The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-01-20
PRESIDENTS PAY TO BE IN.
CREASED TO ONE HUNDRED
THOUSAND DOLLARS.
OTHER RAISES APPROVED
Vice Presidents Stipend to Be Ad-
vanced to Fifteen Thousand Per An
preme Court Are to Share in the
General Expansion of Remuneration.

Washington, Jan. 19.--The salaries
of the president, vice president and
speaker of the house were again under
discussion in the senate today, when
the legislative, executive and judicial
appropriation bill was taken up.
Amendments were adopted increasing
the presidents salary to 100000, tina /
of the chief justice of the supreme
court to $4,000 and those of associate
justices to $14,500 Senator Warren,
in charge of the bill, expressed the
hope that the allowance of $1,000 an
nually for carriages or other vehicles
for the speaker and vice president
would be allowed to stand.
Senator Bailey offered an amend
ment to eliminate the words other
vehicles so as to prevent the puc
chase of automobiles. Then he deliv-
cred a glowing tribute to the horse.
Mr.. Warren declared that on his
ranch in wyoming automobiles were
used to hunt up and save the horses
and sometimes he had sent an auto
mobile 200 miles to save sheep that
otherwise would have perished.
Dixon Opposes
Mr.. Dixon opposed the appropriation
of government money for carriages.
Mr., Hemenway said that If congress-
were to provide carriages for heads Of
departments and others in the execu-
tive branch Of the government, he
thought they should be allowed the
vice president and speaker.
Mr.. Money argued that large expen-
ditures were not necessary to main
tain the dignity of office.
Mr.. Borah said he would offer an
amendment doing away with all Of
ficial carriages.
Mr. Hale commented on the increase
o1 expenditures on battleships, which
he said was so great that the mere
interest on the amount expended on
one of them was more than all the in
creases of salaries provided for In this
bill.
I'VE SHALL" he said, never reduce
the expenses of the government until
we take in hand not only the question
of salaries, but the enormous expen-
ditures that we are asked to make for
the military.
Face a Deficit.
He called attention to the fact that
we faced a deficit in the revenue Of
the government during the next year
of $3.50, 100000.
BY a vote of 40 to 21 the provision
of $4,000 annually for carriages and
horses each for the speaker and the
vice president was stricken from the
bill.
An amendment to reduce the salary
allowance of the president from $1OO,.
900 to $4,000 was defeated by vote
of 33 to 49,
The amendment increasing the sal
airy of the president to 100000 was
adopted by a vote of 35 to 30. The re-
publican senators who voted against
the increase were: Beveridge, Boran,
Brown, Burkett. Clapp, Dolliver, La
Toilette and Piles No democratic
voted in favor of the increase.
The amendment was adopted provid-
Ing for an under secretary of state"
to be paid $4,000 a year.
The salary of the chief justice of the
supreme court of the United States
was fixed at $4,000 instead Of $4,000
as at present, and the salaries of as
sociate justices at $14,5OO, instead of
s12,50O
The bill was still under discussion
when the senate adjourned.