The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-02-02

upon President Roosevelt, is the alac.
rity with which Congress all at once
has seized upon the fact that the Pres
ident's barber is costing the country
$1,000 a year. The story has been told
again and again in the months gone by
that Dulany, very affable little chap,
who is much around the White House
Offices during the day, has been carried
on the rolls of the auditor for the
Navy Department. Everybody refused
to get excited about it, however, till
recently, when some one brought the
story out anew. Then every man in
Congress was talking about it and the
fact of Dulany's employment in such
fashion has been used as club with
which to attack the President OF
course, Dulany does no work for the
auditor for the Navy Department, does
not even report there for duty, and, it
is said, has his salary sent up to him
twice every month. His employment
may not be exactly in the line of Civil
Service, which the President advocates,
but Dulany's case has by no means
been solitary one, as Congress has
known for long, long time.
May Be White Man.
Incidentally Dulany has an interest
ing history. He is dark skinned, but
might pass for a white man. He him
self does not know for certain whether
he is negro or Caucasian. He was
left a founding on doorstep in the
neighboring city of Alexandria, Vir-
ginia, and was taken in and reared by
colored family. He never knew who
was his father or who was his mother,
but he grew up with the negroes and
has spent his life among them as one
of the race.
Everybody around the White House
likes Dulany, who happens to be very
expert with the razor. He keeps the
President IS shaving tools in little
leather portmanteau, which he drags
out from under the sofa every after
noon about p. m, which is the hour
that the President wants shave. There
is a chair in the little reception room
where visitors wait for the President
The chair is easily adapted for shaving
The President energies from his offict
when he has closed his forenoon IS la
bors, but often there are few yet tt
see him, and with them he converse'
while Dnlany shaves him. The Presi
dent talks volubly. He is always rest
less, but Dulany shaves away without
apparent concern, and has never beer
known to nick the President IS skin. H,
| has been known to be so accommodate
ing that he would comb and uncoml
the President S hair two or three time
if some one was talking who had no
quite completed all that he had to say
OF course, in such cases, the visitor
were men whom Dulany knew and whom
he was fairly certain the Presiden
would not object to talking with
little longer
Outside, of Washington there is prob
ably little comprehension of the in
tense hostility of Congress toward tn
President. 1t now extends to littl
things, which ordinarily would hav
been passed over without particula
comment. The President is shown
himself quite as human as the Cor
gressmen. He, just as much as they
seizes upon minute advantages in thi
merry warfare of the winter.
When Senator Clay, a Georgia Dem
ocrat, arose in his seat the other da
to protest against raising the Pres
dent s salary, he quoted figures to shov
that the country has been payin
$4,000 annually to President Roost
welt, which, outside of the $4,000
salary, as has been much emphasized o
late, is ten times what the country wa
paying for its Chief Executive twenty
five years ago. The figures were SUI
piled to Senator Clay from Republica
appropriation committees, where the
have been worked up in much detail
The 100000 included numerous item
toward the maintenance of the Whit
House, the expenses for which hay
mounted at rapid rate ever since NJ
Roosevelt became President.
Grumbling About the Extravaganza.
The grumbling in the appropriation
committees over Mr.. Roosevelt's e,
travagance, as the Republicans openl
characterize it, is of long standin
Those committees have an additions
grievance because when they summo
: officials TO explain how the money h;
/. been spent it has been exceeding
difficult to obtain adequate statement
During the earlier part of Mr.. Roos
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