Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-01-15
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10 renubIican State platform

Maine republican State platform. The
bill for repeal has gone to the President
for his signature which it will obtain.
Every senator but two in New England
was for the repeal, and the vote OF
New England in the House was as unan-
imous for repeal.
The salary act which is now repeated
was not party measure. 1t was sup
ported by majority of the democrats, and
opposed by majority of the republicans
so that Judged by the relative strength
which each party gave it it was the child
of the democratic party. There never was
any Justice in calling it republican meas
ure. In its repeal the republican press
and conventions took the lead. The SEN
ator in New England who voted against
repeal was Mr.. Spraguc of Rhode Island,
but Mr. Ferry of Connecticut, who OBJ
tanned his seat in the Senate over Mr.
Hawley by the assistance Of democratic
votes is found among those not voting.
Mr.. Cragin of New Hampshire did not
vote, but he was paired off with another
senator and would have voted for repeal
if he had voted at all. Among the senators
not voting is the name OF Mr.. Thurman,
the prospective candidate of the democ-
racy for President in 1876. The bill as it
has gone TO the President is as follows
An ACT repeating the increase in the sala-
ries of members of Congress and other
officers.
Be ii enacted, DC, That so much of the
act of March 8, 1873, entitled an act making
appropriations for legislative, executive. and
judicial expenses of the Government for the
year ending June 80, 1874, as provides Tor
the increase of the compensation OF puolic
officers and employees, whether members OF
Congress, delegates, or others, except the
President of the United States and the JUS
tees of the Supreme Court, be, and the same
hereby is, repealed, and the salaries, compen-
sation, and allowances of all said persons ex-
Dept as aforesaid shall be fixed by the law In
force at the time of the passage Of said act !;
Provided, that mileage shall not be allowed
for the first session of the Forty-third Con-
gress; that all moneys appropriated as COM
pensation to the members of the Forty second
Congress in excess of the mileage and allow
ances fixed by law at the commencement OF
said Congress, and which shall not have been
drawn BY the members of said Congress re-
spectively, or which, having been drawn,
have been returned in any form to the United
States, are hereby covered into the Treasury
of the United States, and are declared to be
the moneys of the United States, absolutely
the same as if they had never been approrri-
ated as aforesaid.
The yeas and nays being ordered, the bill
was passed ine the Senate as above reported,
by the following vote:
YEAs-Messrs. Allison, Anthony, Bayard,
Bogy, Foreman, Boutwell,, Buckingham,
Cameron, Carpenter, Chandler, Clayton,
Conkling, Crozier, Davis, Dorsey, Edmunds,
Fenton, Ferry of Michigan, Frelinghuysen,
Goldthwate, Hamilton of Maryland, Hamlin,
Hitchcock, Howe, ingalls,, Logan, McCreery,
Merrimon, Mitchell, Morrill, of Maine, Nor
rill of Vermont, Morton, Oglesby, Patterson,
Pratt, Ramsey, Robertson, Sargent, Sauls-
bury, Schurz, Scott Sherman, Spencer, Stew
venson, Stockton, Sumner, Wadleigh, West,
Windsor, Wright-50.
NAYs-Messrs. Brownlow, Conover, Flan-
agan, Gordon, Lewis, Norwood, Sprague,
Tipton-S.
Nor VorING.-- Alcorn, Ames, Dennis,
Ferry of Connecticut, Gilbert, Hamilton Of
Texas, Johnston, Jones, Kelly, Ransom,
Stewart, Thurman.
Mr.. COOPER announced that he was paired
with Mr.. Cragin, of New Hampshire, who
would have voted for the bill, and he MIR.
Cooper against it.