The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-03-04

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Conference Committee,w reported. ThC
request was refused and the bill remains
on the table. ~ -.
Senate bill authorizing mail steamship
service In the Gull OF Mexico, between
New Orleans and Mexican ports, was laiC
on Ilfe table.
Mr.. Garfield made the conference re-
port on the Legislative, Executive, ant
Judicial appropriation bill. The amend
ment in regard to salaries, to take elIect
after the 4lh of March is as follows
President OF the United States, $4,000
Vice President, $4,000; Chief Justice o.
supreme Court, $10,500; Justices oi
Supreme Court, $4,000; Cabinet Officers
10000; Assistant Secretary Of the Treas
urer OF State and Interior Departments,
$4,000; Speaker Of the House, after pres
cnt Congress, $4,000; Senators, Repre-
sentatives, and Delegates, including,
present Congress, $1,000. This is
10 be in lieu OF ell pay and
allowances except their aCtnal individual
expenses from their homes to the scat Of
government and return by the most di-
rect route, for usual travel for each scs-
sion. .rr
In regard to the Pacific Railroad, the
Senate amendment known rs the Ed
munds amendment, which directs the
Withholding OF Government charges for
transportation, Is detained, and so is the
House amendment which directs suits for
the restitution OF oVerCharges by the
Credit Mobilier in the construction Of the
road.
The previous question on the adoption
Of the report was seconded and the main
question ordered. Yeas l03; nays 81
Mr.. Garfield having exclaimed the
points OF the report, Mr.. Farnsworth OPP
posed the salary proposition-particularly
in view of the rejection oithe amendment
increasing the pay Of female clerks in tho
departments from 5000 to $1,000. The
country had had Lincoln for four years
at $25, 900 per annum, when gold was
sometimes $50 per cent, and yet Lincoln
saved $4,000 during his term. Every
President saved money In office because
there were attached 10 the office emolu-
ments In the way Of residence, servants
and money value, whiCh'-'was at least
$500OO0 o year. lie hated 10 sec tho Re.
publican party completely wreck itsell,
and cover its history with dishonOr by a
thing which shamed the Credit Mobilier
and everything else that was corrupt
which had taken place in this Congress
or any other Congress OF which he had
been member. He appealed 10 the
manhood, sense and justice Of tho mem-
bers Of the House to vote down the re-
port.
AIr. Niblack also opposed the report.
he thought 1t unSeemly to raise the sala.
ries as proposed. Congress was already
laboring under temporary depression In
the public mind, and the events oFthe last
few months had not been favorable to
Congress in a public estimation. The
business Of the country was very much de.
Dressed. In view OF all the circumstances
be was opposed 10 the report, and he
would oppose 1t to the extent oil defeating
the bill and necessitating an extra session.
Mr.. Randall sustained tho report. BE
asked whether 1t was not more manly to
vote openly for this increase than Tor
member to raise his voice in a demsgogi-
cal strain and then 60 to the Treasury
and take increased pay.
Mr.. Farnsworth asked whether 1t was
manly TO refuse to increase tho pay OF te'
male clerks and then to vote for this in
crease to members.
Mr. Randall assented to the idea that
the paY'o of female clerks should be in.
creased and he and his associates had
contended for II for one long hour in Com
mittee but the Senate Conference had de.
cided that they would not 60 into any
increase Of department salaries unless II
embraces all employees. They had also
found In Committee, the Senate adhering
with tenacity to Mr.. Morrills amendment
but he and his associates had given them
TO understand that they never would sign
any Conference report with Mr.. Morrills
amendment in it. .s. b.
Mr.. Hawley opposed the report He
protested particularly against that portion
Of it which extended to the present Con.
gress, he would vote against bill with
this provision in it, II it necessitated an
extra session, or hall dozen extra ses-
sions.
Mr.. Burchard opposed the report, lie
thought 1t was no time to raise salaries.
The Republican party had put itself be.
fore the country as party Of economy,
and he believed that II the report was
voted down the bill could still bo passed.
Mr. Butler, OF Massachusetts, sustained
the report. The economy which he had
promised on the stump and which he
meant to carry out was, that there should
be no lands or money voted on subsidies.
The whole effect Of keeping down salar.
les was to throw the Legislature into the
hands Of rich men and into tho hands Of
capitalists against the poor man.
Mr.. Stevenson said that there were so
many good things in the bill that he dis.
liked to take on himself the responsibility
Of assisting in its defeat, and yet he could
not consent 10 vote In any form for com.
pensation for the members ofthe present
Congress. .-
Mr.. Banks sustained the report. He
said every man who served tho people
was entitled not 10 degraded support, but
10 q respectable support, and ho did not
hesitate TO say that member could not
support himself and family in Washing
ton on $1,000 a year. The man who
would vote against this report would
vote against salary 10 members, There
were men in the House who would be
glad TO have all the Legislative power Of
tho country thrown into tho hands OF
bankers, merchants, spectators, monopo.
lists, robbers and thieves. The report
was concurred in-Ycas 1903, nays "a.
Mr.. Dawes, from the Committee Of
Ways and Means, reported the testimony
taken in the matter Of the Pacific Mall
subsidy, 10 be deposited with the clerk
Of the House and 10 be laid by him be-
fore the next Congress. 1t says, that
nothing in the testimony implicated any
member or employee Of the House. The
House at 5:l6 took a recess.
EVENING SESSION.