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Show Extra Pay Cut Off. Washington. There is weeping and wailing among the officers and employes em-ployes of congress. The long established custom of granting them an extra month's salary each year was ruthlessly swept away in the house when Mr. Wagner of Pennsylvania, the presiding officer, sustained a point of orde,r made by Mr. Macon of Arkansas against the proposition. In vain did Mr. Olmstead of Pennsylvania, Penn-sylvania, the father of the proposition, proposi-tion, plead for the withdrawal of the point. Messrs. Macon and Sisson of Mis sissippi were especially antagonistic. They practically charged graft and said the time had arrived to put an and to it. |