Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-03-22

we Copy from the Cleveland Hsruld the
appended article eSplauetory Of Gen. Garheld's
part IN the salary bill. We ask for Il an i'm.
partial reading. We believe II 10 lDc fair
s,aten,ena Of Etets, b,ut ne to whether or not,
the facts given afford sufficient Justification
the reader may Judge.
! Our own feeling Is that Of regret That the
course Of our Representative should have
been such in connection with this business TO
call for defence or extcnuntion. I, would
haye been better We think, ifhe had persist.
emily refused his support to the appropriation
bill with such rider, or II that could not he.
TO have refused to touch the money hy such
means brought within his reach.
The Herald says,
1t Is well known Ivy our readers that Gen
Garfield voted for ibe Appropriation bill which
included the so-called salary bill. But while
Gen. Garfield on The final passage Of the APP
preparation bill voted for II, containing as IL
did the retroactive feature of tbe salary bill.
that gentleman through all the stages Of the
matter, opposed the feature by voice and vote
Not only In its inception ns an independent
measure but as an amendment 10 the appro-
priation bill, was Gen. Garfield continually
and presistently opposed to retroactive pay
increase. Ii Is not right therefore TO connect
Gen Garfield with those Congressman who
supported that Objectionable feature Of the
bill.
1t is right also, besides making this Who'll.
sale statement relieving Gen. Garfield from
the odium that rests upon those members who
favored that feature, to give short history of
the matter explanatory Of that gentleman s
course And we do this heartily, believing
that Gen. Garfield would neither do nor think
wrong act as Representative, aud that no
dollar and cent consideration could even jostle
: that gentleman from the direct line Of unselfsh
J recitude. The personal and political career OF
, Gen. Garfield, as scholar, US "A legislator, as
"A soldier, as a Representative has been SO bril-
liant, Is such matter Ofjust pride 10 his fellow
citizens of all parties, that he Is entitled to the
8 benefit of every explanation connected with
4 that bill. And, besides that, there are features
: OF the bill as finally passed which have been
entirely mtsconceived and misunderstood by
, the public features that materially relieve
'' the bill from some of its darkest tainls and fol
Y the engraiting of which Gen. Garfield is cnli
4 tied TO the credit.
A Originally Butler attempted the salary bill
ASH distinct measure But that shrewd mau
o knew the chances for the salary increase were
Is better tackled on to the appropriation bill thar
The sagacty of that selfish unsafe man. But
Ter introduced resolution insiructing th,
: Committee on approprialion-.o of which, Gen
" Garfield was cbairman-to add as an amend
o ment in the appropriation bill the increase 0
. the salary bill. On the resolution Gen Gar
: field made two or three powerful speeches, op
posing the increase Of salaries, voting agains
the resolution and defeating II. Wheneve
the proposition came up, either as distinc
" measure or rs an amendment, either in Com
e miitee OF the Whole or in the House. oppose,
Il il by his speeches, by his personal ibfiuenc
and by his votes. His vote in the House
' where only the yeas and nays can appear, wa
y cast against the adoption oi the feature as al
D. amendment 10 the appropriation bill. Blu
despite his cxeriOns the House adopted tn
anlV ndment. HtI.
lc The bill went 10 ibe Senate A motion (,
n. strike out that amendment was made and lost
~ Thus the salary feature wos adopted by th
House directly and the Senate indirectly. Til
g bill then went TO Committee of Conference
nj Morrill, of Maine, Carpenter Of Wisconsin an
ID Bayard of Delaware were Senatorial con
=, fcrees, and Garteid--of course, being Chair
" man of the House Commitlee-Builer c
8, Massachusetts and Randnll OF Pennsylvania
a. The conference consumed Sunday In dehbera
te tions, there being ever sixty amendments; til
- Senate, 10 save lime and labor, having agree
u to disagree to all House amendments, Man
NJ of these amendments were Of immense impol
lie tnncc, and, as every one c0uyersant with Coz
I'd gressional proceedings knows, they were a
:, familiar only 10 Gen. Garfield.
We know II To be fact that for hours 0ef
as Garfield In that Committee sroye to remov
ch mat feature giving increase pay 10 congress
cd men, and especially that which gives increas
"a pay to the then present Congress. But I'll
'o' Gen. was defeated 10 all those efforts not bar
ne ly by majOriety of the confrrees, but Il
sc epery one of them. Then 1t WAS that he mu
al either, virtually, resign the bill to the keepin
OF Butler-wh0 was next on the House Con
mittee-Or agree 10 the conference report vi
Ell der protest. The latter Gen. Garfield di
OF giving the Con-, Conn., notice that he shOu
n protest against that feature. On the passaf
of the bill in the House Gen. Garfield mae
III public protest; and voted Tor the whole bi
d. rather than involve other very serious cons
n qucnces, including that OF an extra session.
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