The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-02-20
Extract. from House Journals.
Slr. Daniel, chairman Of select COM

Dir. Daniel, Chairman OF select COM
mittee on retrenchment and reform,
submitted the following report:
AUSTIN, February -. 1879
Hon. John IL. Cochran, Speaker Of the Ec-Se C
Representatives:
am instructed by the majority OF
the special committee appointed TO in
quire into the practicsbilIty of reduc-
ing the expenses of the d Her
ent departments of the government to
report that, in view OF the great de-
probation in values ard the conse-
quent inability OF the taxpayers to
bear higher rate of taxation and tee
imperative necessity of reducing the
expenditures within the limits of the
general revenue, and finding that the
salaries of officers, clerks and other
employees are as high, and IN some
instances higher, than when money
had q less purchasing power, We rec
ommend that the salaries affixed be al
lowed and that all appropriations for
contingent and incidental expenses be
reduced in accordance with the impeI-
alive demand OF the people of the
whole State.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
Salary of Governor, $4,000; salary of
private secretary, $1,000; salary Of
clerk, 5000; for porter hire Executive
Office and office of Secretary of State
united, $500; for gardener for Gov
erDov's yard and Capitol grounds to-
gcther, 5000.
STATE DEPARTMENT.
For salary of Secretary of State,
$4,000; salary of chief Gle k, $500;
salary of two clerks 5000 each, $500;
salary of extra clerk TO copy laws for
printer, $500
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
For salary of Treasurer, $500; sal
airy of chief clerk $500; salary of
book keeper, 1880; salary of night
watchman, 5000; porter hire for Treas
urer and CImptrollcr's departments,
$3.50.
CoMPTRoLLER's DEPARTMENT.
For salary # Comptroller, $500
chef clerk, $500; boOkkeeper, 1880
assistant bookkeeper, 5000; chief tax
clerk, $3.50; warrant CLERK, $3.50;
assistant warrant clerk, 5000; delin-
quent tax clerk, $3.50; assistant de-
linquent tax clerk, 5000; ten addi-
tional clerks, 5000 each, $4,000.
GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
Salary of Commissioner, $4,000;
chief clerk, $500; Spanish clerk,
$500; receiving clerk, $1400; exam
lining clerk, $1,000; calculator, 5000;
first assistant clerk. $1,000; two filing
clerks, at 5000, $500; two CORE
spending clerks, at $1,000, $4,000; prin-
cipal patent clerk, 5000; fifteen as
sistant clerks, at 5000, $l3, 500; chief
craftsman, $500; four compiling
craftsmen, at $1,000, $4,000; six assis-
tant craftsmen, at 5000, $500; four
assistant craftsmen, for six months, at
$75 per month, $500; night watch
man, $500. We recommend the ap-
preparation Of (S30O three hundred
dollars for the purpose of having the
maps of the different counties in the
State Autographed, the four drafts
men last named to be employed to
copy the same and to be discharged
when the work is completed. By an
amendment to the law regulating the
sale of school and university lands,
the services of at least one clerk can
be dispensed with after the amendment
goes into effect.
LUNATIC ASYLUM.
Salary of superintendent, $500;
assistant superintendent, $1,000; stew.
ard, 5000; matron, $500; ten male
wards at $240 each, $2400; eight fe-
male wards at $240 each, 1920; foul
seamstresses at $40 each, $500; five
laundresses at $240 each, $1,000; one
night watchman, $3.50; one gardener,
$500; two assistants each SIS pei
month, $500; one scavenger, $500
one chief cook, $500; two assistant!
at $240 each, $3.50.
BLIND ASYLUM.
Salary of Superintendent, $500
principal teacher, $3.50; assistant
teacher, $500; second assistant teacher
$420; third assistant teacher, $240
music teacher. 5000; mstron, $500
oculist, 5000; cook and assistant, beth
together, $500; sesmstress, $240
washer and ironer and assistant, $500
DEAF AND DUMB ASYLUM.
Salary of Superintendent, $500
principal teacher, $1,000; second, 5000
third, $3.50; fourth, $500; instructor
in printing, 5000; matroD, $500; as
sistant matron or seamstress, $500
gardener, $500; driver and laborer
5000; washer and ironer, $240; assis
tant, 5000; two cooks, $500.
ADJUTANT GENERALS OFFICE.
Salary of Adjutsnt General $500
clerk, $1,000. We earnestly recon.
mend that the office of Adjutant Gen.
eral be abolished entirely, and that the
duties of that Office be transferred tt
the executive department.
ATTORNEY GENERALS OFFICE.
Salary of Attorney General, $4,000
Assistant Attorney General and travel.
ing expenses, $4,000; one clerk, $500
one clerk, $1,000.
That the entire appropriations fol
quarantine be omitted.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.
That the appropriation for salary oil
superintendent be omitted and the office
discontinued, and that one man who
is horticulturist be employed to cul-
tiyate the shrubbery in the Capitol
grounds and in the yard at the Gov
ernor's mansion.
| DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE, STATISTICS
AND HISTORY.
Salary of Commissioner, $500;
clerk, 5000. We recommend that the
Department of Insurance, Statistics and
History be abolished entirely, and that
the duties of that Office be performed
by a clerk under the direction and il
the office of the Comptroller.
JUDICIARY.
Salary of three Judges of the Su-
preme Court, $40, $50; three Judges
of Appellate Court, SO, $50; bailiff,
$3.50 at each of the three places OF
holding the courts, $3.50; porter hire
for both Supreme and Appellate
Courts $500; judge of criminal DIS
trict court of Galveston and Harris
counties, $4,000.
PENSIONS.
For payment of pensions, $40, coo
We recommend that the present PEN
SION law be repealed entirely, and that
another law be enacted allowing q
pension of eight dollars per month be
granted to the INDECENT survivors OF
the battle of San Jscinto, and that the
names of said pensioners be inserted in
the bill making appropriations for the
payment of pensions There Is believed
to be large number of fraudulent
claimants under the existing law, and
we recommend the above mentioned
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