Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1880-07-21

after the Forty.second Congress
had adjourned the whole country
knew what had been done, and was
boiling with Indignation. Meet
ings we're held, resolutions were
passed, guilty Congressmen were
denounced by their own constitu-
ents and in the organs of their own
parties. Then the members who
had pocketed the money be-
gan to struggle to the Treasury De-
partment, some of them in adj
vance OF the storm, some of them
under stress OF weather. To the
latter class James a. Garfield De-
longs.
On March 26, 1878, a regular Re-
publican Convention for Trumbull
county, in his district, was held at
Warren. The purpose of the Con-
vention was to nominate u candi-
date for member of State Consti-
tutional Convention. Although
the Republicans of Trumbull coun-
ty had not assembled to look after
their Congressman, the public in
diguation over the salary grab was
SO intense that they adopted res
olution censuring Mr.. Garfield for
voting for that measure, and re-
questing him to resign.
In order that the state of feeling
among Mr.. Garfield's constituents
may be clearly understood, we re-.
produce from the Cleveland Leader,
u Republican newspaper always
friendly to Mr.. Garfield, an edi-
torial article commenting at that
time upon the action of the War
rem Conventions:
eat the Republican County Conven-
ton held at Warren on Wednesday,
March 70, for the purpose of nominating
member of the constitutional Conven-
ton, q resolution was passed censuring
Gen. GARFIELD for voting for the bill IN
| creasing Congressional salaries, and re-
Questing him to resign forthwith. This
| Is plain language, and, as the resolution
received but two dissenting votes, it
ruling sentiment that prevails in the
most populous and important county In
Gen. Garfield's district.
"rhis, therefore. is the verdict OF the
people upon the salary grab, a measure
and which has left stain upon the
good name OF its perpetrators which they
can never outgrow. such of General
/ 6afuelQ'S friends as were disposed TO de-
fend his vote for the retroactive clause OF
the Salary dill. on the ground that. as
Chairman of the Appropriations COM
mittee, he was responsible for the Gen
eral Appropriation bill, have been 81.
fenced by his subsequent failure to APP.
pear among the virtuous few who have
refused the back pay thus secured.
| ad he, like MesSrs. Monroe and Up
son, spurned 1t and remanded it to the
Treasury in such a way as to bar all fu-
ture CLAIM upon IL, his action In support.
ing the bill would have been SO far atOned
as To have spared him the present Teproo
from his constituents. How he will
treat this summary demand to vacatG
his seat remains to be seen"
After retaining possession of the
money for month; after his
neighbors, Congressman Monroe
and Epson, had returned their back
pay; after Convention of his own
Republican constituents had an.
grily demanded his resignation;
after all the events of March, 1873
Mr.. Garfield in April covered his
$454e ifffo the Treasury. He sacri.
feed the money and saved his
seat. Yet in his speech at War.
rem, year later, he had the auda-
cious hypocrisy to pretend that he
WAS the first Congressman to see
the improperly of keeping the
stolen cash, and the first to restore
1t to its owners, the people.