Show r V V Y V V V h f t I V IE E PR EX-PR EX ESI WILL TAKE MORE MOREN L HAN N HALF SALz SALV SAL SAL- ARY AWAY WI WITH H fiM HM V 1 V ff E z PROFIT OF THE POSITION ESTIMATED ESTIMATED ESTI ESTI- V MATED MATED AT A YEAR-WHAT YEAR V VV OTHER PRESIDENTS HAVE SAVED V t. t COST OF LIVING AT THE WHITE EXPENSES HOUSE OF MEMBERS Vi OF THE PRESIDENTS PRESIDENT'S CABINET t r V V WASHINGTON President President Harri Harri- sm n probably took more than of his salary with him when he tired from the White house on onI I torch 4 last An outside estimate t hi his expenses past and prospective t lr ring ng the he four years of his term I Laves aves a balance of fr from m mV V le Ie which he will will have J rawn V No president since Grant has V 1 er r lived up to his salary There really no reason why he should l. l he government provides a a house houser Ir r him furnishes it and s supplies par ie e servants Even the barber who urns rims the presidents president's beard is a sal sil of Vf the government JR n Grant came in int into office the they y 12 y of the resi was u M a of been en V able V save money Buchanan left a V of Lincoln n od nd d Johnson o V V V V V Probably Pr bably the poor poorest i qt of the pre Ire dents was V He tie fe V would ave ave e been bankrupt if had bad hadt ct t appropriated to pur pur- V V V ie ae his libra library y I Madison left lefta a aery V V ery I y small estate estat and Monroe died f Jor Washington as every ore rows married the rich widow i urtis and his e estate ate w wis was s worth i sore lore than tItan a quarter of a million jahn Jhn hn Adams Vas was worth orth perhaps j oooo at the time c of f his death and n Quincy Qui cy Ada Adams had managed 6 b save about t the e S san same amount b by prudence and e economy Van Buren dd d not draw a a cent nt 9 pf his salary Airing diring i g the four years of his term it ft al aU in a a V lump sum SUIT I e went out of office c. c He estate as large aj that a that of Washington Jackson left lef leka a large l ia landed V il estate Polk lefta left leff si r i r was a rich man aId some of his i oney like Wash ash V t by y marriage V saved aved out of his presidential salary V V i Grant great l deal of mone monein money oney hile in in the W tc house and nil alt at lIe je ie tO took ml t hint him when h he V left when the V-f V abd badlY lU us alt ten n miles mOes V of hi his Hayes hart han half his salary with U Q 0 left th the White house elds ere wre not in fl the White ig enough to accumulate family S by a public fund better than the av average rage president during his term he able to spend all of his Cleveland took ith him hime V e White house at t least f his salary an and he lc made mere that in m his hist t estate tV speculations around T H fi Harrison came offic he q perhaps He qc this oney littre by in I partner Mr general K I I U tour times as f. f but he v this thisby by fortunate speculation in fl estate General Harrison never faculty money making h ver seemed to see anything VV 0 his profession the thea 1 a But he live d modestly 00 jut of he the large fees which he re reV retz re- re V tz C tp time he lie put by until heyd accumulated V tb n some manu manu- e property Te estimated this property which the owns was In addition to this this- Ben in ch Ii i I H o W Washington ashington the V drawing a at V has hasto hasto e cry J t and uld he to o spent spend onelIe onet one- one V V V He lIe has to bUYe buy t I e 01 the White aX athe the qI old colored coloreds s it but the other of VL the executive mansion mansion n the thc purchase of matches V for ii in the annual at ap ap- bills The The- total expenses tive ive mansion are about V fear ear ear There is an apor ap- ap V for or the care and andu u f the mansion the care a ae e improvement V i o of th the grounds V and then the salaries of i r- r f II h tr I V V d time the of the executive office and the steward th the messenger the doorkeepers the watchmen men and the engine engineers rs of the establishment The lime president has bas in addition to this a contingent fund of which he lie may spend as he chooses without t rendering an itemized account account ac ac- ac count to congress This is the only contingent fund except the contingent contin contingent gent fund of the state department for which no account is demanded by congress i A fair estimate e of the presidents president's expenses in ill the th White house during this administration places them at a yc year r. r That would make the total expenses of living durin during this administration for the president and I hi family The lon illness of Mrs Harrison with it its it constant attendance of skilled physicians physicians phy phy- and trained nurses may ha have t made an extra expense of The president contributed to tin tIll campaign fund pf of two tv years years years' V age ag 2000 and to the the recent recent campaign fund und President Harrison Harriso has some poor relations ore relations one of hem a widowed sister l Hi living ling ing in m In In- liana to liana to who whose e support he ha has I contributed for many years ears cars I he resident president had paid a year foi for I I his pew V at the church of bf f the Coven Covenant I ant and roo a year for fo his old pew Jew in Dr I Raines' V church in m In In- I Ian an anapolis ll lis Altogether u- u the uc c incident I expenses expenses- il Vl of the tIme pre president lc ut hi ha hat t jeen some a year or OO c or the four our years of his Ins t term terin The Tl e presidents president's ent's traveling has cost him nothing and hot hotel l expenses have amounted to ver very little during his his his' ferm erra erm as he he has been a guest at almost al almost al- al 1 most every place he has visited His Uis cotta cottage c at Cape May cost him and arid although that may be considered in jh h the nature of an V in investment itt ill vestment it is is not at all likely VV that h he will ever get his 1113 back from rom it Counting that among the expenses of the administration n they add up JJ as follows V V t White house expenses es V 50 ape May May 1 cottage 10 Individual expenses Mrs r rs Harrisons Harrison's illness Campaign s Total The president have drawn fr frum m the he tr treasury astry by th the of March Jast H He Ic will ake with him liim from the presidential office t then therm about IOD OO Some ome of this money js is ib already invested The president w went vent nt into a real estate recently death with nith General Attorney General e Mr r. r Mill i a shield lewd T iid r 11 ne neof 10 bit of property in fn Indianapolis recently re reo re- re for foi which pays pas about r cent interest The president ent asked him him lym for lor a l interest reit j in it so 50 2 of the presidents president's salary is s inv invested sted there About eight months ago he pur purchased from a awell awell awell well known a piece of improved prop property worth from Tom which he tie is now receiving an income So o the pres president d nt is is well ro for when e he l leaves aves office an and l he will not be compelled to rely on a army any y fund contributed by his profession pro for an income V The pr president pre comes out of office in n this respect ct a great great- deal better botte r than any anyone one who went went in n office under his ad ministration administration n. n Without t exception the cabinet officers hue hate found their positions expensive The cost of living in itt Washington is greater gater reater than it is in almost any anyo o n iU of he United States s per- per perhaps perhaps perhaps' haps haps' of the V presidents president's presidents president's pre pre- cab cabinet et 1 J have v to maint x n n establishments ly IVY the least ostentatious of f th the cab cabinet met inet people has been the attorney attorn y general lie He has ha had haq a a. ahouse house in a fashionable fa locality next to the tl mansion occupied by Chief Ju Justice tice Fuler on Massachusetts avenue but Jut it is is a 1 small house and l he e has lias done little entertaining in hi it Never Nevertheless Nevertheless Nevertheless Mr Miller estimated recently that he would go out of or office 15 i poorer than when he came in It lt is likel likely that the luxury of a cabinet cabinet cab cab- I inet met position ha has cost the other mem tiers hers of the Harrison cabinet more The only member of Mr Cleveland's c cabinet binet four years ago who lived within his official income of i year ear was Attorney Attorney- General Garland Garland Gar Gar- land and he lived in a frame cottage cottage cottage cot cot- tage rind and m tool took no part in any social entertainments Th 11 Tha members members' of the presidents president family will suffer more than the president himself from the change in th the condition of their affairs rs last ast March M arch General Harrisons Harrison's family I has as always be been beR n something of f a burden to him His Ilia son Russ Russell lI especially has given hia ha father Cather much anxiety and has cost cort him hini a gre mt gre-mt it de deal l of money With the best bet in intentions in in- in the world Russell Russell Har liar rhon is not Pf a good business man I H He mad n madHu a failure Hu o of hi his ranch in ill V V V V V joy V V j V Z r. r ff r V V V V V the West and he bc seems to have been bee equally unsuccessful in other of hi lis bis business ventures His newspaper in in Helena Mont Mout was seized f fo for r debt as soon as as- the result of th the election bec became me known in that city It had b been en run as an organ and br fo the benefit pf of certain people in th the Republican party in Montana A As soon as its usefulness as an attachment attachment attach attach- ment of the administration disappeared disappeared disappeared its friends disappeared too GEO GE GRANTHAM BAIN BArN I |