Show I TO INCREASE SALARIES THERE T HERE ARE TWO BILLS b before fore I the senate providing for an in fn crt rn C in the pay IY or of the vIce pr PI silent members of the cabinet and andor or of 1 One i introduced by Sen Senator ator that alter after March lUanh 4 of this year the of oC the shan shall be per year oar Liberal ral are proposed in te or of other government officers rue second bill offered by Senator Gallinger gives the president a the vice Ice president cabinet offiCers speaker of the house and senators and representatives each Attempts have been made at a various i mE moo tL h Increase the salarIes now the officer named As Is generally wn the president at Jt re rc retes f tes 5 yearly the vice Ice I speaker of the house and cabinet ot of an and senators and representatives 5 OO each It T has long been asserted d that hat Senators and cabinet cann cannot t live In Washington Washington as they are ed to Ue live on the salaries paid them The result It is argued has been that these e offices have gone to rIch men who could ord to accept them rather than to poor men Who would fill them brilliantly There is some reason for thIs argument ment but there are very few men rIch or poor who have refused an el election to congress or the senate As far as we are aie aware the places placed hayt never gone begging We Ve do no believe however that there would e any great amount or of et to increasing increasing ing the salarIes in the ca caie c of the President we have a state stat of affairs I There has been thore mor talk about rais als raising alsIng Ing the pay of the chief executive since lt that than there was in twenty years pre preceding precedIng ceding his n Cleveland and Harrison went out or of the presidential office vastly better off fr in the goods or of orthis this wrid orld n than thair the they went into it When McKinley was elected the first time he was a bankrupt When he was assassin assassinated ted he left leCt hl his wife C ii l than a competency Roosevelt doubtless spends hl his en entire entire tire salary and perhaps more He is fond or of fund fond of display fond omI of hedging himself bout about with jIt ud nd glitter and gayety things cost money They are not necessary however presidents who w want them should houd fur Cor The salary salar or of ou chief tIvo 18 i plenty big Ig enough |