Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-05-21
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PUBLIC SALARIES.
The Pay Received by som. =,
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49,, eoih,hent Government Official.
The comfortable and hiob-s.Ia,saa
positions OF this land are perhaps not
qu'se so numerous in proportion to the
hummer OF Offices to be held, vet tbev
are respectable in their total a.
course every body knows that the sal-
AIRY OF Cabinet officers is IS, 600 a wear
Next to those perhaps come the Inter.
o.a.e Commerce Commissionersbin
which pays 1880 a year. There are
hVe OF them. There are the nositions
OF Assistant Secretaries in the various
departments. The men who fiji these
places rank next TO the head OF the de-
partments and get from IS 800 to a. 800
salary. There are about a dozen M
these places, and the responsibility IL
great and the work hard. The head
OF The marine hospital service gets
$4,000 so''
The heads OF the various divisions
ana bureaus in the Treasury get from
$z'ooo to $4,000. There about twenty
OF these places. Nine positions as
Assistant Treasurer pay from $4,000
to $4,000. The New York suh-
treasurer gets more than the Treas
urer himself. the salary OF the SUBJ
treasurer being 5000, the same az a
Cabinet officer. Those at Boston and
San Francisco get 5000, the same as
Congressman gets. There are a
pretty good lot OF plums in the inter
nal revenue service. The Commits
sioner gets $4,000 and twenty or more
OF the collectors about $4,000 year.
Inc customs service is equally inter-
esting. The collector OF customs OF
New York gets more than Cabinet
officer, or in fact more than any Gov
eminent official on duty in this coun-
try, except the President and possibly
] the General OF the army and Admiral
OF the navy. His salary Of $l2, 900 per
year makes Coupled with the usual
patronage) that position OF more value
than almost any other in the service
There are dozens more OF customs
collectors whose salaries range from
$4,000 downward. and many other
positions OF about like value.
In the Interior Department there il
an Assistant Secretary at s. 900, head
of the geological survey at Sc, 900
Commissioner OF Railroads and of In
dian Affairs at $4,000 each, Commits
sioner of Education at $1,000. Com
missioner of Patents and Pensions a
$1,000 each, general land Office 81 00t
and assistant commissioners at 81, 00'
and So, 500 each. Then there is al
army OF outside men under the Int
rior Department getting good pay
surveyors general, special agents
registers and receivers. and lot NOR
of them "oo numerous to mention"
In the Post-ollice Department Their
are "favors" for the political germa
in large numbers. The assistant post
master generalships pay 81 900 each
the New York postmaster gets a
much as Cabinet officer. and ther
are about a hundred post-offices pay
ing salaries of from 5000 to 5000
beside lot of good-paying places
the department and on the road g
general agents and that sort of thing
The Post-otfice Department alone ha
about 60. 900 officials, great and small
TO conduct its immense business.
In the Department of Justice is tn
Solicitor-General at $1,000 a year, d
Assistant Acknowledgement at 81
and another at 81. coo. solicitor of il
= ternal revenue at 81, 500, and SO or
} ..nd then the mar-hals and distrit
judges and circuit judges, who al
numbered by the score, and even hui
: dreds and whose salaries run frol
s., 600 to Sc 900.
r The Government printer gets 81, 60'
7 the district commissioners $1,000 eacl
, the secretary of the Senate s., 900, til
sergeant-at-arms 81 1920, clerk of tt
1 House So. 400. librarian of Congre'
: 81 900, private secretaries of the Pre-
=, ident 5000. Civil-Service commi
q sioners So. 500 each, and so on. Ihel
3, are nearly $50. 900 positions under tt
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