Mr. HENDERSON. Mr. President, if this proposition be adopted, the compensation and pay of members of Congress, to be comen sated from the beginning of the present on gress, will be $5,000 a year and 20 cents mileage. Senators are aware that the mileage now is 40 cents. The proposition as origi nally presented by the Senfrom Delaware is to pay $5,000 and 40 cents mileage. I will not vote for that proposition. I will not vote any longer for the extravagant and extraor dinary mileage that we are paying. We are paying too much mileage. We can strike off a part of that mileage, and yet give to members of Congress a fair compensation. We can save some 60,000 dollars in mileage, puttin the compensation at $5,000 perannum, and yet pay every cent that ought to be aid in the way of compensation to members 0 Congress. The difference now between the pay of members of Congress is too great. ior instance, we pay to one of the California members $16,064 80 perCongress; that is, $8, 482 peryear. We pay to another one of the members $17, 124 80. We pay to one of the Oregon members $17, 936, and to another of them $17, 936, the same sum. We are paying to each one of those members $11, 936 in the way of mileage alone, their compensation being only $6,000; the mileage being double as much as their regular pay. I hope those Senators will pardon me for referring to this subject, because it is a thing we must refer to in talking about the question of compensation. We are compelled to do it. In the same proportion is this thing unjust in regard to other members who live out so far as the Oregon and California members, but still who live at a great distance from the capital. The original mileage was adopted before railroads were known in this country, and the idea upon which it was adopted was that it was to be a part of the compensation of members. No idea was entertained that it was to be a part of the compensation for traveling expenses, but it was to be compensation for services rendered. In other words, those members could not get home in order to transact any business, and therefore the ought to be paid a larger compensation. ow, sir, a member from minnesota or Wisconsin can go home just as easily as a member from Pennsylvania. I say as easily; Ispeak comparatively. Perhaps in friendfrom l RhdIsland [Mr. Seamus] wi I lose a day in oing home, and a Senator oing to StPaul wifilose 2 and a half days. ow, what is the difference? The Senfrom RhdIsland gets comparatively nothing in the shape of mileage. He gets his $3,000 a year, the amount that we pay to almost any clerk here about the Capitol, and he gets nothing more; while a gentleman who comes from Minnesota gets some 3 or 4,000 dollars in the shape of milea e. Is that right? Is there that difference? why, sir, he can go home in the course of 2 and a half or 3 days. He can attend to business just as well as the Senfrom RhdIsland can. Here is my friendfrom NewYork, [Mr. Banana] living at Albany, NewYork;. what compensation oes he draw in the sha of milea e? Here is the Senfrom aine, Mr. FESSENDEN] what mileage does he get? e gets some 3 or 400 dollars in the shape of mileage every year. Can he go home to transact any business any more than the Senfrom Minnesota sitting farthest from me, [Mr. ItAiisizrfl Has he been able to go home and transact any business during this session? The Senfrom Minnesota gets some 2 or 3,000 dollars in the shape of mileage, and my friendfrom Maine gets scarcely more than enough to pay his way here.