The Alaska daily empire., 1921-03-08
THE ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE TUESDAY, MARCH S. 1921.
Ex-SENA|lTOR MAY. GET FEDERAL JOB.
Chamberlain Confers with Harding on Appointment
 To Shipping Board.
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William Phillips, ct the Hague; Hugh Gibson. at Warsaw; Richard Craze, at Prague; Joseph G. Grew, ac Copenhagen; Peter Augustus Jay. at Salvador; Hoffman Philip, at Bogata, Colombia and Arthur Bailey Blanchard, at Port-Au-PriEce, Haiti
 Board Memberships
 Among appointments in immediate or early prospect are seven mem bers Of the Shipping Board at $12,- d00 each; two members af the Inter state Commerce Commission at $12,- 900 each five members of the Fed three members, of the Tariff Com mission at $7,500 each; two mem te~s of the Federal Trade Com mission at $l0.000 each; some of the nine members of the Railroad Labor Board at $10.C00 each and four mem bers of the Federal Farm Loan Board at s10,000 each
 Four of the nine Supreme Court Justices also may be appointed by President Harding. Chief Justice White and Associate Justice Me Kenna, Holmes and Day now are eligible, by both age and length of service to voluntary retirement. The salary of the Chief Justice Is $15,G00 and that of Associate Jus tices s14,500.
 Dost,poctorc coop,ica tho bull or Presidential patronage. There are nearly 50,000 postmasterships re- maining in the Presidential class, although President Wilson placed many in the civil service. All have four year terms and it is estimated that President Harding will appoint something like 15,00O during the next year as the Republican majority in the Senate refused confirmation of several thousand pastmasters as well as other officials, Including members of the Shipping Board, during the last session of Congress.
 Army and Navy PIums
 Although not classed technically as patronage, the President has the selection of officials for many choice places in the army and navy, through recommendations for pro motion. Among these are chiefs of War Department bureaus including the Chief of Staff, and eleven major generals and twenty one brigadier generah. Selections of general of ficers made by President Wilson were held up in the Senate this year in the Republican blockade of MT. Wilson's nominations, and these appointments now will be made by MT. Harding.
 In various executive branches of the Government the Department of Justice leads in patronage, with roll of about $130,000, Including a Solicitor General at $10,000, one as sistant to the Attorney General at $9,000, seven other assistants at $7,500 and solicitors for the other departments.
 In the Treasury Department, the principal plums are Treasurer at $S,000; the Commissioner of Inter- nal Revenue at $10,000: the Pro hibition Enforcement Commissioner at $7,500; the Comptroller of the Treasury at $6,000; the Comptroller of the Currency at $5,000; the di- rector of the Mint at 5000 and several department auditors at $4,OOO
 Four assistants to the Postmaster General are the best jobs in the Postoffice Department subject to po- litical change
 Interior Department
 In the Interior Department, an As sistant Secretary and Commissioner of Lands, Patents, Pensions and Edu- cation at $5,000 each, a COmmis- sioner of Indian Affairs at $3,500 and Directors of Mines and Surveys at $6,000 each are the cream of ap- pointments.
 In teh Department of Labor an as sistant Secretary at $5,000; Commis- sioners of Labor and Lighthouses at 5000 each; the Director of the Census at $60O0; the Immigration
 
 Commissioner of Fisheries at $6,OO0; and the Chief of the Childrens Bu- reau at $5,000 comprise the prin- cipal patronage.
 Three members of the Civil Service Commission-one at $4.500 and two at $4.O00-and public printer at $6,000 are other choice Presidential plums. Also there are Mexican and Canadian members with big salaries.
 Many positions of honor without salaries also are to be filled by President Harding. Among these are appointments to the Commission of Fine Arts, the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics, the Geo graphic Board, the Federal Electric Railways Commission, the Pan Am pfiCDn sion IIo n,,a