The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-05-20
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.


| Washington, ID. g., May 10, 1903.
The people of the United States havn
4 strenuous PRESIDENT in the White
House. and he also is Il very costly
/ proposition when you come To count
tho dollars he has cost the taxpayers
OF the country since he entered the
mansion of the chief executive of the
nation. Aside from thc.iIalf II million
| dollars 1T has cost to repair and rcfur-
nlsli the building during the past year,
the cost OF maintaining the establish
menC mas Increased enormously. There
was SG3,000 spent on presidential
0iflce building, directly to the west of
the White House, aud members of
Congress who have expressed an ODin-
ION OF 1T sny that it looks like n stable.
!t certainly IL about tho Orncriest look
ing affair for the Office Of the chief exc.
cutive OF IL great nation to have cost so
much money that any man ever saw.
On first behOlding it nearly every man
says to himself that il that little cheese
D0X cost S05, 900, then some man GER
talnly got in his graft good and hard.
Ihen there are other expenditures that
the people OF the country never heard.
Ill connection with ROOsevelt's short
occupancy OF the White House. There
mas Deen an increase in the running ex-
ROOSEVELT advent. of over S25, ZOO u
year; new furniture and fittings for the
"Mayiiower" (the Presidents yacht]
over Sl00,00O; the cost of keeping the
'Mayfiower' III commission for two
months last year, about S15, 600; repnirs
and refitting the "Mayflower" last year
about SD, 600; repairs and refitting the
".Mayiiower' this year about 800, 900.
All this with tho half million dollars
spent OH the White House makes mn
pr0ximately about S750,O0O that the
strenuous President has cost the tax
payers or the country more than he or
any man IN his position should have
cost them. There were few thousand
dollars loft over from tho appropria-
ton to fix up the White House unex-
pended after the work was finished,
anu pans Immediately were put in
operation t. get rid of this amount be-
fore the end of the fiscal year, June 30.
next. a lattice work screen was erect
ed TO hide the Roosevelt family wash
from the vulgar gaze, a double tennis
court is ia progress Of preparation, al
though the President never plays ten
Ms and by the time it is finished the
Roosevelt children will all be over Mt |
OYSTER bay for the summer. Fine i'm
ported green bay trees costing over |
ySoo $S each have been placed on top of I
until it resembles nothing somuch as a
beer garden on q roof In the height of
the season. Great beds of high -Dricei |
flowers OF many kinds will be set ont
and that part Of the White House
grounds used by the Roosevelt family
ana their friends will bloom with the
insurance of the tropics. There amt
e go'n to be no core to this apple"
When the President gcts through with
that APPROXIMATION; It will be "all in"
penny to crafty the aesthetic tasrau ~
tho strenuous President. The 11Ts Prss' 4k
uents YACHT tho "Mayhowor,N ia tha
most gorgeous craft that ever f,oataS
70 salt water. 1twas built by Mrs
Ogden Goelet and was about nnmn niatej /
9! ynenh se In the ,eovefphaent bought It for
sasS'Gg0 At thp TIME war was declared
With Spain. 1t is officially classed as n
trL,ser and is about the size of the
Cincinnati" or the "Boston." In tho I
assignment ee ships of the navy she |
appears "Hn srecial service" Size ln
rea..y at the disposal OF tho President
at all times, and was fitted up at enor-
nous y expense eS q for his enjoyment. The
Germany does hot travel IN more inn
posing style than does hr. Roosevelt
when he is aboard his private yacht,
for fs the "aiayA9wer' is nothing less
fhan TINT. As ] said before, the rent-
things and refurnishings cost not less
than 100000, and n part OF this vast
for solid marble baths that cost 9e,0hG
each. Presidents Cleveland and 80
Kinley were satisfied to ride on the
"Sylph" or the "Dblphin" wieh they
wanted to so out to sea, but alongside
of the "Mayflower' they look like cheap
tugs. If the people of the countrv
want the aristocracy of wealth instead
of intellectin the White House, they
snould by all means keep Roosevelt
there.
The decision of the Supreme Court.
recently handed down, on the Alabama
electric franchise case, and which de-
clared In effect that state has the
right to determine who shall be enti-
tied to the ballot, has created much in
terest here i'll political circles. or
course, there arc divergent opinions.
Among southern democratic members
OF Congress the opinion is universally
approved on constitutional grounds,
while some of the northern republican
mem bers say that no state has a right
to disfranchise any class of it's citizens.
The decision OF the court ia n victory
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