Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-15
INCREASE VOTED DOWN
PAY OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
REMAIN THE SAME.
Representatives by 1873 to 100 Refuse
to Add to Their Yearly
Compensation.

The members Of the House of Representa-
| tives lost their nerve yesterday afternoon
and declined, by vote of 1873 to 1906 to ele-
vate their own salaries from 5000 to $500
| a year. More than score Of members
| who voted for the proposition on rising.
| unrecorded; vote got the shivers while the
yeas and nays were getting started and re-
versed their silent assent to melancholy
spoken negatives. In the language of Rep
resentative Clark of Florida, they voted
against it, hoping to God it would pass
But there was no such luck. 1t didn't, and
5000 will have to be enough for every
| body for another while --..'-t
Many Of the most honored and respected
men on both sides of the chamber were for
the proposition. They believe that 5000
isn't an adequate compensation; they think
that members of Congress should have
$500. and they are sure that the country
will understand. But there are enough mem
bers opposed to the proposition for reasons
of self-interest and otherwise to knock the
proposed increase galley west.
Eloquence was on tap for quite while
yesterday. The best of arguments were adj
vanced in favor of the Increase and most of
them went unanswered. But eloquence and
arguments don't appeal to the man who
thinks that an affirmative vote on a thing
of that kind might lose him his seat AS
one democrat-who, by the way, probably
saves money out OF MS Saldry-puI i yes
terday, I'D rather be member of Con-
gress on $1,000 year than a bum lawyer
in a rural district at what can pick up
That about tells the story. The merits
A scared rabbit seldom looks over his
shoulder to take in the fine points of the
dog that's doing the chasing. And there
were lots of rabbits running around lie
Capitol yesterday. The vote was as fol-
lows:
Yeas-Aiken Allen IN. j., Ames, Babcock Ban
nSn BarG ahaS BaEtheldt Bsde Beldsr Rennet
sas!ssen Burton Basisr 9Ps.s e Calder, De-,
f bsysS pfy's ~ ps,h pfnSy
lnd}, Fulkersen. Gaines CTenn) Gaines wv. Va.).
Gsss Geldfose Gouldsn Graham Granger
needy Ohio. kno~land, Lamb, Fred Lands. Law,
MA SssaS,
Gnd5, Patterson ITennJ. Payne, Pearre. Prince.
R RSss sssrsT & neyDgn
SMITH, Sn5S sousRsId sal1iyan TaWPey Waldo
eiaine.. Andrus. Bartlett, Bates. Bean TEX.
Bell Gar . gsnnetS 1;y BFdsa seats Bow
iTeIJ. BroWniow, Brnndige, Burgess, Burleis h.
pe h1 Butler Snps
CLARK tMS2 Clayton. Cole. Conner Cooper Pa J.
cooper (Nis.), cousins. Cromer, Crumpacker, Cur
tbs: Dstragh. Davis 1siinn Dawes. Dawson, De
A 1as Dssmer. Dickson On 4 ptxeE andl nsa;
5va-), Floyd tArk.3, Gardner iMiehJ, Gardner q.
-, Garner (Tex.}, Garrett. Gilhams, Gillespie,
Glass, Graf Gran. Grsnna, Ggdger, Hamilton Haasen,
(Ts!); Hermann: Higgins, Hil Conn., Hill
Howell a. a. III Howell Utah, Hughes, Hull
ya.l., Keifer, Kennedy Neb). Kinkaid Claude,
knonf M% ~ a, Aehn hepper Kline Knapp
renee, Lee, Lefevre, Lewis I,lley Comm. Little,
Littlefeld, Lloyd. Lowden, McCleary (Minn.) Nc
kinney, iMcLaiD, Macon, Madden, Miller, Moon
tTenn), Mouser, Murdoch. Nelson. Norris Often,
0yerstreet GA, Padsett Page, Parker, Patterson
en- CO. Patterson Is. CO, Pollard, Powers, Rainey,
Randell S Grex). Resder lKanl, Rhodes. Richardson
Samuel; Saunders. seroggy shackelford, Sheppard,
Sims, Slayden, Smith Qowa), Smith (Tex.), Smith
(Md). Samuel W. Smith. Smith (Pa), Smith
TexJ. smyser southall. sparkman. Sperry, spIght,
Stafford, Stanley STEVENSON, Stephens (Te1 Ster.
ling stevens (Ainnl; s1lloway. Talbot. Taylor
bic, Underwood. Xolstead vreeland, Wallace.
Jams. Wilson: Wood, woodward, Young. Zenor-1ss
The legislative, executive and judicial APP
preparation bill was then passed without
further change