Huntsville gazette., 1892-03-19

Total, actual and estimated, $780,
208 IL.
WAR DEPARTMENT.
Number of persons (colored) employed
therein, 173; paid per annum, S115,6S0.
The number Of persons here referred
to are employed solely in the Executive
Department at Washington.
Signal Service Office OF this depart
ment employs one laborer; paid $500.
Grand total of 174; paid S117,34o.
NAVY DEPARTMENT.
The number of persons (colored) en-
ployed in this dep. rsment is Al, 3S Of
whom are paid per annum s25, 1850.
The colored employees are also con-
fined to the Executive Department in
Washington.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.
The number of persons (colored) en-
ployed in this department is 8. and paid
Sc, ,04o.
The colortd employees are also con-
fined to the Executive Department in
Washington.
POSTOFFICE DEPARTMENT.
The total number of colored employees
in this department proper is 20; paid
S49,540.
Total number of such persons in mail
bag repair shops. A.; paid S1s, ,4sO Total,
| S6S, S,020.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.
Whole number Of colored persons in
this department, 81; paid S19,760
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE.
Employs 30 colored persons; paid
| S14,S8O
PUBLIC PRINTING OFFICE.
The Public Printer employs 204 col
ored persons and pays them S13S, S31. Is
per annum.
UNITED STATES SENATE.
Employs 36 colored persons, paying
| them s27,175.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
Capitol police and architects office
employ 81 colored men, and pay them
$50, $50 per annum.
The Librarian of the House is a col
ored man, who receives $1,000 a year
s2, 900 per annum for his services.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS-.
Employs 4 colored persons, and pays
| them 81, 12O per annum.
COMMISSIONERS OF THE DISTRICT.
| As estimated by the Secretary of the
Board of Commissioners, colored per
sons are largely employed (about 1,00o)
| in the District Government in its va
| rious branches OF service, as laborers,
| tendents, assessors, ETC., and in large
numbers, to whom are paid for their
services annually grand total of
| S304, ,42S.
OFFICE OF RECORDER OF DEEDS, d. c.
Upon his regular roll the Recorder of
Deeds employees fourteen colored clerks,
and upon his temporary roll five, max
ing in all nineteen. These clerks are
paid in fees, depending upon the volume
| of business done for the amount paid
| them, earning monthly from $40 to 500.
WASHINGTON CITY PosToFFICE.
Employs sixty-eight colored persons
at tsalaries aggregating $1,000 per an
| mum.
DIPLOMATIC, CONSULAR AND CONGREs-
sIoNAL RECORD.
| Since 1869 sixteen colorel persons
have been appointed to diplomatic and
consular positions by different Repub-
| lican administrations.
President Cleveland appointed three
only-two to Liberia and one to Hayti.
There has been elected to Congress
from several Southern States by the
Republican party two Senators and
fourteen Representatives, colored per-
sons, three of whom are members still
of the House.
No colored Representative and no
Senator has as yet been sent to Congress
by Democratic constituency.
WHAT PRESIDENT HARRISON HAS DONE.
President Harrison appointed Hon.
John R. Lynch, of Mississippi, Fourth
Auditor of the United States Treasury,
in April, 1889. In this Office there are
fifty clerks and four Chiefs Of Divisions
When Mr.. Lynch took charge there was
only one colored man in the Bureau
holding position higher than that Of
laborer. But under Mr.. Lynch's admin
istration there have come into this Office
five colored clerks getting salaries rang
ing all the way from $1,000 to $1,000 a
year, and one colored Chief of Division
with salary of $4,000 year. Four OF
these clerks have been promoted in
grade of work and salary since theil
connection with Mr.. Lynch's Bureau.
Previous to the -administra
tion there had never been colored girl
employed as printers assistant in the
Bureau Of Engraving and Printing, and
when the first one was certified in Feb
ruary, 1890, very vigorous protest was
made by the plate printers against theil
employment. A committee Of Plate
Printers Assembly, X. Of L., waited
upon the Chief of the Bureau, Capt
William M. Meredith, well-known in
indianapolis, and asked him il it was
true that he intended to put a ''coon
girl at work. He informed them thai
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