The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-10
PAY FOR TRAVELS
ITEM TO ssI.Hgssnns rs PRESIDENT
MT. Williams Believed That Executive shoul6 Remain Tn Washington and Has salary 10 Sumcient--Point
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Washington. June s,-when the item
 appropristing sa5,ooo for the traveling | expenses of the President vas reached | had under consideration today. MT.
 William, tMisso made point of order
 % in %explanation of this course he said he regretted that there was a Repub- | lican President in the White House If there was Democratic Presiednt in the ton with still greater force and then his motivxes could not be impugned. He wanted 1t understood that his ob- lection Wss speef of the saaries paid Government officials, MT. Williams was of the opinion that in some respects the salaries of tns fSe'aes se oess salary was too low as was the salary of the speaker of the House. He thought the salary paid member of congress iutely correct. were put upon him; But as for the President he believed his salary was suficient. Then touch ing another phase of the question MT. Williams thought there was too much travellng about. not only by the Presi- dent but by members of Congress. While he could not accept as finel the statement of a we'll known American that the President was the people hired man, he said that in some particulars 1t was true. with limitation. He
 
 people, and 1t seems to me that our business is in Washington when Con- gress in in session"
 MT. awiter A. Smith (Iowa),. con. tended that there was not a section of the United States where the President was not welcome and 1t was his belief that the President should travel and
 ,e ought to be Independent of the rail- roads.
 MT Sullivan (Mass.). believed that the item in question was along the highest lines of wisdom and good taste. He did not believe the President should company. He said that the cost of living had vastly increased: that hab- it's were more expensive and that the developments of the railroads had made van capitulated the several items for the President, the executive mansion and tn White House grounds amount
 ..g to s2s3,31o. Not an extravagant third of one cent for every inhabitant of the country and I would gladly pay my third of a cent" which caused a hearty burst of laughter.
 only i the appropriation r0'afsa for traveling hVs expenses but agreed with MT. W.T.
 Hams that the salaries of public on
 Ets SiSs ssnerssl1y sly.r shogld se and as a substitute that the salary of the be 1000 per annum; the salary of the Vice-President should be $25,000 and that the President, after his re- tirement, shall receive an annual sal ary of s25,000 for the remainder of his living at the time of the passage of
 the act shall also receive $25,oo0 per | annum during the remainder of his life.
 MT. Williams (Miss.) thought there was too much mystery surrounding the
 position of the President He believed | that if there was less concealment re- sarding the Presidents movements ! there would be less. desire on the ! to. do the President bodily harm. Hs told of the unceremonious way in which General Grant moved about the streets
 of Washington; ho whe used to buy
 cigar at well known cigar store. | pntronize we'll known safe where | steamed oysters are served, ard lived | life almost like that of the private caizen.
 He believe dthat if members of Con-
 gress were hedged about like the Pres
 ident that they too might be marked
 men" but that it was their freedom to come and go as they pleased that &was
 their strongest protection.
 | MT. Sherley. eKy( was in. favor of
 giving the President 2 travelling fund.
 makes nearly ali the pofitica lbitter-
 ness that exists in American public life
 between the different sections of the country. He firmly believed that If | the men from the North could travel South and vice-versa, that we would sec forever an end of the bitterness which has at times divided the House oftencr due to geographical causes rather than anything else"
 He also believed Ambassadors should be supplied with le~ations and that in many instances their salaries should be | increased.
 MT. Williams point of order against the provision for travelling expenses for | the President was sustained by Mir. Watson. Qnd.) In the chair. MT. SulZer, CN. Y.) offered his amend ment as substitute. which was also ruled out.