The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-11-19
400 JOB SEEKERS
Want APPOINTMENTS
Democrats Beseeched For
Places Created By In
come Tax Law.
HOW REF ERENCES
Commissioner Osborn Post
pones Job Granting I'm
til Next January.
SHOW REF ERENCES
BY SIDNEY ESPEY.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19-The army
of hungry office seekers, which
flooded Washington when the Demo
cratic administration took the reins
of government, has begun to feast on
the jobs created in the income tax
section of the new tariff law, OF
which there are 400.
OF course the 400 vacancies will not
afford positions for all the jobless
Democrats who invaded the National
Capital in search of office, but the
income tax provision of the tariff bill
will enable the administration to di-
minish by 400 the vast army that has
demanded reward for it's work in sup
port of the party.
The work of appointing worthy
Democrats to these 400 jobs, regularly
falls on Commissioner of Internal
Revenue Osborn under whose bureau
the income tax will be gathered. Os
born will have plenty Of time to con-
slider all applications and 1t Is not
likely that the appointments will be
made until January when the work of
collecting the income tax will begin.
Makes One Appointment.
Commissioner Osborn already has
made one appointment. He has made
l. F. Speer of Rangor, Pa, deputy
commissioner of Internal revenue in
charge of income tax collections. Mr.
Speer will take the oath Of Office in
a few days and will at once get down
to the work of organizing the income
tax office. 1t is likely that he will
recommend certain appointments to
Commissioner Osborn, but before an
applicant gets a job his appointment
must be 0. KID by Secretary of the
Treasury McAdoo.
The four hundred jobs to be filed
include three classes, agents, deputy
collectors and inspectors. The salaries
will range from SO day to $1,000 a
year. AS government positions go,
these income tax jobs are regarded as
very desirable, and the fights that
will be waged for them will be battles
royal among the eager Democrats.
Clerks in the office of Commissioner
Osborn estimate conservatively that
there are already more than four thou
sand applicants for the four hundred
jobs, or about ten applicants for each
job. Some of the applicants have
appeared at the treasury department
with long lists of recommendations re-
sembling pages from a city directory
One applicant had the endorsement
of all Democrats in his home town and
nearly all in his home county. His list
also included half the prominent Dem
ocrats in his home state, fortified with
the endorsement of a large percentage
Of the Democrats in congress. A clerk
read over the lists and smilingly re-
marked to the jobhunter that II he
could get as many votes as endorse
ments he would stand good show for
the presidency
Qualifications Needed.
All applicants must show they are
citizens of the United States before
they will receive one whit of consider
alton. Then it is up to them to show
they have good moral character and
are not addicted to the use of intoxi-
eating liquors or drugs. This must be
supported by evidence. If the applicant
has been convicted of crime, he need
not waste time trying to get job, for
the government don't want him.
The income tax collectors will be IN
der Commissioner Osborn and allied in
a certain measure with internal reve-
nue. collectors. AS everybody knows
that internal revenue tax collectors
are men of sobriety and good charac-
ter, so Uncle Sam wants everybody
to know the same of the income tax
collectors. Internal revenue collectors
destroy Illicit whiskey stills and bring
to justice the makers Of moonshine
Ticker" It would not be at all seemly
to have one branch of Osborns force
so engaged and the other branch. the
income tax men. drinking Ticker and
breaking the law.
Further, the income tax collectors
must be able to see. hear and talk as
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limb, hearing, sight or speech may put
an applicant out of the running If any
such a defect would interfere with his
duties. he need not go to the trouble of
applying.