Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-04-20
SOME GiHlO>lTlE> OF GOVERN.
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/ supreme Court.
The States of Colorado. Florida. De
aware. Nevada. Oregon. Rhode Islam
| and Vermont have less than one hal
the population of Illinois. but have th
same number Of representatives ia Con
/ gre SEVENTY two.
| Pennsylvania has larger number O
postotfices than any other State.
| Not clerk in the Pension Office il
this city draws less than $500 a YEA
salary: the average for the Il13 clerk
being sl.i. Even the copyists get $50
| year. These clerks have light labo
and short hours.
he average salary of the Railwa'
Postofflce clerks throughout the countr'
Is only 1917 a year. These men wori
hard, AZ the most trying labor, and hav
long hours.
Eighty years ago North Carolina ha,
as many representatives In Congress a
New York. North Carolina now ha
niue. or one less than IN 1900, while New
York has thirtyfour.
There are 4l0 type-setters. beside,
apprentices, In tue Government print
ing office.
Estimating Congress TO be in session
2U days Il year, the salaries of SENATOR
ana Representatives amount to aoou
$1,000 day.
Inc Site of Nevada, which has two
Senators and one Representative II
Congress, has not so large a population
10y bl7 souls as the city of New Haven
Conn.
A number of the United States Sen.
ate's employees are put down on tn,
records AS " skilled laborers," and draw
pay at $1,000 a year. while those who ar,
merely unsklIled laborers" get $50 q
wear. The distinction between the tw,
Is III the kind of broums they manlpu
late. The skilled laboIer uses a com
mon broom To sweep stone Tagging
while the unskIiled laborer yields 1
Coarse broom IN sweeping the carrla. e
WAYS.
During the past ten years the Govern
ment has expended nearly so CO., 900 II
caring for tue Indians. The total mum
Der of Indl AIS attached 10 agencies Is
only 2l6 90, aud If these 5000 III In
dian Territory, 100 III Wisconsin, anl
300 IN New York are SUPP, sed to be Al
least partially self-supportng.
Last year the Postutfice Department,
used $1,000 worth of INK IL stampln.
ana c4ncellDg letters.
/ he five States of Delaware, Colora do
Florlda, Nevada anu Oregon combiLed
nave not 50 great Il population by abo Ut
100000 souls as the city Of New York
Yet New York city has but eight kepIe-
sentatlves IN Congress white the five
States named have sixteen, besides their
ten SENATORS.
la the fiscal year ending June 30 the
Governments disbursements for pen
siouS reacht q u SUN which exceeds by
SIX mill onS of dollars tue discourse
ments for all q her purposes III the year
lSSo.
There are in the railway mail service
fifteen clerks who draw "A salary of SI2
a year each.
From tue five States of New York,
P,nnsy wanna. ILLINOIS, OHIO and Massa
chusetis the Government derives half of
all Its po tai revenues.
Last year the Government paid for
several copies of Puck for USE of depart
Inent officials.
lie Government expended Sal &c
last year tor North American Ethnol-
oI, for the smithsonian Institute.
1t costs $50 UuU 4 year To light the Cap
ijoi ana grounds.
More tnan onehalf OF the internal
revenue receipts y! tue Government
comes from the four States of Illinois,
New York. Ohio and kentucky.
To wait upou the 10 SrnA ors there are
242 employ ees. not counting watcnmen.
police ana librarians.
Virginia now has the same number of
Congressman she had III the year 1890,
wien there We're onl, % members of the
House.
Ihere are several postoffices in the
country at which the annual salary Of
the postmaster IL only 81.
Postal cards cost the Government "A
Gents and 4 mills a thousand.
Five hundred and eighty nine dol
lars tor wines. liquors and mineral WA
tiers for use Of Board of Visitors to
Naval Academy,' Is an item i'll last
years expenditures of the Government
lhe Pension Office -1pends more than
S6U,uo0 "A year Investlgal ng alleged pen
sion frauds.
At the Signal Service training school
Arlington Nights, The students of mste-
orology, baromete anu thermometers
are compelled to leave their study tables
III the exact center of the room. their
hunks III a certain position III certain
corner, their Coats hung upon certain
nails. and their text books piled up In a
certain manner, before retiring for the
night: these and "A hundred more similar
regulations being prescribed by order
of the Chief Signal Officer Their
sunday ulnuer Is coffee, bread and dried
apples stewed.
Alter having expended more than a
hundred million dollars upon ITS build
inss IN this District, the Government
finds itself paying nearly 5000 month
for rent OF private buildings.
The Poatuthce Department uses $50,
coo worth of wrapping twlne year.
The thirteen States of Arkansas, Cal
IfurnIa, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida,
Delaware. Nebraska. Nevada, Oregon.
New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont
and West Virginia. with An aggregate
population which does not exceed that
of the State of New York alone, have
twenty SIX United States Senators "a
New York's two.
California. with less than half the
population of Indiana. pays 10 the Gov
eruInent more Money for the postal ser-
wee.
Among the expenditures Of the Gov
eminent last year was An item Fol
nuanuiactur ny medals, 81, 4So q.
1t costs the Government flsI 200 4
year TO maintain lights and tuJys on
the Ohio. MississIi pi and Missour
rivers.
Iwo-fifths of all the newspapers AND
periodic lis sent through the malls 10y
publishers at pound rates are mailed al
New York city.
Nineteen thousand sewn hundred and
eI. htv sht dollar of ti.e paO!lc fund,
were Recently expendt f,r III tchiner,
and experiments III tue manuf tcturc oi
sugar.
10 supply public buildings through
out the country with fuel, lI2Lt aEC
water requires an eXpep ditnre Of flUp-
day.
Seven hundred aud fifty persons AT,
constantly employed by the two Houses
of Congress while III session. III anC
t,tout the Capitol.
Iue government has sold more thar
two hundred million dollars worth o
pnbIl, land, IL eighty ears.
! In the last twenty years the Govern
ment has paid In Interest on the puolI'
debt tueenormous SUN of e Os9 ~, ~
sum when would defray all the OK
peus-s of the Government, e1c-p!in,
Interest on the public debt, for nenri,
nine wears 10 CONS 81 tue present rats o