| Show NEW STATES AND territories it was announced in in the house la last st week by b th tha chairman of the committee on territories that thai he was as ready to report a bill for the admission of oregon and would avail himself of the first firs t opportunity to do so the people of kansas have by a memorial presented in in the senate ly by mr seward asked for admission under a constitution framed at leavenworth leav benworth en worth and said to have ha e been ratified b by y the he pe pie As the committee on te territories in either body is is certain not to report such a bill thre th re will v ill be an ellort to tack on kansas to the oregon bill in which case both will stand a good chance of rem remaining ining sometime longer in in their territorial coil condition 1 1 lie he committee on territories in m the house has agreed to report bills for the organ organization izat i on of dacotah and arizona Terri territories territory tori es but have decided against a like bill for colons colona the pikes peak region so to be called in in honor of the great genoese navigator there is is a bill pending since since last se session assion for the organization of if nevada the house committee on territories today to day ordered that the bill for the organization of arizona be reported with the boundaries asked for by the people of the territory through their delegate lieutenant mowry namely all the territory south of the parallel of latitude north thirty ahn ty three degrees rees forty minutes from texas to the colorado of the west vest the bill is is exceedingly simple in in its provisions visions and is i probably the shortest ter 1 bill ever framed the newter atory will contain about square miles and leaving in in new mexico about population arizona will be re represented p resented by about washington jan 14 the postmaster general in in reply to a resolution passed by the senate inu inquiring q iring whether the department can be self sustained says that tha in in no case has the existing exi existing service been raised to a hiher higher grade or more frequent mails b been en granted than the increasing increasing growth and and business of the citizens citizens and settlements through utah which they the pass pas seemed fairly entitled to it is is evident thit that by i a diminution dimi nation of the service service the self sustaining of the department can unquestionably be secured but it is i wor i thy of much consideration whether that would not leave the mere skeleton of a postal service commensurate with neither the business nor the social wants of the country correspondence of the boston courier washington dec 18 1838 ahe presidents household E expenses to a large majority of all the strangers to the federal metropolis who visit washington it there is no object which excites so much curiosity as the executive mansion how often do we hear the inquiry how much does it cost the president a year to live in e more especially is is the question question asked by us of new england and the he north chire a harsh climate and reluctant soil constrains us u early in life to watch every item of oe expenditure pend iture there is is always a desire to inspect the apartments of the presidents house to see if domestic life in it can be in fact different from domestic life bf e elsewhere there is no doubt that publications icat ions by bythe the democrats of statements in relation to mr adams billiard table in the east room and by br the whigs of the gorgeous furniture in c ciudin iding gold spoons of the white house during mr hr van burens occupancy has inspired and sustained most of this unbecoming desire to visit every portion of the executive mansion we have heard beard it said that the billiard table story about mr adams lost kentucky to the cihi whigs and there can be no doubt that the gold apton spoon speech of mr ogle in in relation to mr bir van buren damaged the democrats very seriously the truth is that up to the time of mr polk the white house was wag not decently furnished n shed congress then made an appropriation a which being expended pe d improved ble things somei somewhat Nhat alter after that no considerable appropriation was made till the year 1853 when some fifty thousand dollars v were ere appropriated for heating ventilating enlarging and refurnish re furnishing the he fainting irp 1 ouse the responsibility of applying 3 P y ing t this h a appropriation to the purpose intended by C congress re s was devolved oved on captain lee t then 11 bof of t the h T topographical p rap cical corps of the army and we t think t the money was w as e expended 1 1 led to t the e sa satisfaction a c ion of everybody 7 for r the first time the house was made comfortable to live in the appliances for warming the house by hot water and which were furnished by walworth na son of your city cost it is said more than ten thousand dollars including expense of putting up the furniture or of the house bouse is is substantially la af ly the same carpets and all as was purchased by captain lee lesein in 1853 1 the no silver baim iii in the house bouve I 1 am told li Is moel ly bought in paris pans during the administration of mr Bl monroe onroe there are but two or three pictures in the house one in the red room a portrait of washington which was cut biorn the frame and secured by mrs madison m when hen washington was occupied occupied by the british during the war of 1812 another netherlin not herlin in the presidents ants office a portrait ait of bolnar bolivar the south american Amr Amp rican patriot there was wag no household ornaments about the house except vas vases es scattered here and there on matt mantels els and articles brought from japan by commodore perry the white house in a word is is furnished more like a first class hotel than a first class private residence there are articles of use in abundance rich and massive but no articles of art or adornment but to return to our question what does it cost the president each year to keep up the executive mansion first the president Pres dent receives twenty five thousand dollars salary salary next he receives a house garden and stables tree free of expense the house is is furnished and the garden cultivated by the government every article of furniture necessary is furnished by the united e d states the government also albo li lights ats and b heats eats the house it pays for a steward to take care of the public property and a fireman and for no other domestic servants the executive office is in the executive mansion 0 iland and for the former the government provides al i des a private secretary clerks to the secretary creta cre tary two messengers and a porter for all don domestic servants however except steward and fireman the president must pay out of ina ills awn pocket he must pay for his cooks his butler ills his tab table e ser so nants ants his female servants servant sp his hia coachman and grooms c ac as any other person does N who ho employs such a retinue of 01 se sen nants ants lie ile supplies his table with the exception of garden vegetables as any other private citizen does by his own purse so with his stables in short the only thin things furnished by the government government are house ana and furniture fuel and lights light steward and fireman garden vegetables b les and flowers all else is matter ol of private expense with these items as basis of baku calculation I 1 I 1 a t ion any gentleman who keeps eighteen or more servants of both sexes who leeps keeps a stable filled with horses as does mr buchannan who dines persons persona besides his own fan tily every ev cry day ard and once a week gi agn es a dinner to forty invited guests can form some notion how bow much out of twenty five thousand dollars remains at the end of a year |
