The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1921-04-15
HARDING HAS $4,000
APPOINTMENTS TO MAKE
Salaries Total sloo,ooo,ooO- oO--ls,ooo
Postmasterships Open.

Upward Of $4,000 appointments to
public Office carrying salaries aggre-
eating more, than $100,000,000 a
year are to be made by President
Harding. Some Of these will be
made from day to day, others will be
announced during the next few
months, while stillsothers will be fill
ed as the terms Of present Demo-
cratic office. holders expires.
The first fruits from the shaking
Of the official plum" tree were Cab
met officers, whose salaries are $12,-
900 a year each, Others to come in
clude nearly dozen Ambassadors,
whose salaries are $17,500 each, many
Ministers. at $4,000 each, Assistant
Secretaries, Federal Judges, Attor-
neys and Marshals, Customs Collec-
tors, members Of various government
boards and commissions and post
masters by the thousands.
In contrast to the huge patronage
roll Of President Harding are the
perquisites of Vice President Cool
idge, whose immediate appointments
comprise only his secretary, clerk,
page boy and a. private telegraph op-
orator. Their salaries total $7,700 a
year, The vice president himself
receives $4,000.
Among appointments in immediate
or early prospect are seven members
Of the Shipping Board at $4,000
each; two members of the Interstate
Commerce Commission at $4,000
each; five members Of the Federal
Reserve Board at $4,000 each; three
members of the Tariff Commission at
$1,000 each; two members Of the Fed
eral Trade Commission at $4,000
each; some of the nine members of
the Railroad Labor Board at $4,000
each, and four members of the Fed
eral Loan Board at $4,000 each.
-Four of the nine Supreme Court
Justices also may be appointed by
President Harding. Chief Justice
White and Associate justices McKen-
ma, Holmes and Day now are eligible,
by both age and length Of service, to
voluntary retirement. The salary Of
the Chief Justice is $4,000 and that
of Associate Justices $14,5OO. +.
1 Postmasters comprise the bulk o1
Presidential patronage. There are
nearly $4,000 Postmasterships re.
manning in the civil service. All have
four-year terms, and it is estimated
that President Harding will appoint
something like $4,000 during the mex
year, as the Republican majority ii
the Senate refused confirmation t,
several thousands Postmasters a,
| well as other officials, including mem
bers of the Shipping Board, durin,
4 the last session Of Congress.
| Although not classed technically a
4 patronage the President has the Sc
lection of officials for many choic
places in the army and navy throup]
recommendations for promotion.
4 In the various executive branche
/ Iof the Government the Department q
Justice leads in patronage with
roll of about $4,000, Including (
Solicitor General at $4,000, one al
sistant to the Attorney General q
i $3.50. and Solicitors for the othe
departments.
IN the Treasury Department th
principal plums are Treasurer at So
600, the Commissioner of Intern,
Revenue at $4,000, the Prohibitio
enforcement Commissioner at $3.50
the Controller of Currency at $500
; the Director Of the Mint at $500
: and several departmental auditors {
$4,000.
II -Four assistants to the Postmaste
! General are the best jobs in the Po,
Office Department subject to po1icit,
change. Assistant Secretary an
) Commissioner Of Lands, Patents, PEI
sions and Education at 1000 each,
commissioner of Indian Affairs ;
$3,5OO, and Directors of Mines an
Geological Survey at $4,000 each al
the cream of the appointments.
In the Department of Labor an A
: sistant Secretary at $4,000, Commi
sioners of Labor and Lighthouses
S $4,000 each, the Director Of the Ce,
. sus at $4,000, the Immigration Cor
!, missioner General at SIS 600, the Cor
!, missioner of Fisheries at $4,000. al
J, the Chief Of the Children's Bures
!, at $1,000 comprise the principal pa
Y ronage.
Three members of the Civil Servi
:. Commission one at $4,000 and ty
!, at $4,O0O-and a Public Printer
5000 are other choice PRESIDENT
plums. Also there are Mexican a,
: Canadian Commission members wi
large salaries. S
d Many places of hon6r without Sc
|, ary also are to be filled by Preside
!. Harding. Among those are appoir
ments to the Commission of ri,
4 Arts, the National Advisory Comm
n tee on Aeronautics, the Geograph
! Board, the Federal Electric Railwa
! Commission, the Pan American Col
= mission and The Hague Court.