The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-04-16
SOME CURlOSIT7ES OF GOVERN.
MENT.

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Florida, Nevada, Oregon, Rhod,
Island, and Vermont have less thar
Sne-half the population of Illinois
but have the same number of rep
resentatives in Cengress-twenty
two.
Pennsylvania has a larger mum
Der of Post Offices than any other
State.
Not a clerk in the Pension Office
in this city draws less than 81 900 a
year salary, the average for the l !
173 clerks being 81 ,294. Even the
copyists get 5000 a year These
clerks have light labor and short
hours. The average salary of the
Railway Post Office clerks through
out the country is only 1917 year
t These men work hard, at the most
trying labor, and have long hours.
Eighty years ago North Carolina
had as many representatives in
Congress as New York North Car
olina now has nine, or one less than
she had in 1900, while New York
has thirty four.
There are 419 typesetters, besides
apprentices, in the Government print
ing office.
Estimating Congress to be in ses-
sion 200 days year, the salaries of
Senators and Representatives
amount to about $4,000 a day.
The State Of Nevada, which has
two Senators and one Representa-
tive in Congress, has not so large a
population by 617 souls as the city
of New Haven, Conn.
A number of the United States
Senate's employees are put down on
the records as "skilled laborers, /"
and draw pay at 81 900 a year, while
those who are merely "unskilled la
borers" get $40 a year. The dis
tinction between the two is in the
kind of broOms they manipulate.
The skilled" laborer uses a COM
mon broom to sweep stone tagging,
while the ''unskilled" labercr wields
a coarse broom in sweeping earri-
ageways.
During the past ten years the
Government has expended nearly
S7O,000,O00 in caring for the Indi-
ans. The total number of Indians
attached to agencies is only 246, 900,
and of these 10000 in Indian Terri
tory, 400 in Wisconsin, and 5000
in New York are supposed to be at
least partially self-supperting.
Last year the Post Office Depart
ment used 81 600 worth of ink for
stamping and cancelhng letters.
The five States of Delaware, Col
GRADE, Florida, Nevada and Oregon
combined have not so great popu-
lation by about 100000 souls as the
city of New York. Yet New York
city has but eight Representatives
in Congress, while the five States
have sixteen, besides their ten SEN
ators.
In the fiscal year ended June 30,
the Governments disbursements for
pensions reached a sum which ex-
ceeds by six millions of dollars the
disbursements for all purposes in
the year 1880.
There are in the railway mail
service fifteen clerks whe draw the
salary of $12 year each.
From the five States of New York
Pennsylvania, Illinois, Massachu-
setts, and Ohio, the Government de-
rives one-half of all its postal reve-
nues.
Last year the Government paid
for several copies of Puck for use o.
department officials.
The Government expended S41,-
220.66 last year for "North Ameri-
can EthnOlogy" fer the Smithsonian
Institution.
1t costs $4,000 q year to light
the Capitol and grounds.
More than one halfof the internal
revenue receipts of the Government
comes from the four States Of Hi
nois, New York, Ohio, and Ken
lucky.
To wait upon the 76 Senators
there are 242 employees, not count
ing police, watchmen, and librarians.
Virginia now has the same num-
Der of Congressman she had in 1890,
when there were only 65 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 4 mills a thousand
Give hundred and eighty nine
dollars for wines, liquors, and min
eral wators for use of Board of Visi-
tors to Naval Academy" is an item
in last years expenditures of the
Government.
The Pension Office cxpehds more
than 100000 a year investigating
alleged pension frauds.
At the Signal Service training
school, Arlington Heights, the stu
dents of meteorology, barometers,
und anemometers are compelled to
leave their study tables in the exact
centre of the room, their hunks in a
certain position in a 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 hundred more
regulations being prescribed
"by order of the Chief Signal Off
cer." Their Sunday dinner is cot
fee, bread, and dried apples stewed.
After having expended more than
a hundred millions of dollars upon
its buildings in this District, the
Government finds Itself paying near
ly $4,000 a month for rent Of pri-
vate buildings.
The Post Office Department uses
worth of wrapping twine a
year.
The thirteen States eff Arkansas,