Mr. TRUMBULL. Then it would seem that the man who performed this arduous service and traveled so many miles would get nothing more than he who staid at Washington after all. I do not think he should get any more or any less, to answer the Senator’s question. Officers of the Army enter the service for life. One year they are stationed at Washington, the next year out on the plains. They ta e their turns. One year an officer travels and the next he is stationed at some post. If he has more service to perform in one year without getting any additional pay the next year he will probably perform less service than some other officer who gets no more pay than he does, and in the end it will be equal. It is just so with your judges of courts. They do not all travel the same distance; they do not all have the same number of courts to hold, and yet you fix the salary of each justice of the Supreme Court at the same amount. It does not deend upon the number of miles he goes to hold is court or how many days he sits in court. I presume some of the justices of the Supreme gourt hold court many more days than others 0. Now, sir, it seems to me it would be alto gether better to have a fixed, known price for these services. I have nothing to say in re rd to the proposition of the Senfrom NewYork immediately pending, because 1 am not sufficiently informed as to the proriety of raising these rations from 30 to 50 cents. It seems they were put up on account of the war. I wish to made one remark, however. The Senfrom NewYork speaks of this as being raised “ for the present.” This is to be a ermanent law. It will be an anomaly in the legislation of this country when you get sal aries up to have a bill come in to at them down. I have never seen anything 0 that lev eling process since I have been a member here. I have known a great many instances of bills introduced to pay some favorite officer, some officer who has performed extraOrdinary duties, and we haveincreased his salary $800 or $1,000; and the next year a bill will come in to pay the other officers the same as this colonel of cav alry has, and they will say it is an inequality and you must equalize it; but I never knew a bill to come in since I have been a member of the body to put down the higher salary and equalize it with the lower one. If this proposition should be adopted it will be as permanent as any of our laws, I think.