Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-24
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ton of their salaries, the daily p pc s
published here are full o: tables III d
statistics to show that government
clerks cannot suhsist On less than they
are nowreceiving; the average yearly
expenses are tabuiated, and 1 was
amused to see in one of the calculations
for yearly necessary expense $50 for
religious and political contributors.
L. would be we'll for these PAM ered
worthless to realize that there are tens
of thousands throughout the cou try,
quite as efficient as themselves. who
would cJ1sidec it good fortune to take
their place at one third less piy.
Work has not yet been resumed iD
the Bureau of Engraving and Prlnti e.
The manufacture of fractional cur
rency has been suspended now for
nearly a month, .1,400 operatives and
money counters have b zen out of en-
ploynent for that length Of time,
unensiness and some distress. Il
seems probable that work in
this Bureau will not be re
snmed, since Their, is disposition
to substitute silver for the small paper
currency now in use. This viii of course
pecessitate an increase of expenditure
ar the mints, but il is thought that the
change will be economical since it will
Auabe the Treasury d, partmeuc
4 spence with the redemption bureau
which Civ IS employment to ABOUT four
hundred counters. Work IL this bu-
r.-au has already fallen off very consid
crab ! since the bureau of engraving
and printing h been osed. III
amount of mutilated currency returned
fOi redemption is smaller than at any
previous time since the estdDlis hmelIi
of the bureau, and the employees NV
work only till one O'Clock instead Of till
four.
The prosperity of Washington City
| has. in tho OPTION of many, reach d
is climuc.eric. There are no manu-
factories here, the city must eubsist
mainly on the disbursements to gov
er,m, Mt employees. There has so far
! been no reduction Of the pay of these,
Notwithstanding the financial distress
| whicb pHrvad,s the country and is felt
i'll every other town aud village. Bat
the present Congress Will without
| doubt r"duco salaries and appropria-
tions untIl the local disbursements viii
be perhaps 333 per cent. less than they
have been for number of years. DIR
ing thu Shepard regime when money
WAS plenty and it ives thought WASH
ington would be q great city, kind
Athens for the wearthy elite, through
out TIL, land, blocks of houses went uI
| like earth works in the presence of the
enemy. These have on them now the
simple words ~ O Let" and For Sale; ;
they can be rented or sold to-day for 6
less su n than they could last month
and they may be had next month for {
smaller amount than is asked to day.
There has been no legislatie work
of Importance during the past week
Everything seems to run into investi
cations. The Republican Senate, with
desire to emulate the De ocratit
House, have instituted an investiga
ton into the small vermin-grasshop
pers, chinch bug. Hessian fly anG
''sich like"-that are injurious to ag
riculture. The Senate has also passe
bill to admit New Mexico as the thir
ty ninth State, but it is not probable
that this bill will meet with the cou
currence of the House. The Hous
committee on appropriations decline
J also to concur in the West Point ap
preparation bill as deliberately amend
ed by the Senate, and further espresso
its defiance by declining to refer th'
bill in question to a committee of con
ference. This will perhaps teach thu
Senate that the House means some
thing more than chiId's play in it
: reduction of appropriations, and it ma,
act upon the Ser ate as kind of ed
monitOry precedent in its cons1dera
ton Of the other appropriation bill
which it may be disposed to tinker ant
amend. G.. A s