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Show Difference la Official Salaries. The retirement of Sir William White as head of the construction department of the -British navy calls attention to the fact that his pay has been $20,000 a year, while Rear Admiral Hichborn, who does the same work in the American Ameri-can navy, is paid but $6,000. The salary sal-ary in this instance is a good basis of comparison, and the same proportion holds true in many other branches of the service. The salaries of the officers in the higher ranks in England are greater than in America, and this argument ar-gument is oftc-. made in favor of increasing in-creasing the pay in this country, and probably will be made now that the comparison between the pay of the two naval construction chiefs is suggested. Yet it is forgotten that the pay of captains cap-tains and officers of lower ranks in the navy is greater in America, as is the pay of seamen. This is the case in civil service as well, says the Chicago Tribune. The First Lord of the Treasury Treas-ury in England receives more than three times the pay that is given to Secretary Gage. Yet the clerks and heads of the various bureaus in the American treasury department receive two or three times as much pay as the men who do the same work in England. Eng-land. The American plan is. on the whole, better, though some clerks are overpaid. ' |