Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-16
BristoW Wants to Know What
1t Will Cost Secretary
of State to Live.
INTRODUCES RESOLUTION
CALLING FOR INFORMATION
Action Is Result of Statements by
Mr.. BryaE--Democrats See
Its Defeat.

thor of a resolution calling upon the
| President to inform Congress just what
salary should be paid his Secretary OF
| State to keep him off the lecture plat
| form, insisting that he will urge the
| Senate to adopt his resolution. and with
| leading democratic senator's stating to-
| day that they believed the resolution
| would never be adopted, Oratorical fire
works are promised when the measure
| comes up again.
| Secretary Bryan's second statement,
| issued yesterday afternoon, regarding his
| lecturing for money. has aStOunded me
| even more than his first statement" de-
| clared Senator B,istow today. That the
| present Secretary of State should have
such sordid view of the government
1 service is amazing. Suppose George
| Washington had regarded the service of
his country from the same point of view.
| | wonder where We would be today. No
man has ever attained to high service
| for the United States without making
/ personal sacrifices of some kind 1t IS
| We'll known that men holding high public
! offices could in almost every instance
make more money if they practiced their
| professions continued in private busi-
| ness
| Yet the Secretary of State is not
content TO try to live on 81 1000 month.
and If necessary to spend some of the
competence which he has made for
himself
1T is my opinion that a Secretary of
State and his wife can live in w. sh-
| ington on $1,000. IL he desires. If he
has money and wishes to spend it. Wei
and good If he does not wish TO spend
it he certainly can maintain style of
| living in keeping with his high Office
on $12 900 a year"
Services Needed Now.
Il notice Secretary Bryan has stated he
thought he had right TO use his vaca-
tion for lecturing if he saw fit. But he
is to be away on one tour of six weeks,
/ see, and there is no telling where his
vacation will end. Besides, since he has
been Secretary of State he has been in
Washington only about One-half the time
| SO far, and il ever there was time when
| the Secretary of State was needed on the
| job it is now, when so many important
! questions are up for consideration.
ITO cause the people to pay money to
| hear the Secretary of State the highest
officer of the Cabinet, deliver addresses,
is all wrong, l believe. 1t is using the
office for making money
Senator Bristow SAID his resolution
would either have to be adopted voted
down by the Senate. or referred to a
committee. In any event, he said. there
would certainly be discussion of the
resolution in the Senate. and a record
vote would be demanded upon it.
Senator Bacon, chairman of the com-
mittee on foreign relations of the Senate.
said he thought the resolution would be
handled in a routine way and that he
did not believe ii would ever be adopted.
In my opinion the resolution was in
| troduced merely for the purpose of
bringing about discussion of the course
| taken by Secretary Bryan with reference
| to his lecture tours, said Senator Bacon,
land that there is no real demand for
remedial legislation
Other democratic senators, however,
n iuO hGp IN ha
quoted, expressed the opinion that Sec
retary Bryan had made a mistake not
, only in continuing to deliver lectures for
money, but i'm issuing his statements.
I They considered them bad taste, to say
the least.
Statement by Secretary Bryan.
| Secretary Bryan late yesterday after
! noon issued the following statement:
| Il am glad TO have the CRITICISM
brought to my attention, believe iii
criticism of public oIlcials- Criticism is
helpful IL man makes "A mistake,
criticism enables MIN 10 correct IL; IL ne
i is unJustly criticised, the criticism he.ps
/ him. / have had my snare oi criticism
since | have been IN puD.lc lie, but 1T
! has not prevented my doing wnat
1 thought proper to do.
I'm devoting ii part of my vacation
! TO lecIurIng. : am doing what | believe
10 be proper. and | nave no tear what
Z ever t0dt any unbiased pe- son VII
: crjticise me " hen he KNOWS the facts.
I For seventeen Years the sources oi
| my income have hecn writing and lee
! turing, nut each year / have made more
/ pubic speeches.. without compensation
/ and where / have pad my own trareiIng
! expenses, than | have where compensa-
| ton was received. My earning capac. ty
has been large and | have made not only
/ an income sufficient for my Immediate
| needs. but nave saved on an average
I hing tnAn thousand QOl-
lars year.
Gives UP Opportunity to Save.
In accepting the office which 1 now
hold 1 gave up the opportunity to add
10 my Accommodations, Tor 1 do not ex-
pect to increase, during my term, the
+ amount ! nave laid aslde-tndt IS, 1
+ am willing To foreSo whatever advan-
tage / might derive from the acquir-
ing OF $4,000 more for the privilege
of serving the country in this office
. during the coming four years. l Will
. do more ii necessary. but / do not be-
iieve that fairminded people will ask
in of me. Therefore. until | see some
reason for changing my purposes
expect To lecture enough to BRING my
income up to my expenses. these lectures
! TO be delivered during the time that
other officials give To their vacations
I'm addition to suppiementing my
salary } hope that my lectures do good
people who attend them would not
do so if they did not think they re
7 ceived their moneys worth. but
would ne glad to spend my cations
resting instead of lecturinS ( could
do so without eating in upon the
/ amount that / have laid away as a
Z protection against old age"
Senator Shafroth of Colorado de-
ella, ed Secretary Bryan had assured
him he did not desire an increase OF
/ salary.
Bryan's Home in Washington.
Secretary Bryan's home IN Washington
is the old mansion of Gen John A
Logan, for which he pays Si.tf year
Former Secretary Knox, who rented
house in diplomatic row fashionable
X street, paid S1.Vlo a year. though dur
ing his term of office he received bu
a salary OF. Ss.GOa. because the salary
of Secretary of State was increased
while he was "A senator, and he was de
barred from enjoying the increase 5y
a constitutional provision. The historians
of Washington point out that many oi
Mr.. Bryan's predecessors in compare
lively recent years We're wealthy.
John Hays house, on the Avenue o1
Presidents was one of the show places
of Washington Secretary Bryan has the
use of certain horses and equppages
which belong To the State Department
but he often prefers to drive his own au
tomobile.