Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-20
PRESIDENT AND
OTHERS TO GET
HIGHER SALARIES
SENATE RAISES PAY OF MANY
FEDERAL OFFICIALS
NATIONS EXECUTIVE WILL GET
100000 A YEAR
Chief Justice and Associates Also
Will Receive Several Thousand
Dollars More-SeveraI
Oppose Increase
[Ry AsgocIated Press


" ASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-The sala-
wv ry of the president of the United
States was today fixed al
100000 per annun, so far as the senate
could fix it, and salaries of the vice
president and the speaker of the house
of representatives at $4,000 each.
The salary of the chief justice Of the
supreme court of the United States was
increased from $4,000 to $4,000 per an
mum, and those of associate justices
from $4,000 to $14,500.
These changes were made as amend
ments to the legislative, executive and
judicial appropriation bill and after an
extended debate.
Amendments allowing $4,000 to the
vice president and the speaker of the
house for horses and carriages were
stricken from the bill.
Senator Rayner'S resolution calling on
the attorney general for information
concerning the suits he purposes bring
ing against certain newspapers on the
charge of libel in connection with state
mentS made in relation to the purchase
by the United States of the Panama ca
nal property was referred to the COM
mittee on the judiciary.
The amendment increasing the SALARY
OF the president to 100000 was adopted
by a vote of 35 to 80. The Republican
senators who voted against the increase
were Beveridge, Borah, Brown, Bur
kett, Clapp, Dolliver, LaFollette and
Piles.
No Democratic senator voted in IA
vor of the increase. The amendment
was adopted providing for an under
secretary of state,' to be paid $4,000 a
year.
Refer WiIIett's Speech
Disposing of the speech of Repre-
sentative Willett of New York yes
terday attacking the president by re-
ferring it to a special committee, the
house Of representatives proceeded to-
day to take up the various appropria-
ton bills.
Representative Butler of Pennsyl-
vania occupied the chair during the
debate on the pension appropriation
bill, which abolishes all but one of the
eight pension agencies throughout the
country.
The bill, which carries a total appro-
priation of $3.50, 1858, 900, was passed vir-
tually as reported by the committee on
pensions.
The urgent deficiency bill, which car
ries appropriations amounting to
81, ,062, ,402, was passed after a roll call,
and several votes had been called for
on an amendment offered by Repre-
sentative Heflin Of Alabama, providing
further distribution of seeds to the
department of agriculture.
Representative Foss of Illinois,
chairman of the house committee on
naval affairs, brought up the naval
appropriation bill, which probably will
occupy the attention Of the house for
a day or two.
The bill carries an appropriation of
$135, ,662, ,488. A message from the presi-
dent recommending an appropriation
of $4,000 for commission to investi-
gate conditions in the Republic Of Ii
IBERIA, Africa, was read.
Consideration of the Hetch Hetchy
and Lake Eleanor re reservoir matter be-
fore the house committee on public
lands was postponed today because of
the inability of a delegation from San
Francisco to reach the city in time.
The final hearing on the bill, which
proposes to grant to the city of San
Francisco the right to use the Hetch
Hetchy and Lake Eleanor valleys of
the Yosemite national park for a reser-
Voir site was to have been held to-
day. The final hearing probably will
be held tomorrow or Thursday.
The president tomorrow will nominate
John Callnan O'Loughlin OF this city,
now secretary of the Toxic exposition
commission, and prominent newspaper
and magazine writer, to be assistant
secretary of state, succeeding Robert
Bacon, who becomes secretary of state.