Speech #690120817

I objected to this Senate raise In salaries and increase in number in the subcommittee. and for that reason I declined to sign this report. because I feel we ought to systematically take this matter up jointly as between the Senate and the House. Either this committee and the Senate Committee on Appropriations. or the Committee on Accounts in the House and the similar committee in the Senate ought to take up the question of the revision of the number of Senate and House clerks and their salaries on the various committees. It is absurd and unjust for the great Committee on Immigration to be treated the way we are treating it. but this subcommittee felt that we ought not to pick out one or two committees and increase their clerks. This work should not be done in such a haphazard way as the Senate is doing. and I appealed to the Senators on this conference committee to cooperate with the House and devise some system of clerkships and of pay that would treat both ends of the Capitol rightly. If we adopt this report. it will create discontent among the clerks of this House.