and ballots shall be prepared with words written | the several bureaus of the several departments,

or printed thereon as follows: "Increase of pay, Senators and Members of Congress;" and each voter may place thereon, if in favor of the increase, the word "yea," and if opposed to the increase, the word "nay;" and unless a majority of all the votes so cast shall be in favor of the increase, all provisions in relation thereto shall be null and void.

Mr. EDMUNDS moved to lay upon the table the amendment of Mr. HILL.

The motion to table was agreed to-yeas 31, nays 15:

two thousand five hundred dollars each.

of

Mr. FERRY of Connecticut moved to strike out of the legislative appropriation bill "$1,440" and insert "$1,800," so as to increase the pay the three assistant engineers in the Senate wing of the Capitol. Agreed to.

The bill was then reported to the Senate as amended; and the question being upon concurring in the amendments made as in Committee of the Whole, they were concurred in.

Mr. SHERMAN again offered the amendment which he had previously offered and withdrawn, YEAS-Messrs. Anthony, Bayard, Boreman, viz: to add as a new section the following: Buckingham, Casserly, Chandler, Cole, Conkling, That from and after the first day of January, Corbett, Cragin, Edmunds, FENTON, Frelinghuy-eighteen hundred and seventy-three, the salasen, Goldthwaite, Hamilton of Maryland, HAM-ries of the Assistant Secretaries, the Solicitor, ILTON of Texas, Howe, Morrill of Maine, Morrill the Register, and the Supervising Architect of of Vermont, Nye, J. W. Patterson, Ramsey, the Treasury Department, the Assistant SecreSawyer, Scott, Sherman, Sprague, Stewart, Thur-tary of the Interior, the Commissioner of Patents, man, Wilson, Windom, Wright—31.

NAYS-Messrs. Alcorn, Carpenter, Davis, Flanagan, Hill, Hitchcock, Johnston, Kelly, Lewis, Machen, Norwood, Pool, Ransom, Robertson, Stevenson-15.

the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, the Commissioner of Agriculture, the Commissioner of Customs, the Auditors of the Treasury, the Commissioner of the General Land Office, the Commissioner of Pensions, and the Assistant Postmasters

Messrs. CONKLING, FERRY of Connecticut, FER-General, the superintendent of the money-order RY of Michigan, HITCHCOCK, POOL, and CORBETT submitted amendments to the pending bill; which were referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.

system, and the superintendent of foreign mails of the Post Office Department, shall be four thousand dollars each per annum. The amendment was agreed to. January 24-Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN, for the Mr. WINDOм moved, in line 44, to strike out Committee on Appropriations, offered an amend-"two" and insert "three before the word ment to strike out the appropriation of $900 each "messengers," in order to correct a mistake made for two watchmen at the Executive Mansion, and as in Committee of the Whole. Agreed to. insert "for one night-watchman at the President's House, $900, and one usher, $1,200."

The amendment was agreed to.

Mr. SAWYER moved to strike out "two" in line 58 and insert "five," so as to read "clerk of printing records, $2,520." Agreed to.

Mr. SAWYER moved, in line 44, to strike out "three" and insert "two" before the word "messengers;" and after the word "dollars," in line 36, to insert"acting assistant doorkeeper, $2,160." Agreed to.

January 27-28-Mr. HILL and Mr. BuckINGHAM submitted amendments; which were referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elec

tions.

Mr. WINDOM moved to amend by striking out 'and for additional clerks and additional compensation to clerks in his (the Secretary of the Treasury) office, $22,500."

17.

The amendment was agreed to-yeas 30, nays

Mr. HILL, instructed by the Committee on Privileges and Elections, moved to strike out "for compensation and mileage of Senators, $405,000, and in lieu thereof to insert:

For compensation and mileage of Senators $701,000; and the compensation of Senators and Representatives in Congress and the Delegates from the Territories shall be $7,000 per annum, to be paid as at present provided by law, and to commence from the beginning of the Forty-Sec

January 28-Mr. FERRY of Michigan, from the Committee on Finance, reported the follow-ond Congress. ing bill; which was read and passed to a second reading:

That from and after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, the sala ries of the Assistant Secretaries, the Solicitor, the Register, and the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, the Assistant Secretary of the Interior, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, the Commissioner of Agriculture, the Commissioner of Customs, the Auditors of the Treasury, the Commissioner of the General Land Office, the Commissioner of Pensions, the Assistant Postmasters General, the superintendent of the money-order system, and the superintendent of foreign mails of the Post Office Department, shall be four thousand dollars each per annum. The chief clerks in the several departments, three thousand dollars each. Of the Assistant Register of the Treasury, and the chief clerks of

Mr. WRIGHT moved to lay the amendment on the table. Agreed to-yeas 23, nays 16.

Mr. WINDOM moved to strike out the following clause, commencing in line 518:

Provided, That $8,500 are hereby appropriated, to be expended in the office of the Treasurer of United States, at the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury.

The amendment was agreed to.

Mr. EDMUNDS moved to reconsider the vote by which the last amendment, offered by Mr. SHERMAN, was adopted.

Mr. SHERMAN objected that Mr. EDMUNDS not having been present at the time of taking such vote, was disqualified from making a motion to reconsider.

The Presiding Officer (Mr. FERRY of Michigan) ruled that Mr. EDMUNDS could not make this motion.

Mr. WRIGHT, who had voted in the affirma- | amendment, his motion was declared out of order. tive, then made it.

Mr. WINLOM moved to strike out the words for temporary clerks, $10,000," in the Post Office Department. Agreed to-yeas 35, nays 11. Mr. ROBERTSON moved to reconsider the vote by which (it was stated) the Senate had the pre-consent, from the Committee on the Judiciary, vious day refused to increase the appropriation for the Bureau of Education.

at the commencement of each session of Congress, | The Vice President
and return, to be certified in a bill of items, to be
filed as a voucher.

The Speaker of the House.....
Each head of a Department constituting
the President's Cabinet....

$10,000 10,000

10,000

10,500

The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
of the United States......
The remaining justices of said court..... 10,000
In making this recommendation, your com-
mittee are not unmindful of the fact the expenses
incident to a residence in Washington of gentle-
men in those positions, and the various calls
upon their hospitality and charity, must neces-
sarily exceed that sum. Indeed, it is well known
becoming their stations, have, in later years,
been compelled to rely greatly on the accumula-
tions made by them in former years of labor.
Your committee are especially of the opinion
that the present pay of the judges is inadequate
to their labors, duties, and station. Some of the
States even pay their judges more. It is thought,
however, that our present recommendation will
be received with entire unanimity, and hence
your committee present it to the House and
country, though some members of the committee
are in favor of a higher sum for the judges.

Upon the formation of the Government the salary of the President was fixed at the sum of that many of them, in order to live in a manner $25,000 in gold. Since then the country has increased tenfold in population, and more than that many times in wealth and revenue. The expense of living has increased in almost, if not quite, the same ratio.

Notwithstanding, however, these great and striking changes, and the immense progress of the nation, there has never been any increase of the President's salary, it having remained the same for over eighty years, in the midst of changes on all other subjects. It will not be disputed that $100,000 at this time in currency is not equal in value to $25,000 eighty years ago in gold. The former sum will not now purchase as much of anything in use as the latter sum would three quarters of a century ago.

On the subject of the salaries of Senators and Representatives and Delegates in Congress, your committee find not only inadequacy in amount, but also the greatest inequalities growing out of the question of mileage. The rule establishing mileage has always been purely arbitrary and

If it should be insisted that this disparity in the compensation of the Presidents of a former and the Presidents of the present period is re-not compensatory for actual travel. It is here moved by extra allowances made by modern legislation, your committee think that such a view is not sustained by the history of the country. An examination of that subject shows that the earlier Presidents were liberally provided by Congress with furniture, servants, and even horses and carriages, besides their salaries. It is found that some of them used their own horses and drew commutation therefor from the Government. Your committee are therefore of the opinion that the present compensation attached to the Presidential office, in proportion to the general values of the country, is hardly, if any more than, one fourth what it was when the office was created.

it was fixed when the modes of transportation were slow and expensive, and when it often took a month for a distant member to reach the capital; but there never was a time when what has always been known as mileage was expended in traveling to and from the seat of Government. The greater portion of it has always been in the nature of additional pay, and hence has worked an inequality, for which there never was a shadow of reason in the compensation of members. This inequality has become vastly greater since the construction of railroads to every State and almost every Territory in the Union. Perhaps $200 will defray the actual expenses by any member or delegate coming here from the most remote section of the country. Yet your committee find that the average mileage to each of the ten members residing farthest from the capital for a single session of Congress is $1,250 40, while the average amount of mileage paid to each of an equal number of members residing nearest the capital for the same length of time is $36 92. Those residing nearest the capital perhaps consume their mileage and much more in travel, as they frequently return home during a session of Congress. It will be apparent, therefore, that members and delegates residing at a distance receive as pay more than $1,200 in adIn view of these considerations, your commit-dition to the pay of many of their fellow-memtee can conceive of no valid reason whatever for continuing the present salary, and have agreed to recommend that it be fixed at the sum of $50,000 per annum as the very lowest that should be attached to the office of the President.

There is another reason in favor of an increase of this compensation which occurs with much force to your committee. While there is no law to prevent an ex-President of the United States from engaging in the business pursuits of life for the purpose of acquiring property, yet custom and public sentiment have so strongly decided against such a course on the part of one who has held this high station that your committee think he ought to have a sufficient provision while in office to enable him when he leaves it to retire from all active, or at least from all money-making, pursuits.

Your committee also concur in recommending the following salaries to the officers of the Government respectively named:

bers. There can be no equality in the salaries of Senators, members, and delegates while this system remains. Your committee have therefore determined to recommend the abolition of pay on account of mileage, except for actual expenditures incurred in traveling in the most direct route to and from a session of Congress, an itemized account of which shall be filed with

Your committee would also call attention to the abolition of the franking privilege already consummated at the present session. While there is a diversity of opinion in regard to the wisdom of this measure, yet your committee beg leave to call attention to the official information on this subject furnished by the Postmaster General of the United States under date of January 12, 1871. If the facts and figures which he submits, and which appear to have been obtained with care and method, and on which both branches of Congress have acted, are correct, then the Congress of the United States has saved to the Government the annual sum of $2,543,327 72, by depriving its members and the departments of the privilege of sending matter free in the mails. What their increased postage account, if hereafter to be borne by themselves, will necessarily be, it is difficult to estimate, but that it will be large no one will deny.

Your committee feel entirely satisfied that the Congress and the country will not fail to perceive the justice and the wisdom of the measures herein recommended.

In recommending that the rate of salaries for Senators, members, and delegates herein mentioned be applied to the present Congress and paid to its members, your committee are but following every precedent on this subject from the foundation of the Government to the present time. If it is an equitable provision for future Congresses, it is equally so for this. In making this recommendation, however, your committee believe that the mileage already received by the Senators, members, and delegates of the FortySecond Congress should be deducted from the amount to which they will be entitled under the provisions of the bill which your committee herewith report.

February 10-Mr. B. F. BUTLER moved that the rules be suspended so as to enable him to submit, and the House to consider and agree to, the following resolution, viz:

Resolved, That the Committee on Appropriations be, and is hereby, directed to include in the miscellaneous appropriation bill, for the consideration of the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, as a part thereof, the bill of the House (H. R. 3852) to adjust the salaries of the executive, judicial, and legislative departments of the Government.

In consideration, therefore, of the foregolng facts, and in consideration, also, of the fact that members in Congress should be enabled to live in a respectable manner, at least a portion of the time, with their families in Washington during their service, your committee recommend that, in lieu of the present salary of Senators, members, and delegates, in lieu of all mileage now allowed, and in lieu of the franking privilege, and all postage, stationery, and newspaper accounts, and every other perquisite, the sum of $8,000 per annum should be allowed as a fair compensation. No argument, it is thought, will be necessary to convince the public that this is no more than necessary for competent public servants. It may be urged, however, that Congress should economize rather than increase the ex-| penditures of the Government at this time, and that Senators and members should set the ex-J. G. Blair, Burdett, B. F. Butler, R. R. Butler, ample in all matters personal to themselves. Your committee fully concur in this view, and beg leave to show that their recommendation herein is not inconsistent with that position. If the salaries shall be equalized and increased, as your committee recommend, the account on the score of economy, which the present session of Congress will present to the country, will be as follows:

Increase of President's salary......

Increase of Cabinet ministers' sal-
ary..
Increase of salary of judges Uni-
ted States Supreme Court........
Increase of salary of Senators,
Members, and Delegates.......

Total increase........

Saving to the Government, according to the official statement of the Postmaster General, per annum, by the abolition of the franking privilege.............................

$25,000 00

14,000 00

18,500 00

972,000 00

$1,029,500 00

Which was disagreed to-yeas 81, nays 119, (not voting, 40,) as follow:

YEAS-Messrs. BANKS, Barry, Biggs, Bingham,

R. P. Caldwell, Carroll, C. L. Cobb, Coghlan,
Critcher, Darrall, Dickey, Dodds, DuBose, Duke,
Eldredge, Elliott, Garrett, Giddings, Golladay,
Hancock, Harper, G. E. Harris, Hays, Herndon,
Houghton, Kendall, King, Lamison, Lansing,
Leach, McJunkin, McKee, McNeely, Mitchell, J.
H. Moore, Morey, Morphis, Negley, S. L. Niblack,
Packard, Peck, Perce, Perry, Peters, J. H. Platt,
Porter, Potter, Rainey, Randall, Read, E. Y.
Rice, J. M. Rice, Ritchie, J. C. Robinson, S. H.
Rogers, Shanks, H. Sherwood, Shober, Sloss, Sny-
der, Storm, Stowell, St. John, Sutherland, C. R.
Thomas, Turner, Tuthill, Voorhees, Waddell, Wal-
lace, Warren, Whiteley, Williams of Indiana,
Williams of New York, Winchester, Wood, P. M.
B. Young-81.

NAYS-Messrs. Acker, Adams, Ambler, Ames,
Archer, Arthur, Averill, Barber, Barnum, Beatty,
E. W. Beck, J. B. Beck, S. N. Bell, Bird, BOLES,
Braxton, Bright, Buckley, Buffinton, Bunnell,
Burchard, Coburn, Conger, Cotton, Cox, Crebs,
Crocker, Crossland, J. J. Davis, Dawes, Donnan,
Dox, Dunnell, Eames, Ely, Esty, FARNSWORTH,
Farwell, Finkelnburg, C. Foster, W. D. Foster,
$2,543,327 721 Garfield, GOODRICH, Haldeman, E. Hale, Halsey,

Hambleton, Handley, J. T. Harris, J. B. Hawley, the doorkeeper of the House, $3,000; and addi

J. R. Hawley, Hay, G. W. Hazelton, Hereford, Hibbard, Hill, Kelley, Kellogg, Kerr, Ketcham, Killinger, Lewis, Lowe, J. Lynch, Manson, Marshall, Maynard, McClelland, McCormick, McCrary, McGrew, McHenry, MacIntyre, Merriam, Merrick, Monroe, Morgan, W. E. Niblack, Orr, Packer, Palmer, H. W. Parker, I. C. Parker, Pendleton, Poland, E. H. Roberts, J. Rogers, Roosevelt, Rusk, Sargent, Sawyer, Scofield, Sessions, Shellabarger, Shoemaker, Slater, Slocum, H. B. Smith, J. A. Smith, Speer, Sprague, Starkweather, B. N. Stevens, Stevenson, Stoughton, Terry, W. Townsend, Twichell, Tyner, Upson, Van Trump, Vaughan, Wakeman, Walden, Waldron, Wells, Wheeler, C. W. Willard, J. T. Wilson

-119.

February 17.-Mr. NEGLEY presented an amendment proposed to be offered by him to the legislative appropriation bill. Referred to the Judiciary Committee.

Mr. WAKEMAN introduced a bill to increase the salaries of district judges in northern and southern New York; which was read twice and referred to the Judiciary Committee.

tional pay to the chief engineer $360, so as to equalize his pay with that of the chief engineer of the Senate; and additional pay to the foreman of laborers, $120 per annum.

Mr. BURCHARD raised the point of order that this amendment is not germane to the Senate amendment, and is not authorized by existing law.

The Chair (Mr. DAWES) overruled the point of order.

Mr. BURCHARD appealed from that decision.
The decision of the Chair was sustained.

Mr. B. F. BUTLER of Massachusetts moved to amend the amendment reported from the Committee on Appropriations by substituting for it the following:

That on and after the 4th day of March, A. D. 1873, the President of the United States shall receive for his services during the term for which he shall have been elected the sum of $50,000 per annum in full for his services, to be paid quarterly at the Treasury; the Vice President of the United States shall also receive for his services during the term for which he shall have been elected the sum of $10,000 per annum in full for his services, to be paid quarterly at the Treasury; and the chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States shall receive the sum of $10,500 per annum, and the justices February 24.-Mr. GARFIELD called up the of the Supreme Court of the United States shall bill, and moved that the House resolve itself into receive the sum of $10,000 per annum each, to Committee of the Whole on the State of the be paid quarterly at the Treasury; the Secretary Union for the consideration of the Senate amend-of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secments thereto.

February 19.-Mr. GARFIELD asked and received permission to have printed the report of the Committee on Appropriations on the Senate amendments to the legislative, &c., appropriation bill.

Mr. RANDALL moved that the House do now adjourn. Disagreed to.

The motion to limit debate to five minutes was agreed to.

Mr. GERRY W. HAZELTON moved, at 10.56 o'clock p. m., to adjourn. Disagreed to-yeas 61, nays 97, not voting 82.

The motion to suspend the rules and go into Committee of the Whole on the Senate amendments was then agreed to-yeas 86, nays 49.

The first amendment of the Senate was read, increasing the pay of the principal clerk of the Senate from $2,592 to $3,600.

The Committee on Appropriations recommended concurrence in the Senate amendment, with an amendment to add to it the following:

And there is hereby appropriated a sum sufficient to make the annual salaries of such of the clerks in the office of the House of Representatives as receive $2,500 and upwards, (including the petition clerk and printing clerk,) and not increased in this act, $3,000 each; and of such as receive $2,160, the sum of $2,500 each; and of such as receive $1,800, the sum of $2,160 each; and of the clerks of the following committees, namely, Claims, Judiciary, Public Lands, Military Affairs, and Elections, $2,500 each;

retary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of the Interior, the Attorney General, and the Postmaster General, shall receive $10,000 per annum each for their services; and each Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, State, and Interior Departments shall receive as annual compensation, to be paid quarterly, $6,500; and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall receive compensation at the rate of $10,000 per annum, and Senators and Representatives in Congress and Delegates from the Territories admitted to a seat in Congress, including Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in the Forty-Second Congress, shall receive compensation at the rate of $7,500 per annum each, and in lieu of mileage there shall be allowed to each Senator, Representative, and Delegate, including those of the Forty-Second Congress, his actual expenses from his place of residence to Washington city, at the commencement of each session of Congress, and return, to be certified in a bill of items to be filed as a voucher; and the sum of $1,200,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated therefor.

Mr. HAWLEY of Connecticut raised the point of order on Mr. BUTLER'S amendment that it was not germane to the amendment reported by the Committee on Appropriations.

The Chairman (Mr. DAWES) overruled it. Mr. HOLMAN raised the point of order that the effect of this amendment is to change existing law.

The Chairman (Mr. DAWES) ruled that so far as this amendment provides for increasing official compensation or salaries now fixed by law, it is in order.