New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-17
IN ENSETILED MIITER.

There's a little amount of $1,000 or there
abouts standing to the credit of the Hon.
| Stephen w. Kellogg, late member of Con-
grcss from the Second District of Connecticut
on the books of the Scrgeant-at Arms of the
House of Representatives. Possibly that gen.
tleman may have forgotten it. 1t belongs to
what has been described indifiercntly as the
Back Pay Account -" and the Salary Gmb.'
| All Mr. Kelloggs colleagues have covered into
the Treasury the amounts drawn in their
names on this account. Mr.. Kcllogg's back
nay remains in the hands of the Sergeant-at-
| Arms, and We presume is drawing no interest.
This seems very much like careessness. We
venture to call the attention of the gentleman TO
the unproductiye condition of this idle capital
and to suggest further that if he is waiting for
| the thing to elbow over" hc might rs well
draw it now rs at any future time, for most
people have forgotten all about the Salary
Grab and its attendant circumstances, and he
will never have a better opportunity. Better
draw it and have done with it.
| BY the way it was only last March that
| great many sturdy and honest supporters of
President Grants administration in the Second
Congressional District of Connecticut, who were
trying to reeect Mr.. Kellogg to Congress, were
scandalized and Mortified at the publication Of
a statement that the Hon. VIM. II. Barnum,
the Democratic candidate for Congress in an
adjoining district, had not covered his back
pay into the Treasury. It seemed to have been
an oversight on the part OF MIR. Barnum, but
the supporters of Mr.. Kellogg over in the
Second District made such a low about it, and
Gen. Hawleys newspaper in Hartford was so
dreadfully exercised over il, that the poor man
| lost no time in covering the amount into the
| Treasury, for fear that with all the clamor
about it he might come TO think himself that
he intended to steal it. There was very
profound feeling in Connecticut last March OH
this matter Of Mr.. Barnum's back pay. The
| New Haven Administration organs character
| lied Mr.. Bainums conduct with great severity,
and we have a sbadowy memory of seeing II
| little organ in Bridgeport bulging all over
with large type in which the cnorniiy of his
Ollcnse was depicted in "A manner to bring tears
to the eyes of Il lobster. As for Gen. iawlcy's
paper in Hartford, words failed it; it stated
and restated the facts day after day in q style
calculated to weary the reader and worry Mr.
Barnum; it appealed to the people and the
ballot-bOx and everything and so cxasperatcd
the Litchlield County statesman that it is said
he sent into Hartford several hundred dollars
TO make Gen. Hawley's canvass lively.
In the language of the politicians there was
ga good deal of feeling" OH the subject.
Barnum's conduct In not covering his back
pay into the Treasury was commented upon in
all Administration quarters as dlsgraceful in
the extreme, and the people were urged to
record their condemnation of it by electing
such men us Mr.. Kellogg to Congress. Gen.
Hawley was on the stump in the Second Dis
trct urging people TO vote for Mr.. Kellogg, at