Show FIXING THE PRESIDENTS SALARY Prom the Chicago News I Is unlikely that the pending bill to change tho Presidents salary from fiiOOOO to 3100000 will arouse any such stubborn opposition as met Die effort to make the change from 25000 to 6O i 000 thirty years ago The country has grown amazingly In evpry direction voted a since the lime when Congress volet salary oC 550000 to be paid during r single term of Grants administration In 1S7C i took a Presidential yeto to convince Congress that the salary should be left ut that figure Instead o being reduced again to 125000 as the being majority of the Congressmen thought best Today a proposition to restore that salary would be considered absurd ab-surd while the sale reasons urged by Grant In ISir will load many citizens now to wll 0 sllll greater increase in-crease The advocates 01 time proposed crensf change are arguing as did Grant that the present salary Is not commensurate to the dignity and responsibilities oC the otilce nor sufficient to defray the otce ISxccullves exponscs and leave him a fair I margin of personal reward |