Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1904 — Facts and Figures. [ARTICLE]

Facts and Figures.

For seventy-seven years the pay of a Congressman of the United States "Was $6 a day while in attendance upon a session and $6 for each twenty miles In going and coming. Double pay was granted to the Speaker of the House. The President’s salary until 1873 was $25,000, when It was increased (for Grant's second term), to $50,000. The Vice President received $5,000, the chief justice. $4,000, and department heads less. tors and Representatives was raised to $5,000 a year, with mileage at 20 cents a mile going and coming. The salaries ot the Speaker and Vice President were raised to SB,OOO. Delegate Jonah K. Kalanlanaole, of Hawaii, has to travel nearly 10,900 miles to get to Washington and back, and bis mileage Is $2,180.