Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1892 — How the President Is Paid. [ARTICLE]

How the President Is Paid.

Just how President Harrison is paid perhaps one man in a thousand knows. It is taken for granted, though, that the President gets his hands on his salary in some way and spends it very much aftejj the fashion of other men. The statutes of the United States fix the salary of the President and other public officials. Mr. Harrison is entitled to $50,000 a year, and is supposed to be paid quarterly. In fact, he is not. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Crouns has charge of the payment of salaries, aud once a month he sends to the division of accounts a document addressed to the Secretary of the Treasury in these words: “Please cause a warrant ,to be issued in favor of Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States, for the sum of $4,166.67, with which he is to he charged and held accountable under the following head of appropriation.” The section of the statute is quoted and the document signed by the assistant secretary. The warrant for this amount > issued and recorded in the proper books, when it is sent to Treasurer Nebeker, who issues his draft on the United States Treasury in favor of the President. This draft is no different from any other, save that it is in the name of the President alone. If the chief magistrate is in the city it is sent to the White House by a special messenger and delivered to the President or his private secretary. After the President puts his name on the back o£ the draft it becomes negotiable paper, the same as any other, and is sent by him to the Columbia Bank, where it is deposited to his credit and becomes a part of his private account.

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