The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-03-21
HOW THE PRESIDENT MANAGES TO
SAVE $4,000 4 YEAR.


salary Of So, 0,O00-a good, round in.
come, it must be confessed. There is
no way of finding out all OF his pick
ings or allowances, but some of them 1
am able to mention. In the first
place he gets his house rent and furni
ture free. Not curtain or chair or
blanket or napkin or towel does he
have to buy. ALI his fuel is furnished
by the government and not a cent does
he have to pay for gas.
His vegetables are raised in the pub
lie gardens by gardener paid by the
government. His steward is paid by
the government and so are his cook
and his coachman. How many other
for do not know, but so far as I can
see, Mr.. Hayes only expenses in the
White House are for meat and groce-
ries. Even his doctor and his medi-
cine are paid for by the government.
Even his beef comes from the govern
ment butcher, and he pays only the
cost price which the government paid
ON the hoof.
In other words, the government
buys an OK alive for beef, paying, say
four cents per pound. The Presideut
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 sup
piled with sirloin steak, tenderloin
steak, porter house 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 Comlnissary 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 officers beef and
groceries at prime cost. The reader
has now a pretty fair idea of what the
President has to buy. The President
! does not buy liquor or wine-how
economical temperance is! Wines and
liquors have always been big items in
the White House, for it was never
conducted on temperance principles
before. Wines being out of the ques.
| tion and all the advantages counted,
will any head of household who is
accustomed to good living tell me that
it costs Mr.. Hayes more than SIC, 900 a
year to live? If the family is charita-
BILE have not heard of it. True, a
bouquet of flowers is occasionally sen,
to fair or Il hospital, but, bless you,
the flowers were raised in govern.
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eminent florist. Even in the summer
time the President pays no house rent
but lives in house belonging 70 the
old soldiers of the country and sup.
ported by contributions from the sol
diers in the regular army. When the
question is solved as to whether the
President is not living on $4,000 6
year, will somebody please tell me 70,
what purpose $4,000 year is given tc
the President Is it not to enable
him to live in a manner becoming a
Chief Magistrate ? Il have talked with
many experienced gentlemen, and II
is the common opinion here that Mr..
Hayes is saving from his salary abou,
SAC, 900 year. True, it will be good
thing for young Mr.. Webb Hayes and
the other two sons, and this, no doubt
is a sufficient reason for Mr.. Hayes
course. Would it not be in keeping il
he would, just before retiring from
Office, recommeDd the reduction of the
Presidential salary on the ground tha,
the services are not equal to the com.
pensation