Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-14

little more entertaining than the average
resident of London In his own social class.
Consul General Gowdy at Paris realized
last year about $4,000; Consul Boyle at
Liverpool. nearly $4,000 Up to some
years ago consular officers retained a pro-
portion of the official fees, which now
returned to the treasury untouched. Liver
pool was then the busiest port of the world
for American commerce, and the fees OF
our consul there often amounted to s25.-
600, equal to the then salary of our Presi-
dent Later the law was passed allowing
eonsuls only their notariai or personal fees
AMI fixing the additional salary.
Best Paying Home Berth
The most lucrative presidential berth in
the home service will probably be within
Mr.. Roosevelts gift this spring. This is
the chief justiceship of the Supreme Court.
with a salary recently raised to $4,000 per
annum. 1t is persistently rumored that
Chief Justice Fuller will resign soon after
March next and that his black silk robe
Will be given yard or two of gusseting at
the seams and a foot two of ruffiing
about the bottom. to make it fit the giant
| figure of Secretary of War Taft. IL this
be true. Mr.. Taft will be the envy of every
| lawyer in the land, for there Is not a mem
Der of the legal profession who would not
rather be chief justice than President. The
formers commission is for life, and after
| he retires he draws his pay. The eight
associate justices of the Supreme Court
receive $4,000 per annum each, and il Is
| not improbable that the President will have
one of their commissions to bestow during
his next administration.
The best-paying home berth within reach
of the layman is that of the collector of the
port of New York. The salary attached Is
81, coo, which Is clear gain. for there no
social duties required by tie office. 1t is
more than double the pay of a United
States senator and a half again as much as
that of the Vice President of the United
States. There are 123 collectorships of Gus
toms in the gift of the President ana these
pay from the figure above named to $1,000
per year. Those at Philadelphia and Bos-
ton receive the vice presidential salary OF
5000; that at San Francisco 5000. At
several other ports the pay is $1,000 and
5000
Another Treasury Prize.
Under the Treasury Department there are
in all 702 presidential offices, including those
just named. The assistant treasurer of the
United States at New York receives
| much as the Secretary of the Treasury him
self, WIS, 00o and he need not set up a
swell establishment for social eelat or buy
his wife a new gown every time she appears
| In the lime light. The other eight assist
ant United States treasurers receive 5000
and $4,000. In the minis and assay offices
there are twenty-siX presidential offices
paying from s., 600 to 81, 500, and then there
are sixty -seven in the internal revenue serv-
| ice, almost all of whom receive $500.
Forty-fve surveyors of customs and six
naval officers of customs. all receiving high
salaries are part of this presidential pat
f>ronage in the treasury, also 25S Off
GERS of the revenue cutter service and 100
ofhcers or the public health and marine
| hospital service. The revenue cutter service,
however, is a quaisi-naval organization and
| appointments are practically for life, the
same being true of the public health and
| marine hospital service, whose commissions
are given only to physicians, who must pass
! a rigid medical examination.
Under the Interior. Department there are
81 presidential berths none of them de-
voutly to be wished for. In the general
| land service there are 252. including
veyors general. receiving $1,000 to sl,S00:
registers and receivers of the general land
office, 49, GOO to ST. 200. In the Indian service
there are al commissioners, paying from
| $1,000 to $l,S00 only. Then there are IS
pension agents receiving $4,000.
The other executive departments offer
| but comparatively meager assortment OF
presidential plums. In the Department of
| Commerce and Labor there are Al. only one
of those paying more than $6,O00 year-the
dictatorship of the census, which pays ST.
| 500. Six bureau chiefs receive $780, the
remainder as low $500. In the War De-
| partment there are presidential offices; in
the Navy Department, 3; Department OF
Agriculture, 3. These figures of course in
clude the cabinet officer at the head of each
department, who receives 5000, and the
assistant cabinet officers, who draw from
$1,000 to $1,000 but almost all of whom
ceive 81. 500.
Many Berths for Lawyers.
! Under the Department of Justice there Is
a large batch of presidential offices. There
are, at the head of the list, a solicitor gem
eral- receiving $500; an assistant to the
Attorney General, receiving 81 900; six as
sistant attorneys general. drawing from
$4,000 to $1,000; two solicitors at 81 500 and
$4,000. Then there are eighty-six United
States district attorneys, one assigned 10
each federal judicial district. The pay of
these attorneys ranges anywhere from q
fiat salary of 600 to fees. 1t has been
stated that the fees of the attorney for the
district including New York city have at
times amounted to 500 900. All of these
positions in the Department of Justice thus
far mentioned can be had by lawyers only
but in addition there are eighty-six United
States marshaiships. open to laymen. and
paying generally from 2,5C0 to "a 600.
Some tempting presidential ''plums'' are
also to be found among the various federal
commissions. The five interstate commerce
commissioners, for instance, receive 81 800
each; Spanish-American claims commits
sioners, 5000; members of the commits
sion to codify the penal laws, 5000. and
members of the civil service commission.
So. 500.
Have Plums for Keeps.
Many presidential offices, which may be
refilled every four years, have become to be
regarded as practically permanent because
demanding the services of specialists Such
is the office of librarian of Congress- which
pays S60G0; also those of the heads of the
various scientific and educational bureaus
who draw generally 50 zoo
Under the Judiciary, in addition to the
Supreme Court of the United States there
are many presidential offices, but none of
these are patronage positions, appointment
being for life, and removal being possible
only after Impeachment by the House of
Representatives and conviction by the SEN
ate. But several vacancies in the judiciary
occur during each administration, the Pres
ident than having a chance to give some
lawyer of note a life berth Besides the
nine justices of the Supreme Court there
are twentyseven circuit judges, receiving
$1,000 each and eightysX district judges,
receiving $1,000 each.
Other life appointments continually being
made by the President those of mid
shipmen in the Naval Academy at An
napolis and of cadets at the Military Acad-
envy, West Point. These young men are
promoted to be officers of the navy and
army and continue to draw pay after they
are retired on account of age. The President
may appoint seven midshipmen each year.
At-West Point there are forty appointments