Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-13

speeches about dead congressman. The
announcement by the speaker of ''the
special order to- eulogize a dead mem
Der empties the house as suddenly as
dinner gong empties The public room OF
country hotel-empties it of all ex-
cept the chosen few who are to crate
But nothing will ever change the rule
that day must be set apart for eulo-
gies on every member that dies in
service. Benjamin Augustine Enloe
of Tennessee devoted much time and
energy to devise a better plan. but
Benjamin Augustine is in private life,
and the eulogies still continue.
Fat Salaries.
One of the most scholarly and in
dustrious men in congress is Hon. Viii
lard D. Yandiver of Missouri. He was
college professor and president many
years before he entered congress and
is still most indefatigable student.
Consequently there is always meat
in his speeches. In his recent remarks
on the Permanent Military Estab-
lishment For the History
of Colonialism." among other things,
he gave this astounding information:
Mr.. Chairman, only a short time ago
the congressional party, returning from
the Philippines, brought this list of
salaries of our colonial satraps, who gov
ern the country by authority of one man
and fix their own salaries:
Governor Taft, president of the
COMMISSION $Zb,t ,tUO
Each of four commissioners. ......... L, coo
Secretary to the commission........ 1900
Chief justice, Filipino. o.,............ 7.501
No wonder the gentleman from Califor-
mia [Mr. Kahnl was able to quote this
afternoon the approval of the Filipino
chief justice, because, drawing a salary
of $500 a year from the United States
| government, it is not to be supposed that
he would want the job to come to an end
very soon.
Six justices, two of them Filipinos.. SI0cO
| Treasurer Observation-Disclosures. 5000
Auditor OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 6GoJ
| Collector OF customs. ms.................-. 6001
Head of department of posts......... 6000
| Chief of bureau of education. n......... 6GG0
| Right here, Mr.. Chairman, | want to call
| attention to the fact, which seems to me
| to be significant one and by compari-
| son, at least, a shameful fact for us to
| have to face that the commissioner OF ed
| UCd0On IOI the 1IllllppiilG 4Sistiito QEdNNs u
salary from this government of S6 900 a
year. while the distinguished educator
/ who presides over the bureau OF education
| for this great country of ours a man who
has given his life work to the cause OF
| education and whose distinction in his
profession is recognized in every civilized
! country in the world, draws salary only
half as large.
Up to Sept. last Governor Taft was
receiving a salary of $4,000 year. Will
SIS per diem for incidental expenses,
suppose.
Senator McCrsary.
Much has been said in the publ,
prints about the return of Arthur Pu(
German of Maryland to the senate, but
little about the reappearance in pub
lie life of James Bennett McCreary ol
Kentucky, yet one event is just about
! as important as the other. AIcCreary
is valuable addition to the Democrat
ic contingent in the house Of the con
script fathers. He is an able and expert
enced statesman, a Democrat without
the shadow Of turning. possessed of as
much tact as German himself IIC
was a colonel i'll Morgan's cavalry
member and speaker of the Kentucky
legislature, elected governor of Ken
lucky in 1870 ut the early age Of thir
ty-seven, served twelve years in con
gress, was chairman Of the great com
] mittee on foreign affairs and served
in the Brussels monetary conference
Now, after voluntary retirement OF
eight years, he appears in Washington
as the first fruits of the triumphant
fight the Kentuckians have made &c
redeem their commonwealth from the
Taylor Deboe- -Hunter-Y -Yerkes crowd OF
| nolitical not hunters