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Show How Will We Pay McAdoo? Washington.- How wil! Director General of Railroads McAdoo be paid when he relinquishes his place on the pay roll of the government as secretary secre-tary of the treasury on Tuesday December De-cember 17. The law says that no one may receive two salaries from the government gov-ernment That is why he received no 6alary as director general of the railroads rail-roads and has had only his cabinet salary. The law also says no one may serve rthe government without compensation. That is why there have been dollar-a-jear men in Washington. Regional directors di-rectors nndcr the director general receive re-ceive salaries of $40,000 a year, fixed by the director general. In the absence of any specific appropriation appro-priation by congress, it Is understood that the president's broad powers under un-der the railroad act will allow him to fix a salary. Whether that salary will be a dollar or $50,000 a- year Is entirely In the discretion of the president. |