Mr. SUMNER. What the Senator says explains his leaving this class out, but I cannot say that itjustilies it. We understand now why he has left them out, but I must confess that I do not appreciate his reasons. Now, I find in the 1st section of this amendment a provision for “nine clerks in office of the SecySenate, $2, 500 each.” Mark that, if you please “$2, 500 each.” I have no criticism to make upon it; Ionly wish to call attention to it. Then comes next “keeper of the stationery, $2, 500.” Then, “one tem porary clerk, $1, 800.”.Then next, “messenger in stationery room, $1,500.” I merely call attention to these cases. The special committee have undertaken to provide or these cases; and I think we may we I ask why they stopped there. Are the clerks of committees less important than all of those 9 clerks in the office of the SecySenate who are to receive $2, 500 each; less important than the keeper of the stationery, who is to receive $2, 500; or than the temporary clerk mentioned at $1, 800? I do not think so. I think that my colleague, who is chairman of the ComMilAffrs , has a clerk who certainly deserves as much as any of the gentlemen who are protected by this bill. There is in the service of the committee with which I am connected a scholar, a thoroughly educated young man, who has come here to Washington from a distance expressly to discharge these duties, who deserves as much as any of the gentlemen to whom I have referred, and who are already protected by this bill. I cannot enter into the discrimination which the Senator makes. I do not eppreciate it. I believe if we are to protect the 9 clerks in the allies of the SecySenate and the others mentioned in this bill, we ought to complete our work by taking care of the clerks of committees. Now, with regard to these, there may be a difference. There are some, perhaps, who have very little to do. There are others who are constantly employed. I think they are employed fully as much as those that are already protected by this bill. Therefore, with a view to carry out what seems to me to be something omitted in this bill, and which I think my excellent friend would have introduced had it occurred to him, I propose to amend the amendment on page 2, line 14, by inserting after the word “ each:” Clerks of standingcommitteesof the Senate, 81, 850 perannum; and itshall hereafterbe iart of the duty of said clerks to direct and send 0 published all documents for distribution by order of the Senate.