The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-20
SHARP DEBATE HEARD
 OVER FINANCIAL AFFAIRS
Amendment Is Proposed to Bill Giving $f5,oo0 to Vice President, Which Will Pass With Increases
 For the Judiciary.


 ate today adopted the amendment in- creasing the salary of the President to $1O0,00 including all travelling ex- penses.
 The Senate fixed the salary of the Chief Justice of the supreme court a. s150OO and the associate justices at s14,50O.
 The amendment increasing the salary of the President was adopted by a vote of 35 to 30. The republican senators who voted against the increases were Beveridge, Borah, Brown Burkett, Clapp, Deliver, Lafollette and Piles No democratic senators voted in favor of the increases.
 Senator Warren stated the commit tee had accepted the action of the Sem ate in fixing the salary of the speak CT of the house at $15,000 as showing its desire to give a similar salary to the vice president, but they did not take the view that the' committees s contention, favorng a salary of $100,00O for the President, was affected by it. He expressed the hope that the al- lowance of $5000 annually for carriages or other vehicles for the speaker and vice president would be allowed to stand.
 Tribute to the Horse.
 Senator Bailey offered snaamendment to eliminate the words "other vehicles" so as to prevent the purchase of auto- mobiles and in this connection he de- livered a glowing tribute to the horse as mans best friend among the dumb animals.
 Afr. Warren declared that on his ranch in Wyoming automobiles are used to hunt up and save the horses and some times he has sent an auto mobile 200 miles to save sheep that otherwise would have perished.
 MT. Hemenway said, in reply to question, that officials in Washington had a little scheme" by which they "short circuit Congress" in the matter of the use of appropriations for pnr- poses different from those for whirn they were made.
 MT. Bacon: What does that mean?" Mir. Bailey: Tt means they cheat the government"
 MT. Hemenway: Tt seems that they use funds for some other purposes than those for which the appropria- tion was made.'
 Bacon Opposes.
 MT. Bacon opposed the appropriation for horses and carriages. "A senator or representative" he said "has ten times as much need for a carriage as the head of department. I pay 25 cents for six tickets to ride on the street cars and I presume that IS what most senators do when they go about on business"
 MT. Money argued that large expendi- lures were not necessary to maintain the dignity of office. 'There is a gradual change of opinion going on," said MT. Money, ''and people now do not regard the President as the servant of the peo- pie because in a current magazine the statement is made that there are two great rulers of the world, one Theodore Roosevelt and the other William II. Both have been rebuked William submitted while the ruler of America, Theodore Roosevelt refused to submit. This has gone so far that a coup d'eat by the Pres ident of the United States would be well comed by some admirals in the navy and some generals in the army, as well as I can learn. Now, it is time we should go back to something like republican sim plicity"
 Referring to the Attorney General, MT Money said a rumor had been going about the Senate some time ago that MT. Bona parte was going to Baltimore to study law
 "It is unfortunate that he did not do that some years ago." he said.
 Bread Line Visible.
 MT Borah said he would offer an amendment doing away with all official carriages '"There is a bread line being fed day by day." said MT. Borah, "in the shadow of this capitol, while we are using the peoples money in this way" MT. Hale commented on the increase of expenditures on battleships, which, he said, was so great that the mere inter est in the amount expended on one of them was more than all the increase of salaries provided for in this bill. He called attention to the fact that we face a deficit in the revenues of the govern ment during the next year of $130, O,000 By 10 to 21 the provision of $50OO each annually for carriages and horses for the speaker and the Vice President was stricken from the bill.
 An amendment, to reduce the salary al- lowance of the President from s10O,0OO as proposed the committee on appropria- tions to $7o,O00, was defeated B to g.
 The question then recurred on the amendment to increase the salary of the President to $10O,1000, which was adopted.