Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-10-06
NASHVILLE ONION AND AMERIoAN SUNDAY OCTOBER 6. ls72
lumbia costs the federal government for

Ilumbia costs the federal government FOL
salaries $g8, 900.
THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT..
The office of the secretary Of the interior
| cost for clerks, Immediately around his per
son, $4,000; for watchmen, $zl,OO0; FOL
stationery and packing. $4,000, and fol
rents and repairs. SIG, 900. The land Office
costs for clerks, $4,000; for maps, tele.
oraphs. etc, S244,00O. The Indian office
costs for salaries, $50 900, and for inciden-
tails, s., 000. The pension office costs the
/ extraordinary sum of $50, 600, besides adj
| ditional clerks to the amount of $4,000.
| This Office also uses $4,000 for stationey,
engraving, printing, etc. The patent Office
costs, for salaries S139, 600, besides for extra
clerks and laborers. $4,000. The station
cry, etc, here cost $90, 900, and for photo
lithographing, $4,000. The bureau of edu-
cation, an excrescence upon the govern
nent, OF no earthly account except as an
auxiliary to take common schools from the
States and counties where they belong, and
run them nationally, this costs $27, 900.
Now we come to the surveyOr-generals Of
fee: In Minnesota it costs $500, and in
Kansas $1,000: in California $l4,0 900, and
in most of the other States about $4,000.
The interesting department of agriculture,
costs, for salaries alone, $4,000; for statis-
tics and fodder for the annual report, $751;
900; to scatter seeds around and put them
in bags, $45, 900. The experimental garden
ofthe agricultural department. costs $lO,O 900;
the stationery and the books on bugs, $685.
600.
THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.
The salaries in the Post Office Depart
ment in Washington alone cost over $780,
900, and $4,000 for stationery. To this
must be added the salaries and Office ex-
penses Of postmasters throughout the
country, which is very large.
THE WAR DEPARTMENT
takes $4,000 for salaries; $4,000 are APP
propriated for examinations, and for copy
ing from the rebel archives; the adjutant
general demands 100000 per annum; the
quarter-master general $4,000; the post
master general $4,000, the commisssry
general S42 900; the surgeon general $685.
900; the chief engineer $29, 900; the chief Of
ordnance $4,000; the Office of military JUS
tice 5000; the signal Office $4,000, and the
inspector general 81 900. These salaries
are merely for clerks and stationery in the
Washington Office. and do not apply to sal
aries throughout the military service. The
war department, besides, requires for rents
and repairs 1900.
THE NAVY DEPARTMENT.
To run the central Office of the Navy
Department, where Secretary Robson sits
at the table with an oar in his hand, cry
ing "Heave no." the clerks get $4,000,
and billet doltr are written to the extent Of
$1,000. Then the bureau have their parii
cular clerks. The yards and docks bureau
requires SIC 900; that of equipment, $12,-
600; of navigation, 5000; of ordnance, $10,-
600; of construction and repair, $Il3, 900;
of steam engineering, $4,000; of provisions
and clothing, Sl5, 900; Of medicine, 5000,
etc,
THE JUDICIARY.
AMI now we come to the judicial part of
our Government, third and coordinate
part of the whole, and what does 1t cost?
To pay the whole bench demands So, 900
q year, exclusive of nine Circuit Judges,
who cost $4,000 altogether. To pay the
District judges, and some retired Judges,
costs 1892 600, and the Court of the District
Of Columbia costs 10000. The total salar-
les 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 p per cent on all the money
they recover for the county, and the Dis
trict Attorn Us Office in New York city is
said to be rth $4,000 year. The Court
of Claims al Washington costs about $685.
600, and $400, 900 is appropriated to pay its
judgments. The Department Of Justice
requires So, 000. The Solicitor General
gets $500, which is only $500less than the
Attorney General. Each Of the Assistant
Attorneys General gets 5000, and the So
lcitor Of Internal Revenue s. 900. The
Solicitor of the Treasury costs, for himself
and clerks, So, 600; three commissioners
for codifying the laws of the United States
cost $4,000, and the British Claim Com
mission costs 5000.
The above, perhaps dali reading, is an
analysis of one of the large appropriation
bills, and will give some idea Of what it
costs merely for clerks, stationery, Office
service and printing in the departments at
Washington. Mr.. Taxpayer, how do you
like the picture? VERB GREEN.