Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-01
ASSISTA NTS TO LEGTSL ATORS.


sentatives, with three hundred and
twenty-five members, has one hundred
and thirty-eight employees, including
clerks of committees and official repOr-
ters of debates. Members who desire
personal clerks must pay them out of
their own pockets. The proportion of
employees to members is one to two and
one-third, and it should be remarked
that the present house has not been
illiberal in providing itself with en-
ployes. There is, of course, no compari-
son between the amount of business
transacted by. the national house Of rep
resentatives and the lower branch Of
the Nebraska legislature, yet the latter
body, consisting of one hundred men,
bers, two years ago had ninety-siX en-
ployes paid by the state, or practically
one for each member. Ii must be APP
parent to everybody that at least one
third of these employees were unneces-
sary, and that every dollar paid them
was wasted. 1t remains to be seeh
whether the lower house of the present
legislature will repeat this wrong to the
taxpayers of Nebraska.
The pay roll of officers and employees
of the last house was made up of N. V.
Harlan, speaker Brad d. Slaughter,
chief clerk; II. M. Cooke. first assistant
clerk; G. w. Newmeyer, second assist
ant clerk; Webb Wheeler, third assist
ant clerk: Grace Slaughter fourth as
sistaut clerk; G. G. Valentine, fifth as
sistant clerk; Emma j. Ayres, stenOg-
rapher; l. N. Thompson, sergeant-at-
arms; Il. E. Doran, assistant SER
geant-at-arms; Peter Van Fleet,
chaplain; Kate Boyle postmis-
tress; Fora Matthews, assistant post
mistress; H. z. Cutting, doorkecper;
Thomas B. Beach and James f. NJ.
Bright, assistant doorkeepers; An
tonette Worthen, enrolling clerk;
Janet Mcdonald, engrossing Gle rk;
Phelps Paine, c. c. Boslow, +. L. Ely,
w. j. Houston, e. NJ. Correll, H. NJ.
Bushnell, C. w. McCune, John A. Mae
Murphy, George Williams, A. l.. Bixby,
p. T.. Spresher, George Dean, A. M.
Henry, G.. B. King, S. ID. Killen, John
Mills, j. Milton Spiece, E. M. Short,
Charles w. White, George Ashburn,
Jennie Briggs, G. ID. Barnes, S. Bentley,
F. l.. Barbour, Emma j. Chester, May
Crawford Gertrude Cutler, Hottie Crom-
we'll, II. NJ. Chapen, Mary Dixon, Emma
Givin, Anna Hawkins, Elsie Ichs, Cora
Mollring, Ida Marsh, Estellc Miller, Lii
liam Pollock, Stella j. Prayer, Rosa
Rodpath, Florence Richardson, Ella
Thorngate, w. l.. Wells and G. Il.
Whitman, committee clerks; Harry G..
Roggen, bill clerk; w. r.. Beam and
| II. S. Corley, assistant bill clerks; Mar
| cell Jay, bill messenger; jennie l.. Car
penter, clerk secretary; Frank Alley,
Edward Butler, w. II. Beam, Frank
Cowdrey, Julia Fuller, Willie Harrison,
| Johnnie Mathieson, William Magher,
| BERTHE Mckee, James Purcell, Dell
| Root, Robert Stevens and Laura Fryon,
pages; AL Fairbrotner, proof reader;
f. w. Russell, copy holder; Fl. ID. Hen
| bricks, mail carrier; Mat Brochen, as
sistant mail carrier; ID. r. Cook and
Daniel Grouse, janitors; |. II. Croley,
David Miller, e. e. O'Brient, G. A.
Tyson and Major Sharpensteen, assistant
janitors; Henry Masterman, ianitor;
j. S. Edwards, custodian committee
room; r.. M. Lytle, custodian cloak
room; M. w. Richards, fireman;
| Emanuel Seaholm, assistant fireman,
and Joseph Blackburn watchman.