Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1901-04-25
The Salaries of European RuIers.


Though we repent can any God give back
The dear. lost days might have made 50 tar!
The Salaries of European Rulers.
Of all European rulers, the one who
draws-the smallest amount from the
national treasury is undoubtedly the
President of the Swiss republic, whose
official salary amounts to the princely
sum Of So, 900 per year. True, he on
lv holds Office for twelve months, and
there is so little glory and distinction
connected Herewith that not one per-
son in thousand, even in Europe
knows the name Of the Helvetian chief
magistrate for the time being.
The President Of the French repuo-
lie is more fortunate, for he receives
in salary and allowances, about $780,
O0O-that is to say, Just FIVE times as
much as the President of the United
States. Besides this, he has country
houses, game preserves, steam yachts,
private railroad trains and all sorts Of
other luxuries maintained for him at
the expense Of the treasury. He holds
Office for seven years,
Emperor Francis Joseph receives
about 100000 from the Austrian
treasury and much more from the
Hungarian e1chequer, but is bur-
dened with so many expenses, includ-
ing the subventioning of the court
theaters and royal and imperial operas
at Vienna and Pesth that it not
for the fact that the private fortune
Of the house of Hapsburg is colossal,
he would be unable to make both ends
meet. King Victor Emmanuel re-
ceives from the state civil list of $3,-
100000, considerable portion of
which has been until now consumed
by the maintenance of hundreds Of
unoccupied palaces in cities that were
once the capitals Of the innumerable
petty sovereignties into which the
kingdom Of Italy was subdivided.
The Kaiser receives as King Of Prus-
sia $3,OOO,0OO, but, like his brother
monarch at Vienna, is at the head Of
vast revenues derived from the phi
vate property of the reigning house of
Hohenzollern.
Young King Alfonso Of Spain has
a civil list of $l,5OO,OOO, the Queen
Regent having a jointure of $5o,OOO'
while the Princess of the Asturias,
who was married last week, has an
annuity from the state Of 100000,
her younger sister receiving $4,000
a year. The late King Alfonso died
without leaving cent. But his wld-
ow has inherited from her father, and
more particularly from her uncle, the
late Archduke Albert OF Austria, an
immense private fortune in her own
right.
The Car, like Emperor Francis JO-
seph, draws $4,OOO,OOO a year from
the national exchequer, his revenues
from what are known as the private
domains of the crown being incslcula-
BILE. Leopold of Belgium is obliged
to content himself with a civil list of
100000, but is now Deriving a very
large income from his Congo enter
prises.
The King of Portugal is relatively
badly off, for he and his consOrt have
between them civil list of little
over $3O0,OOO, the Queen, however,
having private fortune Of her own,
amounting to some 100000 a year,
inherited from her father, the late
count of Paris. The KiIg has no Pri-
vate fortune, and is in such straitened
circumstances that whenever his ter
ribly extravagant mother, the wild
owed Queen Pia, used to get into f.
nancial difficulties, her son would be
unable to help her, and it was her
brother, the late King Humbert, who
was obliged to come to her rescue.
The young Queen of Holland draws
from the national e1chequer Of the
Netherlands 100000, but is in pos
session of one of the largest private
fortunes in Europe
King George of Greece gets $780,
900 year, toward which civil list
Great Britain, France, and Russia
have contributed $4,000 apiece each
year since he was elected King, in
1868. There is no particular reason
why these foreign powers should con-
time to do this, and it is particularly
strange that France, which has done
away with monarchy as too costly
form of government in her own terri