Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-28


parliamentary secretary who gets
S. OO0.
The president of the board of education
has a salary OF $4,000, and Is assisted
paid $4,000 The president of the board
of agriculture also gets $1,000, but ne
has no parliamentary secretary. The
| first commissioner of works, who as chief
of the office of works performs over
/, seeing duties in connection with royal
palaces state buildings and royal parks,
mas $4,000 The salary of the postmaster
general is s12.JO0-
Ireland's Secretary Gets $50, 900.
The chief secretary for ireland is paid
$2oWO with an extra yearly allowance OF
81 l25 to defray the special travelling and
other expenses of the post, and has an
official residence in Phoenix Park. The
corresponding Scottish minister. secre-
tary for Scotland has a salary of $1O,UW.
The most highly paid office in the admin
istration is that OF lord lieutenant OF
Ireland who has $1OO0OO a Year, with an
allowance of $4,000 for outfit on appoint
ment and the Viceregal Lodge and Dub
lin Castle as residences 1t is princeiy
salary, but 1t carries princely obligations.
To the office of vice president of the Irish
department of agriculture a salary of
$4,000 is attached. In 1907 the salary of
the lord chancellor of Ireland was re-
duced from $4,000 to $4,000 The attor-
ney general for Ireland gets $o5 900 a
year and fees. which amounted in 1911
1872 to 1924 a year. and the solicitor
general for Ireland gets $4,000 a year.
and fees. which in the same year reached
the total of s2.O21.
Indeed the best paid posts in the gov
eminent are the legal The lord chancel-
Tor of England is paid $JOOOOA$2OOOO as
speaker of the house of lords and $4,000
the highest judicial official In the land.
(An<a ~
solicitor general. $4,000. AS in the case
of the Irish law officers. both also re-
ceive high fees for cases they conduct on
behalf of the crown in the law courts.
In 19l1-12 the fees of the attorney gen.
eral were S31 sos. and the solicitor general
SCI .235. The lord advocate of Scotland is
paid $50, 600 and the solicitor general for
Scotland $4,000. and both also receive
fees.
There are three sinecure posts in the
administration. The first in dignity is
that of lord president of the council.
He presides over the privy council. but
practically the only occasion on which 1t
meets is at the demise of the crown.
when it assemblies to proclaim the new
sovereign. Then there is the office OF
the lord privy SEAL a survival from the
historic past. when the privy council
sought to restrain the acts of absolute
monarchy by insisting that the lord
chancellor should not affix the Imprint
patent or writ which the sovereign de-
sired TO issue without their authorize
ton in the form of a warrant under the
privy seal. Under parliamentary gov
eminent the lord privy seal has ceased
TO have any duties.
An Office of Dignity.
The third Office of dignity rather than
of responsibility is that of chancellor of
the duchy of Lancaster. His duties, in
relation to the control of revenues of
the duchy. which are vested in the SOW
ereign and the Prince of Wales. are
purely nominal. To each of these three
posts there is salary of $4,000 at
tached. The ministers appointed to
their own, are expected to come to the
assistance of a colleague who is hard
pressed In the house Of lords or the
house of commons.
Finally. there is one unpaid minister in
the administration. and he strange to
say, is the paymaster general He is the
head OF the office which pays out of the
vast sums placed to its credit by the
treasury and moneys voted by parliament
to the various departments OF state to
enable them to carry on their services.
He issues the warrants for the salaries of
his colleagues in the ministry. and gets
nothing himself. 1t would seem TO be a
tantalizing position. But ii is not salary.
IL Is the position, with It's dignity ana
influence. that is the attraction. and the
paymaster general. although unpaid is a
member Of the administration.
That is true also of a good many other
posts. The nominal income Of some of the
ministers is no guide to their actual profit
The prime minister has to entertain a
good deal. In fact. Lord John Russell
said he never knew what it was to be a
poor man until he attained that exalted
ONCE. Entertaining has also to he done
by the secretaries of state. OF course. 1t
is true that the post of cabinet minister.
with an emolument of $25.OO0 a year. can
never be without attractions. but these
attractions are not so much the financial
as the honor Of service and power.