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Show PRESIDENTIAL POINTERS The salary of the president of j the United States was the cause of discussion in the first congress, con-gress, in view of the fact that the Constitution declared that I he president should receive compensation for his services. Washington had notified his fellow fel-low citizens that he desired no salary. The limits suggested In congress ranged from $15,000 to $70,000. The salary was finally placed at $25,000 and this re- j mained the compensation until I President Grant's second term (March 3, 1873), when it was Increased In-creased to $50,000. Chapter 2913 of the laws of the second session ses-sion of the fifty-ninth congress, approved March 4, 1907, appropriated appro-priated "for traveling expenses of the president of the United States, to be expended at hi3 discretion and accounted for by his certificate solelv, $25,000." In the second session of the sixtieth congress the matter of increasing increas-ing the president's salary was again considered, and it was decided de-cided that the president's salary I be fixed at $75,000 a year. I I |