The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-09-27

The sollowi1s 4 Lphs =
Senator Morton to the Cincinnati
Commercial. appearing in that paper
on Tuesday last:
New YoRK. Sept. q.
To- tina Editor Of the Commercial:
Senator Thurman, in his speech at
Wassrly goesly .i.vspseeestsd my
vote on tke salary bill. In his speech
At A1AniA-thAALha Rod, in Whiah.,
he labors through nearly two columns
to explain fkAk Misrepresentation and
plaeelnb n 8 false position, he admits
he did nottall al the truth at Wayerly
about my vote, but says it was the re-
suit Of accident, which be corrected
TIE next day In his speech ct Ports
MoutA. II wAs . bad accident, conn
mitAsd j Ais publiahed speech, cor
raptea tn next day in . speech which
vss 81 published. = - -.
4aAisgspesch at Batavia he garblss
and nuti)stes my speech in the SEN
ate, to make the. Impression that ]
moved 10 strike. out the increase Of
salaries of members of Congress, be-
eense, . i stood in the bill then, it.
w. only $500 instead Of 81 500 per
annpm,l and that j favored the pas,
sage Of the bill with . larger increase.
He took advantage, Of remark I
made, that If my salary was to be in
creased ! wanted it to be substantial
increase, and that e, mileage,
ffanking privilege, and other allowan-
ces being abolished-was not such an
increase. Immediately after the part
he quoted from my speech, commence
ing q the next line, . found on page
4ONi third pert, Congressional Globe,
fof the third session, Forty-secend
Congress, appears the following re-,
port which is but = continuation Of
Whist he qpoted; =. Isl .hssou "a
.Mr. HnL-Ailow me to make a
suggestion to the Senator from Indi-
ana, and that is that he move TO strike
out the amount named in the House
amendment and insert an amount that
he thinks would be respectable say
u, 500, or soiAething like that. 1els
I"Mr. MoRroN-mI3 do not wish to
vote upon the question Of the salaries
Of memhers Of Congress at this session
at ale 1 do not think it is o good
time to consider the question" :ean,
Mr. LoGkN-Then do mot let us
cons,oer any. OF tnem'a 4sa ,i. 80 $ :
III. M0hIUN--Un, ~ nope We
dent any how. IF that is not done
nov, IL can not be done for four years
scs.;n ,asssS y 81 ~ ~. -. ~ then 8
thc ~ Iexf eSssacr %, ~ Ccrsves. ! Ill
AMI. HIrLL-Would 4 g IN order,
I inonire Of the Chair. Is move Ia
amend the amendment offered By the
Senator from Indiana? III 1las n /
10 ~ 49, A'1
20 a, IN ..eg - ..li..p.aLl ~, :.
nEArs nlLL-i ProPoee % amend !,
ey inserting IN lieu, q sslx Thousand
I'VE hundred, sever thousand nVe nun
OIe0. q'ilie. ~ ~ '.isfIa. Z -
qp"THE VICE PKKsIDENT- The Sen.
ator from Indiana has moved to amend
the House amendment. II his no.
tion should prevail to strike out tn
Senators and Representatives. IN.
CREASED salary, the Seaator from Geor.
GA can then move to add Senators
Representatives and Delegztes At AMI
salary he may zee ft to propdse- I "
Mr.. HILL-VeEy we'll, air. ~ ~ ,,- 9
aMr CAMxroH-Nr Press;d.s,,t 4
.aan ~ = H a ~ - .,.ama $500 81 .,
E;en5 Enr. Il r6;.ns e nj Ioc;caI III.
savs IL v;ll mol ;ncrease salar;es nov
en- W..-c- T'-.;a q. 49,
Mo.SV ssao 'Or Aeoo1
On Coenslos'i 49, - 1t4,.',s ihea 70
II Senator Thurman Had given th,
passage ID the report which / hav,
quoted, I would have left the countr,
10 Judge, and made NO reply. It
omission Is another Of his had acct
dents. Senator Thurman, in his quo
tation, stopped short and cut out tn
passage that would have utterly con
tradictcd the impression he was seek
ing to make. a worse case Of garb
| ling and mutilation can not be found