Lieutenant Ulfsparre and Dr.Hagberg (the chief justice's Swedish friends) drew in the same period one hundred and forty and one hundred dollars respectively on account of salary alone.

And it should be observed that Dr.Hagberg was employed, or at least paid, from government funds, in the face of His Majesty's express and reiterated protest.

In another column of the statement, one hundred and seventy-five dollars and seventy-five cents are debited for the chief justice's travelling expenses.

I am of the opinion that if His Majesty desired (or dared) to take an outing, he would be asked to bear the charge from his allowance.
But although I think the chief justice had done more nobly to pay for himself, I am far from denying that his excursions were well meant; he should indeed be praised for having made them; and I leave the charge out of consideration in the following statement.
ON THE ONE HAND Salary of Chief Justice Cedarkrantz $500 Salary of President Baron Senfft von Pilsach (about) 415 Salary of Lieutenant Ulfsparre, Chief of Police 140 Salary of Dr.Hagberg, Private Secretary to the Chief Justice 100 Total monthly salary to four whites, one of them paid against His Majesty's protest $1155 ON THE OTHER HAND Total monthly payments to and for His Majesty the King, including allowance and hire of three clerks, one of these placed under the rubric of extraordinary expenses $95 This looks strange enough and mean enough already.

But we have ground of comparison in the practice of Brandeis.
Brandeis, white prime minister $200 Tamasese (about) 160 White Chief of Police 100 Under Brandeis, in other words, the king received the second highest allowance on the sheet; and it was a good second, and the third was a bad third.