The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-04-04
PROFITS OF THE FRAUD.

Washington, March 26.-Mr. hayes
has held the office to which he was not
elected for more than year, and during
that time he has drawn from the Treas
ury over $4,000 as salary. One Of his
first acts after the meeting of Congress,
was to send in bill for an alleged def
cheney in the salaries and contingencies
of the White House for the last fiscal
year, although the usual appropriations
had been fully made for every expense
on a liberal scale. What became of that
money for the quarter between March
and July, which could not be drawn in
advance, has not been explained. Con-
gress, however, voted him nearly $5 900,
instead of $4,000, which he modestly
asked.
The estimates for the next fiscal year
include items for the White House that
never appeared before in such category,
Among others, a carriage and horses, a
driver under the name of messenger, re-
pairs, and the like, figuring up thousands,
which Honest John Sherman seeks to
fasten on the taxpayers, after the man
ner in which he feeds his own horses,
by appropriating the forage which Gen.
Sherman charges to the Treasury for i'm.
aginary stock.
1t is doubtful if Mr., Hayes has expend-
ed one.ffth of the salary received in the
past year, The expenses of living at the
White House are grossly exaggerated for
effect. 1t is furnished, heated, lighted,
watered, and equipped in every respect,
with butler, messengers, large veget-
able garden, costly greenhouses, and
other conveniences, all Of a very uxuri-
GUS sort. In fact, the only expense in
cured by the incumbent is tho mainte-
nance of his family and the ceremonious
dinners. The receptions which Jenkins
delights to describe, whether by day or
by night, do not cost him dime, for the
lights, the attend 6ants, and flowers, which
form the only items of expense, are paid
for by the public Treasury.
The habit of all Presidents has been to
extend the hospitalities of the White
House to members of Congress without
regard to party, to the judiciary, and the
diplomatic body. So muUh is obligatory,
and after that is done, the President ex.
ercises his own discretion, and taste, and
liberality. This conventional usage rests
upon basis of propriety, and the large
salary was granted with the expectation
that it would be always observed beCom-
ingly,
From Washington down to Grant ev.
cry President was paid $25 600 a year,
and none ever complained that the sal
ary was insufficient, though a refined,
and even generous hospitality was the
rule during more than eighty years. The
Republicans doubled the pay of the Of
flee for the last term of Grant in the sal
airy grab bill, and the people swept away
at the ensuing election the great major.
ity that perpetrated the outrage.
The courtesy due to the representa-.
tives of foreign Governments at Wash.
ington makes it part of the unwritten
social law that the President shall take
the first opportunity after entering Office
to invite them to his table. Until now
this canon has never been violated, but
on the contrary, has been observed
with the most liberal construction. The
omission of it implies vulgar rudeness,
gross ignorance and bad breeding. Mr..
Hayes has given but three formal din
ners since he was installed in the Office
to which Mr.. Tilden was elected. The
first of these entertainments was in COM
pliment to the Grand Duke Alexis, whom
Grant and Fish had grossly snubbed on
account of their quarrel with CataCazy.
That dinner was the subject of much
discussion at the time, and let the public
into an interior view of the management
of the White House. The better half Of
Mr., Hayes insisted that wine should be
excluded from the table, and finally COM
promised by admitting it for that oCCa-
sion, with a condition of future prohibi-
ton, thus proving her devotion as cru
sader and an economist.
The two dinners that followed were
composed of mixed company Of officials
and Congressman, entertained with cold
water, weak tea and diluted coffee, pre-
sCribed by the Mrs. r. B. Hayes Tenn
perance Society" of angular matrons and
ancient maidens, who were shocked at
the American sherry and champagne
that were dispensed to the Grand DuEe's
party. Less than one hundred guests
enjoyed this formal hospitality during
the whole year, and considering the
mode of entertainment, SIS head would
be liberal charge for it.
The diplomatic body have been for the
first time wholly ignored in the aCCus-
toned civilities of the White House, and
hardly more than a tenth part of the
two Houses of Congress have been invi-
ted. Mr.. Hayes receives about $l37
day in salary, without the extras. 1t is
therefore apparent, with little figuring,
that he is doing thriving business, and
if he should be turned out, he would yet
retire with comfortable competency for
the rest of his life.
The great Fraud has proved to be i'm.
mensely profitable to the managers.
Hayes is de facto President, Evarts is
Secretary of State, Sherman Secretary of
the Treasury, McCrary Secretary of War,
Noyes Minister to France, Stoughton
Minister to Russia, Kasson Minister to
Austria, Comfy Minister to Honolulu
Lee Consul General to Frankfort, Shella-
barger as standing counsel at Washing
ton, Wells as Surveyor at New Orleans,
one son as Deputy and another as In
spector, Anderson as Deputy Collector,
Stearns as Commissioner of the Hot
Springs, McLin rejected as Judge, but to
be provided for elsewhere, and host of
others, are shining examples of the sue
Cessful conspiracy. But the end is not
yet, and they do well to make hay while
the sun shnes.--N. Y Sun.
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