New-York tribune., 1908-09-21
.coprrsehs raos. sy n. nreatuood Company


from any charges in connection with the financial
transactions Of his father As. moreover. he is the
only surviving child OF Queen Ameie- who has a
large fortune Of her own. he cannot be considered
ss being badly of nor should he experience any
difficulty in making both ends meet
His civil list compares. the whole. favorably
with those Of other monarchs of second and third
rate kingdoms. Thus. the King OF Greece has TO
content himself with little $4,000 q year
The ruler OF Denmark has $4,000 a year. but is
obliged 70 pay out IF that the allowances Of the
various princes and princesses Of his house The
King Of Sweden receives identicaIly the same sum
IS King Manuel, while the King Of Servia has to
-ub along with s29.eo0- OF these sovereigrs the
treated this respect is undoubtedly the King
cf saxony. who has civil list OF more than
e ad0eo and IS the population ot Saxony amounts
ony 4aoe0 il that each man, woman
sd child in Saxony contributes 30 cents year
toward the maintenance of their King
BURNAT's EXTRAORDINARY REVELATION,
There is no doubt that what contributed more
than anything else 10 put an end the fight
which has been raging in both houses Of the
Portuguese legislature against making any decent
provision for The young King the remarkable
speech 6el.ve7ed by Count BurnaE At the general
meeting. held early in August. OF tle so-caled
tobacco oompany which farms from the Portu-
x1ese government the state tobacco mouopoly-
Count BUTnsT.- was warm friend Of King
Carlos. and who Is the president or he company,
took that his speech should be reproduced in
eKtenso in all the leading Portuguese and Spanish
papers
The count asserts that the tobacco company for
rUmoer Of years past has been subjected 10
identicaiiy the same backu1aiiirg extortion the
PART CO the leading statesmen OF both the mo-
nerchioal parties old De Lesseps and the
Panama Canal Company at the hands Of so many
of : he important French ministers government
of5cisls and public men OF his day Count Burnay
oTeTs publish fac-simile letters from nearly all
the leaders Of both the rRonarchicaI parties in
Portugal demanding loans gifts, and declares
TlEat apparently every connected with the gov
errnent OF with parliament was consumed with
desire o. filing his belly at the tobacco com
paHy's expense re expressly absolves ex-Pre-
Enier Franco from all blame in this connection
sscTibes 70 his Determination and TO that OF the
hf7g 70 put sfcp 70 all this blsckmailinC Of the
tobacco company the political disturbances which
Rave prevailed from the time when the late King
carlos Placed Franco at the head OF the govern
177ui and ne finally declares in 50 many words.
r5at + repeated sttenpts were made to XIII Fran
CO. and i King Carlos vas assassinated il was
because the monarch and his minister had become
ins1persale obstacles 70 tie access Of the leaders
of the two great political machines in Portuguese
politics 20 the financial trough Of the tobacco COM
bears out what I have al along pointed cut in
'hese lete7s-that the direct responsibility for ,he
murder Of King Carlos and Of the crown Prince
asf spring lies not with the Republicans al whose
"'-h ira leaders and bosses of the two great no
haTrhicsl parties in Portuguese politics.
iHl8IEE TO The LATE KINGS FoNEsTT
Count Burner declared that while the tobacco
COMPANY had nothing with which 20 rep-oach itself
A'sP 'iat ~ the beginning 1t had yielded 70 Off
elal c11anGs To- bakshfsh and had later on re-
11sed ~ submit 70 blackmsn the tobacco question
's9 assumed in Portugal almost the same impor-
.'lce IS the Panama scandal Of twenty years ago
n France and the Dreyfus question more recently
i auoe1 mat Il he spoke 80 freely. in spite Of all
me T7'n7ces q death which ne had received. j.
Wa because he had fear that being seventy
Years od il unlikely that he would be a6le
' retain Tor. many years longer the direction %
me tobacco company. and that he wished the
Niisreialders 10 know the state Of affairs. He
vent OF 70 s5y that actually since the murder Of
ne King ias- spring te had received letter from
one oi The most important personage II public life
'h Portugal. promising 70 reduce all the political
a0Fersaries - the tobacco company docTty II
Inc company would consent TO pay only 80 per
cert ri IT'S stipulated rent royalty TO the treas
orv and the other rnoety 10 the writer for dst7i-
"1lon among his friends The count left it b.
inferred that the letter been written by some
member of the present administration. In fact. no
one else could have offered TO arrange for reduc
oan By - per cent Of the revenue drawn b- the
government every year from the tobacco company.
De Burnav offers publish this letter in fac
Smile II every capital Of Europe If its existence is
denied.
curiously enough not word Of protest or public
Genial of the charges Of Count Burnsr has been
heard But Immediately after the publication OF his
speech all opposition to the settlement Of the ques
t'ou % the Kings civil ist. which has been drag
eng along for months, ceased as II by magic, and
Il was voted once
j IS difficult believe. however. t-st the matter
esn where Il Is and il is 10 he hoped that
;here win be found some statesman in Portugal
clean, bold and patriotic enough 10 exact and
bring about fun investigation or the grave
charges brought by old Count Burnay, charges
which 20 70 show both ex-Preuier Franco and
King Carlos in the most favorable light.