Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-28
fINANcESOF EDWARD vII
England's King Wants $40, ooo,-
600 TO Pay Old Debts.
WILL KEEP THE GROWN LANDS.

Predecessors Turned Them Over to
the Natfon-Queen VIII Have $780,
900 n Year For Pin Money and Chill
dren 100000.
King Edward will demand of parlia-
ment, it is expected, S10,000.000 cash
TO pay the debts he accumulated while
he was the Prince of Wales and will
insist on keeping for his own use all
the crown property, the income from
which is now 100000 a year. writes
the London correspondent of the New
York World. How much more he will
demand in the form of a civil list or
annual appropriation is not known.
Parliament of late years has resolutely
set its face against the good old Han
overian doctrine, originated by George
I and .bettered' by his successors, that
the United Kingdom was sort of fat
tening ground for German princes.
No fewer than % royalties were at
free quarters on the civil list during
the reign of George III until in 1919
at a time, too, when the country was
in abject misery after the reaction of
the Napoleonic wars-the amount stood
at the appalling total of f430.2SS, this
being independent of the kings own
civil list appropriation of 100000,
besides certain hereditary revenues
from English, Irish and Scotch sources
which he continued to retain as we'll,
of course, as the proceeds from the
duchy of Lancaster.
Scattered about the country are GER
tain properties of undoubted value
known as the crown lands" and sup
plemented by what are styled the
small branches of the hereditary rev.
enue." 1t has been the practice since
the time of George III for the monarch,
on coming to the throne. to "surren-
DER to the country these hereditary
revenues "in confidence that the COM
mons would gladly make adequate pro-
vision for the support of the honor and
dignity of the crown"
Nor has that confidence hitherto
been misplaced. The civil list is set off
against the hereditary revenues. and
the result in balance sheet form works
out thus: Civil list, in the late reign,
1855, 900 Isl, 925, O00). Surrendered
hereditary revenues, f210,000 (S1,050,-
OOO), from crown lands, and E6S, 900
(S340,0 900 from the "small branches"
Here we see in this parliamentary bar
gain" a balance of f107, 900 (S535, 600
against the nation on the sovereign's
list alone
This, however, is without taking in
to account the f40, 600 (S20o,O00) annual
grant to the Prince of Wales, 10000
($50,000) to the Princess of Wales, Co.
600 CS45,O00) to their children, $4,000
CS60,O00) to the Duke of Cambridge,
$4,000 (S40,o00) to the Empress Fred
erick. f25,000 ($125.000) to the Duke of
Connaught and 10000 (S30,000) each to
Princess Christian, Princess Louise
duchess of ArgylD, Princess Henry Of
Battenberg and the Duchess of Albany.
The annual balance against the nation
in account with the royal family there
fore has been $1,140,000.
BY the queens death the king comes
into possession of the income of the
duehy of Lancaster, which has yielded
ESQ, 900 (S175.O0Ol a year. But the
duchy of Cornwall passes TO the Duke
of York, and with it an income COM
puted at 10000 G$300,000) a year, so
that the king loses heavily in this par
ticular phase of the transaction.
The parliamentary grant to the SOW
ereign for his or her strictly personal
use-''tlle privy purse as it is termed
has during several reigns stood at
EGO. 900 (S300,0o0) This is independent
of $4,000 $3.50, 1000 for the privy purse
of the consort, either queen or prince.
The annual personal allowance to
Prince Albert was 100000 (S250, 000),
and the same sum was provided for
Queen Adelaide, the wife of William
".
1t is assumed therefore that Lord
and the courtierlike Mr.. Bal
four, as first lord of the treasury, will
bring the necessary gentle pressure to
bear upon the select committee to rec
that amount for the Princess
of Wales, henceforth to be known as
the queen consort. Her present allow
ance, as settled by act of parliament at
the time of her marriage, is 10000
$500, 600, to be increased to 100000
($150, GOOD in case she outlives her hus-
band.
AS to the financial future of the Duke
passing it may be well to dissipate a
very prevalent impression that in con-
sequence of his fathers accession to
the throne he would become immedi- |
ately and ipso facto Prince of Wales.
This is not SO. The duke succeeds at
once, and as a matter of constitutional
right, to the dukedom of Cornwall, but |
1t rests with the king to decide when
his son shall be raised to the dignity of |
Prince of Wales.
The duke will have. roughly. 100000
$500, 900 from the duchy Of Cornwall, |
and the proposal to be laid before the |
house of commons committee will take |
the form of further civil list annuity |
Of f40, 900 Goo, 0O0). the same as his IA |
Their has enjoyed since he came of age. |
The Duchess of York has received MOTH |
ing from the nation, but circumstances |
are altered now that she is the wife of |