will serve the interests Of the pso-
pie better, and save themselves from all re-
ptoaeh, by attending strictly to their clerical
duties, leaving the Legislature of Ohio to de-
eide for the people who shall be their next
representative on the floor Of the Senate.
The Cleveland Leader reports that on
/ Saturday last woman in that city fell into a
death.like trance, The pulse stopped and
respiration, to all appearance, ceased. The
body was even laid out by the friends for the
grave. After the lapse of several hours the
) seeming corpse came to, and there is now a
} prospect Of the woman's recovery.
Horace Greeley is to deliver the annual
address at the Minnaaota Agr;onl,ural Pa;.