Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-11-16
DIVIDING TIE SPO|[S
FIVE HUNDRED JOBS WILL BE
PEppLEp OUT TO As MANY
HUNGRY DEMOCRATS.
ACES PAYING FAT SALARIES
AMONG POLITICAL PATRONAGE
House Employees, From Chief cisrk and
Sergeant at Arms Down 70 Pages, to
Be Supplied From Among the Sue
eessfuI Uarty's Workers Who Have
q Puli-Soms Of the Good Jobs.
Especial Correspondent

! none will interest that class OF demo-
Gratis who have a hunger for office
| like the fact that the democratic ma
| jority in the next house will control
| patronage which pays. in the aggre-
gate, about 100000 a year.
This patronage embraces the ap-
| pointment of about 500 employees OF the
/; national house Not one of these en-
! ployes is under the civil service. They
I are all subject to the political complex
| republican members divided the Jobs
among their supporters at home.
Now. it happens, 500 good and loyal
republicans will retire from the easy
! work in the capitol to the private pur-
suits OF life and 500 good and loyal
! democrats will cheerfully step in and
take their places.
| These 500 Jobs range in pay from
$500 a year to $4,000 a year. Most OF
| them are worth more than $1,000 and
less than $4,000 but a.! Of them are
worth while and all of them are pur-
sued with perseverance worthy of the
| public service
The Best Jobs.
The two best pobs are those of clerk
of the house and sergeant-at-arms
| They pay $4,000 a year each. The
| doorkeeper's place pays 800 and is
next best on the list. These big jobs
and few more Of the $4,000 and $4,000
| class are filled by party caucus. OF
course there are wire pulling and COM
| binations and trading and tricks with
out end-for votes
! Under the second Reed speakershiI
| for instance there was formed wha,
was dubbed the hog com bne." few
states got together before the caucus
| and by polling enough votes took all the
| good berths for themselves. leaving the
unorganized states out in the cold
| They swept everything before them and
some of the office holders of that close
| corporation remain on the rolls
| There are more good jobs under the
clerk of the house than in any other
branch. The journal clerk draws 81
900; the chief clerk. $4,000; the read
ing clerk. $500: the second reading
clerk. $4,000; tally clerk. SO 900: parlia-
metnary clerk. $4,000: printing clerk
$4,000; disbursing clerk. $4,000: file
clerk, $3.50: enrolling clerk, $4,000.
| In addition there are more than fifty
minor clerks under the clerk OF tn.
| house drawing anywhere from $500 {
| year TO $2.250. All of these will re
when the democrats come in and there
will be an equal number Of new faces
| in the house wing Of the capitol.
/ There is another set Of employees I'M
+, der the sergeant at-arms. The deputy
, makes $500 year: the cashier So
600 and nine or ten more who make
from SIP year up to $1,000.
A Comfortable Berth.
| The house postmastership is a com
Portable berth. 1t pays $4,000 annually
and there is an assistant who gets
$4,000. Also there are twelve messen-
| gers who distribute the mail who pull
down $1,000 year each.
| The largest number of employees il
| any one branch works under the door.
keeper. There are no less than seventy
Two of them and all but a few old sol
diers will have to go. The assistan
doorkeeper gets $500 a year while tn.
assistants and others in that depart
ment get paid from $3.50 a year tc
$3.50.
The superintendent of the house doc
unent room draws $500 a year ant
his assistant $500. There are between
eight and ten assistants who are paid
$l,lOV 10 Sl,4VV IoT tlelT services I.
their country.
In all there are something like sixt,
Jobs in the house folding room. These
employees fold and send out the speech
Ies OF the individual congressman. The
superintendent of the folding corps
gets $4,000 year and the others ge
from $500 to $1,000
tt present there are ten cloak room
attendants who get about $1,000 a yea,
each and there are twice that man,
pages who are on the rolls at SIS q
month during sessions. They do MOI
get paid all the year as do the othe7
house employees.
In addition to these employees there
are a number of others in the house
stationery room. They are all Sub
ject to change" and they will 20 elone
with the others. Then there are a score
or more employees in the janitor SER
vice Of the house and another score "
the police service. The capitol police
are named by a commission composed
OF the sargeants-at-arns Of the two
houses and the superintendent Of tn,
capital. The superintendent being {
republican will cast the deciding vote
and the policemen are not SO worried
Committee sserstaryships Two.
This list of house employees does no
include the very highly paid commit
tee secretaryships which will be hand
ed around the future democratic ma.
jority. The clerk OF the committee O,
ways and means for instance, get
$4,000 a year. has two assistants a,
$4,000 and one at $500.
There are two score more committe
secretaryships and twice two scor
committee clerkships and messenger
ships They all pay good salaries ant
} all are to be filed by the victorious
} majority.
It is no wonder therefore. that Their
} is gloom at the capitol. These hun
dreds OF political job holders will hav
: to get out and they feel no glee in tn
outlook
OF course the older democratic con
gressmen will get the best OF the ne,
Jobs. Also they will get the most c
them. Yet some Of the new member
} will land q man here and another there
II they work hard enough.
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