The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-10
work One Day in Thirty.

work One Day in Thirty.
In preparing to oppose the bill increasing
the salaries of revenue cutter officers
Representative Mann has studied the rec
ordS of the treasury department with
great care He says he found out some
very interesting things about the hours
of work demanded of revenue cutter en-
ployes. The department has reports
which show the actual time when
the vessels are under steam, and these
reports, he finds, show that the hard
worked officers generally work about one
day in thirty. in one instance a vessel
supposed to be in active service was I'M
der steam just ffty-eight minutes during
the month. An average of forty-eight
hours month for the forty-one vessels
in the service is what the records show.
fluff hunting is what Representative
Mann designates as one of the chief pur-
poses of the bill to promote efficiency
-. yhe revenue cutter service The meas
ure seens to give engineers the rank Of
lieutenant and to make captains in the
revenue cutter service rank with lieuten-
AM commanders in the navy, and with
majors in the army. I'VE have never
heard any reason or necessity in the SER
vice offered as an excuse for this prop
osition," says Mr.. Mann. 1t is simply
tuft hunting. 1t is not sufficient they
think, that a captain in the revenue cut
sufficient to provide by law that he shall
rank with a major, but they must pile on
more dignity and gold lace, and insist
that he shall also rank with lieutenant
commander in the navy. Usually, when
an officer has much work to perform.
one title is sufficient; but captain IN the
revenue cutter service, if this bill be-
comes a law, ought to be designated as
caDtain-maior-lie utenant-cOmmander. 1t
is strange to us how such Stiffness can
receive serious consideration in congress-
one man who appeared before the com
mittee to urge the passage OF TINS Dlll
stated that the members of the service
were required by the government TO BUY
many suits of clothes, and that one OF the
e,uits alone cost $500. Representative
Mann saws this would argue that the SER
1-ioa is maintained for show purposes
mainly. and in that view of the case the
,eason is a good one for raising the sala-
res.
Favor District OF Columbia
According to a statement just issued
nv the civil service commission the DIS
trict of Columbia gets much more IMAM
its share of appointments in the govern
ment departments The law requires that
the places be apportioned to the states
and territories according to the popula-
ton But it would appear mat the closer
the state or territory the better the
chance of its citizen for a job. The Dis
trict Of Columbia is credited with oil
appointments though entitled to twenty
eight Maryland is entitled to 119, but
has 2l Illinois is entitled to 4S2. but
has only 361 Minnesota is entitled to
l75 but has only 10. California is enti-
tied to 14S and has but 109.
The cost of printing $500 copies of the
Schley case proceedings is estimated by
the public printer at $52lS.
There is a new Mr.. Gaines in congress.
In addition to the Hon. John Wesley
Gaines of Tennessee-whom not to have
heard is to argue oneself never present
at a session of the house of representa-
tives-there is Joseph Holt Gaines, of
West Virginia He comes from Charles
ton. is a Republican. and graduated from
Princeton university. He was appointed