| Show P MM M MI I I r TilE TUE SALARIES OF RULERS y Other Othol Nations with of Po Any of High i That of Ours n d tul uM uMIt of at the It the salary ealar ot of the President ridiculously ly email United Mato or tile the chief of the richest In the world UI the salary 1 paid to some lame European rute rulers seems ridiculous iv v large Think of th c czar r or of while his hla nn na nan ear Ula year double outS ours and en n has haa a debt nearly 4 population about more ours oura and lh the boy king ot of poor poverty Spain receiving A salad of U 1 The salary III I fixed for the Pr President WILl was This was by act of Congress pa pawed ed on It The salary ot of th the Vice President lOt at the sans time lime wu was fixed at a afar 1873 that the year far It Wh was not until salary of the President wu was raised to It its amount of The sal HI Ill miry of the Vice was tu to tola la It I present amount of In the buying power of mousy In 1789 1119 And at t time and tI the state ut of the finances then and now the earlier salaries wire more liberal than thoN now When Washington took look the pop of the United Stales tat was WAI lea leathan than the national debt or about 1210 capita slaves laI while the en entire tire lire valuation of In the thin teen States State was wa only an amount lees than the Ih present annulI annual revenue ot of the Republic Our Il pula don now la Is over and the debt per capita In 1890 had fallen to b ua e a the year Ent and debt was lien Her Indebtedness II b more than double ours and nd hit her i lion 1111 titan halt half ours The Th debt ot of France I le four times u large a as ours and her I less than thlin halt half ours In 1890 the I debt per capita was and that ot of Germanys national debt le II near nearly ly Iv a billion dollars more mort than ours and her population less thin than ours oursA A committee or of the New York llen club which has hal been making some ome investigations the Un live salaries paid by the United and aud tu to their chief say In its It report Mulhall the th eminent stalls estimated the wealth of at the I United States State at al the close dOlI ot of 1636 Rt at with a ith on an tinfoil earning capacity of If these ft fig figurea ur urea prove cornet the census of the present year ear will show It our national wealth to exceed on one hundred thousand millions ot of dollars dollar The pimps Ame high b iu au the Ih wealth or of Enl Eng England land at the Ihl same amp time it al France Francl at Germany at at t Austria at ItAI Italy at St U I and Spain at Jt It i these thue figures are ar correct t the prove PIOt that th the United d States is ia by tar far the wealth lest nation In I the he world sad Increasing much faster tuter than any other Our wealth I 1 nearly equal I n the combined wealth ot of lant and lu I or Ragland land and nd Germany and enu en a UIa at ot of prance and Russia or t r n and aad Russia and nearly oarl arils that j Russia Rula Aua Au Autria trig tria Italy and A AM to a 1 on ot of salaries ot of the Ihl higher the Ihl Ame lilt flat I la as II follow follo Pr President It Ice chief justice of th the court associate SIO amba Contrast Ihl this with tb the salaries given In the pay table of foreign ni na nations iou hue here appended SALARIES PAID BY NA NATIONS i lAM cabinet i I A A i ru t to the United Stal Slates 1100 iIO d lord high lord chief tIl Jd ident nt cabinet omee ambassadors to the UnIl United lt State Stat court of to and an allowance allow allowance ance tot fer ex pies l amount not nOI known cabinet emcee O lI chancellor of affair Irl am to the United States Statu jud ec from MO to 3 cabinet ft oA odes imperial minister ot of to the Unit United ed ad Stales Judges railed ailed senator nato constitute highest court In HUHla salaries to lU cabinet ot of General absent to 1000 the compensation or of the members ot of the arman and cab theta Ii not lIot uniform ea 8 In tb the United Stat States and England d The Imperial chancellors and ad ministers ot of foreign af affairs affairs fairs ot of Germany airman ant and Bush receive much greater compensation than their CU t Thu Tho system ot of of France Fran Germany and Russia RUIla differs widely from that of 1 and the United States In mAny receive some IOme portion or of the fees Judea ot of t their courts and nd In many cases Calles allowance for tor expenses et Their total compensation t is said HIli to exceed that of the ju judges lH of oC the Un United lied States courts court It le h stated that It actually caste our ambassadors or ra of oC the first claw cI more than double th the salary alary they Uley receive to pay lay the n necessary r official at t the rl re capitals to which they are ac accredited accredited credited In tall fact It la Known own that one ot of our recent ambassadors to Russia could not obtain by paying his hll entire salary a suitable residence In St 81 Petersburg The principal nations ot of Europe not only pay t their lr cabinet vers tra and much larger glades thin than those paid by the United States Slat but titer they also provide them with residences ant and main maintain tain them beside making an allow lIow allowance ance tor the customary enter Our cabinet am and nd Art are expected to live In I so line fine residences td and Ind enter tamn tala as liberally all as their hilt foreign aIM dates datta and u aa a rule rua th they do so 10 paying the necessary expenses thereof from their Lunde The Thal of Ute the payroll of the United Unit State Staf brines out corn curious anomalies At teat leut one ot of the subordinates of the secretary of oC the treasury now r receives lv I a w lary of while th the only 1000 One or of the Resultant treasurers ot of the Unit United ed Stat States reeth receives 1000 while the treasurer or of th the States receives only Yet the G U III bit for all and iii I i so lh the custodian of more than in ift money mony and nd bonds hond Ae with him b by the na national banks bank ot of tb the to secure their and nd government des t posits Rod and his salary vf of I is len lees than half of If the salary now nol paid b by single national banks bank to 10 their prod dents tl |
