Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-11-12
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sheess wantrfs Iucreased.
The President Of the United States re-
ceiYes salary of s2S0O0per annum.-
This amount was fixed when WASH
INGroN was President. The Neto York
Times thinks Il Is insufficient, and
$lOe,0 as the liberal figure the President
ough to receive, and says it has mo doubt
the next Congress will take some action in
this matter. president GRANT, It says,
should not becompelled to 4iye in cheap
boarding house STYLE"
| TIE Columbus Journal takes the hint, and
1t, too. goes for an increase of. salary for
General GRANT, making it four times as
large as that given to former PresidentsS
It says: X lsksNsa III,
tNow, ifthe immortal George expended
$4,000 in 1889, what would that aristocrat-
ic aud ceremOnious old patriot eXpend In
ls68fl1A Sle0 900 at the lowest aicnIatioH.
We think that sum is what the salary of
the Chief Magistrate should be raised to-.
This paying the President of the United
States the same as an editor of a arlsOndon
daily paper is paid, or less than an ordina-
ry opera singer or ballet dancer, is disre-
putable and a disgrace to- the country.
Americans, who are proyerbially liberal in
everythin else, are close-fisted, pehurious
and niggardly in dealing with their public
servants" ;zss7s2 80. : ssia,l haia
Passing by, as a thing of course, the
puppy ISM of speaking of the Father of
his Country ''GEoRGE,n and the bad
taste. not TO call 1t by q harshef name, OF
branding him as an Isarfstocrdtic and ,cere-
,aonious old Patriot" we commend to these
gets yearly salary increased foH-fold
over that of other Presidents, the follow
ing from the Constitution, of, the United
States | HsiIMOO 1COM
"The President shall, at stated terms.
receive for his services a compensation
which shall neither be increased, nor dimin-
,, ished during the period for which he shall
have been elected, and he shall not receive
within that period any other emolument
from the United States, or any of them"
If the intention is to give General GRANT
one hundred thousand dollars per annum
as salary as President of the United States,
the Radical Congress must pass the lawibe
fore the 4th of March next otherwise the
increased salary will go to his successor,
not to himself.
1t never was the intention of the founders
Of the Government to make the Office of
President q money making one. u The
salary was fixed at the sum it would cost
the President to live in the White House.
General JACKSON, at the end sof his eight
years as President, had to draw upon his
estate in Tennessee for money to bear his
expenses back to his beloved Hermitage.
President JEFFERSON died poor. President
MONROE died SO near pauper that his SON.
in-law had to support and to bury him.
These factswould seem to showTa necessity
for increasing the salary of the President.
But, against this, IS the fact that President
LINCOLN, poor when he went into office,
died rich--savlng much of his salary.
In the days of JEFFERSON, MONROE and
JACKSON, who spent all, and some of them
more money than they received, the Pres
ident paid out of his salary all the expenses
of the White House, except for furniture
and repairs. In9these latter days, by
liberal construction of the laws, or by vir-
tue OF laws that will admit such construc--.
ton, the PresiSent pays little or'nothiDg.'
Most of his servants are paid by Govern
ment-as sSne garden, affording all the veg
etables the President his family and his
guests use, is worked by Government en-
ployes-his carriages and the horses
vhi h draw them are bought and fed
by the United States, and SO ont tile end
of the chapter. This enabled President
LINCOLN tosaYe much OF shis salary, and
this will enable President JOHNSON to re-
tire rich from the PFesidency.e SO s.
If then, Cen. GRANT is to receive four
times as much salary as any former Presi-
dent, the people will insist that he supplies
his own household--that he pays all the
and that the 100, 900 per annum,P
be all that President GRANT shall receive.
This will 'be in accordapee with the letter
and spirit Of the Constitution, which says
tn at beyond stated salary, the President
shall not receive any other 'emolument
from the United States, or any of thein.''
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