, 1873-08-08
CHICAGO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1873.

again voted to raise his salary from $4,000 to
$4,000, although lo had boo., reelected, making,
! rs l1o now aurpones, another contraot to eorvo
for for q loss sum again: Flo waa elected Vice.
vfcarns; Ills ~ xotos counted for him as
eeIgnod his aont in tho sofato 10 tako II, whilo
tho Balary Of tho olllco stood by law ut $4,000 a
year; By tho now bi!l, tho vice-proai-
aont.a t.snta enl9ry Waa ratactl to 100000, II
for salary fixotl by mans elootion how, with
Mr. WilHon'a Wow Of tint contract can hs talso
tho advanced salary Of tho Office Of Vico-Prosl-
| doat7 Yot, almost ut tho worry timo when l,o
on the ground tint ho had malo con-
| tract TINT he should servo for $4,000 a
| year, and ho could tako no moro lo gaye hiH ro-
| ceipt to tho Troaanror for Ills increased
= year, although, by bis own showing,
and accepted to sorvo for ss,000,-n
contract Which ho could not broak On sonntor,
idont. by taling Ills increased salary. What
must bo tho political stroas Of weather that thus
| rakoa mon go baok on themselves, aud yilify
their own conduct IN the past to Justify thom-
'Thore iB another class Of monbcrs Of Con-
gresH,, whose actions In this regard seo1nH in
tended aa criticism upon my course. They will
pardon mo II I examine thoira. Tlloso gentle-
voted 1t to chosen purposes, aomotimen cllarita-
bic, and sometimes othorwiBo. PorhapB tho
best illustration Of such disposition OF tho
money is tho action OF my colloague from tho
drow hls incroaao Of saaryi and with it endowed
m Institution for, education Of youth in Ills
district. If lie had right to talzo that money
he certainly had right to koop it. If Il was not
money h9noat enough to keep, then IT was NOT
was not honest enough money for him
to spend for hia own purpose, ccrtninly
the Ingenious youth Of his district ought
not to bo contaminated by being educated
gotten gatns to charity docs not clean tho money.
Afay remind my colloaguc TINT his why Of
Hponling bad money is not eyon original uo
il guilty Of plagiarism. Tho chief prioBts do
5Sa to- to buys s sSs ~ ded Sdi for 'x H
S5s Sat patrp0'S Is Of called saq"g tho the od p'n Il
blood, ovon unto this day. Ono gets great
El?ry, however, BY founding public institations
politicians: who elcctionoer through the use Of
money. Every man has right however, to do
with Lis own money as hc .peascg, and
fronting It rs his own rnonoy, and nobody can
TINT four thousand and odd dollars Of
likes with his money. aonorally, ho will
buy TINT which ho needs most, Some
Some mon sood butohora meat. I buy BUTCH
er's mcnt with my baok-pay.. A1y advice to him,
however, would have boon to uso hiB
pay ,as, luis brother did when he
ss lis 01Sd os q 9rsne es amo 5 @ snd M
Baldwin, tho oditor, usod in 1866, to take it md
put it whore 1t will do tho most good. Perhaps
NY advice l,os beon followed: Tbat is precisely
what my colleague thinks ho has dono.
felt quito suro ut the time that wlatovor
courao I took in regard to tho increase Of pay
would bo subject to newspaper doflou.ont Had
refused to present the bill, and votod agairBt
It, then it would have been aa that, having suf-
moro by his profession, the anlary was moth
Ing to him. He know TINT he could
ap aoarv to 1--we a oonsr9as snsco WITHOUT
domagogue by voting against sufficient compen-
gross. confoBs, howovor, -tharr- did not sup
popo ths delightful stroa1n Of calumny which
course took would bring ri accusation that
regarded 1t question Of money to me, for the
hard labor Of long business life has
giyon mo means of living without it,
not used in 30 niggardly manner as to givo
color to auoh dotsaotionH. felt TINT if I lost
what have I could earn more, and II my con-
stltuonts dd Dr. not desire my public SERVICES foE
thom at q, 500 por year, there Woro those WHO
aoven tmoa ms much, in my profession. I
can easily conceive what must bo tho force OF =,
temptation to q man with q wife aud children :
dependent upon him. His business broken up
and his profession gone whilo in tho public Hor-
vco, to offer him even ton shares i'll some
schomo or speculation like Crolit Mobilior,
or Godar Rapids. bouds,. or Hub.
bard silvor Mine, which promised large re-
turns # aiaed by Congressional legislation,
90 that in fact thoy become tho price Of Ills vote.
If tho country wants lonoBt public servants, it
must pay thom adequately. Desiring aud in
tending tho poor man shall hayo all opportunity
to represent the people in Congess ln either
House, and bo so paid that ho Gun stand oroct
among his fellows and feel himsolf entirely i'll
dependent, so far us an adequate Hup-
port is concornod to remove oil j
wish or doHfro to got porquisitos, or to ovordraw
stationery aud allowances to enRblo him to
employ clork to aid him in doing business and
In answering tho correspondence Of Ills constitu-
ents-not all uuonorous burdeu-which al you
may wcll guess, in my own caae and doubtlesB in
many otherB amounts to more than 10, 600 1ottors
d yeAr, voted for, advocated, engineered and
mado myself responsible for-howovor the same
may bo phrasol-al increase Of salary to proBi-
don't, Judgos, members of tho Cabi1lot and Of
Congress, to evory dogroe in my power, and am
glad that was able to bring it about to tho OK
tent charged upon mo. 1t ID responsibility
from which do not shrink, md shall neither
falsify my acts or prevarcato myself in pallia-
ton or exouHo."
NEW YORK.