New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-03-15
NEW ORLEANS FRIDAY, MARCH Is, 1872

HlcuI "a uO earthly accOuut tACtpJ DIS du
auxiliary to take common schools from the
States and counties where they belong, and
run them nationally -tlis costs $27 600.
This sum ought to be appropriated to buy
some useful books on the theory of this gov
ernment as understood by the men who
made it, which books should be presented
to George F. Hoar, Horace Maynard and
Snapp, Of Illinois.
Now we come to the Surveyor Generals
office. In Minnesota it costs $1,000. and in
Kansas $1,000; in California S'4.000 and in
most of the other States about 600. The
interesting Department of Agriculture,
whose ornameDt-the bleached CaprOn-
has been imported into Japan as curl
osity, costs, for salaries alone $4,000, for
statistics and fodder for the annual report
l5.0GO, to scatter seeds around and put
them in bags $4,000. These seeds make
Vice Presidents and Senators when prop
erly distributed. The experimental garden
of the agricultural Department costs
$4,000, the stationary and the books on
bugs So, 900; besides, there is gorgeous
report on the education of oysters and the
intellectual needs of pumpkins, for which a
monster appropriation has to be made an
nually.
TIE POSTOFFICE DEPARTMENT.
The salaries in the Postotfice Department
in Washington City alone cost above $500,
600, and the building demands for stationery
besides. $4,000. In this particular bill,
postmasters are not considered.
THE WAR DEPARTMENT
takes $47 900 for salaries; $4,000 are ap-
propriated for examinations, and for copy
ing from the rebel archives, the Adjutant
General demands 100000 per annum; the
Quartermaster General. $4,000: the Post
master General $4,000; the Commissary
y tLa
$4,000: the Chief Engineer, $4,000; the
Chief of Ordnance, $4,000; the office of
Military Justice, $1,000; the Signal Office,
$500. and the Inspector General, $1,000.
These salaries are merely for clerks and sta
tionery in the Washin gton offices. and do
not apply to salaries throughout the mill
tary service. The War Department, be-
sides requires for rents and repairs S44 900.
TIE NAVY DEPARTMENT.
To run the central office of the Navy De-
partment, where Secretary Robeson sits at
the table with an oar in his hand. crying
.'Heave ho.' the clerks get S36 600. and
biNet-dOnr are written TO the extent of $4,000.
Then the bureaus have their particular
clerks. The yards and docks bureau re-
quires $4,000; that of equipment Sl2, 900;
Of navigation, $1,000; of ordnance, $4,000;
of construction and repair, Sil3,000; of
steam engineering, $4,000: of provi
sons and clothing, $4,000: of medicine,
$1,000, etc.
THE JUDICIARY.
And now we come to the judicial part of
our goyernment-a third and coordinate
part of the whole; and what does it cost |!
To pay the whole bench demands $4,000 a
year. exclusive of nine Circuit Judges, who
cost $4,000 altogether. To pay the District
Judges and some retired Judges. costs Sl93.-
: Ia of fha ot,,,, Of
bia costs 100000 The total salaries of all
the District Attorneys of the United States
is put down at $4,000. and of the Marshals
also $4,000. The Marshals and Attorneys
get fees besides. The District Attorneys get
2l2 per cent Oh all the money they recover
for the country. and the District Attorneys
office in New York city is said to be worth
0G00 year. The Court of Claims at
Washington costs about $4,000, and $400,
600 Is appropriated to pay its judgments.
This extraordinary cause.-the only piece of
light reading in the bills put at the end
OF the Court OF Claims appropriation.
Provided. That no part OF this 100000
shall be paid in satisfaction OF any judg-
ment rendered in favor of George Chorpen-
ming. growing out OF any claim tor carrying
the mail.
The Department of Justice requires s73,-
0C0. The Solicitor General gets $500.
which is only $500 less than the Attorney
General. Each of the Assistant Attorneys
General gets $4,000, and the Solicitor of In
ternal Revenue $4,000. The Solicitor of the
Treasury costs. for himself and clerks.
go, 600: three Commissioners for coditying
the laws Of the United States cost $4,000;
the British Claim Commission, meeting in
Washington City at present costs $4,000.
The above perhaps dull reading is an an
alysis of one of the large appropriation
bills. and will give you some idea of what it
costs merely for clerks, stationery, Office
service and printing in the departments at
Washington.