Mr. JOHNSON. Perhaps, if the honor. able member from Iowa desires to adjourn the Senate over the holidays, it is necessary too amend that resolution; it only provides for the adjournment of the House. suppose he wants the Senate to adjourn as well as the House; and if it is amended, as I presume it will be, the question is, whether it will be proper for us to adjourn. We can amend it, ". if the honorable member is desirous that his friends should go home; but assuming that it is amended, or that as it stands it would order an adjournment of the Senate, I am not able, anxious as I am to oblige those who are anxious to get home, to vote for it. It is true that heretofore there has been some difficulty in keeping a quorum of the Senate and a quorum of the together during the holidays in the absence of any adjournment; but as the compensation law is now different, possibly that difference may have some influence on such a result. As the law originally stood, whether the members were present or were not present, they received their per diem. As the law now is their per diem, if it can be called a E'f diem, their proportion of the salary which the law ives, which would be due them if they stayed ere, cannot be paid, unless they certify that they are absent on account of sickness; so that every member of the Senate and of the House who leaves Congress while Congress is in session, as long as he stays away, has so much deducted out of his allowance. It is barely possible, looking to the expense of going away and the expense of returning; that that may have some little weight in keeping Sens&Reps to what I understand the Senfrom Iowa admits is their duty. It seems to me to be rather singular for a gentleman who has such a high sense of political honor and moral duty to admit that it would be virtuous to remain; in other words, right to remain, and yet propose to go away. It is for himself and for others for whom he is laboring to judge whether it is a virtue that they assume without having it. He seems to admit that he would not be able to resist the temptation of going away in order that he might actually carry out the virtue of remaining here and discharging the public business. I move to amend the resolution in the 2nd line by inserting after the word “the” and before the word “House” the words “Senate and.”