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CONNECTICUT. 



cer and membn of OongreM was fixed. 

 This part of the act via M follows : 



On and after the 4th day of March, 1B7S, the 

 President of the United State* shall receive in full, 

 for hU service* daring the term for which ho ball 

 hare been elected, the turn of $80,000 per annum, 

 to be paid monthly; the Vioe-Preaident of the 

 United State* ahall receive in full for hi services, 

 during the term for which he ihall hare been elected, 

 the turn of $10.000 per annum, to be paid monthly ; 

 n 1 the Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court of the 

 United State* ahall receive the cum of $10,500 per 

 annum, and the justice* of the Supreme Court of 

 the United State* ihall receive the turn of $10,000 

 per annum each, to be paid monthly ; the Secretary 

 of Sute. the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secre- 

 tary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, the Secre- 

 tary of the Interior, the Attorney-General, and the 

 Postmaster-General, ihall receive $10,000 per annum, 

 each, for their services, to be paid monthly; and 

 eaclt Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, StaU, and 

 Interior Department*, (ball receive aa annual com- 

 pensation, to be paid monthly, $6,000; and the 

 Speaker of the House of Representative* ihall after 

 the present Congress receive, in lull for all his ser- 

 vices, compensation at the rato of $10,000 per an- 

 num, and Senators, Representatives, and Delegates 

 in Uonjros, including Senators, Representatives, 

 and Delegates in the Forty-second Congress hold- 

 inn such offloe at tbe passage of this act, and whoso 

 claim to a seat has not been adversely decided, shall 

 receive $7,500 per annum each, and this shall be in 

 lieu of all pay and allowance, except actuul indi- 

 vidual traveling expenses from their homes to the 

 aeat of Government and return, by the most direct 

 route of usual travel, onoa for eaoh session of the 

 11 >ue to which such Senator, member, or Delegate 

 belongs, to be certified to under his hand to the_ dis- 

 bursing officer, and filed as a voucher: Pnrilrd, 

 That, in settling the pay and allowances of Sena- 

 tors, members and Delegates in the Forty-second 

 Congress, all mileage shall be deducted and no al- 

 lowance made for expanse* of travel. 



CONNECTICUT. The Republicans of this 

 State asembled in convention at New Haven, 

 on February 5, 1873, for the purpose of nomi- 

 nating their candidates for Governor and the 

 other State officers. The whole number of votes 

 at the beginning was 466, and the nominations 

 made were as follows: for Governor, Henry 

 P. Haven, of New London; for Lientenant- 

 GoYernor, Charles 8. Griswold, of Gin 

 for Secretary of State, John M. Hull, of Wind- 

 ham ; for treasurer, David P. Nichols, of 

 I ).inhnrr ; for Controller, John T. Rockwell, of 

 \Vnnted. Messrs. Griswold and Nichols were 

 nominated (the latter lenominated) for their 

 respective offices by acclamation. 



The following platform was adopted by the 

 convention : 



Raohtd, Thst the Republican party of the State 

 of Connecticut pledges itself to the maintenance of 

 tbe principle* of political faith by which it ha* been 

 enabled under tbe providence of God to save the 

 Constitution, restore the Union, and secure the bless- 

 ing* of republican liberty to ourselves and our 

 posterity. 



Swalnf, That, aa the beat guarantee of the per- 

 iai*ny of these principle* and the security of the 

 rights of all men without distinction of race, birth- 

 plsas. or e-il-ir, we hail the reelection of the soldier 

 statesman. Ulysses 8. Grant, by a majority so unex- 

 ampled as to bar* silenced the tongue of the slan- 

 derer, and mad* it evident to the world that neither 

 republic! nor republicans are ungrateful. 



JtuolrtJ, We point with prido to the glorious rec- 

 ord of the Administration: to the successful twttle- 

 ment of the Alabama difficulty ; to the establishment 

 of correct principles of international law ; to the 

 treaties with foreign power* by which the rights of 

 naturalized citizen* have been secured abroad and 

 postal facilities increased ; to tbe reduction of the 

 debt and to the avoidance of a great commercial 

 panic and disaster ; to the firm and honorable efforts 

 to procure the abolition of slavery in the Spanish 

 colonies ; to the inauguration of a wise and humane 

 policy toward our Indian tribes ; to the direction of 

 means for the reform of the abuses in the civil Bur- 

 vice and the restriction of United States officials to 

 tbe duties of their offices. 



ttaolrtd, That we congratulate the country upon 

 the steady disappearance of the spirit of violence at 

 the South and passing away of the revolutionary 

 necessity of any interference with the local affairs of 

 the States. We denounce corruption of men of all 

 parties in high places. We have no apology or ex- 

 cuse for those of our own, but desire tlic lulK-st 

 investigation, and demand the punishment of the 

 guilty, conscious that the Republican party is strong 

 enough to purify its own ranks, thai it cannot be 

 strong if it neglects its duty in this respect, and that 

 it can only continue to commend itself to the con- 

 fidence of the country by purging itself of unworthy 

 elements. 



Kaolttd, That the Republican party confidently 

 asks the judgment of the people upon tbe Conduct 

 of affairs of this State during tin- v.-:ir put, to ita 

 economy and to the intelligent attention to its in:i>. - 

 rial, reformatory, charitable, and educational inter- 

 ests. 



Rtohed, That it is the duty of the State to be vi- 

 gilant in the protection of the rights and interests 

 of the people, against the encroachments of power- 

 ful corporations, and especially in holding railroads 

 strictly to the responsibilities and duties contem- 

 plated by their charters. 



KaolrtJ, That inasmuch as drunkenness still pre- 

 vails to sn alarming extent, in may parts of our State, 

 we favor such further legislation as shall be required 

 to remove this great evil, and promote sobriety, in- 

 dustry, and the happiness of the people in our Com- 

 monwealth. 



RrtolvtJ, That we confidently commend the can- 

 didates for State officers, this day nominated, ' 

 approval of the people upon their merits and ser- 

 vice* and eminent fitness for their several offices, 

 and pledge them and the principles they represent 

 our undivided support. 



The work of nominating candidates was 

 progressing, when the president asked Ifiive. 

 to lay before the convention three resolutions 

 handed to him by a delegation of the Labor- 

 Reformers, with the request that they rnL-ht 

 be referred to the Committee on I'latlbnn ; 

 the said resolutions relating, severally, to tlio 

 usury laws, to a bureau of labor statistics, and 

 to the working-hoars of women and children 

 in factories. By order of the convention, they 

 were so referred. The chairman of that com- 

 mittee, lifter the rending of the platform, re- 

 ported also on these resolutions, dissuading 

 action on the bureau of labor statistics and 

 the working-hours of women and children in 

 factories; and offering a substitute for the 

 resolution relating to the usury laws. A dele- 

 gate offered the following preamble and reso- 

 lution as a substitute for that reported, and 

 moved to insert it in the regular platform : 



JFtarwu, Advantage has been taken of the repeal 

 of the usury law by the last Legislature, so aa to op- 



