Mr. WILLIAMS. ndependent of the objections that have been urged to this amendment by the Senfrom Maine, there is one that has considerable weight upon my mind which has not been mentioned. I conceive this to be a vicious and unjust mode of compensation. Different employees in all the Depts now receive a different compensation; some are did $3,000 or $4,000 a year, others are paid 500 or $1, 200 a year, showing that there is a difference in the value of the services of these different employees. This amendment proposes to pay to each one of them 20%. without respect to the value of the services of either one of them. It may be and I resume it is the fact that there are persons in the State Dept who on account of their abilities an their experience ought to have their sal aries increased perhaps $500 or $1,000, and I have no doubt that there are others in the State Dept, as in every other Dept, who receive a full equivalent for their labor. That is undoubtedly true as to the Treasury Dept, and I have no doubt it is true as to all the Depts; and if it be necessary to raise the compensation of any of the employes in any 0? the Depts let each dept be reorganized; let a salary be attached to each 0 cc according to the responsibility of the individual who fills that office; let the man who is required to exercise skill, who is required to have peculiar abilities 0r great learning, be paid a sum that will be an adequate compensation for what he brings into the performance of his duty, and let those who perform nothing but manual or mechan ical labor be paid according to the value of their services. Last night we passed an amendment providing that 20%. should be added to the compensation of the employees of the Senate. I voted against that amendment; I regard it as entirely unjust. I am willing to say, by way of an illustration, that our chief clerk, for instance, in my judgment, should have his salary raised $500 or $1,000, while there are messeners and persons employed about this CapitoI who, in my judgment, receive every cent that their labor is worth, and yet he, notwithstanding the responsibilities of is position, notwithstanding the experience and ski l which he is required to bring to the performance of his duties, receives his 20%., while pages and the men who perform nothing about this Capitol but manual labor receive the same addition to their salaries. I object to this mode of compensation. Let the State Dept be reorganized; let each offi'ce hav a salary attache to it according to its individual importance in the Dept; so of the Treasury Dept, the Nav Dept, and all the Depts, an that is the only way in which justice can be done.