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Show How Will We Pay McAdoo? Washington. How will 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 salary as director general of the rail roads and has had only his cabinet salary. The law also says no one may serve the government without compensation. That is why there have been dollar-a-year men in Washington. Regional directors di-rectors under 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. |