The Portland daily press., 1894-04-12

and they receive other concessions In Ghe
matter of taxation and patronage.
diem pay of the early United States
Congress prevails. In Switzerland.
mem bers of the national council receive
| ST. so a day, and mem bers OF the state
council 81. SO to So. 50 day.
Perhaps the most thoroughly over
paid national legislature Qf 1t can be
called SOY is the legislature of Canada.
1t has So more LEGISLATORS than England.
There are 215 mem bers of the Chamber
of Deputies who draw $1,000 each for
each session of the Parliament; and
there are so members of the Senate who
receive $4,000 per year eaen. Inc
| Speakers of the two houses receive So,ooo
per year each. That is just the amount
paid to the President OF the senate OF
the United States and the Speaker OF
our House of representatives.
Canadian Legislature Salaries.
The amazing discrepancies in the sal
aries of Canadian legislative officials are
to be found in other governments. Inc
United States pays its Senators ana
Representatives alike, $4,000 year each;
and to the presiding officers of the two
Houses it pays $4,000 year each. Cana
da pays 81, 1000 to one class of legislators;
$4,000 to another and $4,000 each TO
the presiding officers England pays
nothing to the embers to the House Oh
| Lords or the House of Commons, but
the Speaker of the Commons has
salary equivalent to $4,000, and
| house; while the lord chancellor draws
salary as Speaker of the House OF
Lords, and $4,000 is his salary as a
judge; and the retiring pension OF the
Lord Chancellor is $50, 900 a year.
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amazing compared with those which are
paid to similar officials under this gov
eminent. There is the Chief Justice OF
the Supreme Court. for example. IN
England he has $4,000 year. Chief
Justice Fuller of our Supreme Court
has salary of $40. 500 year. The Judg-
es of the higher court Of justice in Eng
land receive S25, 900 each; the associate
justices of our Supreme Court receive
$1o, 900 EACH The Attorney General Of
England has $780, year. and his fees
sometimes amount to S25, 0O0.a year more
The First Lord of the Treasury receives
$25, 900 year; the First Lord OF the
Admiralty S22, 500 year. Attorney
General Olney, Secretary Carlisle ana
Secretary Herbert have to get along with
$4,000 year each and a horse and car
riage.
Pay of Rulers.
Our President does not draw the
smallest salary paid to the head of a
nation but he comes within very few
of doing so. The President of Switzer-
land receives $4,000 year and the
President of the Argentine Republic only
$50, 900. President Cleveland draws $780,
600 year and, as have said, probably
saves half of that sum. 1t is said to
have been a point of honor with some
of the Presidents of the FrenchR epublic
that they would not save any part of the
salaries, because they believed that the
money was intended to be used in sup
porting the dignity of the office. No pres
ident of the United States has had any
such idea, and most of them who have
served full term have taken nice little
nest-eggs away with them. The salary
of the President of the French RepubllG
is S24O, 900 year. Napoleon III received
S., 600, 900 year; but he had to bear
many of the expenses of the government.
such as the maintenance of palaces,
subsidizing theatres, &c. The present
head of the French republic has none OF
these expenses, and he can leave office
rich man if he serves term OF fair
length. Our President has house given
him, and all of the official" expenses of
that house are paid for him, but the dis
tinctly household expenses come out of
his own pocket.
The Queen of England receives $780,
600 for the privy purse, besides civil
/ allowance nearly six times as great. The
Prince of Wales has all income of $780,
600 year, the princess $50, 600, and each
OF the children of the Prince of Wales
$3.50, 900 a year.
The Emperor Francis Joseph receives
81, 800, 900 a year from Austria, and
81, 600. 600 a year from Hungary. He is
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Der of libraries, museums, parks, &C.,
and to pay the subsidies of several
theatres.
King Hum ert of Italy has an allow
ance Of So, 200, 600 year, out of which he,
too, has to keep up palaces In different
parts of the nation-in cities formerly
capitals of independent States. The
Emperor of Japan has an annual allow
ance of more than two and quarter
millions of dollars, The Prince of Mon
tenegro has only $40, 500 year, but
Russia allows him $3.50 more.
The Shah of Persia.
The Shah of Persia has the income
from a private fortune OF S27, 600, 900,
accumulated by his family in Office.
The King of Sweden and Norway re-
ceives nearly 100000 year from his
people.
The King Of Greece has an allowance
from his country of $4,000 year, and
further allowance of 100000, from
Great Britain, France and Russia.
The King of Belgium has an allowance
of about $3.50, 600 year.
The King of Servia receives $40, 600 a
year. The infant King of Spain and
his family have an allowance of $4,000,
600 year. The Emperor William gets
81, a2O, 600 from Prussia alone, aud his
grandfather is said to have saved $l2,
600, 600 out Of his allowance from the
State.
The Car of Russia is credited with
receiving more than $12, 000,0 600 from his
government.
In the light of these facts concerning
the pay of ioreign, rulers and foreign
law makers 1t would appear that the
statesmen. of America are rather under
paid. 1t is fact that, with the excep-
,, ton of the President, the man who
saves money in public life is a great ex-
ception. Perhaps that is one reason why
the average Congressman does not take
kindly to the proposition to "dock" him
for staying away from the sessions OF