Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1838-06-08

Of emigration" with salaries Of $4,000 each
per year; Ten Indian Agents" with sala-
ries Of 81 500 EACH per year fourteen I'm
dian sub.ageGts," with salaries Of $50 per
year; Mirty-hree commissioners and spe-
cial agents" who are paid from S. to IS per
day, and from $500 TO $4,000 per year
fifteen conducting and enrolling agents J"
at SO, 81, and So per day; ttro " conduc-
tors of exploring parties" al So and So per
day t,oo" valuing agents" at 50 each, per
day; eight collecting agents." at 81 so
per day, each, taco issuing agents" at 81
per day, each; one discussing agent" at
s. per day; sixteen assistant agents." at
SO and 81 per day, and from $500 TO el,-
200 each, per year hirty-One interpreters
at agencies" at $500 each, per year fur
teen interpreters in the emigration Of Indi-
ans, at 81 80 and SO per day, each; NJ
teen physicians" at salaries varying from
SO, IS, and So per day 10 $84 per month
eLerea {" clerks" (oiher than those in the Of
fee at Washington) at salaries varying
from SO and SIS per day. TO $40 and $50
per month, and $500 and 1000 per year
ffiy-three blacksmiths." with salaries vary
ing from S240 to 5000 per year frenfy
-" farmers and assistants" at 2, 3, 5 and 5000
per year eighteen teachers" with various
salaries, from $500 to $500 per year; fire
d" millers," with salaries of $500 and $500;
one surveyor" at So per day; the whole
concluding with fire miscellaneous agents"
with salaries Of 81 per day, and 5000 per
year.
But even this is not all The Commits
sioner Of Indian affairs says, the list given
by him in the Blue Book is not accurate or
complete. He leaves room TO add or alter.
Here indeed, is display Of patronage !
Ought we not TO be astonished 10 find this
state OF things, under an Administration
whose friends professed TO be shocked at u
multiplication Of Offices, and re-publishcd, in
the report of this House in 1928, the warn
ing of that Chief Magistrate who said:
+" Considering the general tendency to null
tiply offices and dependencies, and TO in
crease expense to the ultimate term of bur-
den which the citizens can bear, il behooves
us to avail ourselves of every occasion
which presents itself for taking off the sur.
charge" 1t is appropriate, too, now. TO re-
fer gentlemen, 10 the censure which that re.
port cast on the Secretary of War, in 1928.
for paying $3.50 for additional clerk hire. in
the business OF Indian Affairs.
+ Mr. B. said he was here tempted to name
one or two Offices in particular which seem
; TO have been created for special lavorites !;
, one of them under the law authorizing the
: President to sign land patents by an agent.
instead Of doing il as heretofore, in person.
: If he could not find time 10 do this duty. as
a Mr.. Adams and all his predecessors did,
I then it would have been better 10 dispense
with the signature altogether, as you have
: done with that Of the Commissioner Of the
General Land Office. The Presidents name
a now is not even written by his proxy, as il
f should be- but is written by some clerk in
, the Land Office, and the whole service OF
i. the proxy or agent consists in writing his
s own name For this he is paid 8 500 per
n annuml The place is held by one of the
|. Presidents sons, and it is an indirect mode
i of increasing the Presidents salary. The
). compensation is too high under any circum
e stances. For service requiring neither
skill nor talent and employing very small
/ portion of this young gentlemans time, he
d receives higher salary than many OF the
Governors and other high officers in the
/ several states do
II Another office specially created is tina, Of
the Smithsonian agent" with a salary o.
e $4,000 year, and furnishing convenen
l. sojourn for gentleman wishing to Wis, Lon
don. The duties of this place might wei
IS have been discharged by ordinary CORES
1t pondence. but, at all events, they are such a.
could justly be required at the hands Of ou
= resident Minister at London.
N Let us next compare the Navy Depart
ment Mr. Southland, who was Secretary o
81 the Navy in 1928, employed in his depart
s ment seven clerks, besides the chief clerk
The salary ofthe Secretary, and the com
n pensalion of the clerks and messengers
s. amounted to Sl7,250. The department ha!
been held for many years, and is still man
e aged by Mr.. Dickerson, who was membe
ID the committee in the Senate, from whom
came that famous report on Executive pat
ID ronage, TO which first referred. He em
l. ploys eight clerks besides the chief clerk
'e and his salary with the compensation Of hi.
3 clerks and messengers, amounts TO Sl6,850
and, at this very session, he demands NOR,
n clerks, and an increase in the salary OF som,
a. OF those he already has.
The committee censure Mr. Secretary
u Southland for unnecessary expense in sub
'e scription for newspapers for the Depart
ment They specify, under this head, 1924
AZ for three years. 1t nov appears that Mr.
Secretary Dickerson has expendedfo news
- papers and fashionable books and Literature
" of the times, in one year, near 500 and
including similar expenses, ofthe Navy
- Board, near $3.50.
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