Evening star., 1938-10-30
VOTERS WILL GIVE
MILLIONS IN Jobs
Eleven ard Half Million of
State and Federal Posts
at Stake.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Eleven and half million dollars
worth of top State and Federal jobs
will be handed out by the voters a
week from Tuesday.
How much it will cost the candi-
dates and their supporters to win, or
lose, these jobs is largely a matter
of conjecture; but if the spending
runs true to past performances, it
will cost at least eleven and a half
million dollars.
The jobs figure out like this:
Thirty-two Governors are being
elected Their terms range from two
to four years. the pay from $4,000 a
year in South Dakota to $4,000 a
year in New York. The jobs are be-
ing sought by 112 candidates. Sala
ries for the terms run up to total
of s676.S0O.
35 Senators to Be Chosen.
Thirty-fve Senators are being
picked from among lot contestants.
The pay is $4,000 year. Figuring
the three short terms-to fill vacan-
cies in unexpired termS-and the 80
full siX-year terms, these 107 candi-
dates are tussling for a share Of
S2,040,o00 in salary.
All House seats save the three al
ready filled by the early Maine cleo
ton are to be handed out. There are
432 of these, with 972 trying to get
them. The pay is $4,000 year and
they last for two years. That runs up
to a total of s8,640,00O.
These all total up to S11 1856, 300, a
little under the round figure Of SILL
100000. But there is almost enough
free postage involved to make up the
difference, without considering travel
ing expenses and secretarial allow
ances.
Costs Hard to Figure.
The figures on election costs are
ALWAYS hard to get. A Senate COM
mittee set out year or SO ago TO
find out how much was spent IN the
1886 election. 1t hired experts ana
spent many months and thousands OF
dollars at the job.
It wound up with a calculation that
grand total of S23973,32 81 had oeen
spent-an average of 52'2 cents Tor
every vote cast for President.
Then it added that this was not tc
be regarded as the complete total, or
even an approximately complete total,
of all that had been spent in the cam
paign: that these were just the figures
that had been reported in the various
States that have laws requiring such
reports. 1t went ahead:
The tabulations do not include the
tremendous volume of expenditures
made in behalf of individual candl-
dates by organizations created specifl-
cally for that purpose. nor by personal
friends and interested supporters OF
such candidates.
Misses Local Expenditures.
"They do not include nor represent
that vast body of expenditures made
by organizations within individual
State borders, especially created for
a particular campaign and a definite
purpose. Nor do these listed expendi-
lures represent the mass of county and
precinct expenditures by local politi-
cally minded citizens and organiza-
tions."
The State laws are strongly at vari-
ance on the amount they permit can
didates to spend and their require
ments for filing reports on campaign
spending Eleven States have no limit.
The Federal law requires reports
only from those organizations operat-
ing in two or more States and from
candidates for Senate and House.
The Senate committee was talking
about campaign in which President
was elected. Almost fifteen million
dollars of the money of which it spoke
was spent by the national committees
of the major and minor parties. Those
spendlngs are running lower this year
than they did in 1886, but the COM
plants that have been piled before the
Senate Campaign Investigating Com
mittee are just as lurid as they were
two years ago.