The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-14
LOADED WITH BARNACLEs.

Salaries of Government Officials
Run on Forever in These Days.
Under the generous conduct of af-
fairs in Congress, the generosity being
with the money in the public treasury,
no salary is allowed to lapse. If, for
example, a, member of Congress dies
let us say in January-hiS successor.
elected in the following November and
taking his seat in December, draws pay
for all the time from the moment that
the angel of death called his predeces-
SCR to his final account. The capitol
building at Washington is overrun
with appointees, at high salaries, that
are not needed. An experienced Wasni
ington correspondent recently estimat-
ed that 100000 annually could be
saved by dispensing with appointees
and Injuries without which the public
service would not suffer. Even if this
should turn out to be an overestimate
it is certain that a very large saving
could be and ought to be made.
The truth Is that the government is
looked upon as good thing by the
politicians, and the Holmans and other
cheese parers" who would lower the
dignity of our great government by
making it parsimonious. The more Of
fees there are the more patronage
there is. The candidate who offers to
promise economy as an inducement to
elect him is laughed at as tenderfoot.
He is advised that he cannot have too
many appointments with which to
gain the favor of congressman. The
clerk. sergeant-at-arns. doorkeeper
and postmaster only appoint their sub
ordinateS nOminally.
Barnacleism RACES in the Senate as
widely as it does in the House. The
Senate is notorious for never yielding
patronage. The two branches of Con-
gress are jointly and co-ordinately re-
sponsiTble.
Only a few examples of extrava gance
will be cited in this article. Two post
offices. each with a postmaster and
corps of clerks, are maintained at the
capitol The delivery Of mail at both
ends could be accomplished from one
office. Indeed, the work might be done
from the Washington city office at
great saving. All of the four offices we
have named in this connection, and
which are to be filled today, have as
siStantS largely in excess of the actual
requirements.
There are doorkeepers enough to
make a large police force for a smart
town. They are paid fancy annual
salaries, and for at least half the time
Cney nave uIOlullS " uO. -GQuSHIly
two of them serve ait one door at the
same time. with reserve forces to take
their places when the sessions of
either house are protracted. Not a
theatre doorkeeper in the length and
breadth of the land gets as much
money as one Of these congressional
''doorbangers;" though, of course, the
theatre man has much the greater re-
sponsibility.
Boys acting as pages are paid $3.50
day, though there are hundreds of
equally intelligent and reliable boys of
the same age working in private occu-
pations and rendering much more SER
vice at So week. These are but a
few items, but they illustrate the ex-
travagance that prevails throughout
the capitol, and, in addition to this, the
whole tremendous list Of officers and
employees is voted an extra months
pay at nearly every session Of Con-
gress.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
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