Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1874 — THE SALARY REPEAL BILL. [ARTICLE]

THE SALARY REPEAL BILL.

Full Text of the Bill Passed by Congress Repealing the Increased-Sal-ary I,aw—The Vote In the Senate, and the Vote Against Repeal In the House. Tiie following is tiie text of the bill passed by both Houses of Congress for the repeal of the so-called Salary-Grab law; Be it enacted, etc.. That so mnch of the act of March 3, 1873, entitled “An act making appropriation for legislative, executive and judicial exSenses of the Government for the yearendingJunc ), 1874," as provides for the compensation of public officers and employes, whether members of Congress, Delegates, or others, except President of the United States and Justices or the Supreme Court, be and tSe same hereby is repealed, and the Salaries, compensation, and allowances; of all said persons, except as aforesaid, shall be fixed by the law in force at the time of the passage of this act; provided, that mileage shall be allowed for the first session of the Forty-third Congress; that all moneys appropriated as compensation to members of the Forty-second Congress, in excess of mileage and allowances fixed by law at the commencement of said Congress, and which shall not have been drawn by members of said Congress respectively, or which, having been drawn, have been returned in any form to the United States, are hereby covered into the Treasury by the United States, and declared to he the moneys of the United States absolutely the same as if they had never been appropriated as aforesaid. The following is the vote in tbe Senate: Yeas—Allison, Anthony, Bayard, Bogy, Boreman, Bontwell, Buckingham, Cameron, Carpenter, Chandler,-Clayton, Conkling, Crozier, Davis, Dorsey, Edmunds, Fenton, Ferry (Mich.), Frellnghuvsen, Goldthwatte, Hamilton (Md.), Hamlin, Hitchcock, Howe, Ingalls. Logan, McCreery, Merrimon, Mitchell, Morrill (Me.), Momll (Vt.), Morton, Oglesby, PattersontPratt, Ramsey,Robertson, Sargent, Saulsbury, Schurz, Stockton, Stunner, Wad” Icigh, West, Windom, Wright—46. Nays —Brownlow, Conover. Flanagpn, Gordon, Lewis, Norwood, Sprague, Tipton—B. -Mr. Cooper announced that he pairea with Mr. Cragin, who would have voted for the bill, and he (Cooper) against it. Not Voting— Alcorn, Ames, Dennis, Terry (Conn.), Gilbert, Hamilton (Texas), Johnston, Jones, Kelly, Ransom, Stewart, Thurman—l 2. In the House tbe votes in the negative were as follows: Albert, Averill, Barry, Clymer, Cox, Crossland, Hays, Hines, Kelly, Kendall, Lamisou, Moore, Negley, Platt, Randall, Shanks. Sloss. Standford, Storm, Stowell, Todd, Waddell, White, Whitley, Williams (Ind.).