Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-11-23
PRESIDENT Would
REFUSE PENSION
Stand Taken by Taft Is APP
proved by Prominent
Men.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2S.-While no
announcement on the subject Is
forthcoming. it appears to be settled
that President Taft will decline to be
a beneficiary of the Carnegie Foun-
dalton Fund for former Presidents.
His rejection of the proposal is ex-
pected to be announced In advance OF
q formal tender of the pension which
presumably will not be made prior
to his retirement from office on
March 4 next.
Representative E. A. Hayes. of
California, suggested that former
Presidents should become ex-officio
members of the Senate with the full
pay of a Senator. Senator McCumber
introduced a bill three years ago pro-
vidtnK for the payment of a salary TO
each former President as commander
in-chief, retired, of the army and
navy Representative Hayes prob
ably will introduce a bill embodying
his ideas lei session.
"American ex-Presidents should
o be driven into third-c1ass board
sng houses after the expiration of
their terms" said Senator McCum-
Der.
"Carnegie,s offer, though made in
spirit of generosity. is an affront
70 the American people" said SEN
ator Culberson, of Texas. at is I'M
dignihed and undemocratic."
Representative Edwin Y. Webb. Of
North Carolina, said:
mo man is bigger than the gov
ernment and Mr.. Carnegie should not
try to perform a service which the
government ought to-"
Representative Robert L. Henry. of
Texas, said:
Il have so little regard for the
proposition that I do not care to dis
Gus it.
Former Secretary of Wal Jacob NJ.
Dickinson said;
Fol an ex-President of the United
States to accept such a pension
would in my opinion be in derogation
of the high office he had held. 1 do
not believe that any man so honored
by the American people would put
himself in such a position. No for
mer President Of the United States
has suffered actually or lost prestige
account of financial conditions. If
any occasion should arise when an
ex-President is likely to get into pc
cuniary want, the American people
will doubtless properly provide for
OYSTER BAY, N. Y, Nov. %
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt denied
himself to reporters. who went to
Sycamore Hill to ask him his opinion
pm Andrew C~arnegie's plan to give
s25, 1000 pensions annually to future
s~x-Presidents, or their unmarried {
widows. |
The colonel, who apparently would
,e excluded from sharing in Mr. Car /
beneicence, sent word that {
he had nothing to say now, but that :
he would see newspaper men on
tuesday at the office of the Out I
COX. I
HAMILTON, Bermuda, Nov. e. ;
Governor Wilson declines to comment !
n Mr.. Carnegie's offer TO provide a
of $25, 900 a year to future ex- '
Or their widows. o
He said that any expression of f
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aste. .
BALTIMORE. Nov. 2S.-"My opin- S
IN Is that the dignity of our great d
and the sense of gratitude
hould impel the nation itself to pro-
ide a pension for ex-Presidents and (
heir Widows is the statement of :
ames Cardinal Gibbons.
PLAINFIELD, Nov. 23.-"I am de-
in favor of the passage of a
Ill to provide pensions for ex-Presi- d
ents and their widows. l think this v
roposal OF the Carnegie fund will T
end to hasten action on the part of t
said United States Sena- t
James E. MARITIME today.