The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1889-05-16
PUBLIC sAEARIES.
The Pay Received by Some Of the More
Prominent Goversment OfEiciais.

Prominspt Goverssment OmcinIs.
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. OIL
course every body knows that the sal
airy OF Cabinet, officers is $8, 900 a year.
Next to those perhaps come the Inter-,
State Commerce Commissionership
which, pays II, 800 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 -. 500 to "a, 500
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
sc, 900.
The heads of the various divisions
and bureaus in tho Treasury get from
1850 to 1880. There about twenty
OF these places. Nine positions as
Assistant Treasurer pay from $1,000
to $1,000. The New York sub
Treasurer gets more than the Treas
urer himself, the salary OF the sub
Treasurer being $4,000, the same as a
Cabinet officer. Those at Boston and
San Francisco get $1,000, the same as
a Congressman gets There are a.
pretty good lot of plums in the inter-
nal revenue service. The Commits
sioner gets Sc, 900 and twenty or more
OF the collectors about $4,000 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 salaryof s$12. 600 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
| $1,000 downward. and many other
positions of about like value.
In the Interior Department there is
| an Assistant Secretary at "a, 900, head
of the geological survey at sc, 600,
|. Commissioner of Railroads and of In
dian Affairs at $4,000 each. Commits
sioner of Education at 5000, Com
missioner of Patents-an 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 Into
=rier@Depaetm ent~gget tin gg-geed @passEs.
surveyors general, special agents,
registers and receivers, and lot more
of them ''too numerous to mention"
In the Post-office Department there
are ..favorsn for the political german
in large numbers. The assistant post
master generalships pay s. 900 each,
the New York postmaster gets as
much as Cabinet officer. and there
are about hundred post-offices pay
ing salaries of from So, 900 to $4,000.
beside a lot of good-paying places in
| the department and-on4 the road as
general agents and that sort of thing.
'fhe Post-office Department alone has
about &c, 600 officials, great and small,
TO conduct it's immense business
1 In the Department OF Justice is the
| Solicitor-Gen at 81, 900 year, an
Assistant Acknowledgement at 5000
and anothe. at $4,000, solicitor of in
ternal revenue at 81. 500, 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 $4,000.
The Government printer gets 81, 60os
the district commissioners S.. 000seach,
the secretary of the Senate 81, 900, the
sergeant-at-arms $4,S20, clerk of the
House s., 400, librarian of Congress
$4,000, private secretaries of the Pres
ident 5000. Civil-Service commits
sioners So, 500 each, and SO on. There
are nearly 100000 positions under the
Government.---N. Y. Graphic.