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give his salary, so much money, $100 apiece, to the people to do this 
charity? He.will say because the Government commands it to be 
paid to him, and for what? For services rendered. Suppose Profes- 
sor Baird has rendered greater service than he or I or any other Sen- 
ator; suppose he has rendered to these poor people in this whole 
country, to each one of the poor people for generations, services a 
thousand times greater than the Senator or I or all other Senators or 
members of Congress, and he rises here to say, ‘‘I will take the $5,000; 
I will not give it to the people, but I will not compensate the man who 
rendered the far greater service. Jam the friend of the poor; I rep- 
resent them. I represent the oppressed, the farmer; but I will keep 
my $5,000; I will vote this to myself, but I will not vote anything to 
the man who has fed all these starving millions. This is no debt of 
the people, because he did not make a contract with the people to do 
it. He has done a service which I have not done, but I have a right 
to the money, service or no service, because it is a contract.” 
Mr. Harris. Iam tempted to ask the Senator from Florida, if he 
will allow me—and yet I know how he will answer before I oe the 
question, for he utterly repudiates the idea of contract between the 
Government and employees, in which I totally disagree with him—but 
I want to ask him this question: Does he hold that he as a Senator, 
that a majority of the Senate and a majority of the House of Rep- 
resentatives can levy, collect and appropriate the money to any 
charitable object that they may think charitable and deserving as a 
donation ? 
Mr. Cau. I will ask the Senator to answer me this question-—— 
Mr. Harris. I would rather you would answer my question, and 
then I will answer any question you please to propound to me. 
Mr. Cauxi. But if the Senator will answer my question he will 
refute his own statement and answer his own question himself. I ask 
him if it is true or untrue that an act passed by a majority of this body 
and by a majority of the other House of Congress and signed by the 
President appropriating money to any object whatever is the law of 
this land or is it not, and are or are not all persons and powers 
required to obey it? 
Mr. Harris. Whether the act be within the limits of constitutional 
delegated power or not, I suppose it would get the money out of the 
Treasury, and I suppose if a thief were to break into the Treasury and 
get the money out he would have the money all the same. But I ask 
the Senator from Florida a question that involves his construction of 
the constitutional powers of Congress and not what may have been 
done or what possibly may be done in the future. 
Mr. Cau. The rightful exercise of power and power itself are dif- 
ferent things. Every use of money by Government is a grant, and 
