National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-05-04
'eovEaxnrxf PATRONAGE.
Distribution Of Department Appointments
Among the Several States,

Distribution Of Department Appointments
Among the Several States.
The following Is the report of the select COM
mittee Of the Southern Republican Association,
made on Tuesday evening, and referred to In the
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN Of yesterday:
Mr. PRECEDENT and Gentlemen of the Assoeieiion:
offered BY the chairman at the last regular meet
ing to inquire and report the number ef employees
in each Of the derartmsss.s at Washington nom
ship in the association, and further to prepare and
send to each one of these employees circular let
ter setting forth the objects OF this association
and asking the cooperation Of the person ad-
dressed. We beg leave to report on behalf Of the
committee that we find, from the best sources of
these States in the Treasury Department, as4: the
Interior Department, 100; the Post Office Depart
ment, %; the War Department, 50; the Navy De-
partment, Al; the Department Of Justice, 8; the
State Department, Il; the Agricultural Depart
ment, II; and in employees Of tho United States
Ofthis number IFS are from the State Of Mary
land and 10 from Delaware We have sent to
each male person Of this number the following
further consideration Of that portion Of the sub
ject:
CIRCULAR.
WASHINGTON, D. O., April @, 1876.
SIR: The Southern Republican Association is
formed for the purpose Of uniting all the South
ern Republicans Of this city in an organisation for
their own protection and advancement, and for
the further purpose Of aiding in the perpetuation
Of Republican principles and the success Of the
You are respectfully invited to attend the next
meeting at Clarkeis hall, 479 Pennsylvania
avenue on Tuesday evening, May 2 at $50 o'clock,
with the view of becoming q member, should the
constitution and bylaws and the objects Of the
association meet with your approval.
Edwin Frey, Richard Dillon, Lucien ]. Barnes,
David Kellett and ]. A. Emerson.
In offering the resolution by which the commit
tee was raised, the mover had an Interior object,
mittee was heartily concurred in by them, and we
submit the following in relation thereto:
An act Of Congress passed in 1875 requires that
the employees at Washington in the Treasury
Department shall be distributed among the vari-
GUS States in proportion to population. A fair in
depreciation Of the spirit of that law and equal
Justice to the citizens of all the States would make
Il apply to all the Departments Of the Govern
ment SO far at least to allow the citizens Of the
various States the opportunity to refuse to hold
not only in number, but in emoluments and honor.
Believing that this Just apportionment was not
observed in the States Of which the members of
this association are citizens one OF the objects in
offering the resolution to raise this committee was
to ascertain the facts and If we were not mistaken
to see if q remedy could be devised.
So far we have been unable to ascertain the
entire number Of employees in each Of the De-
partments, and shall at the proper time ask
further time to report upon that subject, but We
have the number Of employees in the Treasury
Department, and also the number from each State.
These figures show, most conclusiyely, that there
has not been anything like an equal distribution
of the patronage Of that Department among the
citizens of the various States The number of
would, on the basis of distribution, according to
population, give little more than eight persons
for each Congressional district in the United
States. How the
APPOINTMENTS ARE AT PRESENT
divided will be best shown by the following table: