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who are now unreprefented, would h
defended and protected -


MIR. COBB of Georgia said, thar ,be
contribution contains provision reou;r.


ing US to fix our own compensation and


in the part of the country which repre-,


fent, it is expected that the reprefentatiye


of the people fhall vote for fuch com-


penfation as he ought reafonably to re.


ceivc. |. iaid he, am married man.


To be fure, ] do not with the public 10
fuPport the whole of my family but il
| were TO say | did not wifi my wife to
come with me to the sefions, it would b.


the fame as if were to fay, | am afhamcd
of my wife. Unless gentlemen fimilayiy
ftuared, were prepared to fay this, he
could NOT see why they would be 5qusan7s
y5 in allowing themfelves Ettls Of sonacs
thing to mains ain their wives. If any


gentleman G;uated as himfelf would


make a calculation of what it would con


him to bring his wife here not every


feilion, but ar every other felton, and


that was kttle enough in all confidence
he would find that Fix dollars rAr day


would leave him in debt. Calculating
the compensation at eight dollars per dav,
member bringing his wife only with
hin would find, that after paying BIS ana


her bsayd, thar of a ssruanf and The hoyges
thar brought them here, he would have
bu. fix dollars per week left for lis con-
tingent expenses. lie would ask any
man of common feeling, he had almoft
iaid of common fenfr, whether tx dol
lars week was any thing like fufhcient
for that object A man, TO keep within
his allowances. mu9 at once make up his
mind TO imnure BIS 1vjfe, TO ihut her from
the face of day, becaufe he cannot afford
to put her in an apparel fit to appear a.
broad. This reafening Mr.. c faid, might
appear novel ], but it was nevertheless
true. A gentleman, who had no family,
wife or clild, would at the same rate have
a iurplus of thirty dollars week for his
cIothiog and contingent expenles ) and
Mr.. {. asked whether this was more
than fufEicient for the necefIary expenses
of any eentleman--a a term which he bobed
was well underftood in the house His
opinion was, that the compenfarion con-
tanned in the bill was two tmalI even for
a .ingle man.. but certainly for man
with family. He was therefore in ia
YOUR of recommitment but under a
hope, that 10 far from reducing the com
penlation TO Fix dollars, il would be Inc
crealeo to nine for Jingle man, and IL
for gentleman who will bring his fami-
ly with him. In exprefing this. hope, he
faid, he had another view. Some gen.
tlemen appeared to be very fond of fer
wing in this houfe from patriotifm, pure
patriotism. If there fhould be any gen
,eman who wished, under this conlidera.
ton, not to take nine dollars, Mr., e.
wilhed him to be authorized to take iuR
as much lefs as he pleaied, and leave it
to ,hofe who were willing TO take more,
10 fgbt it cut with their confituents.