The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-03-20
Mistellanp.
PHblic Salaries.

The comfortable and high-salaried
! positions of this land are perhaps not
quite so numerous in proportion to the
number of offices to be held, yet they
are respectable in their total. OF course
everybody knows that the salary of
cabinet officers is So 900 a year. Next
to those, perhaps, come the interstate
commerce ommissionerships, which
pay 81 800 year. There are five of
them. There are the positions of as
sistant secretaries in the various de-
partments. The men who fill these
places rank next to the heads of the de-
! partments and get from 81, 500 to S4 800
salary. There are about dozen of
these places, and the responsibility is
! great and the work hard. The head of
the marine hospital service gets 5000.
! The heads of the various divisions and
bureaus in the treasury get from $4,000
! to "a 800. There are about twenty of
these places. Nine positions as assistant
treasurer pay from $4,000 to $4,000.
The New York sub-treasurer gets more
than the treasurer himself, the salary
of the sub-treasurer being $4,000, the
same as that of cabinet officer. Those
at Boston and San Francisco get So 900,
the same as congressman gets. There
are pretty good lot of plums in the
! internal revenue service. The COM
missioner gets $4,000, and twenty or
more of the collectors about S4 900
year. The customs service is equally
interesting. The collector of customs
OF New York gets more than a caoinet
oflicer-or, in fact, more than any gov
ernment official on duty in this country,
except the president, and possibly the
general of the army and admiral of the
navy. His salary of $4,000 per year
makes Coupled with the usual patron
age) 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 down.
ward, and many other positions of
about like value. In the interior de-
partment there is an assistant secretary
at 81 900, head of the geological survey
at $1,000, commissioner of railroads and
of Indian affairs at 81 900 each, COM
missioner of education at So 600, COM
missioner of patents and pensions at
So 900 each, general land Office at 81 900
and assistant commissioners at So 1000
and 5000 each. Then there is an
al my VI OulSluC lltn luG luItTlOT
department getting good pay, surveyors
general, special agents, registers and
receivers, and lot more of them I" too
numerous to mention" In the post
Office department there are "favors :"
for the political German in large num-
bers. The assistant postmaster-ge
eralships pay 81 900 each, the New
York postmaster gets as much as a
cabinet officer, and there are about a
hundred post-otlices paying salaries of
from $4,000 to $4,000, beside lot of
good-paying places in the department
and on the road as general agents and
that sort of thing. The post-office de-
partment alone has about 10000 Off
Gals, great and small, to conduct its
immense business. In the department
of justice is the solicitor-general at
81 900 a year, an assistant attorney
general at 5000 and another at S4 900,
solicitor of internal revenue at 81 800,
and so on. Then come the marshals
and district judges and circuit Judges,
who are numbered by the score, and
even hundreds, and whose salaries run
from 81 800 to $4,000. The government
printer gets $4,000, the district COM
missioners $4,000 each, the secretary
of the senate $1,000, the sergeant-at-
arms "a 800, clerk of the house S., 400,
librarian of congress $4,000, private
secretary of the president $4,000, civil
service commissioners $500 each, and
so on. There are nearly $50 900 posi-
tions under the government, and at
least 100000 hearts are flip-tlapping in
expectation of the - grand bounce " at
an early date.-NeW York Graphic.