Mr. WILLIAMS. I think it is perhaps due to myself that I should say a oor two, as it seems that the responsibility of the change has been thrown upon me by the members of the committee. I was in favor, in the 1st place, of one of 2 policies in reference to this compensation. One was to confine this additional compensation to.] all persons whose salaries were by law, and adopt that as the rule by which the allowance should be made; but if there was any departure from that rule, then all persons in the service of the Government in the city of Washington, whether their salaries were fixed by law or not, should be included; so that there should be some rule by which this compensation should be governed, and not to apply the 20%. to those whose salaries were fixed by law and then pick out a certain number of persons whose pay was not fixed by law and give them 20%., and exclude all others. That was the position I occupied as an individual upon the subject. I was willing to take either ground; but I desired to stand upon some ground where I could maintain myself. It would be consistent to confine this compensation to all persons whose salaries are fixed by law and exclude all others, or it would be right that all should be paid without reference to the manner in which they received their compensation. When the resolution was reported from the ComFinance I found that there were persons named in it whose salaries were not fixed by law and a large number of others excluded who were equally meritorious and whose salaries were not fixed by law. Hence it be: came necessary to reconsider the subject; and the resolution in the form in which it is now pending was as I understand the judgment of the committee in reference to the mode in which the compensation should be made, and I so reported it, although I am free to say that at the time and since the resolution has never been entirely exPressive of my individual views on this question; but I acted as the organ of the committee, supposing that a resolution in this shape was the exPression of the views of a majority of the committee. As to this motion, I have simply to say that I am apprehensive that it will, if it prevaiis, defeat the resolution, because I am very contident that there are many persons who will not vote for it if this clause or something like it is not retained. The extra compensation paid by the SecyTreasury has undoubtedly been paid to the most deserving in the Treasury Dept, but they have received during the fiscal year from 100 to 750 dollars. Some of them have received $750 out of this fund during the Present year.