PAYMENT OF MEMBERS IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES.
Is* Belgium each member of the Chamber of Representatives roceixob 200 florins, or £l(i )o-3 per month ; or for the action of eight months £134. In Denmark the members of the Landsthing and the Folkething are paid the same salary, los a day. The average number of working days in a *eaMoii is 14.") ; the total amount for the same is £113 los. In Portugal peers and deputies receive an annu il stipend of £67 . In France senators and deputies each get 19,000 francs, or £3i(i per year, the colonial representatives getting their travelling expenses. In Sweden, the members of the Diet receive 1200 rix-dollars, equal to £06 14b for a session of four months, and their travelling expenses. The members are fined six tix-dollars, or 11s a day if they do not attend. hi Not way, the members of the Storthing leceive 13s id a day while it is sitting, which ia usually 12 weeks. In Switzerland, members of the National Council leceive 10s per day, which ia paid out of the federal Treasury. Membeis ot the State Council are paid by the cantons, and their salaries range from b's to 10s per day. In the United States, representatives and delegates each reccve 1041 dollar* per year, and their travelling expences at the rate of 20 cents per mile. In Italy neither senators nor deputies aie paid, but they get free passes over all the railways in the kingdom, and some other concessions as to taxes and pitronages, a most objectionable mode of payment. In Spain the members are not paid. In Greece senators get £20 per month, and members of the Representative Chamber £10 per month. In all local Legislatures in Germany, the members, with one or two exceptions, are paid, tne salaries ranging in Prussia about 9s per day, and. in Austria 20s per day. Members of Parliament in Great Britain receive no pay, have no patronage, and ate required to pay all their own expenses. What would be the cost to the Knglish taxpayers it the House of Parliament in England were paid at the rate of the American Republic .' The House of Lords would be about £518,01)0, the House of Commons would be about £070,000; total, £I,KsS,OOO.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2203, 21 August 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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607PAYMENT OF MEMBERS IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES. Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2203, 21 August 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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