The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-21

Republicans through In his State last
fall. He carried away with him for
two years work in the antitrust
cases the neat sum of ,s11.7177a.
H. c. Gauss was private secretary
to Attorney Bonaparte. Ho
was assigned the job of examining
lands of the United States In the Dis
trict OF Columbia. For that he has
suddenly risen from small secre
tary's salary to s1o,372.27 that'he drew
from March 5. 1908, to May 81. 1911.
AS Judson Welliver says in the
Washington Times-and Weliiver is
making washington rather uncomfort-
able with his political articles these
day VS. :. TO being trust;:about the
bestthing financially TO which aspira-
ton may be directed, is tho occupation
of trust buster" This is true of Frank
B. Kellogg, OF ST. Paul He is Re-
publican national committeeman for.
the State OF Minnesota lie is a mem
Der Of the, executive committee Of. the
national committee Also he is men,
Der of the law firm of Kellogg &
Severance, OF st. Paul This firm does a
general buslness"-especiall with the
Government. Mr.. Kellogg was lately
asked. during a Government inquiry.
about his service as attorney for
Steel Trust. subordinate corporations in
Minnesota. He vigorously defended
his right to accept such service. AS
Welliver says, "he has continued 1t
many years at gratifying profit" Mr.
kellogg was retained to direct tile
busting" OF tho Union Pacific and
Standard OIL mergers. back In the
Roosevelt administration. Later, MIR
Severance, his partner. was employed
at $4,000 per annum, in which work
he has since March 5. 1909 drawn
s2S,aa7.el. The firm seems to have
collected in these two years total
Of, s77,i55,o4; The cases are four or
five years old. The amounts received
before the advent of the Taft admin
istratlon are not down the grand
total derived from this particular en-
I
been generally thought that men like
kellogg and Severance were so un-
selhshly patriotic that they were will
ing 10 leave a lucrative law practice to
serve the Government at reason
able wage, but they are, instead. obe
dent unto the advice of Omar Take
the cash. and let the credit go"
This state of affairs in the legal de-
partment of the Government Is highly
discreditable to the Department. The
results are not for the good OF the
country or for the bettermeni of the
legal service rendered the nation.
There is dissatisfaction on account of
the liberality the Government has
shown TO the special assistants, In
several other ,.epa rtments the Gov
eminent employs many lawyers at
modest salaries. Large cases, involving
the Interstate Commerce and other
laws, public domain, etc, are carried
TO the Supreme Court. and there ar
gued and won by lawyers who get
only $4,000 or si.0uJ the year These
lawyers have humble positions. They
give all OF their time to the Govern
ment, They have no private practice,
They go up against the best corpora
tion lawyers In the nation. Yet they
get no big fees as special assistants"
Nobody saw he fortunate ones in the
Department of Justice gets those. AS
the Times says. the result of this
discrimination is disanection on the
part of the men who work all the
time ano draw the small salaries, while
the more favored ones get the big
cases. the big publicity. the big op-
portunities and the big fees
What we would like TO know is this:
Why can't the regular assistants TO
the Acknowledgement do The work
themselves? Is the employment of
outside counsel an admission Of
ineficiency? Who told stimson
and McReynolds that If they
gave up their regular government
Jobs they would get better special
Government jobs: incidentally, has
all this legal expense been worth
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