It is with reluctance that I rise to express a disapprobation of any one article of the plan. for which we are so much obliged to the honorable gentleman who laid it before us. From its first reading. I have borne a good will to it, and in general, wished it success. In this particular of salaries to the executive branch, I happen to differ, and as my opinion may appear new and chimerical, it is only from a persuasion that it is right, and from a sense of duty, that I hazard it.



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