The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-12

the business. They should not ask
the legislature to appropriate any
money to help pay MS salary, and
they should not allow him to do any
work for any other department or
board than the one for which he is
employed-the internal improvement
board.
The present secretary and treasurer
of this board, in addition to his regu-
lar duties as such secretary and treas
urer, and clerk in the comptroller's
Office, is also the mayor of the city
of Tallahassee, and there is no doubt
but that his full time is occupied.
The board employees chief clerk
of the salesman's Office at salary OF
eighteen hundred dollars per annum,
a clerk at a salary Of fifteen hundred
dollars per annum, another clerk at
a salary of twelve hundred dollars per
annum, and a stenographer at sal
ary of nine hundred dollars per an
mum.
The secretary and treasurer has his
desk in the cOmptroller's office, the
chief clerk and the fifteen-hundred'
doIIar-clerk IN the Office of the COM
missioner of agriculture, the twelve
Observation-Disclosures in the land once
at Gainesville, and the stenographer
in the comptro1ler's office. The clerk
in the office o. Commissioner McLln has
until recently been receiving only one
hundred dollars per month, but the
last item of this particular clerk in
the report of the board for 1916
showed a salary of one hundred ana
twenty-five dollars per month, and 1t
is presumed his salary was raised al
that time from twelve hundred to tif-
teen hundred dollars per year.
There is no place provided for the
officials of the internal improvement
board in the capitol building at ITALIA
hassee and, as shown above, they are
not all working in the same office.
This has been the custom for many
wears. but we believe that separate
place should be provided for them in
the building and that their work
should be separated from that OF me
other departments.
1t will doubtless be commended mat
the work of these men are so closely
connected with the departments tilac
it will be necessary for them to have
their desks in these Offices, but il they
are in the building with the heads Of
these departments it could make but
little difference.
From the statement it will be seen
that the board has been paying for
janitor's services for salesman and
secretary" The salesman, or chief
clerk, has his desk in Commissioner
McLin's office, and the secretary has
his desk in Comptroller Croon:'s Of
flee. and as We have been lead TO be-
lieve that the janitor's services Tor
these two departments was provided
for in the general appropriation bill.
we fail TO see what cause there was
for this item, unless there must have
been some special busting or polish
ing of these two particular desks
The Journal would suggest that the
next legislature divide the woik OF
this board, snd separate them entire
" from the other cabinet officers, so
far as the clerical work being done m
their departments is concerned. Let
the secretary of state provide for them
a separate suite of rooms in the
capitol building, and when the people
are in a position to judge of the amount
and nature of the work done by these
men, they can better Judge of the just
ness of the salaries paid them, ana
the expenses allowed under their ii-
rection and supervision. The secre-
tary and treasurer, the chief clerk,
the stenographer and other clerks CT
this board should be provided with
separate apartments AMI should not
be allowed, or compelled. to perform
any clerical work in the building, ex-
cept that which relates directly 10 or
bearing on the work of the internal
Improvement board.