Mr. HENDRICKS. I was not at the meeting of the committee at the time this was decided upon, or I think I should have insisted upon the southern district of Ohio being included within the $4, 500 class. I know something about the business of that court, and I think that if it is proper to increase the salary at Chicago and some other points to $4, 500 the judge of the southern district of Ohio ought to be included within the list. Cincinnati is a city of very large commerce. A great deal of business is done upon the rivers coming from Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio, and the class of business that is likely to go into the U.S. courts is very large at that point. I do not agree with the Senfrom Ohio who has just addressed the Senate, [Mr. Wade,) that there is no difference between the case of a man who holds court for ten days every 6 months and one who is constantly occupied in the investigation of very weighty causes the whole year round. I think the service done to the public in the 2 cases is very different. To be sure both have to live; but men are compensated according to the responsibility of their position. We pay some of the heads of bureaus in this city $6,000 I believe the Treasurer gets that much some others $5, 500, while others get but $3, 500. The reason is because of the enormous labor and responsibility thrown upon some as compared with others. Judge Leavitt at Cincinnati is called upon to try very important causes indeed. I was at Cincinnati upon legal business just before I came to the Senate, and he then was engaged in a cause which had occupied 4 weeks; the very ablest counsel of the city were employed in it. That is but one of a great many causes, and it was most complicated, requiring great care and labor. I know that he has many causes of that sort. It is not like the districts that are altogether agricultural. In agricult ural districts there is very little business naturally going into the U.S. courts. Business goes into those courts at points where there are commercial relations with other States and where the contracts are between men of different States. There is a great deal of that sort of business at Cincinnati. I do not know that it is equal to that at Chicago entirely, but I should think very nearly so, because Chicago has a business reaching into Iowa and Wisconsin, while the commerce of Cincinnati extends into Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee, in addition to her business connection with the eastern States and cities. It is certainly right, if we increase any of these salaries to $4, 500, then the judge at Cincinnati should be included, and if I had been at the meeting of the committee when this question was decided I think I should have in sisted on put in him in that class.