Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-06-13
VOL. XX---NO. 1873.

4 ----ASAAN
5 ending June 80, 1857, was taken up It j
i bill of fifty-one pages, and provides TO
e the salaries Of officers in the different De
& partments.
t On the question Of adopting an amend
q ment placing 100000 at the disposal of tn
q Secretary Of the Treasury 10 increase a
: his discretion the compensation o
r the Clerks in his Department
4 Mr.. WILSON said he was opposed T.
, giving such discretion to any man and
: especially to the present Secretary Of ths
Treasury. II would give that officer toe
7 much control over the men in his depart
} ment
Mr. FEsSENDEN said that the political
course of the Secretary of the Treasury had
not been very agreeable, perhaps, to Mr..
Wilson, and perhaps not to great many
other Senators, but he knew the Secretary
to be faithful and competent public officer.
The policy Of the proposed amendment had
been inaugurated under Mr.. Chase.
Mr.. HENDRICKS said there was nothing
IN the record Of the Secretary of the Trea-
sury to warrant Mr. Wilson's expression of
want Of confidence in him. He believed
him TO be capable and faithful officer, and
as citizen of Indiana he was proud of him.
Political differences ought not to be allowed
TO prejudice the minds Of the Senators in
such matters.
After some debate by Messrs Howe,
Trumbull and Howard Mr.. WILSON said
in reply to the remarks of Mr.. Hendricks,
he had no desire to cast imputations upon
the Secretary Of the Treasury, but it was
well known he (the Secretsry) had done a
great many things of which the mass of
the people throughout the country do not
approve. he had appointed men to Office
without requiring the oath prescribed by
law. There were great complaints against
him for his course in the selling of gold
He Wilson had received a letter from an
eminent merchant of New York on this
subject. 1t was very well known that when
others were in favor of coming down and rec
| ognizing the existence Of Congress he stood
out de6antly and boldly in a speech which
/ he (Wilson) would not undertake to charac-
terize- He had gone beyond the President
himself in maintaining policy that go out
OF every 100 citizens were opposed to
| Mr.. FESSENDEN said it was bad taste
for men to turn the questions of business
into political attacks. 1t was in bad taste
also to attack an absent man. He did not
agree with the Secretary in his speech and
| thought it was in bad taste. He believed
it showed nothing, so much as that the Sec
rotary was not in the habit of making a
speech and hardly knew Just where he was
going when he commencedl
Mr.. GRIMES said it was a prepared
speech, he (Grimes) was there and heard it,
and noticed the Secretary recalled several
sentences and repeated them Just as men do
when they are delivering their prepared
speeches.
Mr.. FESsENDEN said ne sometimes re-
called sentences, yet he never made pre-
pared speeches. 1t only showed the preju-
diced eve with which Mr.. Grimes Viewed
every thing done by the Secretary of the
. =, -, - NI,.C G..
dorsed the Presidents policy, and he (Fes-
senden) did not. He was sure however of
the honest intentions and capsbility of the
Secretary. As for the pending amendment
if it was a bad principle, he (Fessenden)
was more to blame for it than any other
man.
Mr.. GRIMES said he did not see the pro-
priety of talking of the bad taste or assail-
ing absent men Did not the Secretary of
Treasury assail Congress inits absence on
the evening of his serenade speech. He had
got reasons to give for the discretionary
powers asked for by the Secretary, and it
was we'll known what they were. He then |
reviewed certain recent acts of Mr.. |
McCulloeh's appointment of men who could |
not take the oath, the sale of gold, &c.
Mr.. CONNESS in a few remarks eharac
terized the persons who recently serenaded |
the Cabinet as wandering minstrels, politi |
eal scrubs, Folitiosl funsi, miserable depen- |
dents, &c.
Mr. SHERMAN explained the causes
which induced the Committee of Finance |
to report the pending amendment. The |
amendment was agreed to by the following |
vote:
YEAs-Anthony, Conness, Dawes, Doolit- !
tie, Fessenden, Foster, Guthrie, Harris, Hen |
bricks, Johnson, Morgan, Norton, Riddle, |
Salisbury, Sherman, Williams, and Van |
Winkle-17.
NAYs-Chandler, Cragin, Cresswell, Ed
munds, Grimes, Howard, Howe, Kirkwood, |
Lane, Of Indiana, NYe, Poland. Ramsey, |
Sprague, Stewart, Trumbull, Wade, and |
WilsOn-l7.
The amendment agreed to ia in the fol- |
lowing language. For the compensation of |
temporary clerks in the Treasury Depart |
ment, and for additional compensation to |
officers and clerks in the same Department |
100000. Provided that temporary clerks |
herein provided for may be classified SC |
eording to the character of their services, |
and that the Secretary of the Treasury may |
award such additional compensation, |
as may be in his Judgment Just, |
and may be required by the service, |
and 50 much Of said act making appropria- |
tions for the legislative, executive and Judi |
cial expenses of the government, approved |
March I'd, 1865, as fOrbids the Secretary of |
the Treasury to award any such additional |
compensation after the 1st of July, 1865, is |
hereby repealed. Provided, further, that |
out Of the appropriation of S250,000 made |
by said act for compensation to temporary
clerks in the Treasury Department, and for /
additional compensation to clerks in thall
same department, there shall be paid to /
each person therein appointed by the Sec
retary as a clerk on account, who shall |
have served in such capacity for one year
previous to the passage of this act, and |
whose pay amounts to less than g, 900,
per annum, the sum Of 500.
Mr.. DOOLITTLE offered resolution call
ing upon the President for any information
in his possession relative to the departure
of Austrian troops for Mexico, and asked its
immediate consideration.
Mr.. FESSENbEN objected. The resolu-
tion goes over.
Consideration Of the appropriation bill |
was then resumed.
The Committee on Finance recommended
the striking out of the following proviso in
the following clause For necessary ex-
penses in carrying into effect the several /
acts of Congress authorizing loans and the
issue Of Treasury notes, 1000, 900 pro-
vided no further expenditure be made for
the experimental system of hydrostatic
printing by the Treasury Department un-
til such experiments shall have been de-
fnitely authorized by law and a distinct
appropriation made therefor. The amend
ment was agreed TO.
The committee of conference on disagree
ing vote on the joint resolution relative to
appointments at West Point, made report,
which was agreed to-
Pending the consideration Of the appro-
priation bill the Senate adjourned.
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