Mr. TRUMBULL. I should not have said another word about this but for what was said by the Senfrom Maine in reply to a sug f." of mine that this bonus of $160,000 adbeen distributed among favorites, which he refutes as he supposes by Presenting a cer tificate from the persons who made the distri bution not the best evidence, I would remark to the Senfrom Majne. Parties who made the distribution would be very likely to certify that they did not make it upon any principles of favoritism. I should have expected that; they are not the most disinterested witnesses in the world; but however they distributed it, the fact is as was stated by the Senfrom Ohio, {Mr. SHERMAN,) that certain clerks in the Treasury Dept have received over and above their salaries bonuses varying from 100 to 600 dollars; and now, after they have been paid some of them as much as 600 dollars in addition to their regular salaries, you propose to give them 20%. more in this bill, which, as it is now written and reported by the committee, proposes to give something to those whose salaries have not been raised in any form. It is proposed now to go on and give the 20%. additional to those who have been paid all they ought to have, because they have had a fund of $160,000 from which to draw; and this proviso declares, as it is written, that they shall not be required “to refund any sum they may have received as aforesaid in excess of said 20%. on other salary, ” thereby admitting in the proviso as it now reads that some of these officers received out of this fund placed in the hands of the SecyTreasury already more than 20%. upon their salaries. If they have not received it the proviso as it now reads declares that they shall receive up to 20%.; that they shall stand like all other clerks of the Depts. If they have not already received 20%. advance upon their salaries, then this proviso as it now reads is that they shall receive it, and if they have already had the 20%., and more than the 20%., they shall not be called upon to refund. It does seem to me these clerks stand well enough, and this proviso onght not to be stricken out.