Mr. DOOLITTLE. I regret that the mile age question is disturbed, or attempted to be disturbed. I know that in some cases it seems that the mileage is very large; but the mileage question disturbs not merely that, but raises a question very difficult to settle. It seems to me that it bears a little on another question that ought not to be lost sight of. I are say that the disturbance of the mileage question to a certain extent disturbs the location of the capital of the U.S. The fact that when persons come from the Pacific coast, or come from the far distant Territories, to congress their mileage is such as to compensate them for actually making the travel, makes them satisfied to come this great distance to attend the sessions of the Congress of the U.S.; and I think it not wise to disturb that question. I can conceive, too, that the real truth is that in the case of those who come from a far distant coast and bring their families hero their mileage does not very largely go beyond their expenses. I can well conceive that a single gentleman, a bachelor or a widower, if he is a member of the Senate, can come here at ten cents a mile; but can a Senator bring a wife ‘and 4 or 5 members of his family for any such sum as that? Not at all. I think the mile age paid to Senators does not, on the whole, more than pay their actual expenses of traveling backward and forward with their families. The other question of what compensation they should receive for devoting tiieir time here, I think should be considered by itself, and I do not think that $5,000 a year is any too much. During the war, and when the Government was straining every nerve to save its credit and to concentrate all its strength in the prosecution of the war, I was entirely unwilling that this question of comensatior. should be disturbed at all. I wante it to remain, willin to bear the sacrifice which every man certain y mpst have borne living here upon his compensation, especially if he had a family to support. Certain] for myself my salary and mi cage and all I have received has not by an means defrayed the actual expenses of mysel and family, and I live as economic ally as certainly the majority of men. But, Mr. President, since the war is over and the question is up I am not afraid to say what I honestly think. I think that a man who serves asa Senator of the U.S., devoting his time so much to the public service, certainly ought to receive as a compensation for his services $5000 a year.