Mr. LANE. I shall vote for the proposition of the Senfrom Delaware to increase the compensation to $6,000 a year, believing that the members of the Senate are not sufficiently paid fortheirlabors and the necessary eXpenses incident to their office. I shall vote against the amendment of the Senfrom Missouri to interfere now with the question of mileage. This question of mileage was arranged some 50 or 55 years ago with a view to compensation for traveling exonses. It has always been more, perhaps, than the actual trav eling expenses. I‘he means of transportation now are more extensive and cheaper, but the expenses of tavern bills and all that would perhaps compensate for this diminished expense of transportation. I vote for it, believing that we are not paid sufficiently for our services. An ordinary superintendent of a railroad in my State gets from 6 to 10,000 dollars a year. I do not feel that our services are suffieicutly compensated. I should prefer myself to make this increased compensation commence with the beginning of the next congress. to avoid the appearance of selfishness, although I think no one acquainted with me will suppose that my money instincts are sufficiently strong to. induce me to vote for it for this Congress and not for the next. I vote for it as a permanent. system, believing that we are not sufficiently paid. I know that there is no draft resorted to to bring members into the Senate; I know that they can resign;Iknow that you could get men to serve here for perhaps less than we are now serving for; but suppose you should look outto get 193,000Seu ators from our State, how would the public interests suffer. Could you get 2 such senators for any such compensation except that we feel we are serving tie public and making sacrifices all the time; but how long can you rely upon this state of things? I shall vote to pay the present mileage and $6,000:1 year, and t.‘ love that I have not been too highly paid, and I do it with the more freedom because I have perhaps now as little interest in the question as any other member of the Senate. I think if gentlemen are willing to come here and serve at all, you should be willing to pay them at least $5,000 a year, and the people will so regard it. The' do not require that theirplllpllC servants SiOUld come mm and serve or nothing. I am, then, for increasin the annual compensation to $5,000 a year an reducing the pay of no man on accouut of mile ago. I wed give to members from Minnesota, and from the Pacific coast, and from eve where else, their present mileage, and I you d give $5,000 a year compensation. The present system of mileage has been in operation for a great many years. It has been supposed to be just and equal; and, perhaps, taking into view all the considerations connected with the subject, it is equal as we shall get it. I shall vote then for the amendment of the Senfrom Delaware fixing the compensation at $5,000 a year and the present mileage. I believe that neither you, sir, [Mr. 'Hizivnnicus in the chairg‘ nor myself have one single constitutent, who nows our services and sacrifices, who will believe we are paid a cent too much for our services; and if they desire a different state of representation, let them get a cheaper article in services and sacrifices than their present members. I shall vote the increase. I should do it more cheerfully to a ply prospectively for those who are to come after me; butbelieving that I have dischareged my duty and that you have discharge your duty during the present congress, I shall vote for it as it is, to pay us in the past, assured that no man who knows me will misconstrue my motive. I will vote for it to apply to the present conress; I will vote for it to apply to the next congress. It is a matter of justice. There are 2 systems. Either pay your members sufficiently ordo not pay them at all, as they do in the British Parliament, and there their system of legislation costs them ten times what ours does, in contracts and in the provision for junior members of distinguishc families. I shall vote with great cheerfulness for the amendment of the Senfrom Delaware, and I do it with the greater cheerfulness be bouse I think it will be the 1st time in the {four years that we have voted together. ter., ART. With regard to this ques, we, I should like to call the atten “'3tion of the Senate to the fact that the alleged inequality will to a great extent be rectified by the building of aPacific railroad in a few years. The usual course of travel now from the Pacific is by way of the Isthmus, which is about 7,000 miles, or nearly that. The utmost mileage that can be allowed in the course of 6 or 8 years will be for about 3,000 miles, so that the practical inequality in regard to mileage will be removed by the construction ofthut road and its becoming the usual line of travel. I do not propose to or no a question that I am particularly intereste in or my colleagues from the Pacific coast. I simply want to state that I believe as a matter of policy one of 2 theories should be adopted: either there should be such pay as an economical man with a family might live on, or there should be none at all, so that it should be understood that nobody but the rich could come here. A reduction of the mileage to the Pacific to any less sum than we now receive with the present expenses, will exclude those who have no means upon which they can draw, or have not considerably large means on which to draw in order to live. The incidental expenses of going to the Pacific are quite considerable; I do not care to enu merate them; I propose to let gentlemen try it and see what it is. I simply say that, in my opinion, those who have families must necessarily be excluded from Congress or entirely excluded from their families, and if they have families to support there they cannot come here on the salary now paid, and the poor are necessarily excluded. If you intend to exclude the poor, the best way is to abolish this whole sum, or otherwise give such compensation as will enable a man to live upon it at the lowest basis of calculation. I think it is not worth while to adopt the amendment of the Senfrom Missouri. It was formerly the case that members could live on their pay, but now money is only worth half what it was at the time the compensation was fixed; everythin costs more than double what it did then. 0 are not receiving half the compensation in reality that was formerly an.