Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1901-08-30


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While the census officials are invest-
eating the cases of clerks who are EN-
ployed in another department as well as
that branch, some of the War Depart
ment employees would be glad to see at
tention called to favoritism which per
mits certain army officers on the retired
list to draw two salaries, n from the
military pay roll and the other as an
employee Of the civilian branch of the
government. One such officer is IA re-
tired captain, who was transferred from
the active list IN account of disability.
He receives $2,1O0 a year from the gov
eminent as a retired army officer, render-
ing no service whatever for this salary,
and he gets nearly as much from the PEN
sion office, where he discharges every
day, to the satisfaction of the Commits
sioner of Pensions, the clerical duties de-
volving upon him, despite the fact thae
he was deemed incapacitated for active
duty in the army. Another case of dual
employment is that Of an officer, retired
with the rank Of major, and who has
been employed as civil engineer by the
corps of engineers.
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Even the President of the United
States is not paid in advance. Probably
in view of the fact that the United
States Treasurer believes he earns his
salary, the Chief Executive does not
have to wait until the first and middle
Of each month to receive it. as govern-
e employees do. The President is he
only official of the United States govern
ment who is paid on Il direct individual,
warrant from the Treasury Department.
Each month in the year President Nc
Kinley receives by mail a warrant COW
cring the money he has earned as his
salary. The Treasury officials divide the,
salary into four quarters of $12,5OO each,
and under the aw could not under any
circumstance exceed that, but they pay,
the President practically the same salary
every month in the year, no matter
whether the month is a long or shot one.
Flo w months of each quarter the
Presidents check is drawn for $4,1G6.67,
but the other month sees the check re-
duced to $4,166.66.
The United States will claim about
$4,000, the amount of an insurance poli-
cy on the life Of the late Capt. Howgate,
who embezzled thousands of dollars from
the United States while Chief Signal Of
ficer, and which policy was kept up for
twenty years by his daughter, Ida. who
never believed he was dead. Howgate
died in Washington last June. Miss How
gate spent about 5000 in this practical,
as we'll as loving. work. Recently she
asked for powers Of administration on
the estate. The power has been granted.
The court will allow her the $500, but it
is understood the government will take
the rest. Miss Howgate must give bond
for $4,000, to guarantee the faithful per-
Torrance of her duties as administrators.
If she had not kept the policy alive she
could have saved the 5000 in some other
way and the government would not have
received a cent. 1t is alleged that this
insurance policy is all the property left
by Capt. Howgate.
Wal Department officials are deter
mined to interfere with the traffic in chill
dren which has been going on in certain
parts of the Philippines, constituting one
of the gravest problems with which army
officers in that section have to deal. Re-
ports received at the Wal Department
say the traffic is confined to the natives
in the departments of Mindanao and Jo-
10. The traffic comes as a result of the
~improvidcnce of the people, and families
who are bitten by famine do not hesitate
to seek relief by the sale of their chill
lrop Moi T 9 Da+tt Efrst INFANTRY, .
formerly colonel of the T%hirty-first Vol
Second District in that department, says,
however, that he has about broken up
the traffic, which has been going on in
children Of the Tirenarya, a degenerate
race south of Cattabado.
The pressure upon the Commissioner Of
Internal Revenue from banking institu-
tons for the return of checks turned in
under the provisions of the act repeating
the stamp tax is growing so strong that
in self-defense he has been compelled to,
issue an appeal for time to apply to Con-
gress for relief. 1t appears that the cost
of engraving, printing and binding the
checks issued under the wal revenue tax
law was so great that the banks, as a
matter of economy, are demanding that
the checks, after the stamps have been
redeemed, be returned for further use.
It is represented that the stamps i'm
printed upon them can be cancelled and o
great saving worked. The commissioner
of internal revenue is without authority
to act, and requests that he be given time
to go to Congress for relief.
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July exports were larger than in July
of any previous year, and the imports
were larger than those of July in any
year since 1895. The figures Of the for
eign commerce of the United States dur
ing the month Of July show total im-
ports of the month, $72,S97,OS7, total ex-
ports, $1O9,O31.15S; excess Of exports
over imports, $36,134,O71, OF considera-
bly, more than 100000 per day.
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There is CONSERVATION in department
circles over the discovery that govern