“The Thanksgiving day I received the kind visit of Senator Morrill at the Providence Hospital. On that occasion I gave him a paper containing the information of the time I was working in the Capitol by daily wages and also retained at work by Senator Foot, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds in the time of the war.
“The annexed paper is the copy of that I presented to Senator Morrill. I would have submitted it for your examination but in the many times I have been in your office I had not the chance to find you, nor in your house some afternoon.
“Mr. Morrill told me, that I would have work at the Capitol after the recess of the Congress, but about my proposition, he cannot tell me anything at present, but will take this matter in consideration and he asked me what will be my demand about the wages. I replied that before the war I had ten dollars in gold, that was a sufficient wage at the time but now all the wages are generally increased, I hope to obtain the same consideration.”
C. Brumidi
According to endorsed vouchers and Time Book entries preserved by the Government of the United States in the Architect’s office of the Capitol, actual payment in money was made to Mr. Brumidi of something over $80,700 during a period of twenty-five years. While an average of $3,200 a year from 1855 to 1880 was not over-payment for Mr. Brumidi’s services, yet, by the same reasoning it cannot in truth be termed under-payment for those same years.
