Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-09-25
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ton in regard 10 the salary steal,
and also that eve know that ev-
cry Republican Editor not only
condemns the steal but demands
the repeal Of the law" If the
Eaton Register will name a sins
gle Republican Editor that has
said one word against the Presi-
dent, who made this villalnous
Robbery a law ard pocketed $780,
900 by it, then we will acknt WI
edge we are unfair. Every Re-
publican Convention have Gre
solved" their confidence in the
President, when he is the great
est scoundrel among the batch.
Now for Gov. Morton's position
on the salary steal, who seems to
have gained the respect and adj
miration of all the Radical Edi-
tors in the Sta'e, notwithstand-
ing his rottenness and corruption,
and who held his amount of the
back grab subject to his order
until after he came into OHIO
stumping it for Noyes. The sal
airy grab bill was amended in the
Senate and passed that body on
the 3Oth of January, and was
sent back to the House the next
day, where it remained until Feb
ruary Oath. just Il week before
the expiration of Congress, when
Gen. Butler moved an amend>
ment making the pay of Con
gressmen $500 per annum, to
operate retroactively so as to in
clude the members of the Forty
Second Congress. This amend
ment, after being changed by
substituting $4,000 for $500,
was adopted. The amendment
being reported to the Senate,
that body proceeded to consider
it the same day, ~whereupon Mr..
E6munds moved to strike out all
of it after the provision for the
salary of the President. The vote
on the motion was as follows:
Yeas-Messrs. Boreman, Buck
ingham, Caldwell, CasserIy.
Chandler, Cole, Corbett, Cragin.
Edmunds, Frelinghuysen, Ham
| n, Harlan, Howe, Morrill, OF
Maine, Morrill, of Vermont, Pratt
Sherman, Thurman, Wilson and
Wright-2O.
Nays-Messrs. Ames, Bayard
Blair, Brownlow, Cameron, Car
penter, Clayton, Conkling, Coop.
er, Davis, Fenton, Ferry, OF Mich
igan. Flanagan, Gilbert, Gold
thwaite, Hamilton of Maryland.
Hamilton of Texas, Hill, Kelly
Lewis, Logan, Machen, NOR
TON, Norwood, Nye, Pool, Ram
sey, Ransom, Rice, Robertson
Sawyer, Schurz, Spencer. Ste
venson, Stewart, Trumbull, Wick
ers and West-38.
Absent-Messrs. Alsorn, An
thony, Ferry of Connecticut
Hitchcock, Johnston, Osborne
Patterson, Pomeroy, Salisbury
Scott, Sprague, Stockton, Sum.
ner, Sipton and WinHom-15.-
Congressional Globe, 2,047.
Here we find Senator Morton
voting for the salary grab, in
stead of condemning it as The
Eaton Register says he did. Blu
this is not all. Senator Morton
the "right bower" of Gov. Noyes
was in favor of a larger salary
grab. Here is his precise Ian
guage on the subject, taken from
the Congressional Globe:
"If l am to have the name o
having my salary increased !
want it substantially increased;
Want 1t increased IN such q Way q!
to amount to something. The in
crease here, giving $4,000 for sal
airy III lieu of mileage, stationery
and newspapers, would be an in.
crease to me of about $500. J
prefer to let it stand as it Is, rath
er than to have such a change as
that makes. MIR. President, il
we are TO increase our salaries
let us make it a substantial and
reasonable increase. / prefer to
leave this question to some fu-
ture session of Congress-
GGlobe, 2,047.
"Oh, yes; I hope we shall in.
crease the salary of the President
anyhow. If that is not done
within two days, it cannot be
done for four years under the
Constitution"
1t thus appears that Mr.. Nor