The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-07-16

/ our readers up TO August l and upon the
presentation of this article-Cut it out and
! save il.
again. lie found he could not do the
/ work and he went home, and you Il see in
those papers a telegram. The tele-
gram referred to is from Congressman
March 80 1900.
&c w L. MatheUs-McDoweH Is here and
will appoint man Ridley may bring mere,
providing he can do the work satisfacto-
Tily- THOMAS 5 BUTLER %. "a
After he brought the man neither one
could do the work. and he wanted to get
me to substitute for him and ! would not
agree, but they forced ne SC strongly vi
liam and myself virtually agreed between
ourselves we would give $l6 month and
pay that tpGether-William works with
me-but he would not agree to that-UuIess
we give him $50 and that We would not
agree to so he went back and saw Mr..
Butler and the Clerk OF the House, ! sup
pose, and the Clerk came down on the
18th Of Aprll and told us to give him $40
apiece Il month
Mr.. Overstreet: Who came and told
you2
| BY the chairman:
@ That is a pretty serious matter
/ Are you suTc2-A- l am as sure as / am
| that l am sitting in this chair
% Mr.. Mcdowell came himself.
And told William and myself to give that
man 80 apiece
I
| April and I made the date Of il
% Was Ridley colored ANA. Yes
| sir
! o. How long old he do any work in the
| bathroom "A. He did not do a lick there
| o Did he work there a day2-Not half
an hour.
@ What led you 10 pay this money
| when you knew It belonged to you?-A
/ ] had orders to do it. and ] was afraid not
/ TO do il because was afraid of losing the
| place
! % How much did you pay altogether?
/ A We paid him $3.50 l paid $50 and
/ William $50 opp. $3.50
| Attached to Mr. Richardson's testimony
/ are thirteen letters from Ridley The
| first three letters. written in April and
/ May. 1900. demand $50 a month and con-
/ tain threats Of ''harsher methods" Two
/ letters written in June promise Richard
son that if he will secure Ridley a 81 400
! job the money viii be refunded The last
! letters are dunning letters demanding the
payment of SD which was finally stopped
4 The final letter, January 80, 1901, says. I
{ VIII be compelled 10 appeal to higher au
/ thorities If you persist in refusing 10 send
/ the sum" Thus these poor negroes, Rob
/ ert and William Richardson, were de
/ prived Of 1856. besides the four months
/ wages previously paid to Wood, and
! neither Wood nor Ridley ever appeared IN
| the bathroom at all
! Another remarkable case Of division of
/ salaries is that Of Mr. Awards in res
| pect to which the MOODY Committee re-
ports as follows:
: Dennis Z. Award entered the employ
/ Of the House in April. 1896 as Superin-
/ tendent Of the Document Room at a sal
/ airy of 5000 Pc annum, and remained in
/ that position until the beginning Of the
special session Of the Fifty-ffth Con-
gross. During this period, by arrange
/ ment between the respective Members Of
the House. from whose districts the en-
I pIOyeS came, he paid at the rate Of 500
per annum to the use of oscar ] Hill
Z folder, serving as messenger at the main
{ door At the special session Of the Fly
/ ty-tifth Congress. Mr. Award became one
[ OF the reading clerks OF the House At
/ salary Of $3.50. and had continued IN that
{ position Until the present time During
I The two years OF the Fifty-fifth Congress,
! ne raid Mr.. Robinson ldisbursiug clerk
by some understanding the origin of
/ which is uncertain. the sum OF 1900 per
| described chat IS. Of paying persons
not on the roll OF increasing the conpen-
! Satiou Of persons VINO were on the rolf
@. VIII
Mr. Award thus testifies to the circum-
stances under which he gave the money:
% To whom did you pay the money
{ ThvSicaIIy2-A 7 gave the money 10 MI
/ GiIIct. asking him 10 hand II over q"
Mr. GiIlet said. Now. | do not make any
demand on you. or anything OF tnat KIND
: /
( young man to whom certain promises
/ have been made, and YOU have come IN
+ here and are getting this money As /
I said il ran along seine tirne-two or three
weeks I guess-wheu finally ] said TO
Mir. GHIet. Now / will give this young
/ man SO much II amounted to
$500 year, but I said. I do not want
to have anything to do with the young
/ man, at all" tp. 6l-)
Mr.. Award therefore. had the money
intended for the man in question handed
| directly 10 Congressman GiIlet- tof New
York;
Mr. Robinson. the bank president
! testilies that Award endorsed his salary
check to him Robinson saw that Award
! got s2ey1 Of his own salary, that one A
/ g Smith got 81 30, and that the 500 re
naming went with other voluntary con-
tributious" 10 one McMichad. He adds:
u wish to state here that I did not
/ know that there was any improperly IN
| the matter, and that what was done was
/ done with no other object or with any
other idea than that II was right ana
I proper tp- 10
Robinson afterward became very much
confused in his statements regarding
these payments and finally 1t was ascer-
tanned that part Of Smiths salary went
in turn to one Abram Setley, who was
| carried on the roll at 500 as messenger,
but who was to receive 1920 o. 49,
M Glenn, the Doorkeeper, testities that
at one time some OF Awards money was
paid TO one oscar J. Hill Hill appears
TO have been prudent and thrifty IN the
matter Of his own compensation, for
Glenn testifes:
y. Did he also get anything in the
/ Deficiency bin? A Yes, sir He got his
2, bin through He was at the top of the
list aQd-it went through
4 c Smith. who himself at one time
paid 500 q year out of his salary OF $l.05V
does not know who got the money II
was either Mr. Award or some one
else" He does not remember when ines
payments ceased, nor during how mucI
Of the time he got $l4Gt0, or how much
! $3.50. %. no.
Under the remarkable system in force
in this branch Of the service. not only Is
there no record OF the net compensation
which an cmpIoyc actually receives. but
the empIoye is often deprived Of his
memory as TO how mucP he gets and how
? much he pays to others.
Upon the subject Of division of salaries
the Clerk Of the House testified as fol
J | lows:
Salaries have been divided for years
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