Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1894 — SPOILS FOR VICTORS. [ARTICLE]

SPOILS FOR VICTORS.

Patronage Amounting to Over $300,000 Goes to the Ruling Party. The patronage which goes with the transfer of the House of Representatives to the Republicans amounts to over $300,000 a year in salaries. And there is no civil-service examination to be passed. The most prominent of these offices, the salaries which attach to them, and the names of those who surrender them are given: Speaker's Office—Private secretary to Speaker, John T. Waterman, Georgia, $2 102’ clerk to Sneaker’s table, Charles It. Crisp.’ Georgia, $2,102; clerk to Speaker, F. W. Barrett, Georgia, $1,600; messenger to Speaker Henry Neal. District of Columbia. s9i)o. Clerk’s Office—Clerk, James Kerr, Pennsylvania, $5,000; chief clerk, Thomas O Towles, Missouri, $3,600; journal clerk N T. Crutchfield, Kentucky, $3,600; reading clerks, W. J. Houghtallng, New York, $3,600’ Pembroke Petit, Virginia, $3,600; tally clerk F. H. Hosford, Michigan, $3,000: printing and bill clerk, John 11. Bogers, New York $2,500; disbursing clerk, J. Frank Pennsylvania, $2,500; file clerk, Walter H French, Massachusetts, $2,250; enrolling clerks, George B. Parsons, Illinois, $2,250; assistant disbursing clerk, Thomas B. Kalbfus, District of Columbia, $2,000; assistant enrolling clerk, John Kelly, Wisconsin, $2,000; resolution and petition clerk, G. G. Luke, North Carolina, $2,000; newspaper clerk, H. H. Moller, Illinois, $2,000; Index clerk, H. F. Tompkins, Louisiana, $2,000; superintendent document room, F. B. Smith Texas, $2,000; librarian, Asher Barnett, New York, $2,000; assistant journal clerk, G. Walker Pratt, South Carolina, $2,000; assistant Index clerk, J. H. Van Buren, West Virginia, per diem, s6s distributing clerk, George M. Campbell, lowa, $1,800; stationery clerk, Thaddeus Cahill, New York, $1,800; assistant librarians, James R. Fisher, Virginia, $1,800; W. W. Screws, Alabama, sl,800; bookkeeper, John B. McDonnell. Connecticut, $1,000; clerks In dark’s office, P. E. Walsh, Jr., Ohio, $1,600; W. It. Bell, Pennsylvania, $1,600; J. G. Fraser. Arkansas, $1,600;-George B. Fleming, Indiana, sl,600; Edward Millen, New Jersey, $1,600’ Morgan Rawles, Virginia, $1,600; Allen J. Hooker, Mississippi, $1,600; document clerk. Joel W. Hiatt, Indiana, $1,440; locksmith, Joseph Isaacs, Maryland, $1,440; messengers in library, J. R. Conklin, Ohio; 1,314; Aaron Russell, Maryland, $1,314; telegraph operator, E. J. McCrlstal, District of Columbia, $1,200; bookkeeper, W. W. Pennell, Ohio, $1,800; messenger, Felix McCloskey, New York. $1,200; page, Early D. Yoder. Ohio, $720; laborer, Charles A. Christian, Virginia, $660. Office of Postmaster—Postmaster, Lycurgus Dalton, Indiana, $2,500; assistant postmaster, John T. Ross, Maryland, $2,000; messengers, William A. Horbacht, Texas. $1,200; William C. Crawley, Ohio? $1,200; John Stack, New York, $1,200; Henry Yater. Indiana. $1,200; John C. Pratt, Connecticut, $1,200; John R. Grace, Illinois, $1,200; Ralph B. Carlton, Indiana, $1,200; M. W. Prescott, Louisiana, $1,200; Reuben Bourn, Kentucky, $1,200; R. H. Woolfolk, Wisconsin, $1,200; laborer, Daniel B. Webster, North Carolina, $720; mall contractor, W. F. Blundon, Maryland, $3,775. Office of Doorkeeper—Doorkeeper, Charles H. Turner, New York, $3,506; assistant doorkeeper, W. H. Nichols, Texas, $2,000; superintendent of document room, John A Hannay, Missouri. $2,000; assistant superintendent of document room. H. G. Williams North Caroling. $2,000; department messcnCharles W. Coombs, Missouri, $2,000 >

special employe*, John T. Chancey, District of Columbia, $1,500; Thomas A. Cockley, New York, $1,500; document file clerk, Thos. O. Connor, New Jersey, $1,400; assistant document file clerk, C. W. Crockett, Tennessee, $1,314: clerk to doorkeeper, W. A. Bryant, New York. $1,200; janitor, George K. Foster, Ohio, $1,200; messenger reporter’s gallery, C. H. Mann, District of Colombia, $1,200; messengers, R. H. Betts, Ohio, sl,200; George F. Bristol, New York, $1,200; William F, Drountney, Massachusetts, $1,200; J, 8. Dunham. Arkansas, $1,200; Myron H. Ellis; Michigan, $1,200; Michael P. Behen, Missouri, $1,200; Daniel J. Mahoney, New York. $1,200; Sumter Phillips, Mississippi, $1,200; W. 8. Copeland. Georgia, $1,000; John M. Waddill, South Carolina, $1,000; Martin Gardner, Maryland, $1,000; Elmer B. Horsey, West Virginia, $1,000; H. B. Lingenfelter. Indiana, $1,000; M. F. Sterett, Terse. $1,000; Charles Weber, Now York, $1,000; Chas. Aatheldor. Wisconsin. $1,000; O. C. Wilson, Kentucky. $1,000; laborers. C. F. Holbrook, District of Columbia. $720; Wm. Mattershed, Pennsylvania, $720: female attendant ladles' retiring room, Ada N. Boe, New York, $720; assistant to Ole clerk. Geo, A. Shower, Maryland, $000; laborers tnth* Clerk's document room, 8. B. Bull, Virginia, $D00; P. Y, Abernathy, Tennessee. S9OO. The clerkships and messengershlps of the following committees and their compensations are: Appropriations, $3,000; assistant clerk to appropriations, sl,fioo; messenger to appropriations, $1,000; clerk to agriculture, $2,000; claims, $2,000; commerce, $2,000; District of Columbia, $2,000; elections, $2,000; foreign affairs, $2,000; Indian affairs, $2,000: Invalid pensions. $2,000; Irrigation of arid lands, $2,000; judiciary, $2,000; merchant Di* r i ne 8,,<1 fisheries, $2,000; military affairs, $2,000; naval affair*. $2,000; public land*. $2,000; war claims, $2,000; postoffice* and post roads. $2,000; public buildings and grounds, $2,000; digest elillms, $2,000; assistant clerk war claims, $1,200; account*, $2,000.