Liberal Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1872-1???, 1873-07-19
Ghe xibrxal Rrpubliran.
SATURDAY, july 10.
PRoGRta tass.

-" "AS @AAtA N0y Va "AdiSo Ao'of
just one day before Grant was iuaugu-
rated for second term, he signed the
infamous bill which increased his salary
from. twenty dve to fifty thousand
dollars PEE annum. The same bill
increased the pay Of the t;ielhbers of
Odhgtsss to seven thodsldd FIVE hun
Ataa dollafs per ahniiu, each, and gave the
very members that passed the bill back
pay for one year at the same rate, aud
Also gave them for all time to come and
one Year back in addition to this great
salary large sum for travelling expen-
ses, from their respective homes to
Washington city; the amount left
discretionary with each member, to be
fired bY himself in strict accordance
With the dictates Of his, more or less,
elastic Conscience, SO that under the
law rs il now stands, there is no telling
what the pay of member of the
American Congress is. except that he,
white or black as the case may be, gets
seven thousand fve hundred dollars
per annum, and as much more as he
f1iaS certify to under his hand to the
disbursing officer, as paid out for
riotoua living on his way from his
home to the Capitol and back.
The same Infamous bill, gives to the
speaker of the House of Representatives
tho sum Of ten thousand dollars per
anhum ID increases the salaries of all
the beads OF departments and judicial
officers it gives the Attorney General
teh thousand dollars per annum and
places ten thousand more at his dispo>
bal 10 test his honesty it gives to
Whoever the Congress may see fit to
employ. eighteen hundred dollars
annually, to stand in those halls of
corruption, and pray aloud to Almighty
God to spare that baud of thieves from
swift destruction while they legis-
late to destroy the people it gives to
seventy four Senators, for stationary
and newspapers yearly, the sum of nine
thousand two hundred and fifty dollars;
ID gives for clerks and stationary alone
for the benefit of cotimittees of the
Senate, the enorrsoiis sum of thirty five
thousand dollars it gives to some one
without discriminating who, for
MISCELLANEOUS items exclusive Of labor
without saying what, the sum oe forty
thousand dollars; it arpropriates, or
squanders, over fifty thousand dol
lars annually For q capitol
police it gives to clerks of committees
of the House Of Representatives and
folders of doecumeuts for the mem.
bers, the outrageous sum of one
hundred and twensy-six thousand nine
hundred and eighty dollars it appro-
pirates for one furnace keeper, two
policemen, one night watchman and
two door keepers at the Presidents
house including one usher. the sum of
seven thousand eight hundred and
forty dollars it absolutely appropriates
20 the President over and above his
fifty thousand per anuum, for private
secretaries, executive clerks, stewards
and messengers, tte sum of thirteen
thousand eight hundred dollars, and
then IS though not willing to limit our
modren Caesar in his expenditures, it
appropriates the further sum, as
ccr.ingent expenses for the executive
office, of six thousand dollars
In the above sketch we have given
but q faint outline of this infamou,
bill. Sovefeigos OF Oregon how do
you relish it Whenever your stomachs
shall recover sufficient to receive another
dose Of this bill, you have but to indi
cate to the REPUBLICAN office and you
shall have 1t in all it's hideous
deformity.