The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-02-01
GOVERNORS SALARY.
Proposition TO Increase II from Ten
thousand TO Twenty-Five ThOus.
and Dollars a Year.

lhVuSdnu ~ lWlll1'lINe lnUuS'
and Dollars a Year.
The proposition to increase the
salary Of the Governor of Penn.
sylvania from $4,000 S25, 900 a
year will be one of the things to
consider during the present SEES.
sion of the Legislature.
1t is interesting to note that the
bill fixing the present salary of
the Governor at $4,000 was pass
ed in 1878 and was the only bill
approved at that Legislative SEES.
sion by Governor Geary, who
went out of office on January 81,
1873, a few days after he had APP
proved the salary raiser, and 1t
was the only measure passed by
the Legislature up to that time.
OF course the Constitution for.
bids the Increase of a state ofici.
al salary while he is IN office, and
Geary was quick TO approve the
bill to benefit Hartranft, who sue
ceeded him,
CURTIN PAID 81, 600 A YEAR.
Previous to the beginning of
Governor Geary's term the salary
was 81, 600 per annum, and Gov
ernor Curtin served two terms at
that salary, and during Civil war
times, when the cost of living is
something considered with a shud
der. In 1866. just before Curtin
left office, the salary was raised
to S., 000, and Geary benefited.
The old soldier how
ever, saw how skimpily a Pennsy
lvania Governor could live on S.,
600 and entertain befittingly and
it is said that he was the first to
propose that his successors salary
should be increased, approving
the bill on the day it reached
him.
Back in the early SOS the SAL
airy was So, 0 and Governors
Porter, Skunk and Johnston man
aged to struggle along on that
a salary that is now less than
paid any department head. The
increase to $25, 600 was in the
mind Of Governor Tener during
the session of 1918. and but for
the fact that the Legislature of
that year was stuffed with cranks
fake reformers, and lot of peo-
pie who had been injected into
the l~aw-making body by the Pro-
g~ressive party upheaval, a d
were anxious to make a record
for economy, Governor Tener
would have recommended the in.
crease in a special message, fol
he knew the struggle to make
both ends meet on $40, 600 a yeal
as an occupant of the Executive
Mansion.
SLIM CHANCE TO SAVE
More than one Governor in the
past has been quoted as saying
that the Governor who expects
to save anything out of a guber'
material salary of even $40, 900 is
going to be disappointed, and
these same men have also beer
quoted as saying that it cos
them more while in office thar
the salary amounted to.
Governor Pollock took a port
position in Philadelphia under
Lincoln after he left offiie ant
Governor Parker returned to his
daily avocation in Wiliamsport
Governor Curtin left the Cover
nor's chair with nothing to SHOW
in the way of saving from his
salary but he was considered il
Bellefonte as well off" through
former law practice. Governor
Geary died within a few day
after leaving the Office, so tina.
there is no history re regarding nj
financial condition. Govern.o.
Hartranft left office with nothing
and went into the employ of 9
big insurance company. Cover
nor Hoyt returned to the practic'
of law, and it is said left no es
tate of substantial size.
NEW GRENADA.