Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-05-18
PUBLIC SALARIES.



Prominent Government OfIicials.
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. or
course every body knows that the sal
airy OF Cabinet officers Ia %, 900 year.
Next to those perhaps come the Inter-
State Commerce Commissionership.
which pays $1,000 year. There are
five OF them. There are the positions
OF Assistant Secretaries in the various
departments. The men who fill these
places rank next to the head OF the de-
partments and get from 81. 500 to "a, 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 g. 500. There 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 Treas
urer himself, the salary OF the sub
Treasurer being 5000, the same as
Cabinet officer Those at Boston and
San Francisco get s., 900, the same as
Congressman gets There are
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 "a, 600 year.
The 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 $12. 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 a like value.
In the Interior Department there is
an Assistant Secretary at 81, 900, head
OF the geological survey at $1,000,
Commissioner of Railroads and Of In
dian Affairs at - 900 each, Commits.
sioner of Education at $1,000, Com.
missioner Of Patents and Pensions at
$4,000 each. general land Office 81 600
and assistant commissioners at $4,000
and $500 each. Then there is an
army of outside men under the Inte-
rlor Department getting good pay,
surveyors general, special agents,
registers and receivers, and a lot more
OF them 'ioo numerous to mention"
In the Post-oilce Department there
are "favors" for the political german
in large numbers. The assistant post
master generalships pay "a, 600 each,
the New York postmaster gets as
much as a Cabinet officer, and there
are about IA hundred post-offices pay
ing salaries of from So, GO to 81, 200,
beside lot of good-paying places in
the department and on the road as
general agents and that sort of thing.
The Post-otfice Department alone has
about 600 officials. great and small,
to conduct its immense business.
In the Department of Justice is the
Solicitor-General at $1,000 year, an
Assistant Acknowledgement at $1,000
and another at $1,000, solicitor of in
ternal revenue at $4,000, and so on.
And then the marshals and district
judges and circuit judges, who are
numbered by the score, and even hun
dreds, and whose salaries run from
81, 600 to $6, 900.
The Government printer gets 81, 600,
tho district commissioners S., 900 each.
the secretary OF the Senate 81 900, the
sergeant-at-arms $500 clerk of the
House S., 400. librarian OF Congress
$4,000, private secretaries of the Pres
ident 5000. Civil-Service commits
sioners $3, 500 each, and SO on. There
are nearly 10000 positions under the
Goyernment-N Y Granhio