Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-08-30

receives a salary of $4,000 a year and
up to the present time has had no du-
ties to perform except to travel about
with mis- father, attending social func-
tons and helping in the campaign for
the 1908 nomination, which the tall
gentleman from Indiana is so ardently
pursuing. The secretaTial work is done
by a young man named King in In
dianapolis, who is carried on the rolls
as messenger"
Considerable excitement was caus-
ed some time ago in the legislature OF
Wyoming by a charge made by n of
its members that United States Sem
ator Warren, though a man reputed
to be very wealthy, was carrying his
son on the senate payroll, in the face
of the fact that this same son was a
student at Harvard university, and
could not possibly be rendering secre-
tarial services.
There is hardly a senator of any in
fluence who is not guilty of this par
ticular sort of petty graft. The late
president pro tempore of the senate,
William p. Frye, of Maine, had his
nephew as his secretary. Senator
Lodges son draws a salary as one of
the clerks of his committee. and even
Senator Knox, who is believed to be
| one of the wealthiest men in the sen
ate, has a son on the clerical rolls.
| Senator Gallinger has for some years
past had his son as clerk of his COM
mittee, and Senator Foster has a rela-
tive performing similar service. When
Senator Cockrel left the senate he
took with him to the interstate COM
merce commission a son who had
been on the senatorial rolls. At one
time he had two of his sons in this
branch of the governmental service.
The official list of clerks has a sim
ilarity of names which are familiar to
the country. Senator Burton, of Kan.
sas, has had on the rolls as messen,
ger w. S. Burton, but whether w. S
is wife, daughter or son is not appar
ent. Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, haC
as assistant clerk j. Mitchell Handy
Senator j. Frank Alice, who is chair
man of the committee on organization
> Of the executive department (Which
never has anything to dol has 70
clerk OF that committee J.. f. Alice
jr.; and 1t is amusing to find as mes
senger of that committee Newell Bal
(the other senator from Delaware be
ing Ball.) Senator Tillman, of Mort.
Carolina, and Senator Daniel, OF Vii
ginia, both have their sons on tn
committee payrOlls. r. A. Gamble /
messenger to the committee on trani
%portatiOn routes to the seaboard (aI
n other dead committee), whose chat
man is Senator Gamble OF South d.
kota. There is a nephew also of tn
{ senator on one of the payrOlls. Sc
T. geant at Arms Col. d. NJ. Randall h;
it his son on the pay roll, as has Fina
cial Clerk Nixon, of the senate. Sc
ator Simmons, OF North Carolina. hi
~ a daughter helping to draw the publ
money, and Senator Berry has a so
80 These are a few examples. The
~ are others. Many relatives who
a. names do not show the connection a
~ found Occupation-nominal ~occupati
70 and good salaries in places abe
Vi the capital. And i'm the executive
partments of the government the C,
% dition is worse. Beginning with I
az son OF the secretary of treasury,
IL Gently junketing in Hawaii, and
e. tending down through heads of dix
,e' ions, they all carry from one to f
relatives, by virtue Of their influen
n and il open defiance of the spirit
the merit system and the rules Of
a civil service.