Show I SALARIES AT WASHINGTON I Just before the adjournment of tho House for the holijlay recess Mr Loud cnslager of New Jersey introduced n bill fixing the salary of the VicePres ident at 2jCCO and providing that each of the members of the Cabinet shall receive re-ceive 15000 a year The pay of the VlccPresident Is now 8000 The Cabinet Cabi-net officers also getOO When Gen Grants first term was about to expire and after he had been reelected the Fortysecond Congrcpsl S unfavorably known to history as the salarygrab Congress raised the annual an-nual compensation of the President from 25000 to 50000 of the Yic PresIdent Pres-ident from SSOCO to 10000 of the heads of the departments from 5SOOO to 310000 of the Justices of tile Supreme court from S500 to 10000 and of the Chief Justice frotn SnOO to 10500 At the same time the Fortysecond Congress voted to raise the salaries of Senators and Representatives from 5000 to 7500 and they made the increase retroactive as concerned themselves for the two concerne car terms then Just closing The performance us everybody knows was followed by such an outburst out-burst of public indignation that many of the grabbers hastened to cover their selfvoted Increase back into the United States treasury or to rid themselves oC the odium of it by benefactions to various vari-ous educational and eleemosynary Institutions In-stitutions And the next Congress tho Fortythird repealed the act about ten months later reenacting the old figures fig-ures for all salaries except those of tho President and the Supreme court Justices Jus-tices Since 3874 there has been no change Mr Loudenslagers bill contemplates con-templates an increase of 12 per cent in the case of the VicePresident and of lit per cent In thq case of tile Cabinet Cabi-net officers It Is unaccompanied at present by any signs df dissatisfac tlon on the part of Senators and Congressmen Con-gressmen with the rate of pay which S has been regarded as adequate durin t the past quarter oC a century Ne w York Sun |