Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-23

II Il
men's Bureau. NAa M
The United States Oficial Register for
1883, "a work compiled every year under
N act of Congress) gives the names, loca-
ions and salaries of all the officers, agents!
Jerks and messengers of the Freedmen's |
Bureau for 1867. The expense of this in
titution for salaries alone is startling.7l
The JJtdshington SEspiess has taken tho
rouble to unearth the items. and it shows |
ihe real amount squandered in salaries |
llone. The footings for house rent, build
ng school houses, provisions to feed the
Negroes who will not work as long as
government supplies them, would
well the amount to sum suffi-
lent to startle the most inveter-
te negro worshipper in the LAND,
provided he could be, got to read, them.
But the official Register gives but 1.-The
mount, paid in below to the ,Freedmen's
Bureaus army of office holders, and thus
We find at the headquarters at Washing
ton, besides General, Howard, there are a
quartermaster, an Inspector and superin7
tendent of schools, an agent of claims and
general agent, whose combined salaries
amount to $4,000. This does not include
General HowARD's salary. There are also
flfty- eight clerks. whose salaries amount
20 S80,220 per annum.. There are In the
same office six messengers, whose salaries
amount to s3,s4O. This makes the head
quarters of the Bureau at Washington cost,
for salaries alone, including General How
ARDS, the snug sum per annum of S97.27s.
Then there is a branch office which looks
after the freedmen in the District of CO.
lpmbia, which has sn assistant commission
er and thirty-one agents, nineteen clerks,
and six messengers employed, whose uni
ted salaries Exclusive of that of the assis-
tant. com mmissioner) amount to the sum of
S5a e4e. o77 =, =5sTIaTa7T n 10 fy-z~. t4.,-
There is another branch office, in Mary
land, which employs three agents, four
clerks, one messenger, and, one laborer,
whose salaries amount to $11,70O per year
The branch in the State of Virginia en-
p!oys, besides the assistant commissioner,
ten agents, thirty-six clerks, and twelve
messengers, whose united salaries amount
to $65, $40, exclusive of the salary of the
assistant commissioner. frI .svis ! ii
The branch in North Carolina employs
nine agents, seven assistant surgeons, and
twenty eight clerks, whose united sala-
ries aggregate $52,S00. -.y d: -e.ri r-. =so
The Bureau in South Carolina employs
eighteen agents, fifteen contract surgeons;
and thirteen clerks, at a cost in salaries of
$5S $50. eft +rafc da48sd ta-sz. znf
The Bureau in Georgia employs forty
six agents, eight acting assistant surgeons,
a Id eighteen clerks. Their salaries amount
to $88500. ra .urirlf aid zUiaB 10 -dcur m
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 tot
$19, ,32O. glr5 -a aida .-1.z va1ra q;
In Alabama there are employed twenty
two agents and twenty three clerks, whose;
salaries amount TO Sol, 1857 30. nj uayl aaA
The Bureau in Kentucky employs seven
teen agents, eight acting assistant sur
geons, and seventeen clerks, at a cost of
$41, ,620 IN salaries alone. 1T -IrH -rosiI- q
In Tennessee eighteen agents, two act
ing assistant surgeons, and fourteen clerks
are Employed, at a cost in salaries of
$4,000. sHt 10 sru1 mn 10 3tEi@ fa5 Y
The Bureau in the State of Mississippi
employs otwenty-seven agents, eighteen
clerks, and twelve laborers, at cost in
salaries of $5sl200. 'F"5' af sd'E.iiI -'A
The branch in Arkansas employs
eighteen agents, seven assistant surgeons,
and twenty Eight clerks, whose salaries
amount to $64, 800. 9"j d" ht32sl ~ -' |
In Louisiana there are twenty three of
these agents. eleven assistant surgeons, |
and thirty-four clerks, at an expense in |
salaries alone of sSO90O. p ll'o.s
In Texas there are thirty -four agents
and eleven clerks, who are paid $50, ,12O in
salaries '' ~
The State of Missouri is assigned, one |
agents and one clerk, who receive $500 in |
salaries. e., m .,.-T,oayaY .45aad .mot
All of these sums are paid in addition to |
the salaries of the assistant commission
ers, of whom! there are eleven, but whose |
salaries are not given. They probably re-
ceived about So, 800 each, or a total amount |
of $3S,500 per year. These figures do not
cover office rent, stationery, travelling ex-
penses, nor the amount paid out in supplies
tor 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 ini1S67 to $S75,705.50.
Here are nearly $1,000, 600 paid in sala-
ries alone to men whose duty it is to look
after the negroes. The plea of the lRadi-
calls is that this is necessary because the
negroes are not capable of taking care of
yet into their hands they have
put the power to rule the South and not
only the South, but the North. -" '.'''-'-o
are negroes capable of ruling the United
States who are not capable to manage their
own affairs without Freedmen's Bureau?
sSI.et HIS Have PeaceD