Mr. JOHNSON. Mr. President. in relation to the salaries, I concur entirely with the honorable member from Ohio that it is impossible for these judges to live in the District, in the way judges should live, upon their present sal ary. They may live here alone, but. they cannot live here with their families. In point of fact the are now, all of them, I believe, boarding, an the greater part of the year they are boarding without their families. Their families are sent away to remain during several months of the year from necessity, and if anything can be plain, I suppose it to be that in a Government like ours the judiciary should be wellsna tained. It is all important to the rights of the individual citizen. It appeared to me, however, in listening to the bill as it was read, that there were a good many provisions in it that are wholly unnecessary, and among others the particular provision to which the honorable member adverts, giving to the court jurisdiction in cases of admiralty. I had an posed the present court had, in addition to the powers not conferred upon the original court, all the powers of that court. They from time to time always exercised admiralty jurisdiction; and the present court has from time to time exercised the same jurisdiction, and cases I think have been taken to the SCOTUS from its decision where there was no doubt expressed but that the jurisdiction existed; but if there be any reasonable doubt or any plausible doubt that the jurisdiction does exist, there can be no impropriety in removing the doubt and making the matter certain as will be done by this bill. In relation to the authority to issue attachments, the Senate perhaps may not be so well satisfied that that ought to be granted. They have it now to a certain extent, for I suppose they are under the law of Maryland that existed at the time the District was ceded. They are governed by the laws of Maryland so far as they have not been changed by the laws of Congress, and by the Maryland law antecedent to the cession of the District the process of attachment existed; but the summaryjirocess of attachment which was given in Maryland by an not passed subsequent to the cession of the District it ini lit perhaps be somewhat perilous to grant. This district is not like a State. Crowds of people come here every year only to remain a few days; they are here today and gone to ine r row; and there is no knowing how the power of summary attachment might not be abused. a man happened to 30 away Without paying his tavern bill, the next thing he would hear would be, ifhc had any property here that it was attached and if he lived at seine distance