PRESIDENTIAL SALARY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 412, 22 January 1909, Page 5

PRESIDENTIAL SALARY.

A RISE FOR MB. TAFT. (Bt TEtEGItAPH—PESSU ASSOCIATJO!»--COPTatOaT.I , New York, January 20. The Senate has fixed the salary of Mr. W. H. Taft, tne President-elect, including travelling expenses, at 100,000 dollars (£20,000) —an mitffl&so of 25,000 dollars (£5000) on the total of salary (50,000 dollars) and travelling expenses (25,000' dollars) paid to President Roosevelt/-//;f- C ;j-' ; --;/ v / i y.': : - ; •■.•>■■/ /-'-.:, ■;'' - 1 ;;'. histqp;: 0F the salary; ; / ;; "The' salary- of i-the"'President of the United States'was tjie , cause of discussion in. the First Congress, in/view of th'e ; faot'.thaf:tMe. Constitution declared that . the -President should re-, oeiye/compensation for his services. ' Washington, had/notified', his' fellow citizens thathe desired ■ ho.'salaryj >'■;The' ; limits suggested. ih Congress ranged , from rIS.COO dollars tofOiOOO: dollars. The salary;.; was finally, placed ■ at : 25,0.00 dollars, and'this.remained the dompensatibn : until;President,';Grant's seobrid term (March 3, 1878),' when iit.-was increased to, .50,000 dollars,' , the present sum.-.-Chapter 2918 of the Laws' of the-Second Sess'ipn of the Fifty-ninth Congress approved March"*, 1907, appropriated "for travelling expenses of.-the- President of the United States,. to be .expended at; his discretion, and Accounted for. by--hia certificate solely,. 25,000 dollars." The.appropriation for the care of the White House.-and its" stables'.and greenhouses' was,;in' 1907,-50,000 dollars.. ■-■.",.'■' ■:■"-■