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Show The salaries were fixed in 1899, when the coin mi salon was created at the suggestions of the President. In the cases of CoU , Peter C. Haines nd Lieut.-CoU O. M.J Ernest of the, army, the allowance is equal to the difference between their regular salaries and $1000. Under this arrangement ar-rangement the ajxregate amount paid to th3 nine cenwnlssloners as salaries up to February 28. 1902, amounted to S2o,289. The traveling expenditures of the com-mlnsioners com-mlnsioners at that time had averaged about $18,000 each. GOT $1000 A MONTH AND THEIB EXPENSES. Healthy Salaries Paid to Isthmian Canal Commissioners. . WASHINGTON. Jan. I7.-The Secretary of State has supplied Senator Morgan, chairman of the Senate - Committee on Inter-Oceanic Canals, a statement of expenditures ex-penditures made on account of the Isth-' Isth-' mlan Canal commission. It shows that each member of the commission has been allowed compensation at the rate of $1000 a month, with traveling expenses added. |