Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-27
Especial Telegram to the Globe. |


throughout the country are manifesting
some uneasiness about the result of the re-
adjustment of their salaries on the basis
! of two cent postage. In order that their
income might not be cut down in proper
ton to the reduction of postage, congress
last winter enacted new schedule of post
masters salaries. The new and old sched-
ule cannot be exactly compared, because
there are differences in the gradation of the
Offices of each class, and because the pres
ent schedule includes box rents, a variable
element, and limits the compensation
from box rents to one sum if the postmas-
ter furnishes the boxes, and another if he
does not. But making the comparison as
closely rs possible between maximum COM
pensations under The present schedule and
the fixed compensation under the new sche6-
ule, it appears that the latter makes some
advance in salaries. For example, among
the frst-class Offices where the gross reve-
nues are $4,000, the present maximum
compensation is $2,940, and after the
new schedule goes into effect the fixed
salary will be $3,000.Where the gross re-
ceipts are $4,000 the new schedule will
raise the pay from $4,000 maximum to
$3,100. Where the receipts are 100000
the pay will be advanced from $4,000 to
$4,000. If the receipts are $150,000 the
new salary will be $4,000, though the
present maximum is $3,700. Where the
receipts are S450,000 the new salary will
be $4,000, and the present maximum is
$4,000. Where the receipts are between
100000 and 100000 the new salary will
be $4,000. The present maximum ranges
from $4,000 to $500. Under the new
schedule the maximum salary,
$4,000, will be paid where the
receipts exceed 100000. Under the pres
ent schedule the maximum salary where
the receipts are $64O,OO0 would be $3,98O,
and the same where the receipts are ST.
100000 the salary would be $4,700. The
reason for this inequality is that a part of
the salary consists of a Diminishing COM
mission on the receipts and two-tenths of
one per cent. of $1,OOO,OO0 is more than
one-tenth of one per cent. of $1,260,000.
The new schedule of specific salaries OBJ
ond and third class offices comparisons
are more difficult, because large part of
the present com pensation is calculated on
revenues of the Office not to exceed $3.50,
which is in addition 20 the revenue from
box rents and commissions where the re-
ceipts exceed $4,000. Under the new
schedule second-class Offices are those
whose receipts range from $4,000
to $4,000 and the salaries are from
$4,000 to $4,000. Third-clsss officers are
those whose salaries range from $1,000 to
81 800. In Offices of the fourth class post
masters are now allowed 60 per cent. of
the first 800 per quarter of revenue and
80 per cent. on revenues exceeding that
and not exceeding $500. The new schedule
allows the whole of the first $50 of revenue
per quarter, 60 per cent. of the next 800
and so per cent. of the next 5000.
SIBERIAN FOR GOVERNOR OF OHIO.
The efforts to belittle the availability of
Senator John Sherman as candidate for
governor of Ohio on the Republican ticket
put forth in the sapient dispatches to the
Cleveland bear the ear marks of having a
sponsor in Gov. Charles Foster.
There is belief hereabouts that Foster
has organized a literary bureau
to copper any popular feeling in Sher-
mans favor. It is true that no one has
asked Senator Sherman to be candidate,
and it may be true he has no desire to be;
| still, it will not be denied that Sherman is
not too old to have lost ambition or too
obtuse to know that if Ohio is lost to the
Republicans, no Ohio candidate will re-
| ceive any consideration in the next nation
| al Republican convention. A man who
wants to be president of the United States,
and especially one like John Sherman, will
not let a golden opportunity slip to leap
| to the front as a candidate. To Gov. Fos-
ter's mind the next state canvass in Ohio,
| may present only local issues, because he
has his eye on whatIthe state can absolutely
give, the senatorship. No matter how the
state magnates may endeavor to shape the
canvass, a nero novice in politics must
know that it will be of national Importance
| The public mind, more especially so much
of it as makes study of politics, is now
imbued with the idea that because of dis
| turbing local issues Ohio is at present a
Democratic state. The one, then, in the
Republican ranks who can lead canvass
and snatch victory out of the jaws of de-
feat, will at ones acquire prominence
which could not otherwise be gained. Why
may not history repeat itself? In 1875 the
Republican party was very much in the
same condition it now is. 1t chose as its
national candidate R. B. Hayes, not be-
cause he was by any means representa-
tive man of the party, but because with
him as a candidate it was reasonably as
sured that Ohio's electoral vote could
be kept in the Republican column. II
is inst as necessary for national
success in 1884 to keep Ohio in
the Republican line as it was in 1876, ,Iif
indeed, not more SO. The question is,
who can do it? The situation seems to
present these alternatives. Either the
Ohio Republicans must nominate candi-
date for governor who will have a chance
of winning what will prove to be hotly