The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-08-12
THE BACK PAY.--The Washington special
of the New York Evening Post says:

OrCASl<Ah lehSOhD Or 1hG O6NAIE ON
THE BACK PAY.--The Washington special
of the New York Evening Post says:
Your correspondent has been enabled to
obtain from the books and records of the
Treasury department the first full and accu-
rate list of the names of the Senators who
have drawn and pocketed their "back pay -
Of those who still have the mo, ey to their
credit on the books of the discussing officer
of the Senate, to be drawn at their own
pleasure, and of those who have drawn the
money and returned it to the Treasury. It
will be seen that the list as here given differs
very materially from several heretofore pub
lshed, but as this is an exact transcript of the
official records. its accuracy can be relied on.
In the following lists the Republicans are
printed in Roman, the Democrats in italics
aud Liberals in SMALL CAPITALS.
The Senators who have drawn their "back
pay and not covered it into the Treasury,
but pocketed it, are:
Blair, Missouri Foreman, West Virginia /;
Brownlow, Tennessee; Caldwell, Kansas; Cam
eron, Pennsylvania; Carpenter, Wisconsin !;
Clayton, Arkansas; Cole, California: Cooper,
Tennessee; Corbett, Oregon; Daris, West Vir-
ginia; Ferry, Connecticut; Flanagan, Texas;
Gilbert Florida; Goldthwaite, Alabama; Howe,
Wisconsin; Hill, Georgia; Hamilton, Texas;
Hitchcock, Nebraska; Johnston, Virginia; Lew
is, Virginia; Logan, Illinois; Machen, Ken
lucky; Morrill,, Maine; Morrill,, Vermont; Nor
Patterson, New Hampshire; Pomeroy, Kansas;
Pool, North Carolina; Ransom, North Carolina |;
RICE, Arkansas; Robertson, South Carolina;
Sawyer, South Carolina; Spencer, Alabama;
Stevenson, Kentucky; Stewart Nevada; TIP
TON, Nebraska; TRUMBULL, Illinois; Vickers
Maryland; West, Louisiana. Total, A.
The following sixteen Senators have re-
turned their "back pay'' to the treasury:
Athony, of Rhode Island; Bayard, Delaware:
Buckingham Connecticut; CdsserIy. California:
Chandler Michigan; Fenton, New York; Fer
~, Michigan; Frelinghuysen. New jersey;
Hamlin, Maine; Pratt, Indiaoa; SoHURz, Mis-
souri,; Scott, Pennsylvania; Sherman, Ohio;
SUMNER, Massachusetts,; Thurman, Ohio; Will
son, Massachusetts,.
The following eleven Senators have left
their "back pay" subject to their order, with
the disbursing clerk of the Senate:
Conkling of New York, Cragn, New Hamp-
shire, Edmunds, Vermont, Hamilton, Mary
land, Harlan, Iowa, Morton, Indiana, Ramsey,
Rhode Island, Window. minnesota, Wright,
Iowa.
1t will be observed that OF fifteen Demo-
Gratis in the Senate ten have pocketed the
back pay, three have returned it to the Treasu-
ury and two have not yet drawn it. OF fifty
ty-one Republicans thirty-two have pocket
ed the money, ten have returned it
to the Treasury and niue have not yet
drawn it. Of six liberals three have pocketed
the money and three have returned it to the
Treasury. The name of Senator Kelley of
Oregon, Democrat, does not appear in the
above list at all, from the fact that the law
prescribed that the amount of mileage paid
each Senator should be deducted from his
back pay, and the balance paid over to him.
In Kelley's case his mileage exceeded the
amount of his back pay, so there was nothing
due him on account of the latter.