Meanwhile I ask you to consider the actual question under debate, which is, whether you will authorize the Government, in view of the peculiar circumstances of the case and for the support of our interests abroad, to raise the Belgian mission without any increase of salary.
Sumner urges the Senate to focus on the specific question of raising the Belgian mission without increasing its salary.
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