The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1838-05-17

change Of titles comes the change Of salary from
81 500 10 $3 000 The number OF clerks is incTeas-
ed from two to twenty-four, and the compensation
from 81 800 to S2l 600; and, not content with one
messenger and his old salary OF 500, they provide
a salary OF $40 for messenger, and then give him
an assistant, 10 whom Is also paid us per month;
The Secretary OF the Treasury, in The year 1873,
employed eight clerks and Two messengers. His
salary and the compensation of the clerks and mes
sengers amounted 10 @lS, GOO
The present Secretary Of that Department (and be
was taken from the body Of reforIncrs, who made
proclamation from the Senate Chamber,) employs
fifteen clerks and two messengers. His salary. and
their compensation, amount 10 $27 l00lt a similar
result will be found in comparing the present with
the former state of the several subdivisions OF the
Treasury Department. But by way OF introducing
economy and despatch In the Treasury Department.
the committee proposed to simplify the forms OF
business and 10 rcorganize its subordinate branches
SO TO dispense with one-tourlh, II not one-lhrd,
of the officers in the Treasury Now sir, no re-
organization OF the Department has yet bsen at
tempted Instead of reducing, they have increased
the number of officers; and the forms OF business,
| under the new mode Of simplifying, have become
so complicated, that the gentleman from New YORK,
(Mr. Cambreleng,) now chairman OF The COMMITTEE
of Ways and Means, declared here, during the last
special session, that after fifteen years experience
as member of this House, he found II difficult TO
understand these Treasury accounts and the man
ner In which the SecrearyS Annual Report on The
Finances is stated!
Next, as to The War Department Ia 1928 the
Secretary of War employed chief clerk besides
! seventeen clerks and two messengers Ills salary,
and their compensation amounted 10 rs $50 The
business Of Indian affairs was then managed by him
also. In 1885, the Secretary OF that Department en-
ploys inclusive OF the Indian business about forty
clerks, besides messengers The joint salaries and
compensation of the whole amount to 1868, $40.
In 1925 we hear nothing Of Commanding Ge-
nerals Office, with its clerk and messenger.
In 1888, the Commanding General is allowed a
clerk al ST. 200, and messenger al 5000
In, fha n infnn t}ieae m
three clerks, whose joint compensation was 1880
In 1888, the Adjutani General employs seven
clerks and messenger, whose Joint compensation
is So, 225,
ID 1898, the Paymaster General employed three
clerks, whose united compensation was $500.
In 1888, the salary Of the same number Of clerks
is "a ,29O besides the messengers salary.
In 1923, have been unable TO discover any al
lowance for clerks to the Quartermaster General
In 1888, that officer employs in the office at Wash
ington seven clerks, whose united compensation is
$500.
In 1928 the Ordnance Office employed three clerks,
whose joint salary was 1880.
In 1888, the Ordnance office employs nine clerks,
besides messenger, and their aggregate compen-
saion is 50 225.
In 1928 the Subsistence Department employed
four clerks, whose Joint compensation was 1880
In 1888, the Subsistence Department employs four
clerks, and a messenger, whose joint compensation
is IS $50
In 1923, the Surgeon General was allowed clerk,
at 81 $50 per year.
In 1888, the Surgeon General is allowed clerk,
at 81 ,266 and messenger, at $500 per year
In 1925 the business Of Indian affairs was dis
charged at the War Department, by some one or
Two Of the seventeen clerks which hrst men
toned
In 1885, this Indian business appears TO constitute
grand division. We now hear Of the g Indian
Department" with Commissioner, whose salary
is $50 000 chief clerk, at 81 600 and eleven clerks
and two messengers, the joint compensation and
salaries being $l9d 400.
In 1923, there was one Superintendent of Indian
Affairs, who was paid 81 500 year, twentyonc In
dian agents, twenty-eigh sub-agents and thirty
interpreters .a#.E.. X
In 1888, we find four, Z" superintendent Of Indian
affairs with salaries Of 81 500 each per year; sir
"superintendens OF emigration with salaries Of
Salaries ea Of per year, a Indian
sub agents, with salaries of $3.50 per year thirty
three commissioners and special agents" who are
paid from TO 81 per day, and from 900 % vs.
agents, al 3, A. and IS per day tro conductors Of
exploring parties" at and So per day; tire vau-
ing agents" at So each per day; one "disbursng
AGENT at IS per day; sirteea assistant agents, at
3 and "a per day. and from 500 TO 81 200 each per
year; tttrtuone interpreters at agencies" at $500
each per year. fourteen interpreters in the emigra-
lion Of Indians" at so and 50 per day each fifteen
physicians" at salaries varying from 3 s, and SO
day to sS4 per month; elcren clerks, (other than
those in the office at Washington at salaries vary
ing from and IS per day 10 40 and $50 per month,
and 800 to $1,000 per year; ffythrce blacksmths,"
with salaries varying from 2i0 10 $500 per year;
trenty farmers and assistants" at 2, 3, and 5000
per year; eighteen teachers" with various salaries
from 500 to $500 per year fire millers," with sa-
aries of 500 and 5000; oae surveyor" at SSs per
day; the whole concluding with fire miscellaneous
agents." with salaries Of I'll per day, and 5000 per
year.
But even this is no, all. The Commissioner Of
Indian Affairs says the list given by him in the Blue
Book is not accurate complete. He tcares room 10
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mage Ought we not TO be astonished 10 find this
state of things under an Administration whose
friends prolesSed to be shocked at multiplication OF
Offices and re-published in the report OF this House
IN 1923, the warning Of that Chief Magistrate, who
said: Considering the general tendency to mnhi-
ply offices and dependencies, and TO increase expense
to the ultimate term Of burden which the citizen
can bear it behooves us TO avail ourselves Of every
occasion which presents itself for taking of the sur
charge" II is appropriate, too now TO refer gentle
men TO the cenSurc which that report cast on the Sc
cretary of War in 1928, for paying 753 dollars for
additional clerk hire in the business of Indian AT
fairs. .. ~....
Mr. b. said he was here tempted to name one or
twooffices in particular, which seem to have been
created Tor special favores one Of them under the
law authorizing the President TO sign land patents
by agent insead of doing il as heretofore in per-
son. II he could not find time TO do this duty, as
Mr.. Adams and all his predecessors did, then it
would have been better 10 dispense with the sigma
ture altogether, as yon have done with that OF the
Commits Sioner of The General Land Office The
Presidents name now is not even written by his
proxy as it should be- but is written by some clerk
in the Land Office, and the whole service Of the
proxy or agent consists in his wiring his own name!
For this he is paid 1900 dollars per annum The
place is held by one of the Presidents sons and it
Is an indirect mode Of increasing the Presidents
larry. The compensation is too high, under any cir
cumsances For service requiring neither skill
nor talent, and employing very small portion Of
this young sentleman's time, he received higher
salary than many of the Governors and other high
officers in the several States do
Another Office specially created is that OF the
mi ian with n Of 2 nDO J,II