The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-02-08

should not lnuuIge IN buCn leVlty. 1nl
was State paper that he was reading
from, containing special dispatches SEM
to the State Department at the expense
Of the people.
Mr.. Monroe said il his friend inferred
that because there were officials who
lacked good sense their office should be
abolished, by the same reasoning, il
half OF what the newspapers said were to
be believed, Congress itself ought to be
abolished.
Mr.. Holman continued his criticism Of
the state paper, including u dispatch from
Bingham, Minister to Japan, descriptive
OF his reception by the Emperor and En-.
press, and summed up by declaring that
this whole thing OF Diplomacy was a
shame and an obsolete institution. The
only exception he made was in the case
OF Washburne, Minister to France, who,
he said, had rendered important service
to mankind in the late French and Ger
man war.
Mr.. Garfield said he sympathized with
the Committee on Appropriations in its
laudahle endeavors 10 cut down expenses.
There were several places where the ex-
penses might be reduced, such as public
buildings, Notifications, &c, but he had
been a little surprised to find the reduc-
tions proposed in this bill, because every
intelligent man would admit that the for
eign service OF the Government, both
at home and abroad, had been for years
the most honestly managed, most econom-
ically conducted, and the most carefully
kept up OF any department Of the Gov
ernment. He alluded to the fact that
from 1903 to 1855 there had been no
change in the salaries Of Ministers and
consuls abroad. At that time, some OF the
high missions cost, in the way OF salary,
outfit and Unfit, Us high S2S,000 year.
In 1866 Congress had considered the
whole subject with great care and had
fixed the rates Of Consul and Diplomatic
salaries abroad, making the salaries Of
frst-class missions Sl7,500 year; that
had been considered fair and reasona-
bic compensation considering the cost OF
living at that time, and although within
the last 90 years the cost OF living had
doubled everywhere, and in some coun-
tries more than doubled. II was now pro-
posed ia this bill 10 cut down the salaries
20 per cent. II the object was to fix il so
that only rich men could hold these
Offices and shut out the poor man,
let Congress do it then with its
eyes open. He did not care very much
about many Of the missions that were
proposed to be neutrality-suspicious. some
OF them could be abolished without dam
age-but he should regard it as a great
calamity 10 abolish the South American
missions. In no part Of the world had
the United States so much right and so
great duty as to be chief in council in
international affairs as in South America
on the one hand and in Japan and China
on the other. And yet by strange sort
Of fatui.y on the part OF the Committee
on Appropriation it was in these coun.
tries that our foreign relations were TO be
chiefly suppressed. He would rather have
five or six European missions blotted out
than those Of theSouth American Repnb-
lies, our neighbors and friends. He be-
soug ght the gentleman to strike somewhere
else than the South American Republics.
Mr.. Randall-We strike all around.
Mr.: Garfield passed on to criticise the
abolition Of twenty.one regular consp-
lates and other consular offices, making
forty-four in all, the chief ground Of do.
ing so being that there was not enough
money received in fees from these consul
lates to justify the payment Of the consul
lar salaries, and he contrasted with this
parsimony the liberality OF England, who,
receiving but $4,000 in fees from her
consulates at the same ports, paid to her
consuls there SSl ,250 year. 1t was the
same in regard TO China and Japan. The
total outlay OF the United States for the
japanese mission and consulates was
S23,49S over and above receipts, while
that OF England for the same service war
S92,497. The total outlay Of the United
States in China, over and above receipts,
was $4,000, while that Of Great
Britain was S2S5,697. He begged the
House not to cripple and utterly
ruin our young and growing commerce
that should bind Asia to the United
States. He criticised the details OF the
bill in other matters, particularly the
reduction by one-half OF the allowances
for the expenses Of sending back United
States sailors from foreign ports, and |
showed that the affect OF reducing the ap- |
preparation would not be saving (ior |
the expenses would have to be paid), but |
a sending to protect the drafts drawn By |
Consuls.
At the close OF Mr.. Garields speech |
tho committee rose, and the Senate
amendment to the bill TO provide for the |
payment Of judgements rendered BY
the Alabama Court OF Claims were con-
Cured in.
Adjourned.
SENATE,
The Chair laid before the Senate me-
mortal OF the New York Board Of Trade |
demonstrating the inexpediency OF at
tempting the resumption OF specie pay
mentsbefore the requisite conditions are
ripe. for it. Referred to the Finance Com
mittee.
Mr.. Morrill, gave notice that after the
morning hour tomorrow he would ask
the Senate TO take up and consider the
House bill appropriating Sl,500,OO0 to
aid in the Centennial celebration. He
hoped that whatever the Senate proposed
to do would be done then.
Mr.. Conkling, from the Judiciary Com.
mittee, reported with verbal amendments
the House bill providing for the payment
Of judgments rendered by the Court OF the
Alabama claims.
Mr.. Sargent moved to make the rate OF
interest on such judgments per cent per
annum instead Of 4 per cent, but after
some discussion he withdrew the amend
ment, but gave notice he would offer it
hereafter to some other bill relating TO
the Alabama Court.
The amendments proposed by the COM
mittee were concurred in and the bill
passed.
After the expiration Of the morning
hour the Senate resumed the considera-
tion Of the resolution for the admission Of
p. B. S. Pinchback as Senator from Lou.
isiana.
Mr.. Thurman spoke in opposition to
his admission, claiming that Pinchback
had no prima tacia evidence upon which
he could be seated.
Mr.. Thurman said there was but one
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