The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-12-06
There Are 306,145 Drawing
Pap From Nation.
List Includes All From Scrub
Women to President.
This Does Not Take in Any One
in The Army or Navy.

- Washington, Dec 3.-The wonderful
increase in the wealth and population
of the United States during the past
ninety years has only been exceeded
j, by the increase in the number of fed
-eral officeholders.
In 1916 the government began to is
sue register showing the names of
the people on the government pay roll.
The first register contained 6,767. The
official register, just prepared by the
census bureau and now in the hands
of the public printer, for the current
year, gives the number at 306,l45.
This does not include about 10000
people who are on the temporary pay
roll. Up until 1910 the number of
government officials and employees ran
sbelow the $4,000 mark, but after that
the number began to increase by leaps
and bounds In 1881 there were l27,
1895 the number had jumped to 207,
500. In 1905 the register contained
349,O75, or $4,000 more than the 1907
register will contain. But the old reg
listers always contained the temporary
employees, as well as the permanent
If the temporary roll were added to
the permanent roll this year the total
would aggregate in the neighborhood
of 100000
Director North is cutting out all
surplusage in the new register. For
instance, the register of 1905 contained
4,2l9 pages, whereas the new one will
contain l56O pages. The 1905 book
cost $4,000 The new one will cost
about $4,000.
All former books contained a lot of
data about the principal officeholders.
This all took up space. The new book
will simply contain their names, where
Sthey are from and what position they
occupy 1t will be patterned after a
city directory. President Roosevelt will
get no more space in the book than
"a scrubwoman in the postoffice build
ing of a western city.
"a: OF the 3O6,l4l officials listed in the
new book l66,444 are in the postal
IS service, 1892 in the railway mail
service and l25,SO5 in the other de-
= partments of the government. This
number does not include the privates
in the army and navy, nor any of
the officers in those two branches eX-
cept such as are doing civil duty.
Counting the officers and men of the
army and navy, the total number of
sifederal employees would reach close to
100000.
Is There are 1850 different kinds of
officers and employees and the abbre-
bviation index to these takes up more
than dozen pages in the book. No
extra letters or words are wasted in
abbreviation. s'Pres." stands for pres
ident of the United States, and '''v. p"
stands for vice president. The scrub
women get more consideration in the
index than does the vice president.
They are known as 'scw" The only
word that could not be abbreviated
to any great extent was zoology"
10 cut 1t TO ZOO would nave Deen
aeonflising, so the director had to be
content to drop out one So and it is
!. indebted "zoolgy."
The book is divided into two vol
umes The second one is devoted ex-
clusively to employees of the postal
department. Volume No. | contains
the names of all other employees.
- That the government provides plen-
ty of help is shown by the fact that
President Roosevelt, himself, has just
an even dozen men in his office who
draw more than $4,000 year each.
Secretary Loeb receives $4,000 a year,
the two assistant secretaries receive
$4,000 each, while nine clerks draw
$4,000 each.
Secretary of State Root is surround
ed by thirty high priced assistants
rand clerks. In addition, he has an
army of men in the field, many of
ilmhom draw $l7,5OO a year. All of
the diplomats and consuls are under
s~his department. There are enough of
:. them alone to make up regiment
of the regulation size.
This country has in the diplomatic
and consular service, combined, 337 of
-feials in Great Britain, ninety-six in
Germany forty in Italy, sixty in