The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-04
HOW THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE is
CHOSEN IN SISTER
STATES,
ESSENTIALS OF A PRESIDENT
NO MAN CAN BECOME A CANDIDATE
IN FRANCE UNTIL HE'S
FORTY.
THE CONDITIONS IN HONDURAS,
A Candidate Must BE a Fnther--SaI-
aries Usually Higher Than in
the United States.

Mr.. Mckinley or Mr. Bryan. which
ever our next chief executive may be-,
will count as only one out of more
than twenty-five presidents of repub-
lies in this world Considering the
greatness of his country and the Off
cial ceremony and hospitality expected
Of him, he will doubtless be the poor
est paid of all these executives, says
the Philadelphia Times
If this were France instead of the
United States, Mr.. Bryan would be
| ineligible to the highest office on &C
count of his youth. Besides being a
native-born Frenchman, the president
of France must have had at least forty
years of experience with worldly af-
fairs. He receives each year snug
little fortune of $114000, which is just
equal to the total salaries of our presi-
dent and his eight cabinet members
added together. Besides this he is fur
nished the hire of a beautiful palace
and is annually given s31, 900 pin mon
ey with which to pay the expenses
of his household and stables Mr..
Cleveland is allowed an annual ap-
preparation of but $4,000 "for the con-
tingent expenses of the executive
household" and has to pay for the
feeding and keeping of his own
horses, besides paying his coachman
out of his own pocket
The French people never enjoy this
hurrah and furry of the presidential
campaign which we are now expert
encing. They have no voice in the Sc
lection Of the president, all of that
important work being reserved for
congress. The French senate and
chamber Of deputies, which correspond
to our two houses of congress, meet
Jointly a month before the end of the
existing presidents term. They march
in line past a large urn into which
each member drops a slip of paper
containing the name of the candidate
of his choice. The man receiving an
absolute majority remains president
for seven years, during which term he
receives altogether $1,015,000 from the
government. France knows no regu-
lar election day. There being no vice
president, the national assembly is
called upon to Immediately elect sue
cessor, upon the death or resignation
of president. The new executive
does not merely fill in the unexpired
in power for full term.
In Switzerland any man who is
twenty years old or over can vote
All voters, except clergymen, are eligi-
BILE to the presidency. AS in France
however, the common people have no
vote for the president-not even indi-
rectly, through partisan electors. Ev-
cry three years the Swiss congress
elects an executive cabinet of seven
members, who. after being chosen, di-
vide among themselves the portfolios
of foreign affairs "post and tele-
graphs Justice and police
FINANCE" war" interior" and com
merce and duties" Every year the
cabinet meets and elects from its own
members a president and vice presi-
dent of the republic.
Election day in Mexico, as in this
country. occurs every four years. There
is no such intermediate body as our
electoral college in that republic The
majority of the votes of all the peo-
pie cast at the polls elects the sue
cessful candidate. The president is in
augurated on the 1st of December.
which is a much warmer day in that
locality than is the 4th of March here
The Mexican presidents salary
amounts to 10000 of our dollars year,
which is really considerably more than
Mr.. Cleveland's official wages, the
costs of living being musch less in that
republic. The chief justice of the
Mexican supreme court is somewhat
of a "Poo-Bah." Besides being the
official head of his own tribunal, he is
1ai Of no
vice president of the republic. Presi-
dent Diaz has a cabinet of seventeen
secretaries, each Of whom receives ex-
actly the same salary as that given to
cabinet officer in this country.
The official job of president In Ar
gentina Is worth SIG 900 more per term
than Is the same POSITION III, this ooun-
try. Although the president Of. that
country receives but s$36, goo per year.
he holds his position for six years He