New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-06-09
CANADNS COSTLY GOVERNMENT
SALARIES PAID TO Run a CUMBERSOME OF
FIClAI MACHINE.

FIClAIJ MAChlNE'
Ottawa, June 4 CSpecap.-L0rd Stanley receives ~
Governor General Of Canada S54 $3.50 year ana tuet.
IA great deal Of kicking" about II. Not here oi
course where every other man is clVh ser'an' "
fr,erd or relative OF a civil servant or moro or TSS
dependcnt on official pap. but at Toronto ana o'n'r
vigorous independent Anglo Saxon centres an"
now that the Governor GonerS has refused or ne9''G
10 disAllow the Jesuit Act the GFt,' the orASc"'"
and the sturdy kckers' OF tho West In genera ArO
beginnInr 10 ash what good r GovernorGeneIa any
how n all he does Is 10 draw his salary ana nov
comply with the wishes OF the people who pay IT,
lie keeps Rieau Hall going part OF the year WIN q
lot Of servants most Of them imported rom Ehs@Hu'
lie buys mighty little hero that no can gel IN hss''
and about tho only return he makes Is dinner or wv"
and bah or two 10 the Office holding CLASS vi ms
community He Is civi 10 the people he comes aoios'
NJ course. there il no apparent why he sho"In
NOT be though the fact that he Is civil Is made Geat
deal Of here ~ II II totally unexpected qos',S
! In a Governor. GeneraL But %isG66 Is beginning !"
he regarded az a largo price 10 pay FOR hooemah !"
sign bills that the majority don't want and give e"
dinners and be civil ally when the her expenses
attaching 10 the Governor system and the NcchoS d.
foru of administration ars taken into Consideration
| The L!eutenan mt Governor Of Quebec for instance
| gets $1,000 year and has prnVrd
dummy and catspAw. Tho Leutensnt
Governor Of Ontario COTS 10000 year
! for a place that ought rot To cost the country
OF less than single fourhclaSs Enitd StaHs city.
! sIso rms ACKNOWLEDGMENT. with salary ot
slOOOO A year. The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF Nova
scotia New brunswick and the Northwest Ieri1nry
get 10000 year apcCe. aud the same oh'IaI> W
| Prince Edwa ard Island aud British COLUMBIA %p"o
| each. All these people have aides Sece''7cS p'r
depces and no forth including various contingencies
bringing ND the total probably 10 not much loss thsn
| A quarter OF amillon Of money.
| Fyrravacant a this outlay appears when sooery
looked into and compared with that OF oisr 'oaE'roS,
IL representS after all scarcely Thru OF ho cUst VI
| the yahun, ministries and contingencies that nave
| ,,.p cratcd under this great oric'.hohiinc system
| If government In salaries aloce these ministers
take siO7 100 yearly. Ottawa has one mihlN'r a.
a. 900 and twelve ministers at 5000 each, 10 keep
,,e Goyrror { General IN eourtename when no d''N'
bis nav and 20 initiate his example in tho great gam
| Of bow-po todo.it and 10 maintain ths hUmo"9 anu
preenre OF important business requiring al ths Cosby
machinery. Toronto supports one S""oo mii,>''. Az"
| six At 1900 each; gneheo tue s""'o' a'" "' N
! provinces IN proportion.
Then comes the Senate, that remarkable todN Oh
LEGISLATORS the end and object Of whose existence seems
"a Ia 10 lounge through the session IN an eurl !"
looh dignlhei In the art Of dons nothing eNcep' "I4"
nav and stationery and order the pages ann u'aI,,
! I,r,uners about In good style. There are e'shS
! .,,,,o,s and they occasionally look 10 al
| ~. chamber 10 draw their $4,000 or iran
snct any other similar important business Inc
rr,, 81 tho tmc appar"utly they spend IN khns 'm'
| ., udcau Hail or tho Russell, or the CLUBS OF III
| ~, s,otbcr's amicablc society IN" commons mas
| or, members who with punC'uoi!ty aud d"Ps"n
Jaw snl5 900 per session. The speakers OF inc w"
| hous,s manage TO worry along on s8,oOo Stn
! between them The ontario members ana Hp'aHo'
nclo, about 800 100: the Quebec Legislative COUNCIL
| IooAI.ture and two speakers, $4,000, and the N't
| T., prcnorion Tho total aggregates IN "''"N
| .alar,,s inward Of half million Fo3o'7@"I ior -"
r,,tes sioral politicians, whose labos average sN'S
| s,rs IN a year. Add TO this sun tho Salarfa vi "'
Mn, CoyornorS and forty seven Ministers ana We
$50 Sad7 SIC 10 SALARIES alone, without oh'N,ne va
crnuises the assessments serretar es alden, +USns
| ~ he thousand and Une expenses mat "'o '''e
| swav the very hcaIt ui this Dominion, -, ..,,h,i
! TI7 absurdty and extravaganza OF lne 1891
| and nrccptloIs system only be fly unuCa ,,S"r
hen compared with thu Expenditure OF ui1 Hn.Ia
| cnuntry There ara City six moro ega'oIs !" ~ ~
nan are found necessary In Great brlt5l' a' ~
MANY departing ntal heads ~ ar Ieqlrn w u' rh
sh of state Of tho greatest connry IN EuIuF0 ~
,nIisaurs and contingencies of the Legislature W.
| md 20 forth bring up the annual SSsleshTrL w Wv.
ty"cn three and four millions Of dollars lho;S az
few figures Illustrating but one OF The many -,
~ dissaiisfac lion existing In This country,
I'D To the condition Of political unrest o. tlS W
uitrcssrd and they are well worth the cohsluer St,on
| az Americans who are looking nOrhWaW III cOhNeouu0
| with rec ent movements for closer reiauohs'