Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1905 — A High Salaried Hoosier. [ARTICLE]

A High Salaried Hoosier.

As : de from the Vice President, who draws a salary of SB,OOO a year, the highest salaried Hoosier holding a government position is a man who would be the very last whom the average Indianian would think of in that connection This distinction belongs to A. L. Lawshe, of Converse, Ind., auditor for the Philippines, who is paid the neat sum of $7 000 per year for his service. This is $2,000 a year more than tbe salary paid to a representative or senator. After a long vacation in this country* Lewsbe is now on his way back to the Philippines. As chief accounting officer oi the Philippines, all of the expenses of the Insular government are paid out under his supervision,