Show LARGER I PUBLIC SALARIES 1 New NeW York ork Tribune une Fifteen Ireen or dr twenty years ago the lie passage pf r f a measure Increasing the salaries of ot senators and antl representatives in congress would have been the signal for Cor an nn outburst of violent protest and amid Lion tion lon The fate rute of the tho congressmen who voted volel for the called so-called so-caBel so salary salar grab of oC which 1873 which of ot course involved cd a 0 very ery different question queston is still sti distinctly remembered though thought only emily students of oC American history will wi recall that a similar popular rebuke was administered to the congress which In 1816 than changed ed the rate of compensation compensation compensation from 6 G a n. day clay to 1500 a n year The 1500 a n year ear salary was abolished In 1817 and amid an allowance of or 8 instead of or 6 G wa was granted That stood unchanged until 1855 when a salary aary of oC a year was substituted The rho he present compensation of ot dates from Crom 1865 The rho salary grab of 1873 raised such a storm that tho the rate of oC which it Jt created and arid In particular made matlo retroactive was wa abolished as soon as the succeeding congress could organize Since then lieu representatives and senators senator havu have been extremely cautious about venturIng to put a n. higher mone money value on omi their official services The change now proposed will wI excite little Itlo or no hostile comment 1 because the public lc realizes that the cost costor of or living has greatly greaty increased In Washington ton as ns it I has everywhere else and that the purchasing power of uC all al salaries Is falling If I was a n suitable compensation at n for senators and representatives In 1865 or 01 In 1885 7 OO is no nu more than suitable compensation tolla today The apparent Increase Q Is neutralized by the Increase in cost of or living at tho the national capital and the now rate should be considered not as an advance but 1 ut as an aim equalization I No one can just Justly complain either of ot the lie tw Increases made matle I In the tho salaries of oC the cabinet officers and amid o of the time vice president and the speaker of the tho house of oC representatives I Those posts are posts of responsibility and dignity and their Incumbents are required to live Ivo on a scale which has hns long Ions outrun the lie old fashioned allowance of or Cabinet In particular who must live lve In iii Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington Inton ten months month or more In every year were plainly I entitled to more moro 11 liberal con consideration The Tho money spent to o Increase their salaries N with those of oC tho the speaker and ani I Ithe he the vice president to 2000 will wi 1 be c sensibly spent pent and anti the he American public will ihl wi not b begrudge rude rude-e them the higher compensation |