The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-05-08

| sides this the said Deputy Warden
gets house rent. fuel and lights. and
also has appropriated the services Of
a convict al his residence.
The salary Of the mine foremen
] mas been raised from 5000 70 $4,000
Der month. and that OF convict bosses
from S2.75 TO $500 per day. and each
Of the mine foremen are reported 10
have convict trusty. whose services
they appropriate to their own use.
"A yard man has been added for
No. mine. This is a new Office. The
yard man at No. mine has had his
salary increased from $4,000 to $4,000
per month.
The weighman at both No. and
No. mines have had an increase Of
salary from $4,000 to $4,000 per month
The timberman has had an in
crease of salary from $1,000 to $500
per month.
Foreman j. ]. Smiths salary has
been increased from $2.75 to 1920
per day.
1.-The salary of electrician has been
increased from $50 per month to 500
per month.
1.-The Coke boss salary has been
increased from SIS to $S5 per month.
1.-The Watchman's salary from $40
to $50 per month.
1.-THE Team boss's salary has been
increased from $45 to $50 per month
at is reported that the salary of
the Assistant General Manager. Mr.. A.
A. McCorkle, has been raised from
$125 to $135 per month.
1.-THE salary of the Superintendent
was heretofore $125 per month, and
is now $3.50 per month.
1.-THE salary of the bookkeeper was
formerly SIS per month, and is now
1925 per month.
1.-The salary of the shipping clerk
was formerly $50 per month, and is
now SOS, an increase of SIS.
"'Mr. Pat Benne engineer. This
is new office of mining engineer
The duties of this office formerly de-
volved upon the Superintendent, he
being a mining engineer; the two
Offices were combined. Adding this
salary 65-to the salary of the SUI
perintendent makes $3.50 increase in
the expenses of this department per
month.
"'Under prior administration all of
this work was done by the Superinten-
dent, except for a very short time un-
der the former administration, a
young man was employed to help
catch up the work temporarily, by the
name of Lindamood.
For three years of the previous
administration the shipping clerk and
commissary man were one and the
same at salary of $50 per month.
Mr.. Nathan Stoncipher of Petros, Mr.
John Cole of Paris, Tenn, and Mr.. !
|. G. Morgan of Hamilton county,
Tenn, at different times occupied this
position, doing both the shipping and
running the commissary; but during
the latter part of the former admins
tration the work became so heavy
that it was necessary to separate the
two places, and for about the last
six months of that administration it |
had shipping clerk at salary of
$50 per month and a commissary man
at salary of $65 per month.
During the present administration i
they have had as shipping clerk Mr..
]. G. MCGEE, at a salary of SOS, and
in the commissary they have had the
following: Capt. VIM. M. Forrest, 800
per month and board; Mr.. H. w.
Davis, 500 per month and board; w.
Y. Malone, $50 per month
"Tt may be claimed that a retail
has been added to the
and this Is true, but they
only sell goods to the employees, and
the business is very small, and there
could be no necessity for the employ
ment of three clerks to do this work.
Furthermore, $50 per month is the
ruling salary in commissaries Of pri-
1ate corporations.
"'Should the State have gone into
he retail business?
"'Under former administrations the
average number of guards was from
to forty; under the pres
ent administration they have forty
line.
;oNvIcTs AS SERVANTS
FOR OFFICIALS.
"'The law does not provide for any
mploye of the State to appropriate
he services of a convict for the pur-
ose of making him his servant, and
n truth and in fact it is forbidden by
he very spirit of the law, which pro-
ibits the leasing out of conyicts; If
ot in fact, the letter of the law. Fur
hermore, the services of these con-
lets, who are fed and clothed by the
tate, are so many dollars and cents
elonging to the state, and no person,
o matter what his position Is, has
he right to appropriate the services
these men any more than he has !
ne right to appropriate money be- l
,nging to the State.
1.-THE following employees are ap-
the services of convicts to
leir own exclusive use: +.
7. F. English, Warden. ........... 1 !
/. L. Blevins, Deputy Warden -. !
go. F. st. John, Prison Physician.