Mr. HENDERSON. I may be wrong in this, but I think not. The 1st class clerks receive $1, 200; 2nd class clerks, $1, 400; 3rd class, $1, 600; 4th class, $1, 800; chief clerks of bureaus, $2,000; Auditors, $3,000; and asst heads of Depts, $3, 500. If Senators will take up the report which has been referred to by the Senfrom Oregon, (House Executive Document No. 30,) they will find that clerks of the 1st and 2nd classes have had given to them about 100 dollars extra compensation, and the clerks of the 3rd and 4th class and the chief clerks have received from 300 to 750 dollars each. The chief clerks, who receive $2,000 salary, have generally received from 675 to 750 dollars each extra. It may be that they are perfectly entitled to it; it may be altogether right and proper that they should have it; it may have been given entirely on account of merit; but if my amendment be adopted it will work perfect justice, in my judg ment, among these clerks, or very nearly so. Take the head of a bureau who has received an annual compensation of $3, 5also an extra compensation of $1,000. Under this resolution he will receive $700 more, being 20%. on his salary, making his compensation for the year $5, 200, whereas a 1st class clerk, who receives $1, 200, will get his 20%. making $1, 440, a 2nd class clerk will get his 20%., making him a compensation of $1, 680, and a 3rd class clerk will receive an additional compensation of 20%., giving him $1, 920; and these 3 classes have already received nothing extra except $100, while the gentlemen who received the largest compensation, salaries of from $2,000 to $3, 500, have gene rally received from $450 to $750 extra. They have all received their 20%., and I fo to allow them ten%. additional still. Take the case of a chief clerk with $2,000 annual salary who has received $750 extra compensation. He will get under this resolution $400 more, making his compensation for the year $3, 150; whereas a 1st class clerk has received but $100 extra, and many of them not a cent, and some of the 2nd class clerks have received nothing and some only $100. Thus the 1st and 2nd class clerks will receive very little more than their regular salaries, while the chief clerks will receive $3, 150. This may be just, but it does not strike me so. My imPression is that inasmuch as the men who get the larger salaries have received the larger portion of the extra compensation fund, we ought to scale the% age that we grant junder the provisions of this resolution. Unless we do so, the result is to give them a very large compensation, larger in my judgment than we ought to give, and larger than we design to. give. my 1st amendment for the purpose of preventing any charge of favoritism arising hereafter, and really for the purpose of preventing the SecyTreasury from paying to the well paid clerks a larger compensation, and making the aggregate amount to $5, 500 or $6,000, as he might do and proba bly would do if we were to carry out the same policy adopted last year. I think the amendment I now offer is but just. It is certainly right to those men who oreceive compensation enough to support themselves and families that they should get a larger proportion of this fund. I think those individuals who last year received 6 or 700 dollars extra compensation each can very well afford to take the ten%. which I propose.