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Show Supreme Court Salaries. The salary of the chief justice of the supreme court ' should not be less than $20,000; $25,000 tho former salary of tho president would be none too much; and the eight asaoclato justices should bo paid within ono thousand dollars of the chief's salary. Anything loss would be pitifully and shamefully Inadequate. Congress Con-gress votes $4,500,000 for a battleship without "batting Us eye." Rut when it comes to voting decent salaries to our 'supromo court Justices tho mon who have in their kooplng the lives, tho liberty and tho properly of tholr ninety million fellow-citizens it hems and haws and wants to think about it. And It has done nothing noth-ing but Iho "thinking" for many years. It is tlmo to quit thinking ami do something. some-thing. Now York Commercial. |