The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-06-09

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Besides this regular pay roll. on June l

Besides this regular pay roll. on June /
there were the following also employed:
Ofice boy. 80 . month: two labosers, S150
day each: gardener. 32Aa day: scrub woman.
IS week: three women to attend fruit and
agricultural exhibits. Si.5o . day each: man 10
attend the mining display. = 50 . day.
Add the total Of, say $50 month, to
the $2,5l5 and there Is . grand total of
$2,si5 month for pay roll alone. Com.
missioner Rochester il the authority for
stating that If every dollar Of debt were
paid by the commission and all its re-
sources drawn upon the actual amount OF
money on hand would h less than 5000.
As can easily be seen this 10 less than two
months salaries alone, without counting
the bills for gas and other incidental and &C.
cidenta! expenses. To properly understand
the raison d'efre of such large staff il will
be necessary to know that beside the state
building itself there are six other exhibits
which must be attended to. These are
booths in Agricultural building, Mining
building. Horticultural hall, Fisheries.
Forestry and Transportation buildings.
Still, while this staff was more or less
necessary during the arduous work of in
staliation, the staff could easily be cur.
tailed. At least three Of the commission.
ers in attendance could be dispensed with
or at least 50 utilized that the services of
other men could be abolished. There il
no reason why all five commissioners
should make their headquarters IN the
State building. Ifthe executive commits.
sioners remained there and the other five
distributed themselves among the other six
sections. the services Of 50 many men
could certainly be done away with and
salaries amounting to at least $500 month.
Rochester, whose Office Of assistant execu.
tive commissioner was abolished last meet
ing. has already taken charge of three de.
par.ments-forestry. fisheries and trans
portation. Three men are altogether un-
necessary IN the agricultural department
and no one can understand why anyone
should be stationed in the art department.
II Is poor picture that cannot
explain itself. The same may be said
of several other departments where. the
work Of installation being complete, there
is nothing to be done but to sit down and
look wise. This criticism does not apply
to the press agent. No man connected
with the commission has done so much
work from which good results have been
obtained as Ed Meany. 1t will only be
necessary TO say that he has 90 papers
outside of the state Of Washington which
print his weekly letters to illustrate the
amount of work he gets through.
AS the dispatches to the Fosr-IsrEtIr-
oEscrR from Jackson park have all along
shown, DR.. Calhoun has been OF the opin.
ION that the other commissioners should
not draw 500 a month. In his last fiuan.
nj "a inA
duction OF salaries. In the cases of thu
commissioners this will mean $50 a month
instead of $40. While Percy Rochester
has accepted the situation he is sore. very
sore. and does not hesitate to say that men
should be paid by deserts, not by favor.
He. as Chairman of the finance committee
has refused to sign Cavanaugh's bill for
arrears of salary, claiming he has not done
the WORK The claim amounts to some.
thing between 500 aud 500. State Audi.
Tor GRIMES has refused TO handle IL until
i. - %. kd.," ana so there is q great deal
Of unpleasan;ness generated over the mat
ter.
The majority Of tie United States cir
cui. court today decided tha, the World.
far must close on Sundays. Judges Wood
and Jenkins ordered that an Injunction be
issued restraining the officials from open-
ing the gates Of the fair grounds. Judge
Grosscup disscnscd. recommending that
the injunction applied for by the United
States district attorney be no. granted.
be decisions OF Judges Wood and Jenkins.
though reaching the same point in view in
the end, take action on widely diyerging
grounds and the dissenting opinion differs
radically from both. The court rooms
where crowded when the decision Vas
Rad
Judge Wood read his own opinion, in
which be concluded ths. Jackson Park
~as lawfully devoted for exposition pur-
poses and that the exposition had been. in
fact. sarned over 20 the control OF the
Federal government by the local corpora.
ton. and tast ITS control Was therefore as
absolute IS It's control OF the Federal baild-
ing lie held tha, the Sunday closing rule
having once been passed by the local diree-
tory and approved by the national COM