Show will congress do justice tho f of r Trea treasury sulY notes from par value bas 1 01 aed a grea t injustice upon the call s volunteers Volun at best ill of pay received by then is poor Is ic barnin aiom 30 to per r month mon h when they enlisted but when we nc omoto their monthly pay the amount ti notes note or the pi emitille emi till of 0 depiction cepl on casary on oil gold the cuti ency of the pacific coast thol the 1 I I 1 1 II 11 is so great as loudly to cachor c all for lehe in lec ponc to the neckties ot of the ilse case neaily ill all tile the employees employee ii in i fedrial civil chil office in california their compensation laiad to meet the ho ariy riy ri einold ia old this maa w a deflected by ot lei s ft filin oin the but tho the pay of soldiers being fled alv fl ed d by la laii can call only bo be encased incased by in an when tin the california cis ac act t of congie enli enlisted ted and for orno onie time afeei i aid they were paid in ill gold but tile the condition of the national finances soon boon i eluh d that all in indebtedness lei teoties ted ties should be paid it in legal tender notes for nearly two tio year our brave volunteers who left lucrative lucia tive trades and positions to tike take up ainis aims for their country have been paid it tile the old rates iu in a currency which has bas depreciated aiom 25 to 30 per cent this is not light and it is to bo be hoped that i the congress will NOR do them the justice of indrea increasing in their pay to the standard of gold A petition to this edtl effect act lias been loin aided to washington IV ash and MC t e bust it list that congress at mill ill not delay pacing the necessary I 1 law authorizing autho rising payment to the california of in an equivalent foi gold from tho the date of their payment in de depucci preel tied treasury notes in june or july 1862 wo we see that the california press has taken up ill the subject and tho the follain following ill well N ell al gued al bicle ft aiom oina a i cent number of the stockton independent AN TO THE tito the Leisla tuie or of last N w inter intel lid did a giedt inaus tico to the suld boldien sol dien icis by the Sandel special contract law when it wai debei mined to call on oil california for cinc se ell or eight regi ili nietta ente efforts m ci ciu c nude to induce tile tho GON goern ti ment to pay them in ill coin but ahk MIS indi found im impo possible sible ible 0 diug ing to fit the ex tierno pie ples ssuie sule upon tile the Tica tiry it nai M then that ill it it at least ill alie pay in paper of a soldier lit in st state ate should be as much above that ot of one at tile the kist eat sd to cover ill the premium on gold but this anis AN is as again thul cd it i 1 s did by the ot of gen ILi lIeck 1010 anticipated lilt ic i that our lagi lature would ill alic fedrial Fedei il cuile cliency licy and NN ho dired to see hon ho it its geli general cial circulation in tile the state sidie would affect the pi ice of labor and handke e that the earlc war dc might han hai u c unerring data to guide it in the lie matter ot of increasing the I 1 pay ay of soldiers em here the legislature disappointed this expectation Pec tation by deciding that gold should be the tc culi ency and greenbacks green backs a t commodity so tile department did not raise the soldiers sol dicia diels nd and they uro are now paid only as Is much as Old icis eia in alie ill e east while it costs them a per cont equal to ill the pien premium liuM on gold M more or e t to 0 1 live i 1 C and ClO clothe clotele themselves thea relves than it tle does tile the cistern eib thus our gall gallant tilt and p patriotic patriotic atri otic bol soldiers diers baa hc c been made to suller sillier that the of the sh locks locka I 1 night might be 11 td the begish legislature basci A i law li making lakin greenbacks green backs a 1 legal tender in ill all contracts conti acts they would have attained general circulation and lid 1 wt heri the war department had bad leaniez that a montal monthly y pay of 15 hure here was really w woith alth on only ly as much as 10 in tile the east the wages of our ca worn t boldi cri m would oula have been ral raised sed 50 per c cent lt tile the GO does not seem to comple hend the fact that though a bush bushel 1 I of wheat or a blanket is worth only about is as much in ill california as in now new yolk yet hepatic ic out cul currency rency I 1 here lore is ia gold our prices ire arc 50 per cent higher and our soldiers cra eloie paid in fact 50 per cent less leas fit than those at the last if paper instead of gold was vas our par standard PI pieces ices it 1 is 13 3 true 1 would adv advance ance 50 per cent on labor and everything else but 11 a dollar in N would then be a t dollar in fact and not ilot only 69 or 70 bonts which the shy locks locki law has made it 1 ahe I he poor soldier is ii now P paid aid per month just illa ill A as if labor and nier chandie dhe here as it at the east were reckoned raon a stan standard daid of papel value and not a gold standard stan daid lie has been by a hick flick of the shy locks kept kep t fro from in lec lecun ehing ing what according acco iding to every pie of justice ju autice tice chis is bis right 50 60 per cent more pay than the L E soldier receives the gov 0 eminent docs not comprehend or thuc ize with willi bis hymna hardship haid ship in this respect they read t that hat N v heat beat oats oak h ly barley and fi fisit tilt are arc as cheap hete beio as asat at the east and they infer the same of ic but they overlook tile the fact that e the dollar 1 pud till for a bushel of in heat thel is dollar albi while to here it 0 a is ia only 70 cents ind and SIO slow nv to at that pass pabs if they clearly understood ill the c difference tile the california soldier S would have hale justice done him and get a mise lahe of fifty per cent in ill hi his pay As the matter sl stands ands he I 1 loses I 1 aiom fi om chii tv to five avo cents cent 01 on e every cry dollar of his it is py pay not likely that this state slate wi will i I 1 soldiers eis ei after the requite any ally more in ore 1 term of calls enlistment t mont of f the ex stu expires but it is 11 cert certain aill that it NN cre required none of the they old oid pa ij troops would woul calit for their I 1 e pi besent pay we think tho the independent is mistaken 1 in rt tint that last cuto the california enli cn litto 4 to make did not money and if ill the government needs ni 12 eds their services to tb throttle the rebellion after 1 14 ir present to term arru of enlistment we think will wi not bo be backward they in still their claims to aprin pring in to the bretch bre h Lon consideration should not be asad neglected and congro s should the relief for bitely apply I 1 I 1 |