Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-09
FOLKS IN OFFICE.
Mr.. Dockery's Commission Makes
Another Report.
RELATIVES ON THE PAY ROLLS.
Statistical information About the
Departmental Service.
NEARLY $4,000 EMPLOYEES.

In the House today Mr.. Dockery made
another report Of the work of the depart
mental joint commission consisting of Rep
resentatives Dockery, Richardson of Tennes-
see and Dingley and Senators Cockrell
Jones of Arkansas and Cullom. The report
is as follows:
The joint commission appointed under a
provision Of the legislative, executive. and
judicial appropriation act approved March
3. 1893 submit herewith for the Information
of Congress statements from the several ex-
ecutive departments and other government
establishments at the national capital. pre-
pared by the heads thereof. pursuant to in
QuirieS addressed to them by the commits
sion through letters under date of May "a.
1888. The information as to each department
or establishment is furnished as of date of
May "a. 1893. except as to the Post Office De-
partment and fish commission. which is
furnished as of date July /, 1893.
The statement as to each executive de-
partment and government establishment
shows the number and title of offices and
bureaus and divisions thereof: the number
OF persons authorized to be employed there
in; their sex: their ages; the number of
years each has been employed therein; the
number who entered the public service un-
/.
the number of persons employed as clerks or
otherwise and paid more than $40 per an
mum who are doing duty appertaining to
the positions OF messengers. assistant mes
sengers or laborers; the number of messen-
gers. assistant messengers, watchmen or
laborers who are doing clerical duties an
pertaining to higher salaried Offices: and the
number OF persons employed who have
wives, husbands. brothers. sisters, sons,
daughters or other relatives EMPLOYED there
IN or IN other government establishments
in Washington
The Information given applies to the eight
executive departments, stated in the chron-
illogical order of their establishment under
the Constitution. and to the twelve other
government establishments at the national
capital, namely.
Executive Departments: Department of
State. Department of War Department of
the Treasury. Post ONCE Department De-
partment of Justice. Department Of the
Navy, Department of the Interior. Depart
ment Of Agriculture.
Other government establishments: De-
partment of Labor. Civil Service Commits
SION. Flsh Commission. Interstate Com
merce Commission. Government Printing
ONCE. Library of Congress. Government of
the District of Columbia. Under the Smith
sonian Institution: National Museum. Bu-
rean OF International Exchanges. National
Geological Park Astrophysical Observatory
and Bureau Of Ethnology.
Nearly 1S,oO0 Employees.
- oN'NAoi VI all OF Cnc reports
from the foregoing departments and govern
ment establishments is made. 1t shows.
That they are divided into a3s Offices or
bureaus and 49s divisions: that there are
1859 persons employed therein; II ,6s7 males
and 5.63I females. being approximately
6,l2s more than are specifically appropriated
for. as shown in the report Of the Joint COM
mission made to the Senate and House. Sep
ternber 80. 1893. and who are authorized by
and paid from general appropriations
That Of the number employed i'm the
eight executive departments, the depart
ment of labor civil service commission and
hsh commission, which are under the civil
service law, SOY are in the class subject to
competitive civil service examination pre-
liminary to appointment. and that 3265 of
that number entered the service after such
examination. The residue. 4.162. were EN-
pioyed In the departments at the time they
were classified and placed under the civil
service law by executive order.
That II persons are employed doing duty
as messengers. assistant messengers or
labCrers and paid more than $50 per an
mum, the maximum compensat ton for such
service. That 81 messengers assistant mes
sengers, watchmen or laborers are employ
ed doing clerical duties appertaining to
higher salaried offices. That the ages of
those employed stated in multiples of five
years range from twenty years to ninety
years That the length of service of all
employees ranges from one year to sixty
years each. And that of the whole number
employed $50 have from one to nine rela-
tives each in the government service at
Washington. There are fifty disbursing
Offices of the government in Washington,
and nineteen OF them are conducted by
persons connected with certain charitable
institutions in the District of Columbia
who serve without compensat ton. The re-
manning thirty-one, after emitting there
from the officials who have other duties to
perform or who receive no compensation as
disbursing officers, employ l07 persons at
an aggregate annual ccst of $l6l, ,0033.
Relatives I'm Office.
The following table as 20 relatives in Of
fice'' is given.
Total in the executive departments and
other government establishments at the ma
tional capital having relatives employed
in government service in Washington: