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Mr. Gaines Favors Enlorcemenl ol Statute not Allowing Con gressmen Pay IVhile Absent. Washington Disp leh .rttli. Now that the House has de cided against raising the salaries of members of Congress, John Wesley Gaines is determined that those who fail io attend to their tions Committee tacked to the legislative bill an amendment to repeal the obnoxious section of the statutes. But the House de cided otherwise by a vote of 104 yeas to lis nays. The Republi cans voted in the affirmative and the Democrats against re peal. The iudiciarv committee then duties shall not even be paid the , took up the maUer and br0UKht in a majority report in favor of repeal. Section 40 states that r moaey they now receive. He in favor of enacting anew statute providing that each member sha 1 forfeit $13.70 for every day he is absent; or of enforcing sec tion 40 or the Revised Statutes, which provides that this shall be done unless members are ill. He ihas already introduced a bill pro Tiding for the former. Mr. Gaines has been digging among the old documents at the Qapito' and has found some in formation which he expects will make absent members sit up and take notice. Ho has found that the present statute, passed in 1856, has never been repealed. Until 1816, the statute was that each member shall be paid per diem. After that time it stipu lated that members should be paid a salary of $1,600, to be re duced in case members were ab sent. In 1618 this was repealed. In 1856 the law. relating to absent members was resuscitated. In 1662 a further restriction was placed on the collection of mile age if the members were absent, but the law of 1856 was not re pealed and still remains- The oldest inhabitant does not remember of the law being car ried out, with the exception of the Fifty-second Congress, when -it was enforced to the financial discomfort to members tnat a strenuous attempt to repeal it was made in 1894, when the Democrats had control of the House. In that year the Appropria- any member shall not be excused except on account of sickness,and if away for any other causes his salary for the time absent shal be forfeited. Of this the majori ty report said: "It is apparent that the excuse of sickness is one easily made, j . i .i . .. . aim ib is suspeciea mat it is sometimes assigned as a reason for absence without any diagnois of ailments by medical experts In other words, the enforcement of this section practically makes every member a pathologist on the subject of disease, which is not a qualification of service men tioned in the Constitution, and so for this reason, the law is plainly unconstitutional. It is believed that each House of Con gress, by an appropriate rule, can better enforce the attendance of members than by a statute operative as a penal sjtatute and evaded by easy subterfuge. Many members of Congress believe that section 40 has already been repealed by existing law, and many others believe it is still in force. But practically all of them wish to have it removed from theTstatute books. The practi cal construction for nearly thirty years has" been-in the same direc tion. Obviously, the manly way to get rid of objectionable legisla tion is to repeal it, and in this case such repeal will manifestly improve both the health and morals of this body." Mr. Gaines declares there vas at first considerable disposition to look with favor upon this re port, but that the House again declined to repeal the statute.the vote standing about the same as before. He says this was due to a scathing minority report sub mitted by Mr. De Armond, of Missouri, now a member of the Committee on Rules. The Tennessee Representative says the minority report should be read carefully by every mem ber of the House today. "Section 40," said Mr. De' Ar mond, "rests upon the proposi tion that members of Congress are paid for their attendance up on sessions of the body to which they respectively belong, and for a discharge of their representa tive duties. Whenever, on ac count of sickness of himself or of a member of his family, a Con gressman is absent from his post of duty in the House of which he is a member, the law, as a mat ter of grace rather than of right, permits him to draw his salary without diminution on account of his absence. But when absent otherwise than on account of sickness, the law requires a surrender of the compensation to which the Con gressman would be entitled at present. If a member f Con gress chooses to neglect his public duties to attend to private business or for personal recrea tion and enjoyment, there does not seem to be any injustice in requiring him to forfeit the sala ry which he might earn and might be entitled to, but which he prefers not to earn and to which he certainly is not enti tled." In regard to the alleged false declarations of sickness, Mr. De Arraond declared that "if mem bers are taking unearned money from the Treasury by a sacrifice of varacity and a violation of law, the cure for so gross an evil should be found in a more rigid enforcement of the law and not in its repeal. " In conclusion Mr. DeArmond, in his report, makes the follow ing observation, which Mr. Gaines says is very apropos: Too many members are away generally and regularly, though they visit the House occasionally. We do not believe they should have the same pay as other mem bers who lay aside private busi ness and deny themselves the attractions of tbe seashore and of mountain resorts, in order that they may be in the House, as a proper discharge of their duties requires. "Nor do we believe the pres ent or other sessions should be prolonged at the expense of the public, to the inconvenience of I the mublic, and for the benefit of delinquent members. So long as the philosophy that "the laborer is worthy of his hire' holds good section 40, or something practi cally equivalent to it, may well have a place in the law and be enforced, without apology or con cealment." The report was signed by Jo seph W. Bailey, now a Unittd States Senator, who, by the way, has not been in his seat during the present session. Mr. Gaines intends after the holidays to have these reports spread on the rec ord for the edification of the Fif ty-Ninth Congress. . Death from Lockaw Never follows an injury dressed with Buoklen s Armoa Salve. Its antiseptic and healing properties nrevent blood uoisomncr. Charles Oswald, merchant, of Hensselaers- ville, N. i., writes: "It onred Seth Burch, of this place, of the ugliest sore on his neok I ever jaw." Cures Outs, Wounds, Burns and Sores. 25o at all drug store s Preparation For Fort Fisher Re union. Wilmington Messenger. A meeting of the central com mittee which has in charge the arrangements for the reunion of Blues and Grays to be celebrated at Fort Fisher next month, on the 41st anniversary of the his toric battle that occurred there, was held last night at the city hall and plans for the reunion were discussed. It was declared that everything is getting along in fine shape, and that numerous reponses irom many camps in the north and south, and from distinguished' citizens from' all parts of the country, show that there will be a tremendous gath ering in this city at the time of the reunion Railroads all over the country are offering reduced rates and the occasion will be the meanB of attracting one of $he largest and most represen tative gatherings of civil war veterans that has ever gotten to gether. The Utica, New York, camp will come to Wilmington on a special train, coming through Washington. A letter from a a man, way in Greeley, Col., tells that he is planning to take the trip and responses are being re ceived daily to the hundreds of invitations sent out. Cordial letters will be directed shortly to the governors of New York, Virginia, 'South Carolina and Georgia, urging them to come and it is believed that pro bably all of them will accept. After the meeting of the full committee-last night, the mem bers of the finance committee got Southern Pays for Not Heating Cars. WlnHton-Saleni lls jatcli. In Forsyth Superior Courtthis afternoon Mrs. It. E. Lassiter was given a verdict for $1,066.00 against the Southern Railway. The plaintiff's allegation was that her health was permanently in jured by the negligence of the defendants; that while going from Greensboro to Washington on one of the Southern trains in March, 1905, the coach was not provided with heat, and as a re sult she was taken with a severe chill which lasted several hours, and that since that time she has been unner the care of physi cians nearly all the time. Mrs. Lassiter's claim was for $1,900. Xmas Eve. On this date amid the chilling wind, our house was entered by quite a number of the members of the Lumbertbn Baptist church and Sunday school, both men, women, and children with their pastor and wife bringing with them "Santa Claus," quite a quantity of real substantials for the pantry, additions for the china closet, wardrobe and libra rary. The children were dumb with astonishment, and when the crowd dispersed wanted to know if it was Santa Claus that had come, we told them no, "It was a pounding." Our joys were equal to theirs, yet with an apprecia tion that was not theirs to ex press.and through these columns we wish to try to express our appreciation to these generous hearted people, whose many kindnesses we have shared. May a kind Providence smile togetherto lay outtheir plans for rrrtrVr1 fcUB,r canvassing tne city. The city was apportioned into certain dis tricts and different members of the committee placed in charge of the work of soliciting contribu tions in their respective dis tricts. I. P. Hedgpeth. Piles get qnick relief from Dr, Shoop's Magic Ointment. Remember it's made alone for Piles and it works with e r tainty anil satisfaction- Itching, ptinf.. protruding,, or blind piles disappear 1 ke iry it and see! All macic hv its use. o Dealers.
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