Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-11
SCRAMBLE FOR SPOLS
Many Splendid Jobs to Be Given
Out by Taft and His De-
partment Chiefs
OFFICE SEEKERS GET BUSY
New President Will Have Strenuous
Time During Early Days of Admin
,stration Listening to the Claims of
Job Hunters - Department Clerks
Under Civil Service Undisturbed.
Especial Correspondence.

unclassified official roster of the fed
eral service republican senators and
representatives are preparing to keep a
sharp lookout for desirable patronage
after March 4. So far they are making
no promises to constituents who want
office because they are not quite GER
titude of mind will be, but they will be
disappointed If there is not fine lot
early in the new administration. Every
state that cast Its electoral vote for
Taft and some that did not has long
list of applicants for desirable places.
Unless all signs fail Mr.. Taft will have
to devote great deal of time to the
office hunting contingent before he has
hardly warmed his new chair in the
executive offices. Many of the con-
gressmen are receiving inquiries as to
the places outside of the classifietAfr-
vice which might become vacant aAer
the 4th of March.
Some OF the Best Ones.
Here is list of the more desirable
berths-places that pay from $4,000 to
$4,000 a year:
Department of state-Assistant sec
rotary, second assistant secretary, third
assistant secretary, solicitor, assistant
solicitor
Department OF the treasury-Three
assistant secretaries, supervising arch
itect. director of the bureau of engrav-
ing and printing, chief of the secret
service, superintendent of the life saw
ing service, comptroller of the treas
ury assistant comptroller of the treas
ury register Of the treasury, auditor
for the treasury department, auditor
for the war department, auditor for the
interior department auditor for the
navy department, auditor for the state
and other departments. auditor for the
postoffice department, treasurer OF the
United States, comptroller of the cur
rency, commissioner of internal reve-
nue.. director of the mint.
Department of war-Assistant secre-
tary of war, chief clerk, and solicitor to
the judge advocate general.
Department OF justice-Solicitor gen.
eral. assistant to the attorney general.
five assistant attorneys general. an as
sistant attorney general for each of the
executive departments. sixteen attor-
neys constituting staff in the depart
ment here, twelve assistant attorneys,
seven special assistant attorneys. and a
large number of special agents.
Postoffice Experimentation assist
ant postmaster generals.
Department of the navy-Assistant
secretary.
Department Of the interior-First as
sistant secretary. assistant secretary
assistant to the secretary, commission
err of the general land office, assistant
land commissioner commissioner of
patents, assistant commissioner of pat
ents, commissioner of pensions, COM
missioner of Indian affairs. commission
err of education, director of the geolog-
ical survey, director of the reclamation
service.
Department of agriculture
assistant chief of the weather bureau,
chief of the bureau of animal industry,
chief of the forest service, chief OF the
bureau of chemistry
Department of commerce and labor
Assistant secretary, chief of the hu-
reau Of corporations, chief of the bu-
reau of manufacturers, chief of the bu-
reau of labor, chief of the census
bureau, chief of the coast and goedetic
survey, chief of the bureau OF statis-
tics. steamboat Inspector general, chief
of the bureau of fisheries, chief of the
bureau of immigration and naturaliza-
ton, chief of the bureau of standards.
Interstate commerce commission -
Places as vacancies may appear by
reason of the terms Of present men,
bers ending.
Civil service commission = Three
members.
In the above list is not included the
private secretaryships to cabinet Of
ficers. and to assistant secretaries
which pay about $500 a year.
Not Clean Sweep.
No one believes the new president
will on short order put new men in Ill
of these places, but the prevailing view
is that eventually newcomers will be
put into practically all the places. That
Mr. Taft will have a.cabinet made up
entirely of new men IS the view gen.
orally accepted here. Naturally a cab
met officer will desire something to
say about who his assistants shall be-;
in most instances he will name them.
The expectation is that in most of .h,e
departments the present assistants will
continue in office until the new cab
inet officer has become acquainted
with the department.
Clerks Under Civil Service.
Thanks, to the civil service law the
great body of working clerks in the
DEPARTMENTS can not be disturbed by
the change of administration. After all
it IS the men in this protected serv-
ice who really do the governments
work. The rest is known as the pass
ing show. Every new cabinet officer
will have to take instructions from
some clerk in the classified service who
works on wear after year in obscurity
who never gets his name in the
newspapers.
resides having to deal with the de-
mapd for places here at the caolfal
TIE new president will. soon after he
enters the White House, have to take
UP with senators and representatives
,rauy appointments out in the states
During this year there will be Un:sed
States mars le Is, revenue collect 'rs
collectors CT customs, United safes
at ,rnays. pension agents, Gf the gen
ci.s are to be abolished) and postmas-
ters to appoint in nearly every state
| The new president. WILL of course, fol-
| low the precedent and depend on sem