FEE AND SALARY COMMISSION.
Mr. AIKEN, by consent, introduced a bill [H R. 313] to authorize the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of Slate and Auditor of State to appoint a Fee and Salary Commission, prescribing the duties of said Commission, providing for per diem and mileage of members, [to consist of one Representative of each Congressional District and one from the State at large, making fourteen in all, seven of whom are to be Republicans and seven Democrats. The Commissioners are to have authority to submit a series of interrogatories to the various County officers and compel answers as to their emoluments and the expenses of their offices, and are then to frame a bill from the inform [?] thus obtained, regulating fees and salaries, which is to be reported to the General Assembly, which was read the first time, passed to the second reading, and 300 copies ordered printed.
