Daily Republican., 1884-05-13
Some C,riosities Of Government

same number OF representatives In Con-
gress-twenty-two.
Pennsylvania has larger number OF
post. offices than any other State.
Not clerk In the pension office In
this city draws less than 81, 900 . year
salary, the average for the 1,l73 clerks
being 81, 294. Even the copyists get
$500 year. These clerks have light
labor and short hours. The average
salary of the railway post-office clerks
throughout the country is only $977 q
year. These men work hard, a,
the most trying labor, and have LONG
hours
Eighty years ago North Carolina had
as many representatives in Congress al
New York. North Carolina now hat
nine, or one less than she had in 1900
while New York has thirty-four.
There are 4l9 typesetters, besides ap
prentices, in the Government printing
Office.
Estimating Congress- TO be in session
200 days a year, the salaries OF Senatori
and Representatives amount to abou
$4,000 day.
The State of Nevada, which has two
Senators and one Representative il
Congress, has not so large population
by 617 souls as the city Of New Haven
Conn.
During the past ten years theGovern
lnent has expended nearly $4,000, OO'
In caring for the Indians. The tota
number of Indians attached to agencies
is only 246, 900, and of these 10000 IL
Indian Territory, 1900 in Wisconsin
and 5000 in New York are supposed
to be at least partially self-supporting
Last year the Post Office Department
used $l1 900 worth of ink for stamping
and cancelling letters.
The five States of Delaware, Colorado
Florida, Nevada, and Oregon combined
have not so great a population by abou
10000 souls as the city of New York
Yet New York city has but eight Rep
resentatives in Congress. while the five
States have sixteen, besides their ter
Senators.
In the fiscal year ended June 30th
the Governments disbursements fol
pensions reached a sum which exceeds
by six millions of dollars the disburse
ments for all purposes in the year 1860
There are IN the railway mail service
fifteen clerks who draw the salary O.
$l2 year each.
From the five States OF New York
Pennsylvania, Illinois, Massachusetts
and Ohio, the Government derives one
half of all its postal revenues.
Last year the Government paid fol
several copies Of Puck for use of de
partment officials.
The Government expended Sal, ,22S. &C
last year for "North American EthnO
logy" for the Smithsonian Institution
1t costs $4,000 year 70 light tht
Capitol and grounds.
More than Une.half of the interna
revenue receipts of the Government
comes from the four States of New
York, Ohio and Kentucky.
To wait upon the ~ Senators there
are 242 employees, rot counting police,
watchmen and Librarians.
Virginia now has the same number
OF Congressman she had in 1890, when
there were only IS members Of the
House.
There are several Post. offices In the
country at which the annual salary Of
the Postmaster is only 81.
Postal cards cost the Government 81
cents and four mills a thousand.
give hundred and eighty-nine dol
lars for wines, liquors, and minera
waters for use of Board of Visitors t.
Naval Academy" Is an item in las
years expenditures of the Govern
ment.
The Pension Office expends more thai
$50, 900 year investigating alleged pen
sion frauds.
At the Signal Service training school
Arlington Heights, the students o
meteorology, barOmeters, and anemn
meters are compelled to leave thei
study tables in the exact centre of til
room, their hunks in certain position
in a certain corner, their coats hun
upon certain nails, and their text book
piled up in certain manner before re
tiring for the night, these and a hun
dred more similar regulations bein
prescribed "by order of the Chic
Signal Officer" Their Sunday Dime
is coffee, bread, and dried apples stew
ed.
After having expended more than
hundred millions of dollars upun it
buildings in this District, the Govern
ment finds itself paying nearly $4,000
month for rent Of private buildings.
The Post.otfice Department uses $50,
600 worth OF wrapping twIne year
ThethirIeen States of Arkansas, Cali
fornia, Colorado, Connecticut, Dela
ware, Florida, Nebraska, Nevada, Ne,
Hampshire, Oregon, Rhode Island
Vermont and West Virginia, with a
aggregate population which does nc
exceed that Of New York alone, hav
tweutr. six United States Senators t
New York's two.
California, with less than half til
popuation of Indiana, pays the Gov
crnment more money for postal SCI
vice.
Among the expenditures Of the GOV
ernment last year, was an item
" for manufacturing medals, $26, ,49S
%"
1t costs the Government $l87, 900
year to maintain lights and buoy
on the Ohio, Mississippi and Missoul
rivers.
Two-ffths of all the newspapers an
periodicals sent through the mails b
publishers at pound rates are mailed q
New York city.
Nineteen thousand seven hundred an
eighty-eigh dollars of the public fund
were recently expended for 'machiner
and experiments in the manufacture {
sugar"
To supply public buildings through
out the country with fuel, light. an
water requires an expenditure of 81, ,O(
day.
Seven hundred and fifty persons al
constantly employed by the two Hous.
Of Congress while in SESSION. in an
about the Capitol.
The Government has sold more tina
two hundred million dollars worth {
public lands in eighty years.
| In the last twenty years the Govern
ment has paid for interest on the pul
lie debt the enormous sum of 81, ,0S9, 900
900, q sum which would defray all tt
Expenses of the Government, exceptin
interest on the public debt, for nearl
nine years to come, at the present raj
of expenditure and for nearly thirt!
five years If expenses could be limite
| TO what they were in 1860.