Mr. WADE. Mr. President, the committee were instructed by the resolution under which they acted not to fix. nor to endeavor to fix, properly what should be the pay of these employes, but to equalize the sums received by the officers of the House and of the Senate for correspondinglabor as nearly aswe could come at it; and we have preceeded to do so. I do not know whether they receive too much or too little, for we did not take that into consideration. We did not suppose that we were authorized to do that under the resolution, which instructed us to make the salaries of the senate employees as nearly equal as we could with the salaries of the employes of the HoRep. The House, by a resolution some time ago, increased the salaries of all their officers receiving less than $1, 200 by 25%. We did not undertake to equalize the salaries here with thatincreased amount; but if the Senate should think that ought to be done, then, of course, it will be easy to fix it, because we have the certificate of the Clerk the House showing whattheir employees rece ed before and what this increase will makethem. This bill, however, is drawn upon the higher rate, upon the increased compensation that the House has already be stowed upon their employees by a resolution. I move to take up Senate bill The Senate employees, as a general thing, were not receiving as much compensation before this increase as the House employees were, and consequently the addition of 25%. to the existing salaries would not make them equal in every case, and where that was the case we made them equal, at all events. They ought to have been equal, I suppose, for like services allthe time, and we have endeavored to make them so. There are some offices of the different depts here that seem to be anomalous; there is nothing in the House to compare them to; but as the universal principle seemed to be to increase by 20 ve%. the salaries of the officers, I have prepared an amendment here that covers that kind of employees where there is no common standard 0 comparison, and I have done it by adding the same amount that seemed the Generalamount aimed at in the other cases. move, therefore, that this bill be amended by adding as an additional section the following: Abife: That the chief engineer of the heating and ventilating apparatus shall be paid $1.740: tivo asst engineers.$1,500each: the captain of the Capitol police.$2.175;the lieutenant of the Capitol polico, 81.875; 29 copitol police men, $1, 650 enophage to the VEEP, the some compensation as is paid to the other permanent pages of the Senate; one special policeman in the office of the SeySenate, $1.000; 3 laborersin the officooftho secretaryof the Senate, 8250 perday each; clerk of tinting ‘recordsof the Senate $2.500; the Public Gardener. With the force employed under him. an additional increaseof 2 va%. to the compensationnow receivedby them.