Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1883 — REVENUE COLLECTORS. [ARTICLE]

REVENUE COLLECTORS.

Seduction of the Internal-Revenue Dis-tricts—Thirty-six Heads to Come OS [Washington Telegram.] Secretary Folger is meditating upon the proposed reduction of the internal-revenue districts. He will have the unpleasant duty of decapitating the Collectors done by July L At any rate, he hopes so. He grows more sanguinary the more he thinks about it. He thought first of leaving an even 103, then he fixed upon ninety-three, but now he has in contemplation a basket of th rty-six heads, which will leave but ninety. The saving to the Government, even under this process of decimation, will be comparatively small It w.ll.ba about one-tenth of 1 per cent upon the amount of revenue collected last year, or say, at a liberal estimate, #150,000. As an economic move therefore, it would rcaroely have been suggested. An offioial of the department said i o-day that the saving would not amount to much, in fact, but the reduction had to be made in obedience to a clamor. Wherever a #2,5 X) collector is discharged, a # I,OCO deputy would have to be appointed. In addition to this saving there would be a few hundred dollars difference in the rent paid. It would be difficult to make a saving of $3,010 for each district abolished Several Congressmen are already in the city te see about it Each has his particular Collectors whom he thinks should be retained The Secretary holds, however, that no favors can be shown, that tbe reduction must be made entirely upon a business bads.