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out all after the provision for the President's 

 salary, 159 ; a separate vote on the increase of 

 the salaries of members desired, 159 ; opposed 

 to the whole proposition, 160 ; shall poor men 

 be allowed to participate in the administration 

 of the Government? 160; the salary of the 

 President ought to be increased, 160 ; expenses 

 of living, 160 ; the party is committed to econ- 

 omy, 160; this amendment is inopportune, 

 161 ; motion to strike out lost, 161 ; motion 

 to strike out so much as refers to members of 

 Congress, 161 ; amendment withdrawn, 161 ; 

 motion to postpone the operation of the act, 

 161 ; lost, 161 ; motion to strike out renewed 

 and lost, 161 ; motion to concur with the 

 salary amendment of the House, 162 ; lost, 

 162; report of the committee of conference, 

 162; the Senate insist on its amendments, 

 162. 



In the House, report of committee of con- 

 ference, 163 ; main question ordered, 163 ; re- 

 port of conference committee explained, 163 ; 

 the annual increase of expenditure, 163 ; what 

 the report involves, 163 ; the country should 

 be awakened, 163 ; the compensation should 

 remain as at present, 164; we have earned 

 this increase of salary, 164; protest against 

 the proposition, 164; most auspicious time to 

 raise salaries, 164; report of the committee 

 adopted, 165. 



In the Senate, report of the conference com- 

 mittee made, 165 ; the committee have tran- 

 scended their jurisdiction, 165; action of the 

 Senate, 165 ; motion to recommit the report 

 with instructions, 165 ; lost, 166 ; moved to 

 recommit without instructions, 166 ; the bill 

 proposes to pay an increase of back salary, 

 166 ; that is right, 166 ; precedents are all for 

 it, 166 ; motion to recommit lost, 166 ; the 

 Republicans will lose Connecticut or Rhode 

 Island, 166; the report concurred in, 167. 



In the Senate, the supplement to the bill to 

 provide for a national currency considered, 

 167 ; the bill contemplates specie payments, 

 167; too radical a measure, 167 ; or to convert 

 greenbacks into interest -bearing bonds, 167; 

 how often can they be paid out again ? 167 ; 

 recent reissues, 168 ; which is the best, bank- 

 notes or greenbacks? 168 ; is a bank-note cir- 

 culation advisable? 168 ; can have inflation by 

 means of the national banks, 169 ; we can se- 

 cure an elastic currency by this bill, 169 ; shall 

 the banks keep a reserve? 169; motion to 



strike out the original bill, and insert a sub- 

 stitute, 170; the substitute, 170; the chief 

 object should be a resumption of specie pay- 

 ments, 171 ; a crying demand of the present 

 hour, 171 ; is this a decisive step toward re- 

 sumption? 171; the practical working of this 

 law doubtful, 171 ; increase in the bulk of the 

 currency, 172 ; this bill does not carry out the 

 theory of the chairman of the committee, 172 ; 

 not a bill to resume specie payments, but to 

 give the Secretary the option to pay in coin, 

 172 ; its provisions examined, 173 ; do not be- 

 lieve in an elastic currency, 173 ; why is it 

 that there has been such stability? 174; the 

 amendment proposed, 174; rejected, 174; oth- 

 er amendments moved and lost, 175 ; difficul- 

 ties which exist, 175 ; aim and object of the 

 bill, 175 ; shall we undertake peremptorily to 

 establish specie payments ? 176 ; if the bill 

 will bring about specie payments, let us have 

 it at once, 176 ; what will be the increase of 

 specie circulation ? 177; bill ordered to lie on 

 the table, 177. 



In the House, resolution for information 

 relative to the affairs of Louisiana offered, 

 178 ; denial that the President has interfered, 



178 ; refusal to suspend the rule, 178. 



In the Senate, a resolution to authorize an 

 inquiry relative to Louisiana, 179 ; what the 

 resolution requires, 179 ; what jurisdiction has 

 the Senate over the election of President? 



179 ; resolution adopted, 179. 



In the- House, a resolution to appoint a spe- 

 cial committee to inquire into the election, 

 etc., in Louisiana considered, 1 79 ; two Gov- 

 ernors inaugurated in Louisiana, 179 ; inquire 

 into the facts of the election to ascertain 

 which of these organizations shall be recog- 

 nized by Congress, 179 ; what has been done 

 in Louisiana ? 180 ; ^hat is our duty ? 180 ; 

 the matter in dispute, 180 ; the uprooting of 

 the government of the State is no trifling 

 matter, 180 ; what will be the effect of the 

 appointment of this committee? 181 ; the rem- 

 edy consists in the Federal Government keep- 

 ing its hands off -the people, 181 ; one of the 

 most important questions that can engage the 

 attention of the House, 181 ; substitute offered 

 and adopted, 182 ; amended resolution adopt- 

 ed, 182. 



In the Senate, a resolution offered to in- 

 quire whether there is a legal State govern- 

 ment in Louisiana, and by whom constituted, 



