The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-03-16
How THnr yogsD. AND How TIE

Conference Odmmitsee upon Stha ,bili]
raising the salasiess soi the Pre6id en-.
'Vtoe- P1sdfdeut, membersot the GAbinet.
Judgeaof The SupremeQ Cont and mem;
befs offCo18ress-sh6 fIorease O. 60 She
latter to apply to members cs tha forty
second or last Oongress-the 0sotgts
members voted a. follows; For the In,
Rigby: and Whiteley,
(Rsdicals.) and DuBose, Price aud
Young, (Demoorats0 against it-MoIn.
tyre, {Demoorat. j. MF. Beck, tho mem
her from the Fourth District, was absent
or did not vote. - u >(r.l ~
Those members OF the House whose
terms expired on the 4th inss.-Messrs.
Bigby, Price and DnBose-will, there.
fore, come home with nice little oonao-
lation for not being re-eleoted in the
shape of 5000, aud about as easily
earned as any similar sum in our know
ledge.
The bill will. of course, be signed by
Graut, and, therefore, the salaries of the
officials named above will be as follows:
President. $50. 900 per annum: Chief
Justice OF the Supreme Court, $1O,5OO;
Justices OF the Supreme Court. the Vice
President. Speaker Of the House and
Cabinet officers, $40, 600; Assistant Sc
oretartes OF State and Interior, $4,000;
Senators, members and delegates, 81, 600
each, with an allowance for actual ex.
pensea incurred in coming and going
from their homes once for each session
OF Congress, but without mileage or
extra allowance for newspapers or sta
tionery.-Macon Telegraph
When General P. NJ. B. Young, the
member OF Congress from this District,
nj
want OF jurisdiction dodge in Con.
plain duty. ana " 1oted i0ts1t as thew %'sihs dia
the Credit Mobilier transaction. We m
found it pretty hard to excuse them.
Men who prostituted their high aud
sacred trusts were by such votes white
washed, and precedent established
which allowsa Congressman to barter
his vote, defraud the Government and
outrage his constituency, to any extent,
80 he can manage to conceal know
ledge OF the transaction until the session
OF the time being ehall have passed and
the case is placed "beyond iurisdio-
tlon." We say We found it pretty hard
to excuse our Congressman then. but
when they, as the record above shows,
deliberately cast their votes to increase
the pay of public servants who already
get far beyond what their services are
worth-the case 'fstigues Indignation. -
The people have to suffer for all such
votes cast By our Representatives. The
burden OF the public debt is enormous
the taxes upon the country grinding
and yet our Representatives, holding the
eacred trusts OF the peoples welfare in
their hands, deliberately go 10 work to
increase the burden-and what is the
worst feature of the whole affair, they
rob people to enrich themselves. A
moro shameful piece of cool, bare faced
impudence we have not known than this
voting by our Representatives money to
themselves that they have not earned,
and which must be ground out of the
people. i Z
What can we expect or hope for? The
Executive of the nation oorrupt-the
Judiciary oorrupt--and the Legislative
Department of the Government, ire
spective Of parties, lead on by the love
Of gain, have turned upon the people to
despoil them. Where will all this
end? The future alone must answer.
Rome Commercial.