Mr. NYE. I have not the honor of knowi the gentlemen who thus undertake to contro and abuse Congress. We have got so accus tomed to receiving rebuke from certain quarters that it ceases to hurt; but I insist upon it that a class of men who are here asking for favors at the hands of Congress, the clerks of these Depts, should be the lastto attempt to control the action of Congress or to abuse its members. Now, sir, I move that this subject he ost poned until we can ascertain whether the oliiicers of this deptal club are to be the recip ients of the benefits of this increase of salary.‘ and whether it is the object of this deptal club and of this bill to so cut down the number, and you always find the honestest men having the lowest salary, as to get rid of those men as clogs in this deptal club or not. I hope that this Senate, in view of its own dignity, that this Congress, in view of its own sense of propriety, before voting to increase the salaries of theSe men, will know whether, it is these arraiguers of the representatives of the country that are to receive the benefits of this increase of salary. We have got so accustomed in Mr. President, having stood such attacks. from all other quarters without perceiving any symptoms of being hurt, I insist upon it that when these clerks attempt, with an insolence that has never before been equaled. with an impudence as unparalleled as the assertions from other quarters, imitnting others in their expressions, to abuse the representatives of the people they shall not receive increased salary, increased facility for abusing the power from which they draw their nourishment and support. I therefore ask that this subject shall be postponed until we can inquire whether, while the men that in this “loyal” pa or, the National Intelligencer, of the bOth of.iay, arraign Congress as usurpers and as establishing a despotism and tyranny here equal to Austria, are itting us on one side of the head with a club, we shall open the pockets of the Government to give them increased facilities for hitting us again. I should like to have the Senfrom Wisconsin take time; I do not suppose he is prepared now, for he never speaks without due preparation; I want him to investigate this subject and report “in brackets, ” as he has in this bill what is proposed to be stricken out, whether or not these deptal clubs exist and whether they are for the object set forth in this paper, whether the object is to bring every clerk in the Depts to support the President in his policy or to turn him out, and whether this bill is to aid in it. I insist upon it that this bill should not pass until the Senate has an opportunity to examine that matter.