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Show Timely Topics CONGRESSMEN'S SALARIES. Report Iromes from Washington that a movement Is on foot looking to a subslsntial Increase In the salary of living. Including the exorbitant rental demands being made by profiteering landlords. In view of the filling prices of commodities generally, the promises that have been made to get rid of thousands of unneceaanry clerks snd hangers-on of all kinds, who were given Job. during Ihe war, and the heavy tax burdens inder which the people are already struggling, the movement seems ill-timed. ill-timed. The salary of the representatives Is now $7500. added to which are certain reu.uli.llea In the form of stationery postage, mileage anil clerkships, which loo often are be.' '.';!1.u,OT.mn"'r of congressmen", families, thst will bring the emoluments well up to llo.ooo or ll'ooo t me memoersnip by about fifty or sixty in the reapportionment bill now being prepared. Thst will add -more than half a million dollara a year more to be fixed charges of centres; ond unnecessarily so, aa the membership is already too large for the proper transaction of business. It Is significant that nothing was beard about this proposed salary grab before election. If It was contemplated, con-templated, the news was so carefully guarded that it did not reach the voters: and nobody heard of a scarcity of candldatea at the present salary of $:i00 and the legalised legal-ised graft- Nor axe there any resignatlona threatened The newly elected members m.y be at.ls to convince themselves them-selves that they are entitled to more money, but an attempt at-tempt to get it will create a greater acitndal than did the notorious -salary grab" bill of more than a quarter of a century ago. This Is a time for lightening the burdens of the people, peo-ple, instead of adding to them. And $7100 and per-qulaltea per-qulaltea la rather a tidy salary for the average congressman, congress-man, even though he may be forced lo live In Washington Washing-ton and attend sessions nlns or ten months in the year a few hours each day. Trenton Evening Times (lnd ) |