Show TIlE SALARY GRAB The informal talk of Senators the other daj while waiting upon the leisurely movements move-ments of President H UHISON in sending in his nominations about an increase in their salary revives tho old saying salary grab which filled the press towards the close of the session of the Fort scentl Congress when an attempt was made to increase the pay of Senators and Kepre sontati es from s > 000 to 7500 Both parties par-ties made it an issue in the nomination and election of Representatives for the Fortythird Congress and a number ol Representatives who favored the increase went down in the struggle though a number who favored an increase of salary were elected The feature which made the measure unpopular was that it was made to apply to the Congi e suien who passed the bill and to go backward to the beginning of the term a difficulty which could bo very much obnated bj the present Congress if it would only take time by the forelock and pass the bill early in the first session or make it operative with the com men cement of the second session of the present Congress The cry of grab would then bo robbed of its thunder A variety of opinions has already been expressed ex-pressed on the subject of which the following follow-ing are but specimens A MORE popular movement would be to reduce the price of living in V ashmgton Albin Jvnei JOHN SHERM has been sued for taxes Xo wonder the Senators want a raise of salary Chicago Xttrll Tm style in vogue and the style appropriate and necessary ire two cry different thmgs Instead In-stead of contorming the nation to the style of one little extravagant fragment of it let the style at the capital conformed to the nation New York llorM IT is something of a public scandal already that the Senate chamber has become a retreat for ambitious millionaires who are neither by education experience nor ob crvitiou adapted to the position to which they so successfully aspire as-pire New Haven egu > td There are now 401 Senators and Represent tUes If the alary of each was increased to SIPOX a year their payroll annually would be M lUOOOO Four million a year for the payment of congressional salaries This is an immense eountrj Iroj Irem The Republicans of the fity fiist Congress in tncl to eviscerate the treasun They maj mak a salary grab a part of the process but if they en they will hear the truth about it and themselves them-selves in language that will not accommodate itself to any delicacy they mar feel as thev till their pockets St Louis Jteiiuilic One of the principal troubles has been that a fcw rich mm elected to Congress hal gone into tat social swim in the most cxtnn vantway spending many times the amount of their salar its antI setting a p ice with which the great ma jonty could not think of keeping up Philadel I h a Inquirer rhc salaries of the Senator and Rcpre enti tires now amount to over two millions a year anti yet there are those who would have this amount doubled simply because 8jOOJ a year docs not permit of quite as much personal et twagance ascertain Congressmen would like to indulge in Clev eland Iad Bills hae been introduced to inert IM the salaries of other officers of the government Other bills ire pending to give away the surplus to steamship companies composed of men who are already millionaire rims it goes under Republic supremacy It is pi obablc that the most and pOlbly all of these measures will be passed Who cares for expcnsesvE nsnlle I o trur Already the Republican Congress has solved the surplus problem The national statemen propose to vote themselves increased salaries Only a great and 1e part could conceive such a magnificent idea fhe Democratic policy ore o-re Jucmt taxation anti leaving the money in the pockets of the people piles into insignificance besides the proposed alirj grabFort Wayne ICTIilld How far the expense of ling in Washington is swelled by swell habits that have no neces sarj relation in the public service might be a matter into the details of which the noble Senators Sen-ators would lot care to enter Philadelphia Record |