The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-02-24
THE PAY OF PARLlAMENTS.
Beers Get Largest Salaries. Our Sem
atOrs Valuable Perquisities.

Beers Get Largest Salaries. Our Sem
atOrs Valuable Perquisities. .
So far as payments in hard cash go,
the brawny burghers Of the Transvaal
are decidedly the best off. Quite re-
Gently the Boer parliament increased
the salaries of its members to $4,000 a
year for each individual, as they can
very easily afford to 60, when one re-
members the big tax tolls which the
unfrancnised Uitlanders are compelled
to pay. But in actual emoluments the
United States senator probably receives
d better reward. He gets mileage and
numerous minor fees and privileges,
which swell his annual income material
~ over its nominal $1,000.
Great Britain, as every student knows,
gives her members of parliament no
salaries, although government officials
for the time being are royalty paid,
The first lord of the treasury receives
$4,000, as also do the foreign, home,
colonial, Indian and war secretaries,
The lord chancellor receives $50, 900 per
annum. But for the NJ. p. who does
not hold Office there is naught save
honor. Even the old privilege of not
being liable to arrest for debt while an
NJ. p. has been abolished.
The British colonies, however, do not
follow the example of the mother coun-
try. New South Wales and Victoria all
low their NJ. P.'s 81, 500 per annum, Cam
ada and South Australia $1,000, with an
additional mileage rate for the former,
and Queensland $3.50, with mileage.
New Zealand representatives get ST.
200.
France gives its senators and depu-
ties S1,S0O, but there is "string" to
where, in Vienna, for instance, with
good effect. Any member who is twice
called to order during a sitting forfeits
half his salary for two weeks. Cases
exist where certain fiery French depu-
ties have lost their entire years allow
ances in this manner.
Belgium grants members of the rep
resentatives' chamber $500 year and
passes on the railroads, but curiously
enough makes its senators work for
nothing and pay their own travelling ex-
penses.
In the realms of the little queen of
Holland members of the upper house
are paid a sum equal to about $4.1S per
diem for each session, but since they
meet only on 80 or 80 days in the year
they cannot be said to clear much. In
the second chamber $3.50 per, annum,
with a travelling grant of 81 cents for
every hour spent on the railroad, are
the allowances. Absentee Dutch law
givers forfeit their salaries, whether
their absence be caused by illness or
not.
The new japanese parliamentary con-
stitution compels each member of the
national parliament to draw annually
from the treasury about $665. Any
member of the aristocratic classes re-
fusing to accept this salary, through
pride or other reasons, is subject to fine
and dismissal, by the parliamentary
rules of 1890.
Portugal is niggardly with its repre-
sentatives, giving them only $500, and
Norway pays members from $3.50 to
$500, according to the length of the
session.
In Sweden members of the upper
house serve absolutely for patriotism
and the lower chamber members get
only $685.. Moreover, $2.75 per diem is
deducted for non-attendance. Even the
unpaid upper house is fined for alb
senteeism, although its members get
nothing-not even train fares.
The Greek lawgiver is $3.50 per an
mum man, with additions for overtime
work (such as in the recent war;. 1t
was suggested recently that these sal
aries should be ''docked' slightly, so as
to help pay the Turkish indemnity, but
the idea was condemned promptly.
Switzerland gives her councillors some
thing less than five dollars week, with
about six cents day for travelling ex-
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