The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-04-21
REFORM AND INFRINGEMENT.

ASGA Obh ave N Il II DINOI1 M1l1N
Pending the last Presidential election,
favorite argument Of the Jackson party was,
that there were too many officers in the
pay OF the government at too high salaries
and in his inaugural address Gen. Jackson
told us, that 1.-The recent demonstration of
public sentiment inscribed, on the list of ex-
eCutlve duties, characters too legible to be
overlooked, the task of reform"
Accordingly, Richard NJ. Johnson, a
"whole hog" jackson member of Congress,
on the Goth ult reported bill from the
committee on Post Offices, providing for
the employment of an additional Post Mas
ter General, and ten additional Clerks in
the General Post Objective of whom are
to receive salaries of $1,000, two of $l4OO,
and six OF $1,000, with perhaps a salary of
$4,000 for the additional Assistant Post
Master General-which will create an na-
dltIonal expense for clerk salaries alone
in one branch of the government, of sirteen
thousand t,oo hundred dollars per annum.
This is reform and retrenchment" with
| a vengeance-this is reducing the number
and the salaries of public officers with a
fearless hand to fearless extent. And
this reform too has rendered necessary the
prescription of faithful public officers for
opinions sake and the appointment of
host of inexperienced and incompetent Off
GERS in their place, by the "greatest and
the hest of men,"
But this is not all. "Publc sentiment
has inscribed, so plainly on the list of ex-
ecutive duties, the task of reform" that the
| President has found it necessary to call for
an appropriation of tlUo hundred and fortv-
hmm III f0r i'll,
( vice Of the coming year, being one hum
bred and fifteen thousand dollars more than
Mr.. Adams required for the same service
and same period. "Pulihc sentiment has
also inscribed, so plainly on the list of ex-
ecutlve duties the task of REFORM" that Pres
ident Jackson has thought proper to call
the attention of Congress to the necessity
! of an increase of the salaries of our foreign
ministers, which If the jackson party were
to he believed, were too high when allowed
10y Mr.. Adams. He says, "An opinion
that the salaries allowed by law TO our
agents abroad are in many cases Inadequate
IS very general; and it is reasonable to
suppose that this impression has not been
without its influence in the construction of
the laws by which those salaries are fixed.
There are certainly motives which il is
difficult TO resist to an increased expense
on the part of some of our functfonaties
ABROAD greatly beyond that which would
he required at home. Should Congress- he
of opinion that any alteration for the better
can he made, either in the rate of salaries
now allowed, or in the rank and graduation
of our diplomatic agents, or both the pres
ent would Ice ct occasion for reyision of
the whole subject"
Thus, it appears, Jackson, and his partv
/ preach one doctrine and practice another.
They complained Of the great number and
high salaries Of public officers.-and as
soon ms they get the power, increase the
number and salaries of those officers
What admirable consistency. Torch LIght.
The CUsToM-HousE. The Secretary or the
! Treasury, IN reply TO call from the Senate.
has communicated list of tho number of ner
sons removed. discontinued and appointed as
! subordinate otficers in the Customs, with the
( appreciation Of the Secretary. Forty.two nor,s
are embraced in this list. In these tho whole
number of Inspectors removed, is I23. Wa;gh.
ers, Measures, and Guagers % in ali remov.
ed, l5l. The additional number Of sueh off
GERS appointed, is SIXTY one. the number d;min.
Ished eleven; leaving ftty additional officers
IN the customs, created by this retrenchino and
economical administration In BOSTON There
have been 20 removals, New Bedford Q Provi.
dence 2, New York %. Philadelphia ID. Rail-.
more 10. Sevonty.cight Of the ISL removals
were made in New England. Not one has &c.
Cured south Of Baltimore.-PrOUidenee finer.
On .he list ult., at Avesnes, in France. six
persons who went successfully into cellar
where there was quantity Of fermentino heor.
were asFhy1tated, or rendered insensbla ~
the gas. One died Immediately. =