The Senate having under consideration a resolution requesting
from the heads of Departments “information of the names, age,
and compensation of all inferior officers, clerks, and employés
in their respective Departments at Washington, showing from
what States they were respectively appointed,” &c., Mr. Abbott,
of North Carolina, moved the following addition:--
“_Resolved further_, That in the opinion of the Senate the
distribution of the official patronage of the Government
not embraced in local offices in the States should be made
as nearly equal among all the States, according to their
representation and population, as may be practicable; and
that to confine such patronage to particular States or
sections, either wholly or partially, is both unjust and
injudicious.”