The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-09-21
Cost OF the Freedmen. Bareau.

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Freedmen's Bureau is small affair, q
glance at the twelve pages of the list of
officials employed, which is given in the
United States Official Register, will
soon undeceive them. This book is
compiled under an act of Congress every
year, and it is the official record. A
copy of this work for 1863, which is be-
fore US, gives the names, locations and
salaries of all the officers, agents, clerks,
and messengers of that Bureau for 1867.
At the headquarters at Washington,
besides General Howard, there are a
quartermaster, an inspector and su.
perintendent of schools, an agent OF
claims aud general agent, whose COM
bined salaries are $4,000. This does not
include General Howard's salary.
There are also fifty eight clerks, whose
salaries amount to SSO,220 per annum.
There are in the same Office six messen-
gers, whose salaries amount to S3540.
This makes the headquarters OF the
Bureau at Washington cost, for salaries
alone, including General Howard's, the
snug sum per annum OF S97,2e.
Then there is branch Office which
looks after the freedmen in the District
of Columbia, which has an assistant
commissioner and thirty-one agents,
nineteen clerks, and six messengers en-
ployed, whose united salaries exclusive
of that of the assistant commissioner
amount to the sum of S53, $40.
There is another branch office in Mary
land, which employs three agents, four
clerks, one messenger, and one laborer,
whose salaries amount to Sll,15O per
year.
The branch in the State of Virginia
employs, besides the assistant commits
sioner, ten agents, thirty-six clerks,
and twelve messengers, whose united
salaries amount to S65, $40, exclusive of
the salary of the assistant commits
sioner.
The branch in North Carolina en-
ploys nine agents, seven assistant sur
geons. and twenty-eight clerks, whose
united salaries aggregate S52, 800.
The Bureau in South Carolina en-
ploys eighteen agents, fifteeG contract
surgeons, and thirteen clerks, at a cost
in salaries of S5S, $50.
The Bureau in Georgia employs forty
six agents, eight acting assistant sur
geons, and eighteen clerks. Thrir
salaries amount to SSS, 500.
The branch of this Bureau in the
State of Florida employs ten agents,
Two acting assistant surgeons, three
clerks and two messengers, whose
salaries amount to Sl9,320.
In Alabama there are employed
twenty-five agents and twenty-three
clerks, whose salaries amount to SOL,
3a 30.
The Bureau in Kentucky employs
seventeen agents, eight acting assistant
surgeons, aud seventeen clerks, at a
cost of SAL $50 in salaries alone.
In Tennessee, eighteen agents, two
acting assistant surgeons, and fourteen
clerks are employed, at a cost in salaries
of $50, 300.
The Bureau in the State of Mississip-
pi employs twenty-seven agents, eight
eel clerks and twelve laborers, at q cost
in salaries of S5S, 200.
The branch in Arkansas employs
eighteen agents, seven assistant sur
geons and twenty eight clerks, whose
salaries amount toS6i,320.
In Louisiana there are twenty-three
of these agents, eleven assistant sur
geons, and thirty-four clerks, at an ex-
pense in salaries alone of SS0,900.
In Texas there are thirty -four agents
and eleven clerks, who are paid $50, 120
in salaries.
The State of Missouri is assigned one
agent and one clerk, who receive $4,000
in salaries.
All of these sums are paid in addition
to the salaries of the assistant comlnis-
sioners. of whom there are eleven, but
whose salaries are not given. They
probably receive about S3500 each, or
total amount of s3S 800 per year. These
figures do not cover office rent, station
cry, travelling expenses, nor the amount
paid out in supplies for the negroes.
They show simply the items of salary,
one of the smallest parts of the expense
of the Bureau. The total sum paid in
salaries to the employees of this Bureau
amounted, in 1867, to $S75,7O550.
Here are nearly 100000 paid in sal
aries alone to men whose duty it is to
look after the negroes. The plea of the
Radicals is that this is necessary be-
cause the negroes are not capable of
taking care of themselves; yet into
their hands they have put the power 10
rule the South, and not OILY the South,
but the North.
.4re negroes capable to rule the United
States, who are not capable to manage
their own affairs without Freedmen's
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