The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-16


A Few Statistical Facts.
The Financial Reform Almanack"
for the present year, contains good
deal of interesting statistical informa-
ton.
The total amount annually received
or expended on her Majesty and on the
other members of the royal family Is
fS93, 3S2 GA, 500. 0O0j. In this is in.
cluded maintenance of palaces. expend-
iture in connection with royal yachts
CESS, 1857 (s1SO,OO0), households oil
deceased sovereigns (f6, and
many other such items. Looking
through them, / should say that about
ESQ, 600 per annum would have to be
expended were there no royal family to
provide for.
The House of Lor1s consists of sic
Peers. In pay or pensions these noble
men receive 1921, 1856 per annum. This,
however, includes the amounts received
by Peers of the royal family. The
Peers have between them IA, 25S, 527
acres of land. with q rental of f11.8S0,
30S. As, however. the income of the
Duke of Westminster is only put down
in this estimate at EST. las, many of
ehose who derive incomes from ground
rents, mines. etc. are far richer than
the above total, which presume is the
amount received from agricultural land.
Probably it would not be an eS-
cessive estimate to put down the
total incomes of Peers derived
from all sources at f16, 900, 900
$3.50, 600, COO, which would make the
income of each individual Peer aver
age a triie over Egg, 900 per annum
(S145, OOO). In the House of Lords
there are SO members holding Office I'M
der the present Administration; 46 Of
ficers of the army on active service and
81 retired officers. Of naval officers
there are on active service and 8 re-
tired Sixty-two Peers are either
Chairmen or directors of railways. Six
peerages date from the Thirteenth cent
ury. from the Fourteenth, IL from the
Fifteenth, IS from the Sixteenth. As
from the Seventeenth, 126 from the
Eighteenth, and the rest from the pres
ent century.
The amount of salaries, pay and
pensions received by members of the
House of Commons is f162, $40, and
the acreage owned by members of this
House is 2,121.5 31, producing an an
nual revenue of f1.S43.246. In the
House OF Commons the aristocratic in
terests are represented by 272 MEM
bers. the fighting interests by 168, the
landed interests by 267, the law inter-
ests by 122, the liquor interests by Is.
the moneyed interests by Is. the liter
airy, professional and scientific interests
by 81, the official interests by 113, the
railway interests by 113. the trading,
commercial and manufacturing inter-
ests by l55. and the vast labor interests
| by 2 members.
The Church of England has an in
come of IA. 525, 900. OF this, Episcopal
and cathedral officials receive esq, 571.
The patronage of 1862 benefices. with
an income of Fl. 513. 092. is ecclesiastical
and collegiate; that OF S45. with an in
come of 1921, 345. belongs to the Exec
utive; and that of SSH, with an in
come of e. 719, 95s, to private patrons.
The statistics of pensions are curious.
Ten thousand pensioners draw Is, 1876,
SOL per annum for India; and $50. $50
pensioners, mostly retired civil Office
holders. receive from the taxpayers OF
the United Kingdom more than e.. 0Oo.-
600 per annum 1885. 0O0. 000). Of these
latter recipients of public charity, many
are nourished by grateful country, be-
cause offices which they have held have
been abolished. The blue ribbon of the
pension list is held by d. d. Heath.
This gentleman has received since 1S47
f3. 100 per annum. In the same year q
pension of Ella per annum was
granted to w. T. N. Champ, which he
still enjoys, in consideration of the Office
of "Chaf Wax" whatever that may
be. having been abolished in that year.
In 1882 the public expenditure was
fS5, 569. 7S4 (S43O, 100000. Of this.
f29. 665,945 was spent in interest
on the debt. Ell, 400, 2S5 on the army,
and f10. 756, 453 on the navy, 1856, 0OC
on the war in South Africa, f50O, 0OC
on the Afghan war, and 10000 on
Observation-Disclosures Truth.