American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-03-15

| the President Manages &c
| Save 40, 600 - Year.
Washington cor. Philadelphia Times-I
The President receives an ANIMAL
salary of $50, OOO1a good. round in
come, it must be confessed. There il
no way of finding out all of his pick
ings or allowances, but some of then
| am able to mention. In the first
place he gets his house rent and fur
niture free. Not curtain or chair
or blanket or napkin or towel does
he have TO buy. All his fuel IS fur
nished by the- government and not
a cent does Ire have to pay for gas.
His vegetables are raised in the
public gardens by gardner paid
by the government. HIS steward
is paid by the government aud so
are his cooks and his cOachman.
How many other servants our good
government pays for l do not know,
but so far az | can see, MIR. Hayes
only expenses in the Whi'e House
are for meat and groceries. Even
his doctor and his medicine are paid
for by the government. Even his
beef comes from the government
butcher, and he pays only the cost
price which the government paid Oh
the hOOf.
In other words, the government
buys an OK alive for beef, paying, say
four cents per pound. The Presi-
dent gets the beef at the same rate,
but his steward is not fool enough
to take the legs, the neck, the head
or the rump. and SO the White
House table is supplied with sirlOln
steak, porter-house steak, tenderloin
steak, and rib roasts for four cents
per pound, while the department
clerk, on $1,000 a year, pays from
fifteen to twenty cents per pound
for his beef.
The Commissary of Subsistence
has to kill beef for rations for the
soldiers, and it has long been the
practice TO give the President, the
army officers and the high civil Of
fcers beef and groceries at prime
cost. The reader has now pretty
fair idea of what the President has
to buy. The President does not buy
liquor or wine-how economical
temperance il Wines and liquors
have always been big items in the
White House, for it was never con>
dCcted on temperance principles be
fore. Wines being out of the ques-
tion and all the advantages counted,
will any head of q household who is
accustomed to good living tell me
that it costs Mr.. Hayes more than
SIC, 900 year to livef II the fam
lily is charitable have not heard Of
1t. True, bouquet of flowers is oc-
sent to fair or hospital,
but, bless you, the flowers were
raised in q government cOnservatO>
~ cared for by government florist.
Even in the summer time the Presi-
dent pays no house rent, bat lives
in a house belonging to the old sOl>
diers of the country and supported
by contributions from the soldiers
in the regular army. When the
question is solved as to whether the
President is not living on 10000 n
year, will somebody please tell me
for what purpose $50, 900 year ia
given to the President Is it not
to enable him to live in a manner
a Chief Magistrate l
have talked with many experienced
aud it IS the common
opinion here that Mr.. Hayes is saw
ing from his salary about $4,000 a
year. True. it will be a good thing
for young Mr.. Webb Hayes and the
other two SONS, and this, no doubt,
is sufficient reason for Mr.. Hayes
course. Would it not he III keeping
if he would, just before retiring from
Office, recommend the reduction oil
the Presidential salary on the
ground that the services are not
equal to the eo0pensationf