The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-02-15
ConeresslonAl IlIograplles.

CONGRESSIONAL biographies
An enterprise IL seriously on foot, in
Washington, to have the House Committee
on Printing report In favor of printing
$4,000 COMES OF the book OF biogmphies of
congressman TO pay the author one dollar
per copy for copy-right and nave them
executed at the Government printing Of
flee. UnderJthe present laws any books
voted by the members to themselves, not
official records, must be charged to each
members account, The plan now Is to get
them done at the Government office. This
scheme. II successful, win probably cost
the Treasury sixty thousand dollars.
Were II not for the expense, we would
feel inclined to. favor the scheme-that Is,
3 IL the biography of each member produce
ed in the work, should be in the spirit,
even, Of @Bagght cNtenuatc or set down
auQht In malicew And IL so written, aud
so published--on the Cromwellian Idea,
paint me as am',-oh, tohdt book for
moral Reform Societlesand jail-libraries.
III The Constitution of Ohio declares
that the compensation of Judges shall not
be diminished or Increased during their
term of office.
~ Ths Leg eisEature having passed an act in
creasing the salaries of Common Pleas
g Judges from $500 to $500 per annum,
and there being now but three incumbents
81 in the State cut off from the enjoyments of
this Extra one thousand dollars, the dodge
has been resorted to by one, at least, Judge
FooTE, of Cleveland-to resign and then
8 have the Governor re-appoint them, to fill
OacaRciesl
Judge SMITH, of this circuit, is one of the
s. three, restricted, in this way, to the $1,000,
but we have not yet heard whether he in
tends to hold on or follow Cleveland Foote-
steps.
If Congressmen were elected, to serve for
$1,000 per year, and afterwards raised their
oion SALARIES to $1,000. why should not our
own Judicial SERVANTS have the undsturbed
and uncriticised privilege of f'whipping the
devil round the stump" by simply throw
ing away an old parchment worth but
Sl,5OO, and have our upright Executive
send new one instead, worth Sl,0OOmoreY
Who will have the effrontry to approve
the trick of a Congressman and disapprove
that of the Judge-especially, when the
former was his own slight-of-hand trickster,
while the latter had an employe in the
person Of a Governor?
gB-What should be thought of 10. Holt,
for not only allowing his chief conspirator
witness, SANFORD CoNovEI to be con-
victed rs perjurer, but TO have become the
leading party in his arrest, prosecution
and condemnation?
IIoLT held private audiences and secret
correspondence with this worse than inta-
nous creature; furnished him with public
moneys for travelling expenses and to share
with his sub-villains encouraged him on,
in various ways, in his damnable scheme OF
murder; countenanced him before the as
sassination committee, in his deliberate
cold-blooded testimony against Mr.. DAVI'
AS the prominent deviser of the plot, which
eliminated in the life of LINCOLN paid
him for his perjury, when it was finished
and hurried him from the city into cover
of an unknown whereabouts, doubtless
comforting himself in the belief that the
evidence was complete enough on which tC
arraign Mr.. DAVIS, to try him and to hang
him,
Which of these twois the chief culprit
For which one should the case-mates o
Fortress Monroe put in Its claim first and
for the longest term? ....