Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1838-06-07

$4,000 year, and furnishing convenient f,
sojooro Tor gentleman wishing 10 visi, Lcn>
don. The dutissoi this place might well have
boen discharged by ordinary correspondence.
hut At ell events they are such az could lust
~ be required ut the HANDS OF our resident
Minister AT London. Ii cannot be overlook
ed that Richard Rush was Secretary Of the
Treasury, and received the censure and con-
domination OF the Retrenchment Committee.
And yet Mr.. Rush was appointed to the Of.
hce OF the Smithsonian agent.-I will leave
Il Tor others TO apply what the chairman of
the Committee on Retrenchment said al that
day, in debate on this floor: "Wheneyer
an Office is TO be filed" "evsn q constant.
and faithful friend is compelled 10 yield to a
mushroom sposlate that may have been purs
chased but yesterday"
Let Us next compare the Navy Depart
ment.-Mr. Southland, who was Secretary of
the Navy in 1923. employed in his Depart
ment seven clerks, besides the chief clerk.
The salary OF the Secretary and the compen-
sation OF the clerks and messengers, amount
ed to SIT $50. The Department had been
held Tor many years. aud is still managed BY
Mr.. Dickerson, who was member OF the
committee, in the Senate, from W hom came
that famous report on Executive patronage,
! 10 which first referred. He employs eight
clerks besides the chief clerk; and his salary
with the compensation of his clerks aud mes,
sengers. amounts TO SIS, $50 And, al this
very session, he demands mors clerks. and
an Increase in the salary of some Of those he
already has.
The committee censurc Mr.. Secretary
Southland for unnecessary expense in sub
scription ter newspapers Tor the Department
They specify, under this head, S624,43 for
three years. Ii now appears that MIR. Sec
retary DickeIson has expended, for newspa,
pers aud fashionable books and literature of
the times, in one year. near $500, & includ>
ing similar expenses Of The Navy Board near
$3.50.
The committee also condemn the practice
| of extra clerk hire. We find Mr.. Dcker.
son not only employing three extra clerks,
but, what IL far more dangerous, ing AK
ira hire TO one of the regular clerks in the
department, enjoying, at the time, a salary
| OF l,76O, but 10 whom is paid, "f0r extra
services as clerk" the further sum OF 1929
81, making his salary 90, ls9 CT. Is no.
| this a ready mode Of providing for favor,
! ite?
The committee also specify the sum Of
S466 e6, as paid by the Navy Department
in three years, for printing, and condemn il
as extravagant.
The Blue Book Of 1897 shows the NAVY
| Department, under the rsformer, MIR. Dick
erson, TO have paid 29, 557 % for printing
In two years!
The committee also reported that a econ
siderable sam, varying from 100 to 5000,
was annually expended by the Secretary of
the Navy In the purchase of books for his Of
t'ce, most Of them having no appropriate re.
iation 10 the naval service Of the country,
such as reviews, magazines, and oiLer peri.
odical publications., and the fashionable liter
allure OF the day" This usage was, of course.
to be abolished. Has il been7 beg leav.
! 20 read Tow i,sUNs from Mr- Sasr..a.y Dick
erson's contingent expense account for 1887.
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