Bisbee daily review., 1916-02-06
HIGH SALARIES FOR
 ENGLISH BARRISTERS
 CAUSE MUCH CENSURE
British Lawyers, Particularly those in Employ of Govern ment, Draw High Salaries. Opposition is Had.

! LONDON-The heavy toll of the law yers is the text for many complaints
 in these days when economy is being
 largely practiced by the rich, and ur-
 gently preached to the poor. Where yer members of the legal profession
 are employed by the government in positions involving professional prac- tice, their financial rewards are far beyond the scale of those received by other government officials, however difficult, dangerous or brilliant may be
 the service of the less fortunate branches of officialdom.
 1 The three highest legal officials of the government, and a considerable body of judges, draw larger salaries than the Prime Minister of Great Brit ain. The highest officers of the navy and army, whose duties often involve physical hardships and the risk of death, are poorly paid in comparison with those who represent the govern ment in the courts. Today the people are beginning to ask why this should be, and members of the democracy in politics as we'll as laboring men are asking the question insistently. It has become a burning topic with the Dem- ocratic organs of the press Why should the Lord Chancellor, whose du- ties are largely ornamental, be paid more than five times the stipend Ad- miral Jellicoe receives, is a frequent query.
 The office of Lord Chancellor is the most shining. target for attack. That office is TOW costing the government s125,0O0 year. It commands salary of s50,000 and a pension of $25.000 Lord Buckmaster is drawing the salary and three living predecessors, Lords Halsbury. Loreburn and Haldane are receiving pensions.
 Lord Halsbury held the office for ten years and has been retired for ten years Consequently he has drawn three quarters of a million dollars for ten years service. Lord Halsbury is ninety years old, and, although still vigorous. cannot be expected to con tanue long on the pension roll. Lord Loreburn held office for seven years and has been retired a little more than three years. so that he has been paid s475, 900. He is 69 years old. Lord Halsdane was in office two years and has drawn pension something more than a year. He is just under sixty years of age.
 Lord Buckmaster has sat on the woolsack in the House of Lords little more than one year. Current gossip among politicians has it that he is keeping the woolsack warm for MT. Asquith, who, according to belief, will succeed thereto when the war is end-l ed. A Prime Minister who conducts the cabinet through a great European war, hardly could be grudged any re- ward entailing dignity, ease and good income. Lord Buckmaster is fifty-four years old, and before his elevation (for elevation is the only word English writers consider commensurate with the process of raising a statesman to the keepership of the Great Seal and the Kings conscience) he was not pop ularly rated as one of the greatest lights of the British bar If the under standing for the reversion of the office to MT. Asquith be true. Lord Buckmas- ter may enjoy long life with an as sured income of s25,0OO for compara- lively brief services.
 Even more lucrative than the digni- ty of the Lord Chancellorship are the posts of Attorney General and Solici- tor General. These law officers, as they are called, have been paid calar- ies of s35.OoO and s9O,OOO respectively. But their duties inRlude practice in the courts, and for court appearance they receive fees. so that the salaries have been regarded as retainers. Dur ing the fiscal year 1913-14 the Attor- ney General cost the government a. bout S90,000 for salary and fees, and the Solicitor General about S95,000. Sir Rufus Isaacs, now Chief Justice. who visited the United States last sum mer as one of the committee to ar range the Anglo-French loan, was At torney General part of that year. and Sir John Simon now Home Secretary, part of the year. Sir John Simon was Solicitor General part of that year, and Sir Stanley Buckmaster (now Lord Chancellor) part of the year.
 During the year mentioned Sir John Simon's receipts from the government for his services were, in American money just about one hundred thou sand dollars This was a record year and the average for the preceding ten years was much lower Sir Rufus Isaacs gained a very handsome fee for appearing as counsel representing the government in the Board of Trade in- quiry into the Titanic disaster.
 The two present low officers, Sir F. E. Smith and Sir George Cave have voluntarily arranged considerable re- duction of their incomes during the