Show corruptions Corrupt ions at I 1 the committees in Congress of them at least are allowed clerks or ari agi as tb tare different 1 committees h majority of congress they vote themselves clerks clerics who are expected to do most of the labors of tho the members in committee I 1 but as congress does but little nowa now a days beyond registering the edicts of the executive and i attending to the interests of members as connected with appointments appointment appoint men ts patent renewals grants of lan land d to railroads bothe clerks have an easy time of 0 it the chief duties of of them being to send bond off speeches and a nd other documents and to write letters lette rs in in i praise of their patrons to distant newspapers this game is carried farther in the senate in its ita present low moral condition than in the house and it pains us to say aay so much when we I 1 consider what the senate used to be when hugh white clay kalhoun Oal Cal houn boun webster benton and other giants in intellect and pure minded men graced its halls but this is day of small men from the president down and the people must patiently bear the burden of their own imposing but to the f act that has provoked these I 1 ren remarks the labors of these clerks are not such as to make their case a very hard bard one and yet we find in the evening hours of the thea late session of congress on motion of the meanest man in the senate a vote was taken to increase the pay of these hard worked clerks of the senates committees from FOUR to six dollars per dagand it was adopted at four dollars aday a day or twenty eight dol lars 9 a week these patriotic clerks must have been on starving allowance and when it is congi considered dered that there are about as many clerks as there are senators this increase is no small tax on the patient people the wages of these clerks during the past session at four dollars per day is estimated at but at six dollars per day the ibe total would foot so that mr pettits Pet tits motion cost the treasury about what has followed folloW 64 why these same clerks all abonce struck with the literary taste and character of MRS AIRs senator pettit have united and appropriated out of their hard earnings money I 1 to purchase a costly service of silver for the lady to say the least this was considerate very in the estimation of the clerks senator pettit is a public polio benefactor chip state JO journal U md I 1 |